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Google revealed a new streaming service ($35/month) that is designed to compete with Sling TV, DirecTV Now and PlayStation Vue.
What is Youtube TV Context: Despite Youtube being the largest video and music site in the world we are still making significant strides and this latest announcement shows just that.
100
[Security/Privacy] Software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems
What is Malware
100
What company is opening up a new 175-acre campus which will include a 2.8 million square foot main building made from curved glass as well as a large fitness center.
What is Apple
100
Founder of Google SRE
Who is Ben Treynor
200
Google announced that it’s partnering with mobile carriers to provide new software platforms to help them build out their cellular networks. Name one of two carriers that have signed up to use Google’s new network platform.
What is Airtel or SK Telecom
200
[Infra] An open source container cluster manager originally designed by Google. It aims to provide a "platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts".
What is Kubernetes
200
What company recently acquired the restaurant technology startup, Nowait in an all-cash deal valued at $40 million?
What is Yelp
200
This newly announced hardware staffing lead recently caused a squall by stealing away one of the Channels’ brightest stars.
Who is Jeff Moore
300
Google announced that this service will be available on a wider range of android phone
What is Google Assistant
300
[Embedded, leaning hardware] these devices speed up data communications, storage and retrieval, encryption and decryption, mathematical operations, graphics, and Web page viewing
What are accelerators
300
AWS’s S3 Storage component faced an outage for ~4 hrs this week causing chaos. This was due to _____.
What is human error/Typo
300
This Cloud VP of Engineering reports to Urs and is in charge of Cloud Compute, Networking, Storage, and Data Analytics
Who is Brad Calder
400
Google security researchers have cracked a key internet security tool, and hope their finding will eventually lead to the use of more secure encryption methods. What is the algorithm that the team succeeded in breaking?
What is SHA-1, or Secure Hash Algorithm 1 More Context: This algorithm may be used to encrypt things like electronic documents (including legal documents), payment transactions, emails and email attachments. The algorithm dates back to the 90s and is "extremely widely used" (Git is a major entity that uses the algorithm.) Google plans to release the code they used to break the SHA-1 forcing companies to use safer cryptographic hashes.
400
[Infra] One of Google's game changing infrastructure tools, this is a massively distributed database, rolled out in 2012, and an evolution of Big Table.
What is Spanner
400
This mobile company is partnering with Amazon to bring Amazon Echo to to it’s hardware.
What is Motorolla
400
This Platforms leader is a Level 8 Engineer, with a need for speed, and is responsible for Google’s work on accelerators
Who is Robert Hundt
500
Project Fi has rolled out ___ over LTE...."
What is Voice
500
[Embedded] Because the Linux OS is open-source and not produced by a single organization, there are different components that make up a Linux Distribution. Name at least 3 components.
What are Kernel, Drivers, the UI/Desktop Interface, X server (produces the graphical interface),the GNU shell utilities (the terminal interface and many of the commands you use
500
_____ just announced a travel planning feature to their platform called “City Guides”, will show you a list of cities which of your friends visited, along with various recommendations of places to go and things to do.
What is Facebook
500
______, creator of the Plan 9 OS, and ________, one of the creators of Unix and the C language, worked together to create the Go language. Name one.
Who are Ken Thompson and Rob Pike
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