#62 Daily Tech: Google outage

Google outage: tech giant apologises after software update causes search engine to go down

Users reported the search engine was down and problems with Gmail, Google maps and Google images.

Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked August 2022: the five biggest announcements

At its August 2022 Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung announced the Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold 4, the Watch 5 smartwatch line, and the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro.

Billionaires are funding a massive treasure hunt in Greenland as ice vanishes

Some of the world's richest men are funding a massive treasure hunt in Greenland as sea and land ice melts.

Mobile ad tech company AppLovin bids $17.5 billion for popular video game software company Unity

AppLovin has offered to acquire Unity, the popular video game making software company, for $17.54 billion in an all-stock deal. Why it matters: This is the latest high-profile deal in the ongoing consolidation of the gaming industry.

SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history

SoftBank posted a 2.93 trillion Japanese yen ($21.68 billion) loss for the June quarter for its Vision Fund. This is its second-largest quarterly loss.

Too many employees, but few work: Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm

Zuckerberg noticed that it was getting harder to get all the employees to attend a meeting as they were sometimes taking time out in a day for personal work.

Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov't to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.

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