The satellite broadband service fell over on December 31, 2024, for 48 hours. According to Eutelsat, "the root cause was ...

In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.

Twenty-five years ago, volunteer operators were at the dials of their machines at 40 hospitals across Maine, ready to help if a programming bug crashed computers.

New Year's Eve, FOX 2 was covering the biggest story of the year: a new millenium and a fear that massive computer ...

The year 2000 (Y2K) problem, also known as the millennium bug, was a major source of computer concerns 25 years ago. It was ...

CNN even offered a Y2K “preparedness checklist” that advised stocking up on food and water as one would in preparation for a natural disaster. In that documentary, now streaming on Max ...

Although Y2K didn’t cause any major disasters, he said there were some minor disruptions. One of those disruptions involved a man in Germany receiving $6 million in his account. Hyde believes ...

As 2024 comes to a close, here's a look back at some of the tech stories that caught my eye in the past year. These articles ...

A few major tests helped calm the city. On March 6, 1999, Ontario Hydro conducted a major test in central Toronto, where engineers set the internal clocks on its equipment to midnight on New Year’s ...

Y2K wasn’t just tedious conspiracy theorists wittering on - it was a real fear. Governments and companies worldwide spent an estimated $500 billion preparing computer systems for the date change. As ...