Tag: Google Cloud
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Google suffers services interruption as traffic reroutes to China, Russia
Google on Monday suffered interruption of services due to a configuration error made by an internet service provider in Nigeria during a network upgrade that resulted in traffic being rerouted to China and Russia. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports MainOne, a major internet service provider, confirmed the development, but said “we are not aware that any Google…
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Google latest to withdraw from Saudi conference
Google said in a statement that Google Cloud Chief Executive Diane Greene would not attend the Future Investment Initiative Summit scheduled to be held in Riyadh starting October 23. Google’s Greene did not offer a reason for her action, and a spokesman declined to elaborate on Tuesday. Other business leaders, who have said they would…
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Google keys into Facebook’s machine learning initiative
Google has announced broadening, throughout its Cloud’s artificial intelligence (AI) platforms and services, support for PyTorch, keying into the Facebook’s open source Machine Learning (ML) framework. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports this is following the release of an updated version of the deep learning framework, PyTorch 1.0 Preview, by Facebook on Tuesday. With the release of PyTorch…
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Powering Cloud beneath sea: Google floods ocean bed with subsea cables
In commitments to connecting the world and serving its Cloud customers, Google said it has spent over $30 billion on improving its infrastructural base from data centers to subsea cables, and it is not done yet. The Internet giant announced it will be commissioning three new submarine cables to add to its already existing ones…
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PayPal leverages Google Cloud to power billion transactions
PayPal’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sri Shivananda, has said his company is leveraging on the Google Cloud platform to power billions of transactions across the globe. Google’s Engineering Vice President, Ben Treynor Sloss, quotes the PayPal’s senior executive as saying in a blog post published on Tuesday. “At PayPal, we process billions…