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Google Doodle Honors Connecticut Native Who 'Planted Seed' Of Climate Change Awareness
Search engine giant Google paid homage to Eunice Newton Foote, a scientist, inventor, and women's rights advocate, on what would have been her 204th birthday Monday, July 17 with a Google Doodle.
Foote, who was born in Connecticut (in the town of Goshen in Litchfield County), and died in Lenox, Massachusetts, was the first person to document what we now call the "greenhouse effect." Google said Foote "planted the seed" for climate change awareness more than 160 years ago.
According to NewScientist, Foote described how different gases, such as oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon di…
Widespread Internet Outage Affects Google, Amazon, Other Major Websites
Some of the largest websites in the world were knocked offline at around midday Thursday, July 22.
The outage rendered financial, travel, retail, and gaming sites unavailable for a brief amount of time.
Google, Amazon, Fidelity, Costco, Delta Air Lines, British Airways, and Capital One -- and even the official Olympic website -- were all affected.
Content delivery network provider Akamai reported the outage at 12:10 p.m.
At around 12:45 p.m., it issued an update saying, "We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resumi…
Google Comes Back Online After Massive Worldwide Outage After Gmail, YouTube
2020 strikes again.
Google temporarily went down for approximately an hour early in the morning on Monday, Dec. 14, impacting its many services, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, and YouTube.
The outages were reported on social media shortly before 7 a.m. on Monday, with most of Google’s services - including Google Classroom, which prevented some students around the world from remote learning temporarily - back shortly after 8 a.m., though it remained down longer for some.
The outage impacted both mobile and desktop devices. It was reportedly caused by an authentication sy…
Google Plans To Add 12K NYC Jobs, Nears Deal For New Manhattan Office
Google is close to a deal for a large office building in Manhattan's West Village as part of moves that would increase its number of New York City-based workers by 12,000, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Google also plans to expand its $2 billion Chelsea Market office building, increasing Google's total number of jobs in the city to 20,000. Google now has 7,000 workers in Manhattan
The 1.3 million-square-foot West Village building would house 8,500 employees and the planned Chelsea Market expansion of 300,000 square feet, along with 250,000 square feet of office space at Pier 57, woul…
