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Europe’s largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year
The Oracle finance system implemented by stricken Birmingham City Council allocated £2 billion ($2.65 billion) in cash to the wrong financial year, leaving public sector workers to unpick the errors manually. Europe's largest local authority has been made effectively bankrupt by a combination of the self-inflicted messy ERP rollout and historic equal pay claims. In
The world’s largest TV and movie piracy streaming ring is dead
The highly illegal but very popular media streaming site Fmovies and an affiliated network of pirated movie and TV show websites have been shut down. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global coalition of movie studios and entertainment companies including Disney, NBCUniversal and MGM, announced the dismantling of the illegal streaming site, several
World’s Largest Known Genome Discovered in Small, Unassuming Fern
A small South Pacific fern boasts more than 50 times as many base pairs as the human genomeBy Max Kozlov & Nature magazineThe record-breaking species Tmesipteris oblanceolata is easy to miss on the forest floor. Pol FernandezA small, unassuming fern-like plant has something massive lurking within: the largest genome ever discovered, outstripping the human genome
The Largest Ice Shelf in Antarctica Is Behaving Oddly
By Washington University in St. Louis May 25, 2024Research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals that the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, roughly the size of France, is dislocated daily by an ice stream. This movement, caused by a sudden slip in the ice stream, could influence icequakes and shelf fractures, raising concerns about
Largest 3D map of our universe could ‘turn cosmology upside down’
DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. (Image credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration; custom colormap package by cmastro) It has been
World’s largest laptop vendor quietly releases robot with six legs — Lenovo Daystar Bot GS is IP-rated and reminds us of Boston Dynamics’ andro-dogs
(Image credit: Lenovo) There can’t be many people who haven’t seen at least one video of Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot performing tricks like going up and down stairs, spinning, dancing, jumping, and carrying objects. The robot isn’t just for fun however. It can be used for a variety of work tasks, such as inspecting
Space The newfound Giant Coma Stream of stars stretches nearly 1.7 million light years across the cosmos, and it could have holes blasted through it by clumps of dark matter By Leah Crane The black streak is the newly discovered Giant Coma Stream, which is ten times as long as the Milky WayWilliam Herschel Telescope/Román
Largest Dam Removal Program in US History Reaches Milestone
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World’s Largest Multi-Asset Broker, Exness, Attends Lisbon Web Summit 2023
The world’s largest multi-asset broker, Exness, has just announced its attendance at the Lisbon Web Summit 2023, taking place November 13-16 at the Altice Arena.Exness will be represented by its Chief Customer Officer, Damian Bunce, who will be giving a masterclass on disruptive technologies in capital markets. Titled “Fintech decoded: disruptive tech in capital markets”
Coinbase is largest Bitcoin (BTC) holder in the world: Arkham
Arkham announced it identified nearly $25 billion in Bitcoin in crypto exchange Coinbase’s portfolio. The BTC holdings are approximately 948,000, closer to the 1 million BTC of Satoshi Nakamoto. Coinbase is thus the world’s largest known Bitcoin entity, Arkham analysts said on X. Blockchain intelligence firm Arkham has reported that Coinbase holds Bitcoin (BTC) worth about $25