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Thursday February 27, 2025. 12:32 PM
Thousands of order lines not picked, causing delays to hospital deliveries Updated A state-owned company that handles £4.5 billion ($5.7 billion) annual spending on behalf of the NHS has suffered 35 high-priority computer system alerts in 2024, leading to delays in shipping ...
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A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Excellent color gamut and contrast High HDR peak brightness Great motion clarity Offers USB-C with 90 watts of Power Delivery Cons SDR image quality doesn’t stand out from QD-OLED peers Adaptive Sync support only officially lists G-Sync ...
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If your laptop is running low on storage space, don’t fret just yet. There are ways to expand your storage, and I’m not even talking about installing a new drive inside the machine. (That’s an option, but it can be a lot of work… or near impossible on some machines.) ...
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So far 2025 has felt like a very bad year for aviation, with a series of fiery fatal crashes and one dramatic crash where everyone survived. However, statistically the number of accidents is within normal range, and commercial aviation is still very safe. — Read the rest ...
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'Nonhuman intelligence has been the subject of a long-running and contentious war in science whose sides have periodically skirmished over the past 150 years,' writes Sally Adee in Noēma. 'It was Charles Darwin who first popularized in the West the abilities in plants that...
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I love the Little Free Library movement, which started in 2009 when Todd H. Bol built the first Little Free Library in Hudson, Wisconsin, as a tribute to his mother. We're covered Little Free Libraries here at Boing Boing since at least 2012, and I'm happy to report that...
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Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has unveiled a significant price reduction for developers using its AI models, a move that could intensify competition among both domestic and global rivals. On its website, the Hangzhou-based startup said that from 16:30 UTC to 00:30 UTC...
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If you're planning to participate in this year's Game of Shrooms as an artist, you've only got a couple of months left to make your mushroom-themed art before hiding it and waiting for mushroom hunters across the globe to delight in the discovery of the treasures you've left...
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The latest Reveal survey from Infragistics into development concerns shows security (51 percent), AI code reliability (45 percent), and data privacy (41 percent) among their biggest software development challenges for 2025. AI continues to be a major focus, with 73 percent...
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Amazon has introduced its first-ever quantum processor, dubbed Ocelot, designed specifically to reduce quantum error correction costs by up to 90% compared to existing approaches. The prototype chip uses 'cat qubits' -- named after Schrodinger's cat thought experiment --...
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Not so long ago, the definition of an IT worker was pretty simple: they were largely confined to central roles related to hardware, network infrastructure, and software development in centralized IT departments. But what constitutes an IT worker has evolved in recent years;...
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3D photography sends different images to each eye, fooling your visual cortex into perceiving depth in a 2D image. The slight offset between your eyes creates the depth perception. Creating these images is simple: take one photo, step slightly sideways, take another. — Read t...
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With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start? APRICOT The networking industry should address its perennial staff shortage by giving early-career techies the kind of hands-on training delivered during...
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Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, were both found dead in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home on Wednesday afternoon. Their dog was also found dead. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office confirmed just after midnight that Hackman, 95, and...
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In an interview with CNBC's Jon Fortt on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said next-gen AI will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches that think 'about how best to answer' questions step by step. From a report: 'The amount of ...
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New York City's transit authority is one of a few US systems experimenting with using sensors and AI to improve track inspections.
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Apple’s recently announced partnership with Dassault Systemés shows the Vision Pro as the cutting-edge enterprise solution it has become, but business users will want to ensure these devices can be managed like the rest of their critical IT infrastructure. Apple...
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Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find 'Huge. There could be major problems transacting leading to late payment or collection of debt. The accounts could be wrong.'…
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The C# programming language has provided support for thread synchronization since its earliest versions. Synchronization is used to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource concurrently or invoking the properties or methods of an object at the same time....
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