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The CueCat was ranked No. 20 on PC World ' s list of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time". [7] It also landed on Time ' s list of "The 50 Worst Inventions", calling it "little more than a high-tech paperweight". [8] Despite its poor showing, the CueCat has been viewed as a precursor to QR codes, which have become ubiquitous. [6]
Although the contracts were drafted to ensure that the contractors would be forced to bear a significant portion of the cost of the project going wrong if it did go wrong, in reality this did not always happen. The NPfIT was described by Members of Parliament as one of the "worst and most expensive contracting fiascos" ever. [4] £12bn (£2.3bn)
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AT&T long-distance network crash (January 15, 1990), in which the failure of one switching system would cause a message to be sent to nearby switching units to tell them that there was a problem. Unfortunately, the arrival of that message would cause those other systems to fail too – resulting in a cascading failure that rapidly spread across ...
Unfortunately, 2023 could see its own batches of food shortages. Here’s what consumers should start stocking up on now before prices soar and products likely become harder to find on store shelves.
When computers and tech systems around the world went down Friday, snarling airports, closing Social Security offices and limiting jail operations, many people had one question: How on Earth could ...
Source: mmcmaxi via Flickr. 4. Google is socially awkward Wave. Buzz. Plus. Google's history of social-media flops actually stretches back beyond these three stinkers, but they're the ones that ...
Between 2020 and 2023, there was a worldwide chip shortage affecting more than 169 industries, [1] which led to major price increases, long queues, and reselling among consumers and manufacturers for automobiles, graphics cards, video game consoles, computers, household appliances, and other consumer electronics that require integrated circuits (commonly called "chips").