Virgin Media says its web service is working as regular, regardless of studies of an outage.
Quite a few articles and client web site uSwitch stated that Virgin’s broadband was being hit by points and customers had been unable to get on-line.
However the firm says there isn’t any main outage and that most individuals ought to nonetheless be capable of join as typical.
“Our broadband companies are operating as regular – there isn’t any nationwide broadband outage affecting our community,” a Virgin Media spokesperson stated.
Confusion across the outage was elevated after Virgin Media clients had been directed to its service standing web page.
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However when that website was visited by The Unbiased , it displayed a message indicating that a part of the positioning “is not obtainable in the mean time”, due to “important work”.
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Gun-toting humanoid robotic despatched into house
Russia has launched a humanoid robotic into house on a rocket certain for the Worldwide Area Station (ISS). The robotic Fedor will spend 10 days aboard the ISS practising expertise equivalent to utilizing instruments to repair points onboard. Russia’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin has beforehand shared movies of Fedor dealing with and capturing weapons at a firing vary with lethal accuracy.
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Google turns 21
Google celebrates its twenty first birthday on September 27. The The search engine was based in September 1998 by two PhD college students, Larry Web page and Sergey Brin, of their dormitories at California’s Stanford College. Web page and Brin selected the identify google because it recalled the mathematic time period ‘googol’, that means 10 raised to the facility of 100
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Hexa drone lifts off
Chief engineer of LIFT plane Balazs Kerulo demonstrates the corporate’s “Hexa” private drone craft in Lago Vista, Texas on June 3 2019
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Challenge Scarlett to succeed Xbox One
Microsoft introduced Challenge Scarlett, the successor to the Xbox One, at E3 2019. The corporate stated that the brand new console will probably be 4 occasions as highly effective because the Xbox One and is slated for a launch date of Christmas 2020
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First new iPod in 4 years
Apple has introduced the brand new iPod Contact, the primary new iPod in 4 years. The gadget can have the choice of including extra storage, as much as 256GB
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Folding telephone could flop
Samsung will cancel orders of its Galaxy Fold telephone on the finish of Could if the telephone shouldn’t be then prepared on the market. The $2000 folding telephone has been discovered to interrupt simply with evaluation copies being recalled after backlash
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Charging mat non-starter
Apple has cancelled its AirPower wi-fi charging mat, which was slated as a option to cost quite a few apple merchandise without delay
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“Tremendous league” India shoots down satellite tv for pc
India has claimed standing as a part of a “tremendous league” of countries after capturing down a reside satellite tv for pc in a take a look at of latest missile know-how
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5G incoming
5G wi-fi web is anticipated to launch in 2019, with the potential to achieve speeds of 50mb/s
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Uber halts driverless testing after dying
Uber has halted testing of driverless automobiles after a lady was killed by certainly one of their vehicles in Tempe, Arizona. March 19 2018
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A humanoid robotic gestures throughout a demo at a stall within the Indian Machine Instruments Expo, IMTEX/Tooltech 2017 held in Bangalore
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A humanoid robotic gestures throughout a demo at a stall within the Indian Machine Instruments Expo, IMTEX/Tooltech 2017 held in Bangalore
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Engineers take a look at a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robotic dubbed Methodology-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Know-how in Gunpo, south of Seoul, South Korea
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Engineers take a look at a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robotic dubbed Methodology-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Know-how in Gunpo, south of Seoul, South Korea
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The enormous human-like robotic bears a putting resemblance to the army robots starring within the film ‘Avatar’ and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic firm
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Engineers take a look at a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robotic dubbed Methodology-2 in a lab of the Hankook Mirae Know-how in Gunpo, south of Seoul, South Korea
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Waseda College’s saxophonist robotic WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi
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Waseda College’s saxophonist robotic WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock enjoying one string gentle saber guitar carry out jam session
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A take a look at line of a brand new power suspension railway resembling the enormous panda is seen in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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A take a look at line of a brand new power suspension railway, resembling a large panda, is seen in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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An idea automobile by Trumpchi from GAC Group is proven on the Worldwide Vehicle Exhibition in Guangzhou, China
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A Mirai gasoline cell car by Toyota is displayed on the Worldwide Vehicle Exhibition in Guangzhou, China
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A customer tries a Nissan VR expertise on the Worldwide Vehicle Exhibition in Guangzhou, China
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A person appears at an exhibit entitled ‘Mimus’ a large industrial robotic which has been reprogrammed to work together with people throughout a photocall on the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London
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A brand new Israeli Da-Vinci unmanned aerial car manufactured by Elbit Methods is displayed through the 4th Worldwide convention on Dwelling Land Safety and Cyber within the Israeli coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv
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The studies of an outage got here only a day after Sky broadband was hit by related issues, which meant that customers had been additionally not in a position to get on-line. That has since been fastened, after engineers traced the issue to a damaged community card.
It additionally comes amid questions over the way forward for web firms. Labour has stated that it’ll convey components of the web infrastructure into public possession and provide free web if it wins the election – a dedication that chief Jeremy Corbyn referenced within the wake of the Sky outage.
A brand new scheme implies that plenty of web firms – together with Virgin Media and Sky, in addition to TalkTalk, BT and Zen Web – will provide clients refunds if service is offline for lengthy sufficient.
Quickly after that dedication was made, Virgin Media was revealed to be the worst firm for web outages in analysis by Which?.
