Google turns over datacentre GPUs
If you need a bit of heavy number crunching
The search engine outfit Google is turning over the GPUs in its data centres to researchers and companies engaged in machine learning and heavy number crunching tasks.
AMD Ryzen bundles spotted at Amazon.com
Ryzen 1800X and 1700X bundled with AiO cooler
There are plenty of leaks regarding AMD's upcoming Ryzen CPU lineup but the latest listings on Amazon.com are quite interesting as these show AMD's flagship 7 1800X and 7 1700X listed in a bundle with Corsair Hydro Series H100i v2 liquid cooler.
Amazon reverts non-Prime free shipping minimum to 2013 levels
From $49 back down to $35
On two separate occasions, the world’s largest internet retail warehouse has raised the minimum price of shipping on all non-Prime purchases in order to compensate for other retailers raising their minimums to quality for free shipping.
Amazon's tablet shipments grew 99.4 percent in 2016
Shipments double to 11 million units
While research groups like IDC and Gartner have shown an overall 15.6 decrease in worldwide tablet shipments in 2016, the market has not gone entirely belly-up, as Amazon continues to pull ahead with a phenomenal 99.4 percent increase in annual tablet growth during the same period.
Azure is the better HPC
Beats Amazon, Rackspace, IBM and a supercomputer
While replacing supercomputers with cloud computing frameworks is becoming a bit of a thing, some clouds are better than others.
Amazon expands shipping with $1.5 billion air cargo hub
Reducing reliance on terrestrial postal carriers
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it is looking to build an air cargo hub at the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky Airport in order to lessen its reliance on terrestrial shipment carriers and reduce overall costs of processing packages outside of its own facilities.
Oracle doubles its Amazon and Azure cloud licencing
Why follow the Herd?
While Amazon and Microsoft have reduced the price of their cloud based operations, Oracle has decided to double the price, just to show everyone how it is done.
Amazon working on self-driving car
Alexa take me to the pub
Online book-seller Amazon is working on self-driving cars.
Amazon jumps the gun on EU SHIELD TV
Eur 230 for 16GB, EUR 330 for SHIELD TV Pro 500 GB
Nvidia has announced a new and smaller version of its SHIELD TV console and Amazon.de decided to offer them for pre-orders and reveal the pricing.
Turn off your telly if you use Alexa
You could end up ordering something you don’t want
Amazon’s Alexa seems to have a bit of problem playing nice with televisions.