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U-2 Cold War spy plane causes air traffic control to crash, grounds hundreds of planes

2014-05-06 14:55:24| Extremetech

Last week, a 1950s Cold War spy plane -- the Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady -- caused hundreds of planes across the US to be grounded for an hour, and delaying hundreds more that were already airborne. The U-2, which was just minding its own business at an altitude of 60,000 feet above southern California, triggered a software bug that caused the FAA's air traffic control system to "overload" and shut down. The backup system also failed, presumably for similar reasons. The beautiful irony is that both the plane and the air traffic control software were created by Lockheed. How did an ancient plane that has been trawling the skies for almost 60 years cause such a catastrophic failure?

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Registered Sex Offender Released After Being Wrongly Identified As Person on School Grounds

2014-03-11 23:47:10| IT Services - Topix.net

By Bay City News Service A registered sex offender who was believed to be the suspicious person spotted on a Sunnyvale school campus in January has been cleared in the case and is no longer in jail, a prosecutor said today.

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High Grounds Coffee

2014-03-05 07:01:36| Grocery - Topix.net

Coffee roaster Michael Wood isn't in the habit of making sales calls; usually when customers want to carry his Highlandtown-roasted coffee in a bar or restaurant, they visit the High Grounds Coffee Roasters coffee shop on Eastern Avenue and ask for it.

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SIA grounds A380 after scratches found...

2014-02-05 10:18:43| Airlines - Topix.net

Singapore Airlines said Wednesday it had grounded an Airbus A380 superjumbo for further inspection after scratches were found on its fuselage.

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Oil giant's old grounds to be turned into a $1 billion...

2014-01-19 01:19:43| Chemicals - Topix.net

The 35-acre Exxon Mobil Chemical campus on the Katy Freeway in west Houston has been purchased by developer planning to build $1 billion mixed-use project with office buildings, shops, a hotel and residential units.

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