EU hits Amazon with antitrust charges
Mis-use of data
The European Union is preparing to file antitrust charges against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's treatment of third-party sellers on its site.
Amazon pauses giving face detection software to cops
Probably not a good moment
Amazon on Wednesday said it was implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition software, reversing its long-time support of selling the technology to law enforcement.
Amazon goes EPYC
AMD on its cloud
AMD announced its second generation EPYC processor is powering Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C5a and are switched on in the AWS US East, AWS US West, AWS Europe and AWS Asia Pacific regions.
Bezos will be the world's first trillionaire
Unless the revolution takes him out
A company which allows small- to medium-sized firms to compare different business products, has added up some numbers and reached the conclusion that the world's first trillionaire will likely be Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.
Amazon might be losing market share
Positive signs of competition
Despite the fact it being some of the only way that people could buy products during the lockdown, there are signs that Amazon is starting to lose market share.
Amazon shifts to voice calls to spot fake merchants
See you Jimmy
Amazon is piloting the use of video conference calls to verify the identity of merchants who wish to sell goods on its websites, in a new plan to counter fraud without in-person meetings in the pandemic, the company said on Sunday.
US judge uses JEDI mind hold
Suspends Amazon’s case against Microsoft
A US judge held a case by Amazon challenging the Pentagon’s decision to award a $10 billion contract to Microsoft.
Amazon worker claims he was fired for leading a strike
Smalls worried over coronavirus safety conditions
Chris Smalls, an Amazon fulfilment center employee, claims the company fired him after he led a strike at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, over coronavirus safety conditions.
Billionaire Amazon boss begs for more money for sick staff
Even though his business is making a killing
While Amazon is seeing its business go through the roof as people locked in houses need deliveries, its boss claims he can’t afford to pay his staff sick leave.
Speech recognition systems understand white people
They are more like us
Speech recognition systems from five of the world's biggest tech companies -- Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft -- make far fewer errors with users who are white than with users who are black.