During the total shortage of video cards (for example, last year), cases of customer fraud were not uncommon: they just didn’t deliver in parcels where 3D accelerators were supposed to be. It seemed that with the end of the deficit and the stabilization of the market, the deception would stop,...
Amazon has announced the launch of its first “automated mobile robot” designed to carry large carts in warehouses. The robot is called Proteus, and Amazon says it can roam safely among human employees. Amazon says the Proteus robot has received “advanced security, sensing and navigation technologies” and turns on a...
Amazon has unveiled the Fire TV Stick Lite 2022 compact set-top box, which offers several new features over the previous Fire TV Stick Lite released back in 2020. The Fire TV Stick Lite 2022 features the new Alexa Voice Remote Lite feature and shortcut buttons for Amazon Prime Videos, Netflix,...
Amazon today made available AWS Graviton3 processors, which were shown six months ago. Like the previous models in the series, Graviton3 is server-oriented and created by Amazon itself for its own cloud servers. It contains about 55 billion transistors and is based on the Arm architecture. Relative to its predecessor,...
Amazon has quietly updated its budget Fire 7 tablets. To be more precise, the Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids have been updated. There are no cardinal changes – these are all the same ultra-affordable devices with the appropriate parameters. Since technically the novelties are almost identical, we will talk...
Amazon is starting to use the ePub e-book format. Starting in late 2022, changes to the Send to Kindle feature will provide users with the ability to send ePub files to their devices. The Kindle line has long been a staple in the e-book market. Even though the Amazon product...
At a recent virtual meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai read out one of the most popular questions for company employees: “Google is making record profits during the pandemic, why do you (Google management) want to return employees to the office at this time?” According to the source, Google will require...
Amazon, the largest e-commerce platform, is actively resisting unionization. Last year alone, Amazon spent $4.3 million on anti-union consultations, the source said. This may seem like a small amount for a company with a capitalization of more than $1.5 trillion, but by comparison, even the most generous companies in this...
The Amazon Prime Air drone delivery program was introduced almost a decade ago. However, until now, the company has not been able to implement it due to the lack of final legislative norms. Perhaps this year, Amazon is waiting for the first progress. According to the company documents, it is...
The James Bond, Rocky and RoboCop movies are now owned by Amazon. The e-commerce giant has completed its $8.45 billion acquisition of legendary film and television studio MGM. This week, European Union competition authorities unconditionally approved the deal. They determined that there was not much overlap between the two companies...
Amazon.com has published a report for the last quarter of 2021 and for the full year. In the fourth quarter, the largest online retailer in the world recorded sales of $137.4 billion. This is 9% more than in the same period in 2020. Quarterly operating income decreased from $6.9 billion...
Tang Mingfang was jailed after revealing illegal working practices at a Chinese factory that makes Amazon Echo and Kindle devices. Tan says he was tortured during police interrogation. Now he has called on former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to support the appeal and help overturn his conviction. In 2019, Tang...
Amazon has finally unveiled a teaser for its new event series: The Rings of Power. A series set in the universe of Lord of the Rings, awaited at the turn by the many fans of the work imagined by JRR Tolkien. Especially because the streaming service arrives after the film...
Three Amazon sellers known by the names of Morris Sutton, Emmanuel Hourizadeh and Raymond Nouvahian have been indicted by the Justice Department for carrying out a DVD and Blu-ray pricing operation on the Amazon Marketplace. Under Sherman Law, all three were convicted of violating criminal antitrust laws. According to The...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that people who were no longer showing symptoms of Covid-19 would only need five days to get back into shape. A decision based on the fact that people with COVID-19 are more contagious. Following this decision, Amazon decided to reduce the...
More than the traditional “good morning”, Alexa is becoming able to display the main news of the day on your favorite TV news on its Echo Show smart monitor. An update carried out by Amazon last Friday (7) brought new improvements to the various devices connected to the virtual assistant....
