Day: August 20, 2020

A Gmail and Google Drive outage is causing errors around the world – yay cloud!

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Can’t send something on Gmail? If so then you’re in good company, ever since about midnight ET, people have been complaining about issues connecting to many of the G suite services, but especially Gmail. The Google apps status page just updated to confirm they’ve received reports of an issue with Gmail and Google Drive, while Read more about A Gmail and Google Drive outage is causing errors around the world – yay cloud![…]

235 Million Instagram, TikTok And YouTube User Profiles Exposed In Massive Data Leak

Posted on by Robin Edgar

it was such an unsecured database that the Comparitech researchers, led by Bob Diachenko, discovered on August 1, leaving the personal profile data of nearly 235 million Instagram, TikTok and YouTube users up for grabs. The data was spread across several datasets; the most significant being two coming in at just under 100 million each Read more about 235 Million Instagram, TikTok And YouTube User Profiles Exposed In Massive Data Leak[…]

Scientists slow and steer light with resonant nanoantennas

Posted on by Robin Edgar

in a paper published on Aug. 17, in Nature Nanotechnology, Stanford scientists demonstrate a new approach to slow light significantly, much like an echo chamber holds onto sound, and to direct it at will. Researchers in the lab of Jennifer Dionne, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford, structured ultrathin silicon chips into Read more about Scientists slow and steer light with resonant nanoantennas[…]