failure
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Diary From a Lifetime of Tech Failure
On my 32nd birthday, my 22-year-old sister mailed me a first-generation Tamagotchi. Too young to have suffered the Tamagotchi herself, she may have sweetly assumed that I was once the kind of focused, enraptured child from the throwback commercial — one with an innate or even competent grasp of faddish handheld electronics. She would be…
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National Weather Service Data System Went Down During A Blizzard This Week
The US National Weather Service warns us about potentially dangerous weather, so it would be pretty scary if their highly reliable data analysis and warning system, the one they use to disseminate all their predictions, went down.
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Why We Don’t Fully Trust Technology
We’ve all been there. The presenter is about to begin, but then disaster strikes: the computer technology fails. Perhaps the computer has fallen asleep, the data projector is using the wrong input, or the mouse clicker has run out of juice.
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The Wallops Island Launch Facility The Day After The Antares Explosion
Briefly: The Wallops Island launch facility, viewed from the air the day after the Orbital Science Antares rocket exploded right after liftoff. The photo was taken by the Wallops Incident Response Team on Wednesday October 29. [NASA/Terry Zaperach]