In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...

Hurricane Katrina roared ashore in late August 2005, doing more than physically devastating New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast. Katrina also exposed layers of systemic failures − in infrastructure, ...

The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, threatening their structural integrity and downstream communities, according to new research from the FAMU-FSU College of ...

Failure rate or base failure rate refers to the number of failures per unit of time, typically in terms of failures in time (FITs) equivalent to one failure in a billion hours, which can be expected ...

Sara Webb does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The party is not in inevitable decline, but it is in crisis. Democrats see themselves as a lighthouse—steady, guiding, a safeguard against chaos. But a lighthouse only works if people look to it. And ...

SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program's eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and the vehicle failed to reach ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. In a world obsessed with career success stories, we rarely ...

When most people hear the words “intelligence failure,” they think of a surprise event that an intelligence service failed to predict. But what if that’s all wrong? Are the assumptions surrounding ...

Generative AI progressed in leaps and bounds this year, but not without making some major missteps along the way. Take a look back at 10 memorable mess-ups. My title is Senior Features Writer, which ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...

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