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Jackbox has just expanded onto its first cloud platform, Google Stadia, starting with its newest addition, Jackbox Party Pack 8. If you’ve not played a Jackbox Party Pack before, it traditionally involves getting together with friends, sitting around a TV, and playing mini-games using your phone as a controller. Sometimes you’ll need to write in answers, draw a fun picture, answer a game…

A Google Cloud outage this morning is responsible for taking down parts of Snapchat, Discord, Spotify, and a host of other services that rely on GCP for hosting. The outages are more partial in nature with most of the nytimes.com and the Spotify player still working. In the case of the music streaming service, Spotify Connect is offline. Users on Downdetector have also reported issues (404…

Remote work is here to stay, and Google Meet is accommodating that by adding support for video meetings with up to 500 participants on select Workspace tiers.  Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus customers can soon host calls with up to 500 participants. This differs from live streaming, which supports up to 100,000 viewers. We hope that by…