Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004
People, as well as organizations, resist the need (habit?) to move from current processes and products to newer ones … Tweets: Gabriel Weinberg / @yegg : Some people still use dialup internet, fax mac...
Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004
Fans, including some doctors and bird watchers, appreciate the simplicity of the once-popular devices, even as others move on LinkedIn: Tom Wriggins and Greg Coticchia Tweets: @rmc031 , @stefaniei , @...
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches
so Meta wants to get rid of them Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta calls for the death of the leap second Ciaran / worthreading : Worth Reading Issue #12 Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Meta and ot...
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems
mission comes second, profit comes first. And that comes at a cost: vaccines delayed, loved ones lost. https://twitter.com/... Lawrence Mower / @lmower3 : Unreliable registration, problems that lock s...
An in-depth look at the feasibility, progress, and experts' opinions of lidar-based vs Tesla-like camera-only approaches to fully autonomous cars
“They're all going to dump lidar,” Musk said about self-driving rivals in April. — Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars. Tweets: @arstechnica , @aparanjape , and @ghosthayes Tw...
Inside DARPA's neurotechnology research program for healing and enhancement of the human body and mind through neural implants and brain-machine interfaces
I. Who Could Object? — “Tonight I would like to share with you an idea that I am extremely passionate about,” the young man said. Tweets: @theatlantic , @scalzi , @kelly2277 , @cstross , @rosannecas...