TechnikNews Weekly # 022: Fault in many services, Prime Day, Instagram update and more
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on July 22, 2018, 20:02 | Write a comment
This week we reported a lot about services with problems. For example, Discord, Facebook, Snapchat and Spotify were occasionally unavailable. This and more in the 22nd edition of the TechnikNews weekly.
Are you bored without a soccer World Cup? It is the same for many at the moment. To compensate for this, we now have our weekly portion, just like every Sunday TechnikNews. Also included this week: Why there were so many disruptions, what was going on on Amazon Prime Day 2018 and what Google is planning to do with Android in the future. In summary and for in between: Here comes this TechnikNews Weekly # 022.
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- 1 Amazon Prime Day 2018: Thousands of offers and deals again this year
- 2 Photoshop is coming to the iPad
- 3 Malfunctions in services like Discord, Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat
- 4 Google Cloud malfunction caused numerous outages in other services
- 5 MacBook Pro 2018: Apple brings new concept for the keyboard
- 6 New function on Instagram shows whether users are online
- 7 Fuchsia OS: Google's software solution for all devices
Amazon Prime Day 2018: Thousands of offers and deals again this year
Last week started on Monday with Amazon Prime Day. As every year, many deals and offers awaited customers here. With these offers, exclusively for Prime members, one attracted a Prime membership. Even if it wasn't that exciting this year, we again accompanied you extensively through the two days of the offer. These were the top deals:
Photoshop is coming to the iPad
Apple is also promoting the iPad Pro models as a laptop replacement. Using the Apple Pen, you could be very creative and carry out various activities on your iPad. But until now there was no decent image editing software like Photoshop - but that is about to change. In just a few months, the best-seller among the graphicproprograms on the iPad. You can find answers to what restrictions there will be and when you want to make the first beta software available in our article.
Malfunctions in services like Discord, Facebook, Spotify and Snapchat
At the same time on Tuesday evening, numerous users complained about disruptions to numerous services. While most services were only completely unavailable for a few minutes, Facebook had isolated problems for hours. The social network often refused to load the feed or you could not log in. On Snapchat, for example, you could not send snaps and on Discord you were stuck in an endless loading animation when logging in.
Because of these many malfunction reports, it also worked TechnikNews pretty round. Our servers occasionally had hiccups and were able to withstand the many hits on our site most of the time. Nevertheless, we will try to keep improving here in the future in order to prevent such failures.
- Is Facebook down on you? Platform is struggling with disruptions around the world
- Snapchat down: Service not available for many users
- Discord down: Gaming with friends causes problems
- Spotify down: Music streaming is currently only possible in isolated cases
Google Cloud malfunction caused numerous outages in other services
But the real reason for these disruptions was a problem with Google Cloud Services. There were problems with the servers in the on-site data center, which were responsible for the outages of other services. However, Google reacted quickly and made the problem public on the status page. We explained what Google Cloud is exactly and which other services were affected in our article.
MacBook Pro 2018: Apple brings new concept for the keyboard
We have already introduced the new MacBook Pro 2018 series in this article. Now the revised keyboard was announced this week. It is now equipped with a silicone layer that is located between the butterfly mechanism and the key. This skin is supposed to finally make an annoying problem a thing of the past: dust under the keyboard. This dust often caused problems and Apple offered free repairs for the keyboards. This revision makes it much cheaper for Apple. This is how the new keyboard works.
New function on Instagram shows whether users are online
Since Friday, Instagram has had an update that brings an online status to the apps for Android and iOS. From now on, every user can see whether their followers are currently online on the platform. This is indicated by a green dot that appears next to the profile picture of the respective user. The function can also be deactivated - but only on both sides. This means that if you deactivate your own online status, that of others will no longer be displayed either. How to do this:
Fuchsia OS: Google's software solution for all devices
We conclude this week with an article on Fuchsia OS. Fuchsia OS is to represent Google's future Android & Co. successor and replace all previous operating systems from Google. All platforms, such as Chromebooks, Android TVs, smartphones and tablets should be standardized and also be able to work better together with a single OS. Since 2016 they have been working on the successor, which is not even in the starting blocks. But now you finally know when to start.
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