Google’s services have been offline for a few minutes and the Internet traffic almost halved
In Europe it was night and in the Americas it was still Friday afternoon when Google services went off line for a few minutes. The immediate consequence was a drop of about 40% of the Internet traffic, which means that it almost halved. The various Google services have returned to work after a few minutes causing a spike in traffic but the drop shows the great importance of Google.
Google acquires Waze social navigation application
Google has officially announced the acquisition of Waze, the application for social navigation. For several days there had been rumors about this deal and the doubts were due essentially to an interest by Facebook as well to buy it. The amount of money that will be paid hasn’t been declared officially: the rumors of the past few days were talking about $1.3 billion, now it seems to be around $1 billion.
Google and NASA open a laboratory to use a quantum computer
Last week Google announced the launch of the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab together with NASA’s Ames Research Center and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). This laboratory will host a quantum computer created by D-Wave Systems, the D-Wave Two model that will be used for various scientific research, particularly on machine learning. The ultimate goal is to build new models for problems such as climate change.
Many news from Google, from Google Play Music All Access to the new Google+
At Google I/O, a series of Google’s conferences that aim to introduce the news about its services, Google launched a new service Google Play Music All Access, which provides for the selection of music on demand, the new interface of the social network Google+ and other improvements to some of its services.
