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Thursday, Jan 21, 2021

The Great Google Crash: The World’s Dependency Revealed

As part of the hack on US intelligence infrastructure, one of the luxury intelligence initiatives, Google services, crashed and disconnected billion users from their emails, documents and other critical services. Classes who rely on Google class, medical services rely on Google services, shut down. What’s the impact?

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

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