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Up to 30 million debit and credit cards - around a quarter of all those in circulation in Germany - have been rendered unreadable by the software bug, causing chaos across the country. The situation harks back to the fears over the so-called millennium bug, which many experts thought would cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year 2010 Bug Strikes German Bank Cards | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang says el-Faisal had slipped over the border at a crossing that didn't have computer access to the international watch list. He did not mention that very few of Kenya's land-border crossings have such access, nor that it may not matter anyhow - the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Danish-Cartoonist Attack: Sign of a Wider Plot? | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

You write that we're often reluctant to believe that something as banal-sounding as a checklist can get results and look for heroes - as we did in the "Miracle on the Hudson," for instance. We didn't want to believe that Sully [Captain Chesley Sullenberger] had computer systems helping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

Lin caught the hoops bug from his father Gie-Ming. Before he emigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s, Gie-Ming would scour Taiwanese television for highlights of NBA games. Once in the States, he studied Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the classic Los Angeles Lakers-Boston Celtics games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard's Hoops Star Is Asian. Why's That a Problem? | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

When Rahum failed to return that night and his parents discovered that he hadn't been at school, they alerted the police. Logging in to the chat room through his computer, Rahum's sister tried contacting Sali, but there was no reply. "I knew about his relationship with the woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Woman in the Way of a Palestinian Prisoner Deal | 12/30/2009 | See Source »

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