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A huge internet outage has affected large swaths of the internet, including major sites like Amazon, Reddit, Twitter and Twitch, along with news sites including the New York Times and The Guardian. The source of the problem is the Fastly content delivery network (CDN), which has confirmed a global disruption. On its status page, Fastly said “we’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services.”  Other affected sites include Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk,… Source link

After the price of bitcoin fell Friday following Elon Musk’s “breakup tweet,” Alex Machinsky, CEO of Celsius Network, discounted the Tesla (TSLA) CEO’s role in cryptocurrency at the Bitcoin Conference 2021 in Miami. “Elon [Musk] is a tourist in crypto,” Mashinsky told Yahoo Finance Live. “He’s here to collect followers. I don’t think he’s here to make the world a better place, and we can go to where we’re going with Elon or without Elon.” Bitcoin’s (BTC-USD) price fell nearly 7… Source link

The executive instrumental in making Alphabet’s Google the largest global corporate buyer of renewable energy and the first company of its size to achieve 100% renewable energy for operations is now looking to propel the nation’s fleet vehicles — from buses to long-haul trucks to delivery vans — toward becoming fully electric. Palmer is the new CEO of TeraWatt Infrastructure, a company founded in 2018 to develop, own and finance electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the… Source link

Google Cloud got a new network service, the Network Connectivity Center, that simplifies managing complex heterogeneous networks for on-premises and public cloud environments.  Network Switch Pixabay Network Connectivity Center, which is available in public preview, is a one-stop solution for network administrators to configure connectivity across Virtual Private Cloud environments configured within Google Cloud and various hybrid connectivity services spanning the public cloud… Source link

India’s conglomerate Reliance Industries has partnered with Facebook Inc, Google and fintech player Infibeam to set up a national digital payment network, Economic Times newspaper reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources. Last year, the Reserve Bank of India invited companies to forge new umbrella entities (NUEs) to create a payments network that would rival the system operated by the National Payments Council of India (NPCI), as it seeks to reduce concentration risks in the space. Read… Source link

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s conglomerate Reliance Industries has partnered with Facebook Inc, Google and fintech player Infibeam to set up a national digital payment network, Economic Times newspaper reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources. Last year, India’s central bank invited companies to forge new umbrella entities (NUEs) to create a payments network that would rival the system operated by the National Payments Council of India (NPCI), as it seeks to reduce concentration risks… Source link

Bloomberg Google’s Stadia Problem? A Video Game Unit That’s Not Googley Enough (Bloomberg) — Google’s streaming video game service Stadia had ambitious plans to disrupt the gaming industry, which is dominated by consoles. The tech giant had planned to pack Stadia with original content, announcing two years ago that it was hiring hundreds of game developers and starting studios in Los Angeles and Montreal.But those teams barely had time to get started before they were dismissed earlier… Source link

As streaming services hoard content in competition for eyeballs, NBCUniversal’s Peacock is coming off the top rope. Peacock will become the exclusive home to WWE Network’s content starting March 18, thanks to a multi-year deal announced Monday. Following the news, WWE announced it expects 2021 adjusted operating income of $270 million to $305 million thanks in part to a Peacock deal reports have tabbed at over $1 billion across five years. WWE is set to report full-year 2020 results on… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Visitors gather outside the Nokia booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File Photo (Reuters) – Nokia on Thursday partnered with Alphabet’s Google Cloud unit to build 5G core network infrastructure and allow business customers to offer services such as smart retail and automated manufacturing. Cloud computing units of big technology companies such as Microsoft and Amazon are also tying up with telecoms vendors ahead of… Source link

MOSCOW–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ADVA (FSE: ADV) today announced that Yandex has transformed its data center interconnect (DCI) infrastructure into a 600Gbit/s transport network using the ADVA FSP 3000 TeraFlex™. The solution massively increases the capacity of Yandex’s infrastructure throughout Moscow, enabling Russia’s largest search engine provider to meet rapidly rising data demands and expand its cloud services. Delivering high levels of throughput, density and scale, the… Source link