louise blain is a tech journalist who has been following the story. welcome. was this definitely not a hack or deliberate sabotage? they have confirmed this definitely was not a hack. there was so much that went wrong with this conflagration change, all the systems everything that they run all went down and only face but have the power to do that. what was happening inside of facebook which was interesting, all their systems are based on facebook so even their staff were struggling sending e mails within their system, contacting each other, even passes to get into doors had stopped working because it all ran on facebook systems. they are saying it was within their data servers. that doesn t rule out someone doing it deliberately internally? that is up for debate. we don t know
the benefits of the pandemic demand for screen time. the world s biggest smartphone maker says profits soared by more than 73 per cent in the three months to the end ofjune. katie silver is following this for us in our singapore bureau it is its best result in two years and a real beneficiary of the pandemic and the tech boom we have seen, so the part of the business that did particularly well was memory chips and we ve been speaking time and again on this programme about chip shortage and they have attracted higher prices due to the reduction in capacity. the other part that you mention is the pandemic demand which has seen a tech boom with everybody being forced to work from home we are seeing huge demand for the likes of computers, data servers and mobiles and all of those require memory chips and samsung is the worlds largest producer of them and people staying at home means that they are buying up smart tvs and washing machines which also require the chips, but the bad news is tha
fundamentally changed at any given time subject to the ran dol impulses of president obama. how have insurance companies handled these past five major delays or changes to the aca policy? we ve heard them share some concern about errors coming from the government data servers over time. is it going to continue to be trouble for them? you re seeing the real push and pull here. the administration is doing everything it can to try to be flexible, to be responsive to the problems it s seeing develop, but at the same time each change creates further uncertainty, more uncertainty for the insurers who are trying to make this work and more uncertainties for the consumers who are trying to sign up and figure out what s going on with the new law. now, in a radio interview, senator rand paul said that obamacare problems could give the gop a major leg up in the midterms. let s listen to what he said. so it is looking to be a juggernaut in 2014, mainly because obamacare, i think, is