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Tech is great. I love Tech. Really, loves. I come home each night to my apartment, where i Enjoy Casting Netflix Shows from my laptop to my television and telling my amazon echo to set a timer my tea steps. But SEOMS SEEMS LIKE MAYBE – JUST Maybe – Someo things don’t need to be technologically optimized. Like Turning on Your Air Conditioner.
Over the Weekend, A Google Cloud Outage Meant Some Unsers Were unable to Control Certain Smart-Home Products, Including-You Guesssed It-Air Conditioning.
Among the Smart-Home Problems Caused by Google’s Servers Going Down:
• One user reporting that he couldn’t turn on his a/c gcause the nest app was down.
(Nor he acknowledgeshe has used his house’s manual thermostat – except that it was located bend a mounted tv.)
• Another user saying he couludn’t use his nest camera as Baby Monitors:
• That wasn’t all: “Can’t use my nest lock to let guests into my house,” One User Wrote on Y Combinator, Spotted by Zeynep Tufecci.
“We are Experiencing High Levels of Network Congestion in the Eastern USA, Affecting Multiple Services in Google Cloud, Gsuite, and YouTube. User SEE SLOW PERFORMANCE OR INTERMITTENTERS. WE Believe We have identified cause of the cause and exc and excem To a normal service shortly, ” The Company Said in a Statement to Techcrunch. The outage also impacted gmail and youtube, but things seem to be back to normal as of monday.