Month: August 2020
Gmail down as Google services suffer major outage Gmail
Customers are reporting outages in Gmail and several other Google services. The outage began around 05:00 BST on Thursday, according to tracking site DownDetector, which showed continuing high numbers of complaints in the UK and multiple other countries. Thousands of complaints were registered on the site, with many users losing…
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Lawsuit forces The Weather Channel app to disclose location use
The company behind The Weather Channel application has agreed to revise its screens disclosing its location-tracking practices as part of its settlement with LA officials. Los Angeles' city attorney filed a lawsuit against the IBM subsidiary back in… Source
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Gmail, Docs, Drive, and more Google services hit by widespread disruption
A number of Google services including Gmail, Drive, Docs, Meet, Groups, Chat, Keep and Voice are experiencing service disruptions, the company is reporting on its G Suite Status Dashboard. We’ve verified that file uploads are failing across Google’s services, including uploading attachments in Gmail to both personal and G Suite…
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Taiwan plans to ban major Chinese video streaming services
Taiwan is planning to lock out video streaming services from Chinese tech giants Baidu and Tencent. While such services are ostensibly already illegal in the self-governing island republic, Baidu’s iQiyi and Tencent’s WeTV currently operate under a legal loophole that allowed them to partner with local companies. Now, Taiwan’s Ministry…
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Google Duo will caption video and audio messages – and keep it private too Google Duo
There have been several reports over how Google Meet would soon land on your TV sets, and how Google Duo would be eventually replaced. Google has now confirmed that it is introducing captions for video and voice messages on its video-calling tool. The new feature, that has been in development…
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A Gmail and Google Drive outage is causing errors around the world
Can’t send something on Gmail? If so then you’re in good company, ever since about midnight ET, people have been complaining about issues connecting to many of the G suite services, but especially Gmail.The Google apps status page just updated to con… Source
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