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Time named Bob and Clippy as two of "The 50 Worst Inventions", calling the former an "expensive and overly cutesy" piece of software that was "designed around Clippy". [8] PC World ranked the product No. 7 on its list of "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" [7] and Complex No. 27 on its list of "The 50 Worst Fails In Tech History". [3]
It would take up to a year to restore capacity. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] At this point the cost to scrap the project and develop a new one was estimated to be SEK 11bn ($1.3bn). Not seen as an alternative, the development continued and the original budget of SEK 2.4bn was increased to 4bn. [ 21 ]
Fatalities in engineering disaster, 1900-2023. Source: www.emdat.be. When larger projects such as infrastructures and airplanes fail, multiple people can be affected which leads to an engineering disaster. A disaster is defined as a calamity that results in significant damage which may include the loss of life. [13]
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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 ...
Led by India with 116 shutdowns, governments weaponized Internet access at an all-time high in 2023, a new report finds. 2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds Skip to main ...
A similar problem will occur in 2038 (the year 2038 problem), as many Unix-like systems calculate the time in seconds since 1 January 1970, and store this number as a 32-bit signed integer, for which the maximum possible value is 2 31 − 1 (2,147,483,647) seconds. [50] 2,147,483,647 seconds equals 68 years, and 2038 is 68 years forward from 1970.
Notably, the worst return prior to 2022 was twenty years ago in 2002, as the busted tech bubble bear market entered its second year. The Nasdaq lost an additional 8.7% into the end of 2002, for a ...