As reported earlier on NowPublic the Sony PSN has crashed.There are now calls from gamers around the globe to sue Sony over the issue as the Playstation Network sits crashed and offline.In an unprecidented move...
created by Paul Conneally | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1267 views | 4 recommendations | 2 comments
Update: The problem with the air traffic control computer has now been fixed, but flights continue to be delayed as the backlog is still clearing.Earlier: Flights into and out of the UK are suffering delays and...
created by Rachel Nixon | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 370 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments
"Do not mess with Britney Spears fans. Instead of a ‘thank you’, Intern Adam is getting lashed at by Britney Spears fans after he leaked her comeback single, Womanizer. Why, you may ask? Because the leak by Adam Sevalia, an intern at Nashville’s 107.5, has caused a...
created by Yommie | 3 years ago 547 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
Ohio's electronic voting machines, made by don't-call-them-Diebold, are broken, and won't be fixed by Election Day. Does that sound right to you? What do you think of a company that can't fix its software by...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 368 views | 14 recommendations | 6 comments
I have signed up to be a volunteer for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Apparently there are hundreds of thousands of applications for volunteers, and they are still accepting them.I want to volunteer to just be a...
created by Amy Judd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1974 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments
This morning there was chaos at many tube stations across London as a glitch in the computer system for Oyster Cards, the cards which you use to pay for the metro system in London, caused many of the cards to...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 970 views | 12 recommendations | 6 comments
"Wireless systems used by many hospitals to keep track of medical equipment can cause potentially deadly breakdowns in lifesaving devices such as breathing and dialysis machines, researchers reported Tuesday in a...
created by renovatio | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 205 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In the science and engineering world, data glitches occur frequently and often without any obvious reason. The result is a loss of data, of course. On Wednesday, the Mars probe Phoenix delayed its digging...
created by rpshen | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 199 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Obama's Great Uncle liberated Jews during WWII. But I guess his grandmother still hated Jews, and blacks, and probably Hispanics and gays. "Barack Obama's campaign says the candidate made a mistake when he said a great uncle helped liberate the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz...
created by BigT | 3 years ago 339 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
No stranger to bugs, my ears perked up as I read this. Maybe it was just a random twitch, but still..."Just imagine paying for gas you don't get. Some alert consumers have noticed it over the years: A pump that...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 433 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
T5 is finding its second attempt at luggage triage to be as fraught as its first. "Hopes of Heathrow's Terminal 5 operating its first full schedule of flights have been scuppered by a new glitch with the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 326 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"The big news story of the past week was that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer had been patronizing prostitutes, and, in the glare of the media spotlight, quickly gave up his office.x40 But evidence points to a...
created by hungeski | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 352 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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Computers have become the primary tools for creating and performing electronic music, while the Internet has become a logical new distribution medium. For the first time in history, creative output and the means of its distribution have been inextricably linked. Our current...
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Now I don't feel so bad about NowPublic's own occasional hiccup..."The BBC news website was down for over an hour at lunchtime today due to an apparent technical glitch with its servers.
A spokeswoman for the British broadcasting behemoth told El Reg that the Beeb had been...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 382 views | 5 recommendations | 2 comments