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Massive East Coast Internet Outage Pinned On Amazon Cloud Failure

Massive East Coast Internet Outage Pinned On Amazon Cloud Failure

Update 2: according to the latest, at 11:35 AM PST: "We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard. The service updates are below. We continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1, which is impacting various AWS services. We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue."

And on twitter:

Harvard Claims ‘Super-Rare’ Metal Mysteriously Vanished From Lab

A group of Harvard scientists have reported that one of the world’s most super-rare metals has mysteriously vanished from their laboratory.  Last month, scientists at Harvard University successfully created metallic hydrogen – a feat that no-one else had done before. Morningticker.com reports: Scientists hailed it as the “holy grail” of high pressure physics when they finally produced it in the lab: metallic hydrogen, a century after it was first theorized to exist.

Boston Dynamics Unveils Its Latest "Nightmare-Inducing" Robot

One year ago, when we showed readers the SkyNet-like robots produced by Boston Dynamics, a company acquired by Google in 2013 (which then tried to flip it to Toyota last year but reportedly failed)  we called the robotic creations "terrifying." Little did we know that compared to Boston Dynamics' next spawn, that particular batch was downright Johnny 5-friendly by comparison.

Buffett Boosts Apple Holdings To 133 Million Shares In 2017, Becomes Top 5 Holder

Buffett Boosts Apple Holdings To 133 Million Shares In 2017, Becomes Top 5 Holder

Traders, analysts and Buffett-watchers were amazed two weeks ago when in its 13F filing, Berkshire Hathaway reported that it had nearly quadrupled its Apple stake from 15.2 million shares as of Sept 30 to 57.4 million shares on December, making it a Top 10 holder in the tech company. Then, moments ago, the surprises continued when speaking to CNBC's Becky Quick, the Berkshire Hathaway Chairman said that he more than doubled his holdings in Apple yet again between the start of 2017 and the tech company's most recent earnings report.

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