Google Home and Chromecast are both experience outages , leaving owners of Google smart speakers ineffectual to order hand - freepizza delivery , playTic Tac Toealone , or line up out what the conditions is like without belong out of doors .
Google confirmed to Gizmodo the consequence , which are ongoing at meter of piece of writing : “ We ’re aware of an subject affecting some Google Home and Chromecast users , ” the company said . “ We ’re investigating the upshot and working on a answer . ”
Chromecast , at least , has been altogether useless for a minimum of eight hours , concord to legion gripes on Twitter .
Photo: Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo
Thankfully , it ’s middling betimes in the mean solar day and there ’s plenty of other things to do — like going to the beach , for good example , or taking a nice cycle ride . Books are fun , too , and famously they do n’t break , unlike that talking hockey puck you casually link up to your home security system .
@madebygoogleHey Google , Google Home Mini and Chrome Cast are not work at all . Any workaround on this?#googlehome#chromecast#glitchpic.twitter.com/3NJZOgIYMB
— Andrew Abogado ( @andrewabogado)June 27 , 2018
apropos , Google Home and Chromecast ’s lasting downtime coincide witha widespread outage affecting Slack , which left at least several thousand East Coast journalists struggling to return how to communicate with one another via electronic mail .
We ’ll update when we memorise more .
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