17th August 2013 Archive

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• Curiosity looks up, spies Martian double-mooning

  Phobos overlaps Deimos in video treat

  As Curiosity trundles across the Martian surface, the bulk of NASA's interest has been focused downwards at the ground, but the rover has also been looking up and has captured some remarkable video of the two moons of Mars overlapping each other overhead.

  Science 17 Aug 00:10

• WTF is... backend-as-a-service?

  Firebase hopes its BaaS strikes chord with enterprises

  It was only a matter of time until a company like Firebase appeared, saw some success, and went into general availability, but that isn't helping with the nauseous term for its tech: backend-as-a-service.

  Cloud 17 Aug 00:25

• Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic

  Systemwide outage knocks every service offline

  You can all relax now. The near-unprecedented outage that seemingly affected all of Google's services for a brief time on Friday is over.

  Networks 17 Aug 00:50

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