CNET News Daily Podcast: New details about last Netflix outage
A surprising new use for Google Earth, and just how reliable is Netflix?
Leslie Katz Former Culture Editor
Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably playing online word games, tending to her garden or referring to herself in the third person.
Credentials
- Third place film critic, 2021 LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards
Netflix now says it has traced the causes of a system outage earlier this month--its longest ever--to a hardware glitch. CNET News reporter Greg Sandoval talks about what that information portends for the soundness of the movie delivery system.
And yet another use for Google Earth--determining which direction cows face!
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