Has Your Pledge to Go Paperless Perished? Try This

You promised yourself you’d digitize every last receipt, document, and paper record. But the trick to getting rid of paper is ...

How I Turned My Laptop Into a Distraction-Free Writing Device

I enjoy browsing social media and exploring the web as much as the next person, but I've also got plenty of writing to get through every day, and distractions can seriously slow me down. Studies have ...
This is Money

Passport Office sent me someone else’s documents — but I had to pay return postage! SALLY SORTS IT

Last year I renewed my passport online as it had less than six months left until expiry. An envelope arrived six weeks later containing my shiny new passport. Oddly, the package also contained a ...
IEEE

A Benchmark Dataset for SSVEP-Based Brain–Computer Interfaces

Abstract: This paper presents a benchmark steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) dataset acquired with a 40-target brain- computer interface (BCI) speller. The dataset consists of 64-channel ...
Men's Journal

United Airlines Flight Forced to Turn Back Over Laptop Issue

Airlines have warned against having items with lithium batteries. United Airlines flight returned after a passenger’s lost laptop fell into the cargo hold. The crew cited fire risk due to lithium ...
MarketWatch

‘She did a lot of things behind my back’: My father excluded me from his will. My ‘sneaky’ sister, his executor, is to blame.

My father passed away in July 2024. I was not named in his will. I could not imagine how sneaky, dishonest and greedy a person my sister, the executor of his will, turned out to be regarding the ...
IEEE

Analysis of Safety-Critical Computer Failures in Medical Devices

Abstract: Malfunctioning medical devices are one of the leading causes of serious injury and death in the US. Between 2006 and 2011, 5,294 recalls and approximately 1.2 million adverse events were ...