Google glitch, snowstorm bring virtual learning frustrations


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 17 Dec 2020

A file photo of child running across a sidewalk in front of New York’s City Hall. A Google services outage this week and potential impacts from a snowstorm in the Northeast highlight the fragile chain of connectivity that’s powering widespread remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. — AP

COLUMBUS, Ohio: It wasn’t the weather that delayed school this week, at least not the first time.

Students in the Northeast might be giddily anticipating a storm that the US National Weather Service says could drop a foot or more of snow across the region Wednesday and Thursday.

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