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A data centre fire in Almere disabled a university, a transport emergency system, and the assumption that physical infrastructure is someone else’s problem
A fire at a data centre in Almere on Thursday morning knocked a university offline, disabled the emergency communication system for public transport across an entire province, triggered an NL-Alert to residents across Flevoland, and required a crash tender from Lelystad Airport to cool a diesel tank on site. The fire broke out at approximately […]
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Jessica Rothe on her new sci-fi thriller Affection and the future of Happy Death Day
Affection's Jessica Rothe is still scheming to finish the Happy Death Day trilogy
Jessica Rothe on her new sci-fi thriller Affection and the future of Happy Death Day
Affection's Jessica Rothe is still scheming to finish the Happy Death Day trilogy
Google’s taking a big swing at AI health with the Fitbit Air
It's a Whoop dupe. That was my first thought when I saw the new $99 Google Fitbit Air. You can hardly blame me. The band is screenless with a metallic fabric clasp. My eyes flickered between the Fitbit Air and my wrist, where I'm wearing a Whoop MG. Was I not seeing double? But as […]
Ploopy’s new mouse makes the ThinkPad’s iconic TrackPoint portable
Ploopy has announced another open source mouse alternative that skips touchpads and trackballs. While the new Ploopy Bean looks like a tiny travel-friendly mouse, you don't need to move it around. Instead, surrounded by four buttons is a red pointing stick similar to the TrackPoint that IBM included on its ThinkPad laptops long before Lenovo […]