Millions of U.S. travelers were suddenly thrown into limbo Friday afternoon after the FAA announced a nationwide ground stop at all U.S. airports. Hours later, it was lifted, and federal officials used the incident to highlight the need for more funding to update aging systems. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy initially blamed a communication issue impacting
Amazon has plans to build a vault of data on every product sold anywhere on the internet, even products Amazon doesn’t sell, and make the information available through its own site, according to Reuters. The project, called the “World Product Graph,” is meant to make it less likely that shoppers leave Amazon to do their
While Friday’s nationwide ground stop has been lifted, airports in Canada are dealing with the influx of traffic and passengers from canceled and diverted flights. Toronto Pearson International Airport provided status updates on X throughout the day regarding its domestic and international operations. At 9:20 p.m., the airport said the ground stop was over —
Instability in a system that allows communications between the Federal Aviation Administration, air traffic controllers, and pilots was responsible for the country’s most disastrous nationwide ground stop in air traffic since September 11. The ground stop lasted five hours. Several outlets reported that a failure in the FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure or FTI network, was linked
Super Micro Computer says that Megaspeed, the Singapore company at the center of the spy scandal that brought down Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang, has never been one of its customers. The assertion by Super Micro, whose cofounder was arrested earlier this year on charges of smuggling Nvidia chips to China, comes as observers look for
Amazon recently unveiled its refreshed Kindle lineup, introducing a new basic Kindle, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft. The new Kindle Colorsoft starts at $290, while the Signature Edition, which I’ve spent the past few weeks testing, costs $320. The base model comes with 16GB of storage, while the Signature Edition doubles that to 32GB and is available
