Amazon fined $1.28 billion for abuse of market dominance
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Expect an appeal

Italy's antitrust watchdog has fined Amazon 1.13 billion euro ($1.28 billion) for alleged abuse of market dominance, in one of the biggest penalties imposed on a US tech giant in Europe.

Amazon announces AWS Private 5G
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Wednesday, 01 December 2021 12:17

Amazon announces AWS Private 5G


For those wanting to use 5G to build private network

Amazon has announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service that aims to make it easy to deploy and manage your own private 5G network.

Congress members stunned by Amazon privacy moves
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Apparently the company has been “lobbying” politicians

Five members of Congress called for federal consumer-privacy legislation after a Reuters report published last Friday revealed how Amazon has led an under-the-radar campaign to gut privacy protections in 25 states while amassing a valuable trove of personal data on American consumers.

Amazon plans to deliver prototype broadband satellites
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Since there is no one in space it will leave them with a neighbouring galaxy

Amazon plans to launch its first prototype broadband satellites in Q4 2022, which would be nearly four years after SpaceX launched its first prototype Starlink satellites.

Amazon wants to build a quantum computer
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Wednesday, 27 October 2021 12:23

Amazon wants to build a quantum computer


Just need a few more cats

Amazon is officially entering the race to develop a quantum computer, joining US and Chinese rivals in the quest to harness the ability of cats to be both dead and alive.

Western Digital has SN750 and SN850 SSD deals on Amazon.com
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WD_Black 2TB SN850 PCIe 4.0 down by $190

Western Digital launched rather neat deals over at Amazon.com, giving its WD_Black SN750 and SN850 SSDs a decent price cut.

EU set to discipline Big Tech
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Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:00

EU set to discipline Big Tech


Also set to rain on their clouds

Draft EU rules to curb the power of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook  should also tackle providers of cloud computing services for possible anti-competitive practices, a study said on Tuesday.

Amazon only protects its chums from counterfeiters
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If your brand is unknown you get no protection

Amazon only seems interested in protecting big name brands from counterfeiters and not those who come up with good ideas but are not as famous.

Big Tech’s fake climate shame
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Monday, 04 October 2021 12:15

Big Tech’s fake climate shame

 

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney back groups opposed to climate change


While their customers believe that they are as green as Greta Thunberg, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting climate legislation.

Amazon EC2 VT1 Instances for Live Multi-stream Video Transcoding
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Powered by Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator card

One of the key announcements of the Xilinx Adapt 2021 event was the new Amazon EC2 VT1 instance featuring Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator card. Amazon is a big customer when it comes to video transcoding, and it also offers these services through its AWS Amazon EC2 VT1 instances.