Rekognition claimed 24 Congress members were criminals
So that works then
The US Congress is up in arms when Amazon’s face recognition software, called Rekognition, identified more than two dozen members of Congress as people arrested for crimes.
Google fights Amazon on assistant front
Sorry, can I hear an echo?Sorry, can I hear an echo?
A report suggests that Google is so alarmed by Alexa's dominance on the home intelligence assistant front that it is pouring vast amounts of energy to play catch up with Amazon.
Amazon announces Fire TV Cube
Combines Echo with Fire TV for US $119.99
Amazon has officially announced the Fire TV Cube, a small cube which combines Echo with Fire TV to bring, what Amazon calls, the first hands-free media player with Alexa.
Agressive Oracle hacking off customers
Trying to start a Krays
Oracle customers are getting upset with the company’s aggressive sales tactics as it tries to catch up to Amazon in the cloud market
Top three AIs are pretty stupid
Google is brighter, Siri is as intelligent as plankton
A new report has named Google as the cleverest AI but warns all three of the leading machines are pretty pants and disappointing.
Amazon doubles profits
Thanks to cloud
US president Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump's favourite US company, Amazon, more than doubled its profit on Thursday and predicted strong spring results – the outfit was so pleased with its results it jacked up the price for its US Prime subscribers.
Amazon plots home robots
Strike a light
We've had robot vacuum cleaners for quite a few years, but now it seems Amazon is working on a more ambitious project.
Trump goes for Amazon's jugular
President goes postal
The president of the United States read out a litany of complaints against Amazon using his usual transmission mode, Twitter.
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X shows up briefly on Amazon.de
Said it should ship on April 19th
German Amazon has leaked one of the AMD's upcoming Pinnacle Ridge CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600X, with the shipping date set for April 19th.
Look out Apple, Amazon is going to steal your crown
It could not happen to a nicer multinational
Apple is about to lose its crown as the world's most valuable publicly listed company and will be beaten by Amazon.com to the $1 trillion mark.