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The demise of the floppy disk continues: Months after Japan ‘won the war’ on the legacy storage medium, San Francisco announces plans to spend millions overhauling its metro rail technology
Officials from the San Francisco transportation department have announced they will be replacing their floppy disk-based train control system, jumping on the bandwagon to do away with the legacy storage platform. The Municipal Transportation Agency board, which is responsible for overseeing San Francisco’s Muni Metro light rail network, signed a new $212 million contract with Hitachi Rail to overhaul its…
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8 Simple Call Center Best Practices That Require $0 Spend
If you have ever worked in a call center, then you know following best practices is really hard. For many teams, especially those with high turnover, just getting through the day is difficult enough. So I’m not blogging from an ivory tower acting like it’s easy to maintain call center best practices — it’s not — it requires dedicated managers…
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You Can Get $165 Free to Spend During Amazon Prime Big Deal Days
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Amazon really wants to you to buy things during its Prime Big Deal Days. This year’s sale will take place October 8 and 9, and the mega-retailer is not only cutting prices (kind of) on thousands of products (whether you need them or not), it’s offering free money (in the…
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How much are companies willing to spend to get workers back to the office? – Computerworld
Even so, you don’t have to go back more than two or three decades to a time when most journalists, even in large newsrooms, had their own offices. That’s how Swedish offices used to look, people had their own rooms — not “cubicles,” but real rooms, with a door, and a small Do Not Disturb lamp. There was desk, pictures…
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Sony offers reason to spend $700 on PS5 Pro — ‘no other AMD GPUs’ have this tech
When Sony announced the $700 PlayStation 5 Pro it was easy to scoff at the super-high price (even if it’s somehow still cheaper than the PS3 at launch, which would cost $950 today according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator). However, it may be a console that we shouldn’t dismiss outright. In an interview with CNET, Sony’s Mark…
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