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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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Intel just won a 15-year legal battle against EU
Intel has won a long-running legal battle against the EU after successfully overturning an antitrust fine imposed in 2009. The European Commission had found the company abused its dominant position in the chip market and fined it €1.06 billion, marking a record at the time. According to the European Commission, the company had been giving rebates, some disguised, to major…
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My parents are the opposite of tech-savvy — these are the smart home gadgets that won them over
Using an electric screwdriver, I carefully install the body plate of a smart lock on my parents’ front door. My dad looks on, visibly annoyed. He is just 50 years old and far from the opposite of tech-savvy. That said, you’d think he came from the Silent Generation with the way he dismisses any gadget that doesn’t stream TV or…
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The barely-mentioned Pixel 9 wonder that’s completely won me over – Computerworld
Then, Google…Googled. It clunked up the Assistant reminders system, killed off its cross-platform capabilities, and eliminated some of its most useful options. (And then — well, y’know.) It also mysteriously removed the Messages reminder feature, with no fanfare and for no apparent reason. So with that context in mind, I mean it when I say this: A new Pixel-specific reminders…
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