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How a Routine Health Check Helped Take Down Outlook, Copilot, and Teams
At nine in the morning, an ordinary user opened a computer. Outlook was spinning. Copilot showed “temporarily unavailable.” The Teams chat box still accepted typing, but when the user clicked the calendar to schedule a meeting, the button was grayed out. Three windows sat side by side on the screen: two red, one green.
By Jinabout 5 hours ago in 01
The RTX 5080 Just Lost 4,000 Yuan. It’s Still Not the Card You Want.
After a 4,000-yuan drop, the RTX 5080 still stands where it does not belong In November in Huaqiangbei, channel quotes for the RTX 5080 fell from about 18,000 yuan at the end of October to roughly 14,000 yuan. That is 4,000 yuan gone in half a month. Two months earlier, before September, the same card was quoted at just over 8,000 yuan. In just over two months it was pushed to nearly 20,000 yuan and then fell back to 14,000. CCTV Finance quoted a merchant saying prices can swing a lot between morning and afternoon.
By Jinabout 12 hours ago in 01
6 Forgotten Gadgets From the 90s That Felt Like Pure Magic . AI-Generated.
If you grew up in the 1990s, technology didn’t feel sleek, minimal, or invisible. It felt loud, chunky, translucent, and endlessly exciting. Today, a single smartphone effortlessly replaces a camera, a music player, a notepad, a television, and a gaming console. Back then, however, every single digital trick required its own dedicated—and usually battery-hungry—piece of plastic. While icons like the Game Boy, the Walkman, and the Tamagotchi still get plenty of nostalgic love, dozens of other brilliant gadgets have quietly faded from our collective memory.
By Matthew Aabout 18 hours ago in 01
Remember When AOL Came in a Box of Cheerios?
There was a time when getting on the internet could begin with breakfast. You could open a box of Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, or Honey Nut Cheerios and find a little cardboard sleeve containing a CD-ROM. Printed across the packaging was an offer that seemed almost too good to be true: 50 Free Hours! Sometimes it was 700 Hours Free! Apparently, the internet was giving itself away, and all you needed was a bowl of cereal to get started.
By Tim Carmichael2 days ago in 01
Turning a Simple Idea Into a 3D Printed Object: How AI Is Changing the Creative Process
Imagine wanting to create a small desk organizer, a miniature character, or a custom replacement part for something around the house. You have a clear picture in your mind, perhaps even a rough sketch, but turning that idea into a three-dimensional model is another matter entirely.
By Solution Boxes2 days ago in 01
The 1985 Message Board Where Strangers Learned to Care
In 1985, going online meant accepting hassle. You plugged the phone cord into a modem, listened for the dial tone, and waited for words to crawl across the screen. The line stayed busy. Family members could not call out. For a small group, the hassle was the door. They joined a dial-up bulletin board called The WELL, short for Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant started it in 1985. Members entered conference areas and talked about technology, politics, books, and their own lives.
By Jin2 days ago in 01
A Webkinz Tale
Sitting alone in the dark, unlit corner of my mom’s unfinished basement, I logged into the internet for the first time. I was only ten years old, desperate to create a Webkinz account for the stuffed dog I had newly acquired hours before. Her name was to be Princess, naturally. She was fluffy and white, and she cost ten whole dollars. I got her at the craft store, after whining to my mom for too long.
By Bria Lamonica3 days ago in 01
My First Internet Memories Are A Mixed Bag of Emotions
Contact has been made How do I describe my first Internet experiences? They were unique and opened the world to me. Logging on for online access seemed magical and mystical when I first used the Web in the late 1990s.
By Cheryl E Preston3 days ago in 01
FIRST POSTER REVEAL — SIXTY SECONDS ⏱️ The clock is ticking. Get your first look at Sixty Seconds - and stay tuned for what’s next. Andreas Szakacs Productions presents.
In filmmaking, anticipation often begins long before audiences see a trailer or watch the first scene. Sometimes, a title, a single image, or a carefully designed poster is enough to introduce a project and encourage people to start asking questions. That is exactly what happens with Sixty Seconds , an upcoming film presented by Andreas Szakacs Productions, which has now revealed its first official poster.
By Andreas szakacs5 days ago in 01
What Nobody Tells You About Walking a Building with a 360 Camera
The first thing nobody tells you is about your shoes. Hard soles slap polished floors. The sound carries into a quiet hotel lobby at 6am. Worse, the camera picks up vibration through the tripod if you stomp while it spins. Soft soles, or socks in a house for sale, buy you silence and cleaner stitches. I learned that the ugly way in Auckland, walking rooms for Google Street View panoramas in the early 2010s, then again with Matterport rigs a few years later.
By Gautam Atmakuri7 days ago in 01
Your camera has a 1945 bottleneck. Ferroelectric pixels could cut it.
The memory wall shows up as a set of costs you can calculate The von Neumann architecture stores instructions and data together in memory. The CPU fetches instructions, fetches data, performs operations, and writes results back. This design gives computers generality. The price is that every operation requires data to move between the processor and memory.
By Jin8 days ago in 01
The Vertical Mouse Was Never Going to Replace Your Mouse
You thought of a vertical mouse because your wrist hurts. That reaction is natural. A device that looks more scientific, why has it not replaced the less scientific old thing?
By Jin8 days ago in 01