Welcome to the Tech Mem Bride Home for Tuesday, October 5th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today. About that Facebook outage yesterday.

Also a Google Moonshot project has a surprise profit,

but only because it's propping up other alphabet bets.

And then, it's Review Day.

What can you expect if you download Android 12? What you can expect if you download

Windows 11 and what you'll get if you buy one of those Microsoft Surface

laptop studios. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Several of you tweeted at me, Brian, how did you not cover that big Facebook, Instagram

what's-app outage yesterday? But here's the thing word of the

outage started trickling in right as I was finishing up the show yesterday and

I mean look various services go down all the time.

Today it might be Gmail, tomorrow Discord, you name it.

And sure, any outages news for a few hours when it's actually happening,

but then it gets fixed usually and people

forget about it rightfully so and if I report it on every single service

outage it's like if I reported on every single hack or cyber attack if I

reported every hack or cyber attack. If I reported every hack or every service

outage every day, we do a story like that every day would be annoying. So I do

try to hold my powder until there's a big one or there's an outage or

hack that's unique in some way and I had no idea an hour into yesterday's

outage that it would be an interesting one but here we are.

Facebook's Services and Work Tools interesting one, but here we are.

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