Tue. 10/05 - The Facebook Outage Revealed a Grim Reality
Are we prepared to reckon with how much of the world came to a stop when Facebook went down yesterday? Plus, thanks to a new discovery, you may soon be able to find out if you had an identical twin in the womb using just a simple cheek swab. And it’s Nobel Prize week! The winners announced thus far produced groundbreaking work using everything from spin glass to chili peppers.
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Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today (Wired)
Millions of people rely on Facebook to get online. The outage left them stranded. (MIT Tech Review)…
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