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As recently as 2020, updating a Boeing 747-400’s navigation database meant a technician boarding the aircraft every 28 days with a sleeve of eight 3.5-inch floppy disks, sitting down in the captain’s seat, and feeding them one at a time into a drive mounted on the cockpit pedestal. The job took about an hour. Each disk held 1.44 megabytes, less than a single photo from a modern phone camera. The 747-400 had entered service in 1989 with avionics certified by the FAA to read from those disks, and three decades later, the same airframes were still being updated the same…
On January 10, 1992, a container ship hit a violent storm somewhere near the International Date Line on its way from Hong Kong to Tacoma, Washington. Twelve shipping containers slid off the deck and into the cold North Pacific. One of them split open, releasing 28,800 plastic bath toys — yellow ducks, red beavers, green frogs, and blue turtles — into the most heavily studied stretch of ocean on Earth. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who already had a side career tracking flotsam, heard about the spill ten months later when the first faded ducks started washing up on beaches…
Former Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Sunday called the Federal Reserve’s independence “a priceless asset” that must be protected, in one of his first major speeches since stepping down from his post earlier this month.
US proposes new plan to ease Israel-Lebanon tensions amid fighting
On the morning of 2 September 1859, telegraph operators along the American East Coast began arguing with their own equipment. Sparks were jumping from the keys. Paper tape was scorching. Operators reported jolts strong enough to knock them back from their desks. And then, after the batteries were disconnected, the lines kept working anyway, humming with current that had no human source. The current was coming from the sky. What the operators were feeling, and what astronomer Richard Carrington had watched erupt from the surface of the Sun the previous morning from his private observatory in Redhill, England, was the…
U.S. stock-index futures were little changed on Sunday, as Wall Street looks to stretch the market’s record-setting rally into June.
The Hollywood sign that crowns Mount Lee in Los Angeles started life in 1923 as a flashing real estate billboard for a suburban subdivision called Hollywoodland, a hillside tract being promoted by Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler and his development partners. According to the Hollywood Sign Trust, the sign was built as a $21,000 billboard for Chandler’s upscale real estate development and was intended to last just 18 months. The original letters were huge, rough, and temporary by design. They stood about 45 feet tall, were faced with sheet metal, supported by poles and scaffolding, and were wired with…
Dell unveils $699 XPS 13 laptop in challenge to Apple’s MacBook Neo
Jiroemon Kimura was born on April 19, 1897, in a small village near Kyotango on the Sea of Japan coast, six years before the Wright brothers’ first powered flight at Kitty Hawk and during the 60th year of Queen Victoria’s reign. He died on June 12, 2013, at age 116 years and 54 days, in a hospital bed in the same Kyoto Prefecture where he had been born, and the family members gathered around him carried smartphones that could stream video to the other side of the planet. He held the Guinness record for the oldest verified man in recorded…
Time in the stock market is more important than index selection — and the Dow’s 130-year history proves it.