Amazon Alexa suffered outage in US
San Francisco, May 16 (IANS) Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa suffered almost an hour-long outage in the US for reasons that remain undisclosed. Instead of serving …
Power outage at Eden halts KKR-Sunrisers game
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) There was a power failure during Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) opening IPL fixture against Sunrisers Hyderabad as one of the floodlights …
Facebook recorded largest outage ever: Downdetector
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The recent service outage of Facebook, for 12 hours, was the largest such incident for the social media platform, Downdetector, …
Facebook blames server for outage, some users happy
San Francisco, March 15 (IANS) Facebook blames a server configuration change that caused the outage of its app along with Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. “Yesterday …
Telegram gains 3 mn users after Facebook outage
San Francisco, March 14 (IANS) Highly-encrypted mobile messaging platform Telegram on Thursday saw a surge in sign ups as Facebook and its other services like …
Huge power outage leaves Venezuela in darkness
Caracas, March 9 (IANS) A massive power outage has left most of Venezuela without electricity. At least 70 per cent of the country still had …
Sydney flight delayed over power outage
Sydney, Nov 8 (IANS) Passengers of Australian airline Qantas were hit by a power outage here in the New South Wales capital on Thursday morning. …
Instagram back after global outage
San Francisco, Oct 3 (IANS) Facebook-owned photo sharing platform Instagram on Wednesday suffered a global outage as the application and website both were hit by …
Google Home, Chromecast hit by serious outage worldwide
San Francisco, June 29 (IANS) Google Home smart speaker and Chromecast experienced serious outages that lasted for more than 12 hours and sent millions of …
Twitter suffers another worldwide outage
San Francisco, April 21 (IANS) For the second time this week, Twitter users around world faced difficulties in sharing their thoughts on the microblogging platform, …
Delhiites may soon be compensated for power outage
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Lt Governor Anil Baijal on Thursday approved a proposal from the Delhi government to compensate consumers for unscheduled power cuts …
Tinder suffers outage after Facebook’s privacy fixes
San Francisco, April 5 (IANS) Popular dating app Tinder suffered a brief outage after its users got stuck in Facebook login process where they were …
Taliban attack on electricity pylon causes outage in Kabul
Kabul, March 26 (IANS) Nearly 80 per cent of Kabul was without power on Monday after the Taliban blew up an electricity pylon in Afghanistan’s …
Twitter faces outage on all platforms
New Delhi, Jan. 19 (ANI): Twitter was unavailable for users worldwide, with the site apparently suffering wo patchy a total outage. “Some users are currently …