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1 week ago | 
cnet.com | Corinne Reichert |Jon Skillings |Gael F. Cooper
Last Thursday, a massive internet outage took down vast swaths of the online world, kicked off by issues with Google Cloud services and affecting sites including Spotify, Discord, Character.ai, Snapchat, UPS, Pokemon and many of Google's own Workspace offerings.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnet.com | Corinne Reichert |Jon Skillings |Gael F. Cooper
A massive but partial internet outage wiped out vast swaths of the online world Thursday, kicked off by issues with Google Cloud services and affecting sites including Spotify, Discord, Character.ai, Snapchat, UPS, Pokemon and many of Google's own Workspace offerings. By about 3 hours after it began, the issue was resolved and most sites and services had returned to normal operations.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnet.com | Corinne Reichert |Gael F. Cooper
A massive but partial internet outage wiped out vast swaths of the online world Thursday, kicked off by issues with Google Cloud services and affecting sites including Spotify, Discord, Character.ai, Snapchat, UPS, Pokemon and many of Google's own Workspace offerings. As of 12:41 PT and again at 1:16 PT, Google said on its Cloud status page that its engineers had "identified the root cause" had taken steps to mitigate the issues. Still, some areas were not responding as fast as others.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnet.com | Corinne Reichert |Gael F. Cooper
There's a massive but partial outage taking place across the online world, with Downdetector showing reported issues across Spotify, Google Cloud, Discord, Google, Google Meet, Character.ai, Pokemon, Snapchat, Cloudflare, Google Drive, UPS, Google Maps and many more sites. Cloudflare updated its status page at 12:12 p.m. PT, saying it had identified the issue and was working to restore services. "We are starting to see services recover.
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2 weeks ago | 
cnet.com | Omar Gallaga |Gael F. Cooper
Apple's next Mac operating system is called macOS Tahoe, for Lake Tahoe, the company confirmed on Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference. The new name is consistent with Apple's convention since 2013 of naming the operating system version after scenic California nature spots such as Big Sur and Sequoia. The version number will also change, jumping from what would have been MacOS 16 to MacOS 26.
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4 weeks ago | 
cnet.com | Dashia Milden |Gael F. Cooper
Think of the last computer game you actually beat. How long did it take you? A new study by game site Solitaired recently studied the games that take the longest time to beat, and the time it takes to do so. In just two years, the time it takes to beat, or complete, your average computer game has increased by 61%. Games released in 2023 take an average of 56.2 hours to fnish, while games released in 2024 take 66.2 hours.
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4 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Dashia Milden |Gael F. Cooper
Steam users surprised with 4 free games for their library, no strings attachedIf you want to claim four free video games on the PC platform, Steam, with no strings attached, then you’re in the right place. It’s a nice bonus when …
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1 month ago | 
cnet.com | Nelson Aguilar |Gael F. Cooper
If you were a member of the College of Cardinals, and a new movie came out about the process whereby you and your fellow Cardinals elect a new pope, wouldn't you watch it? Yes, yes, you likely would. And so too has the new pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elevated to the papacy on Thursday, the first American pope ever. The new pope, formerly known as Robert Prevost, who was born in Chicago, has seen Conclave, the 2024 film about a fictional papal election.
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1 month ago | 
cnet.com | Tyler Graham |Macy Meyer |Gael F. Cooper
Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at age 88, has been laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. Now, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church begin voting Wednesday for a successor in an assembly known as a conclave. Only cardinals younger than 80 years old are allowed to vote in a papal election. While 135 cardinals come in under the age requirement of 80 and thus are eligible to vote, two withdrew from the voting for health reasons, so 133 will vote.
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2 months ago | 
cnet.com | Omar Gallaga |Gael F. Cooper
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