Google outage takes down Gmail, YouTube and highlights issues in the Internet of Things – NEWS.com.au

Googles online services have been restored after a widespread outage, but despite only lasting several hours the outage was enough to expose a worrying side effect that is likely to get worse in the future.While it was bad enough that the workspace portfolio of productivity apps including Docs, Sheets and Drive (that many businesses rely on) went down, so too did YouTube, meaning people who were prevented from working also had no way to procrastinate.
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