Facebook is back after a brief outage...


NEW DELHI: Social networking service, Facebook, which was unavailable to users for about 30 minutes, is now accessible. The Facebook homepage and other pages on the site were displaying a 'Sorry, something went wrong. - We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can' message. The mobile version of Facebook and some mobile apps were also not working and displaying the same message.

Facebook has acknowledged the outage and has apologized. "The outage prevented users from posting to the social networking site for a brief period of time," a Facebook spokesman told Reuters 

"We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100 percent," he said. "We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused." 

A large number of users across different regions are complaining about the outage, which has persisted for at least 30 minutes. Users across US, UK, Europe and Asia have complained about the outage on Twitter.

Facebook goes down


NEW DELHI: Social networking service, Facebook, is currently unavailable to users. The Facebook homepage and other pages on the site are currently displaying a 'Sorry, something went wrong. - We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can' message. The mobile version of Facebook is also not working and is displaying the same message. 

A large number of users across different regions are complaining about the outage, which has persisted for at least 15 minutes, at the time of writing this story. Users across US, UK, Europe and Asia have complained about the outage on Twitter.

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TECHNOLOGY is the making, modification, usage and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques and crafts to perform a specific function. Technology has affected society and its surroundings in a number of ways. In many societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and has allowed the rise of a leisure class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of Earth's environment. Various implementations of technology influence the values of a society and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the notion of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms.

The use of the term technology has changed significantly over the last 200 years. Before the 20th century, the term was uncommon in English, and usually referred to the description or study of the useful arts. The term was often connected to technical education, as in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (chartered in 1861). "Technology" rose to prominence in the 20th century in connection with the Second Industrial Revolution. The meanings of technology changed in the early 20th century when American social scientists, beginning with Thorstein Veblen, translated ideas from the German concept of Technik into "technology." In German and other European languages, a distinction exists between Technik and Technologie that is absent in English, as both terms are usually translated as "technology." By the 1930s, "technology" referred not to the study of the industrial arts, but to the industrial arts themselves, In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that "technology includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which we produce and use them." Bain's definition remains common among scholars today, especially social scientists. But equally prominent is the definition of technology as applied science, especially among scientists and engineers, although most social scientists who study technology reject this definition. More recently, scholars have borrowed from European philosophers of "technique" to extend the meaning of technology to various forms of instrumental reason, as in Foucault's work on technologies of the self

Technology can be seen everywhere around us. Just the thing is that we should know how to identify it. May it be computers, t.v., PSPs, smartphones, tabs, or any thing that effect our everyday routine, all come under technology.