The site Downdetector began showing a spike in reports of outages starting at 12:40pm Eastern time on Tuesday, affecting Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Spotify, and TikTok, as well as e-commerce sites Target, Etsy, Shopify, and Home Depot, among others. Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cloudflare were also affected. …
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The Big Tech have sought to acquire some functions rivaling those of the governments, the Russian leader said, adding that such attempts were “fleeting.” Still, with all the power they accumulated over the years, they are still unable to compete with the state authorities in this field, he believes. “In …
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Writing on his personal channel on Saturday, Pavel Durov claimed that the consumption of both food and information work in a similar way. “If we nourish our brain with real-life data that allows it to solve fundamental problems, it will process this data in the background and come up with …
Read More »Are all platforms the same now? TikTok accused of identity crisis after rolling out Instagram-like ‘Stories’ feature
TikTok Stories will allow content creators to make videos that will vanish after 24 hours. The trial feature was first spotted by media consultant Matt Navarra, who shared screenshots of the new option on Twitter. In a statement provided to the media, the video-sharing platform, which is owned by China’s …
Read More »GOG Galaxy 2.0 will unite the games with other digital distribution platforms
Digital shop GOG.com announced the launch of an updated client of Galaxy 2.0, the main “chip” which is the possibility of combining your game libraries and friends lists in one place. According to the developers, more games out on different platforms, and to access them you have to use multiple …
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