Posts Tagged ‘Interruption’

Google’s Gmail Service Crashes Across World

Google?s Gmail service has suffered a worldwide crashpreventing millions of users from accessing their mailFrom The Telegraph:Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, has crashed this morning, leaving millions of users from Britain to Australia unable to send and receive messages. The email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, and even as far afield as Australia and India.It appears that only web-based Gmail access is affected, and users can continue to send and receive messages using other devices, such as mobile phones and third-party mail clients.Read more ….More News On Today’s Gmail InterruptionGoogle apologizes for Gmail outage — CNETGmail Struck With Service Outage — PC WorldGoogle mail users hit by global outage — Times OnlineGmail breakdown affects users worldwide — AFPFour Hours Without Gmail — New York TimesGmail Experiences Worldwide Crash — FOX News

Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

From Wired News:Paying attention isn’t a simple act of self-discipline, but a cognitive ability with deep neurobiological roots — and this complex faculty, says Maggie Jackson, is being woefully undermined by how we’re living.In Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, Jackson explores the effects of “our high-speed, overloaded, split-focus and even cybercentric society” on attention.

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