Google Invests in $300 Million Underwater Cable

Even the largest ocean in the world isn't going to get in Google's way.

The search giant announced today it is joining five other companies to build a $300 million undersea cable system that will span the Pacific Ocean, making the Internet faster for users in Asia.

The high speed submarine cable, called Faster, will connect two coastal locations in Japan with major West Coast cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Once complete, the cable will operate at 60 terabits per second, which is about ten million times faster than the typical cable modem, Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, said today in a Google+ post.

"At Google we want our products to be fast and reliable, and that requires a great network infrastructure, whether it's for the more than a billion Android users or developers building products on Google Cloud Platform," Hölzle said. "And sometimes the fastest path requires going through an ocean."

Construction on Faster will begin immediately, according to a news release from NEC, the IT and network technology company that was awarded the contract to lay the cable. The project is scheduled to make its debut sometime during the second quarter of 2016.

It's not the first time Google has gone underwater to improve Internet speed. In 2008, the company invested in cable that connected Southeast Asia and Japan.

The company also backed UNITY, another Trans-Pacific cable system between the

 United States and Japan that debuted in 2010. The cable has a capacity of 7.68 terabits per second, according to Submarine Cable Networks, meaning that the newly backed cable system will blow it out of the water.

CAVITY POSE! THE LATEST PHOTO TREND IT MAKES UR FACE LOOK SLIMMER!

 The "cavity pose" -- when a person poses for a photograph with their hand to cheek as if in pain from having a cavity
Doubtful. It seems the "cavity pose," as it's being called, is meant to make a person's face look slimmer in photos. Seeing as half the face is covered by a hand, it does indeed look slimmer. 
But according to Kotaku, the site that first noticed the trend. "The gesture also makes one's face appear smaller, and small faces are considered attractive in Japan."

TO ALL THE PHOTO LOVERS,THE CAVITY POSE IS A NEW WAY OF POSING FOR PICTURES.

EBOLA:LATEST NEWS, DEATH TOLL RISES

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak spreading through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has grown to 1,145 – a number considered to be a vast underestimate of virus’s true impact.

In just two days, more than 150 new cases of were reported and 76 people died despite drastic efforts to curb the worst-ever outbreak, according to the World Health Organization.

“Staff at the outbreak sites see evidence that the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak,” the organization said in a statement, adding that outbreak is “expected to continue for some time.”

MONSTEROUS RECORD BREAKING ALLIGATOR CAUGHT

A mammoth alligator gator is breaking records in Alabama.

Five members of the Stokes family caught this monster alligator Saturday in Thomaston, Alabama.

It took them 10 hours to wrangle the mammoth beast.

Biologists at Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries easily measured the alligator at 15 feet, but weighing it was a big more tricky.

PHOTO: A monster alligator weighing 1011.5 pounds measuring 15 feet long is pictured in Thomaston, Ala. on Aug. 16, 2014

The alligator was so large it destroyed the winch used to lift average-sized alligators.

Eventually, a biologist had to use a backhoe to lift the alligator onto the scale.It weighed in at 1,011.5 pounds, making the gator the largest ever killed in Alabama.

WORLDS SHORTEST WOMAN JOINS THE AMERICAN HORROR STORY CAST

"American Horror Story: Freak Show" has a new cast member and she's the world's smallest woman.

Jyoti Amge, 20, has joined the cast, creator Ryan Murphy announced, posting a picture of her on set via Twitter.

"Jessica and our newest cast member Jyoti Amge ... the world's smallest woman," he wrote.

WIZ KHALIFA AND AMBER ROSE : HEADING FOR A DIVORCE?

 The rumors started after Wiz Khalifa posted a series of tweets on his Twitter page.
 Here are some of the tweets:

 ‘I love you, but your [sic] freaking me out.’ ‘Watch out for psychological vampires.’ ‘The most expensive mistakes happen in cheap hotels.’ The rumor mill has gone into overdrive,

 with fans around the world asking to whom he was referring.

OMAWUNMI BABY'S DADDY FOUND

In 2011 when news broke that singer Omawumi was pregnant, the question that immediately followed was ‘who’s the daddy?’ The identity of her baby’s father was shrouded in mystery, and as such, several random names began to fly around including a popular south-south governor. 
She welcomed her first child Emmanuella Kamillah Yusuf on Saturday, June 18, 2011 in the U.S and new reports surfaced in the media claiming that Tosin Yusuf, one time co-owner of Zamunda night club was actually Kamillah’s father. All through this period, Omawumi kept her cool and refused to reveal the father of her daughter. But her close friend, and daughter’s godmother, Waje dropped a hint when she mentioned Tosin Yusuf in a tweet on May 7th, 2013, saying: ‘you don’t even care what your silky stories would be doing to her. Tosin Yussuf is fine and well, leave the poor girl alone. Tufiakwa!!!’.  At this point, keen observers knew his name, but all efforts to unmask the face behind the name by the media have since yielded no positive results. 

In late 2013, Omawumi herself released a blurry picture on instagram of her nuclear family that included herself, her daughter and Tosin Yussuf, with the caption ‘Thank you so much for your patience.
 Clearer photos and good news sooner than you know. God is always good’. Shortly afterwards, another picture of Omawumi and 5 men surfaced online, and those in the know claimed that Omawumi’s boo is one of the men.
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MEET TOSIN IBRAHIM YUSSUF