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Cisco’s $2.25 billion mea culpa
Cisco Systems got greedy. And now it's paying the price. On Tuesday (May 9, 2001), the network-equipment giant provided the grisly details behind its astonishing $2.25 billion...
Here come the autonomous robot security guards: What could possibly go wrong?
Showing a rather shocking disregard for the long-term safety of human civilization, Microsoft has become one of the first companies to deploy autonomous robot security guards. Dubbed...
New metal lets today’s 3D printers make tomorrow’s electronics
When entrepreneur Michael Toutonghi and his son wanted to make a rocket in their family basement, they went about it in a thoroughly modern way: though the...
Using SMART to accurately predict when a hard drive is about to die
SMART, which first started to appear in consumer hard drives about 10 years ago, is a brilliant concept — it’s meant to tell you if a hard...
Chinese physicists achieve quantum teleportation over 60 miles
Hold onto your seats: Chinese physicists are reporting that they’ve successfully teleported photonic qubits (quantum bits) over a distance of 97 kilometers (60mi). This means that quantum...