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Computer ‘Glitch’ Grounds Air Traffic
An unspecified computer glitch is being cited as the cause for commercial flights being canceled or temporarily delayed on Thursday. The glitch was related to a key Federal Aviation Administration flight-processing system, according to ABC News . The problems were first reported at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia.
Continue reading »At last! A computer for the elderly!
Oh goody !!! Soon I’ll be “emailing” and “chatting away to family and friends”. That’s what the BBC’s Valerie Singleton (right) promises, having gone from one extreme to the other. She was once one of the presenters of the Beeb’s Blue Peter program for kids.
Continue reading »FBI Lab Processes 600 Billion Fingerprint Sets a Day
An underground fingerprint lab in West Virginia is the nexus point for every crime committed in the country and even for some committed overseas. The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services building in Clarksburg houses a multi-billion-dollar computer system that processes 600 billion fingerprint sets a day, according to a CBS news reporter who visited the lab . The prints come in 24-hours-a-day from crime scenes around the country as well as from overseas, such as in Iraq where prints lifted from IED explosives are sent to CJIS to match against known terrorist suspects.
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