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Technology · Infrastructure
…years the run has missed its deadline twice. Achterberg was in the building both times. The software that does all this is called the Consolidated Accounts and Settlement System. Nobody calls it that. It was written…
Technology · Right to repair
…its northern servicing to a single site in Corran. The nearest workshop authorized to do software work on Ostrander’s tractor is now 206 miles south. Across the province, the number of dealer workshops licensed…
Technology · Engineering
…obvious answer, offered to the Department by at least four vendors in the past two years, is software: anomaly-detection systems that learn a structure’s normal patterns and flag departures from them without anyone…
Ideas · Memory
…council has kept every email sent or received by its staff. Nobody decided this, exactly. The software kept everything by default, deleting anything would have required someone to decide what, and nobody wanted to…
Ideas · Essay
…a daybook. The second concerns honors. We give prizes for new buildings, new bridges, new software, and new books. We could give them for duration. Since 2019 the Halbridge Civic Trust has awarded a small and…
Science · Astronomy
…Varne, the village at the foot of the hill, was checking a batch of scans when the comparison software flagged a star in field 88 that was 40 percent fainter on a run of plates from 1979 and 1980 than on any others.…
Technology · Language
…secondhand from a gamer in Halbridge. Mure, 29, grew up on Orva, spent six years writing logistics software on the mainland and came home in 2021, he says, “for my mother’s cooking and the broadband, in that order.” He…
Technology · Hospitals
…one through surgical gloves proved close to impossible. And one night in 2022, an automatic software update restarted every phone on the network at 3:10 a.m.; they came back one by one over the following 20 minutes.…