Customers of Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland Group, which includes NatWest and Ulster Bank, were recently saddled with the latest in a string of technical errors when an outage in the bank's mobile app occurred
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A popular polygraph device used to administer lie detector tests during background checks and criminal investigations contains a flaw in its automation feature that calls the system's fundamental integrity into question, a recent report by the news service McClatchy found
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Retailers run the risk of software security problems that could expose customer information, glitches that might lead to unexpected discounts or other types of financial losses. To protect themselves against such mishaps, companies can use tools such as static analysis and code review on both internally developed and externally purchased retail systems
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The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently released policy statement on self-driving cars, giving states a nonbinding recommendation that self-driving cars not yet be allowed except for testing
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Nasdaq OMX recently agreed to pay $10 million to settle civil charges resulting from a software error that ultimately triggered millions of dollars in losses during Facebook's initial public offering in 2012, according to U.S. securities regulators. The settlement constitutes the largest penalty ever carried out on a stock exchange
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With their large player communities, the economies of some online games have become almost as complex as those of actual countries. Just as hyperinflation can lead to widespread chaos in the real world, it can be a major disruption to an in-game economy. And in a computer game, all it takes to unleash economic pandemonium is one coding error
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Many people have dreamed of landing a big Las Vegas payout, but usually they are relying on luck. For gamblers John Kane and Andre Nestor, however, raking in major winnings was a matter of finding and exploiting a loophole in the software of a popular model of video poker machine
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At Toronto's Pearson airport, the possibility of a runway collision arises more than once a day on average. According to the Toronto Star's analysis of Transport Canada data, the airport has experienced 5,677 runway incursions - in which an unexpected aircraft, vehicle or pedestrian enters the runway space - since 1999, an average of nearly 400 per year. At the heart of the problem is outdated air traffic control software, which often provides controllers with inadequate warning and can sometimes complicate situations further
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DevOps, the development approach that merges the development and operations teams to overcome deployment bottlenecks, is seeing a rapid uptick in interest and adoption as companies become comfortable with agile development and look for additional ways to improve release schedules. A recent RightScale survey found that 54 percent of companies were using DevOps, and interest in the method appears to be growing, as many say can it cut costs and improve software security
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Android is the most widely used mobile operating system, giving developers looking to reach a large audience a strong incentive to release apps for the Google Play Store. Despite the operating system's popularity, however, many game developers remain ambivalent about Android, according to recent reports
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