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History's worst software bugs exposed
You might think the worst software bug in history is the one that caused you to lose a week's worth of work, but the folks at Wired beg to differ. They've compiled a list of what they call History's Worst Software Bugs, and most of them are real disasters. The list is headed up by a bug in the software for the Mariner 1 rocket, which deviated from course and had to be blown up over the Atlantic Ocean in 1962. The cause of the bug? A formula written on paper wasn't transcribed correctly when it was converted to code. 
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
