omfglearntoplay shares a report from CNN: Eight years after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, the government is not sure what to do with the contaminated water that remains — but its environment minister says dumping it into the ocean might be the only choice. To cool fuel cores at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, operator Tokyo Electric has pumped in tens of…
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76% of UK’s National Health Service PCs Not on Windows 10 Despite Looming Deadline
With less than half a year to go before support ends for Windows 7, about three-quarters of computers in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are still running the OS. From a report: Just over one million computers in the NHS are still using Windows 7, according to a written answer from the Department of Health and Social Care. Having so…
Remembering The ENIAC Programmers
On Princeton’s “Freedom to Tinker” site, the founder of the ENIAC Programmers Project summarizes 20 years of its research, remembering the “incredible acts of computing innovation during and just after WWII” that “established the foundation of modern computing and programming.” Commissioned in 1942, and launched in 1946, the ENIAC computer, with its 18,000 vacuum tubes, was the world’s very first modern…