| The internet has a bad day, Uber's very bad month continues and Twitter takes more action to tackle abuse. That and more in The Daily Crunch for March 1, 2017. Let the madness begin. 1. Amazon S3 outage rocks the web Times were not good for the internet yesterday. In fact, they were bad, because AWS's S3 services were down for an extended period. It brought low a number of popular sites and services. Why? Amazon has only said it saw error rates spike in its U.S. East region. But it was a great reminder about how reliant we've become on just a few megaproviders in terms of things like content delivery. 
2. Uber CEO blows up, then says he needs to grow up A video of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick taking an Uber seems like it might result in him being less inclined to take Ubers in the future. Kalanick was caught on an inward-facing dashcam, debating his business strategy with the driver and ultimately going off on the dude. Kalanick apologized internally to employees in an email that was then posted on Uber's newsroom, but it's one more brick in the wall of bad publicity for Uber lately. 3. Twitter continues its efforts to stem harassment Twitter is finally rolling out product updates consistently and rapidly to quiet the trolls and make the network a more friendly place. More today as it offers users new tools to silence abuse and filter out specific content. 4. Nintendo Switch, reviewed Devin's the lucky TC duck that got to review the Nintendo Switch. His conclusion? Cribbing Reagan for "trust, but verify," which in this case has nothing to do with the Russians but everything to do with Nintendo offering up an apparent winner, but really needing to push the gas on software since it's a paltry field at launch. 5. Snap looked into drones, 360-cameras Snapchat parent co. Snap explored additional hardware including drones and 360-degree cameras. Exploring options is what you do as a hardware company, so it's not surprising. It's also not surprising it hasn't green-lighted any of these yet, given how niche their appeal remains. Snap needs to focus on large audiences if it wants its products to take off. 6. Cobalt's security robot won't take people down but it will patrol This safety robot from a team including former Google and SpaceX employees isn't exactly Robocop, but sometimes all you need are wheels, a camera, an NFC scanner and a data connection to ensure only the people who are authorized to get through, get through. 7. PayPal hit with class action lawsuit PayPal is facing a lawsuit that says it put charitable donations towards recipients other than those people thought they were contributing to. It sounds like it's due to a technical hiccup, but it's not at all transparent to potential donors. | 
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