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The problem is, there’s no guarantee that the message will get delivered,” says Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst at Burton Group in Midvale, Utah. “It offers 92% to 96% reliability, but if you need 99.9% ...

More often than not when our computer starts slowing down and retrieving the smallest file seems to take more time than mowing the back yard we figure its time to start shopping for a new hard drive.

Today’s generative AI is capable of amazing things. It can seemingly understand what we say and provide very humanlike responses to our queries. It can identify things in pictures, and come up with ...

In most cases businesses tend to take their computer network for granted. We just assume that when we arrive to work we’ll be able to push the start button, log on to our computer and, begin the day.

Coming back from the Design Automation Conference (DAC), my head is swimming with acronyms. In fact, most people refer to the conference by its acronym instead of its full name. I believe as long as ...

ChargerHelp!’s 2025 report shows only 71% of charging attempts succeed, despite stations reporting 98.7–99% uptime. Software incompatibilities, aging hardware, and fragmented systems are major causes ...

NB Power's finances are once again under pressure after a breakdown of the Point Lepreau nuclear generating station less than 11 weeks after it emerged from a major maintenance outage. The incident ...