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You’ve probably seen a movie in which a character pulls up a hologram display that they can poke, prod, and manipulate as easily as you could mess with a real object sitting on a desk in front of you.

The idea is so ubiquitous in science fiction that it’s become nearly synonymous with the word “hologram.” In almost every news story written about hologram technology and how far it has come, at some point, a disclaimer has to be made explaining that ‘it’s not quite Tony Stark tech, but it’s still cool!’

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage that is blocking admins worldwide from accessing the Exchange Admin Center (EAC).

The company tagged this ongoing issue as a critical service issue tracked under EX1051697 on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, and it says that “at this time appears to be a global issue.”

Since the outage started two hours ago, affected IT administrators have reported seeing “HTTP Error 500” errors when attempting to log into the Exchange admin center portal.

A vivid digital reconstruction has brought to life the face of a Mycenaean woman who lived over 3,500 years ago, offering an unusually poignant glimpse into the world of ancient Greece, from long before the time of Homer or the Trojan War.

This ambitious project was launched at the initiative of Dr. Emily Hauser, a historian and lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Exeter. The final image, she said, was both “incredibly exciting” and “unexpectedly modern.”

For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy —Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend—and from where the poet imagined the Greeks of the Trojan War setting out,” Dr. Hauser explained in an interview published in the Daily Mail.