Fortune magazine has issued its annual list of the year’s top goofs from big technology companies. Google manages to make multiple appearances on the list, but my prediction for the frontrunner, Diebold’s several disasters with voting machines, came in only second. The winner was the high-tech toilet produced by the Japanese manufacturer Toto. “Fortunately nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out,” a company spokesman later explained.
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