Google went down on Saturday, dropping over a third of the world's web traffic in the process. Amazon has followed suit just a few days later, with its 40 minutes of inactivity purportedly costing the company as much as $5 million. When sites get this massive, are teething problems expected …
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Could nature's chaos be the blueprint for creating a computer that never crashes? University College London computer scientist Peter Bentley thinks so. By using what he describes as a “systemic” computer, with self repairing systems, we could potentially have a future where our PCs never bring up that dreaded screen …
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