The Year 200 Problem, commonly known as Y2K, was a hypothesis that a computer flaw would have caused major issues when the machines were dealing with dates past Dec. 31, 1999. At the time, many ...
Take a look back at the days and months ahead of Jan. 1, 2000, when fears about the Y2K dominated the headlines.
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In his reporting from 25 years ago, Taylor tamped down Y2K panic and noted how programmers had been working to upgrade the ...
People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype ...
Peter de Jager says his legacy is a mixed blessing. "I'll give you an example," he said in a phone interview from his home in ...
Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.
"As a healthcare system, we have significant demographic trends that we have to face up to. You can't change your payer mix; people aren't going to get younger," Mr. Mahoney said. His remarks point to ...
The impact generative AI is having on the jobs market is well documented. Altman, boss of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, said that in 2016, he started realizing the ...
After diving into a world where a technological uprising threatens to end the global population, ‘Y2K’ concludes on a ...
Joshua Ryan Evans died during a medical procedure at a hospital in San Diego on August 5, 2002 at the age of 20 while ...
Superintendent Marty Pollio said they reported 29 handguns were confiscated at schools; this year, they've only found three.