Tag Archives: Amazons

For years now the superstar of the less-is-more desktop computer has been Apple’s Mac Mini, and with good reason. The Mac Mini’s rep as a high-end, powerful desktop that takes up precious little work surface area is well-earned, and almost since it debuted, the Mini’s had next to no competition. That part, however, has changed — a wave of high-performing …

Amazon ‘s Project Kuiper has not made a dime yet. But recent updates boost our confidence that the ambitious satellite internet initiative could soon be a new cog in the tech giant’s money-making machine. “There’s so much to like here” with Amazon, Jim Cramer said in the wake of its second-quarter earnings report . “Right now, we have [Amazon Web …

Amazon has finally started rolling out Alexa+, its oft-delayed overhaul of the Alexa voice assistant built on large language model technology. However, Alexa+ shows how difficult it is to replace a mature voice assistant with generative AI, especially when users expect instant, consistent results for simple tasks. It’s a real reality check on the notion that Amazon has managed to …

Poor weather in the booster recovery zone caused a scrub of the KF-02 mission, preventing the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a fourth time in as many days. Image: SpaceX via livestream Update Aug. 10, 9:30 a.m. EDT: Poor weather in the booster recovery zone scrubs KF-02 launch; now targeting Monday, Aug. 11. For a fourth time …

The modern executive overreach of wannabe moguls has spanned media companies both traditional, like Warner Bros., and nascent, like Amazon. But no matter which fleece-vested Scrooge has decided that they know how to do someone else’s job, it comes with the same exhausting, creatively bankrupt problems. For example, in Brad Stone’s book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos And The Invention Of …

Amazon’s stock is falling, as this trend from earnings has investors worried  MarketWatch Amazon stock sinks 7% after earnings: Here are the key takeaways  CNBC Why Amazon (AMZN) Shares Are Getting Obliterated Today  Yahoo Finance Amazon Earnings: Good Results, With AWS Still a Winner; Fear on Profitability Guidance Is Overblown  Morningstar Amazon: Thanks For This Dip (NASDAQ:AMZN)  Seeking Alpha Source link

Untangling a Lightning cable every time you start the car gets old fast, especially when you are just trying to pull up maps and go. The Wireless CarPlay Adapter solves that little daily annoyance by letting your iPhone hop onto CarPlay the moment the engine turns over. No cord to plug, no port to wear out, and no more reaching …

Amazon’s upcoming Mass Effect series is being helmed by many of those also involved in the service’s acclaimed Fallout show. The first season of Fallout – which starred Ella Purnell as the wide-eyed and somewhat naive vault dweller Lucy, and Walton Goggins as the rather charismatic noseless Ghoul – debuted in April last year. On its release, the adaptation was …

SpaceX’s patch for the KF-01 mission illustrates a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of Kuiper broadband satellites inside its payload fairing. Credit: SpaceX Vulcan, Ariane 6, and New Glenn have all now launched successfully, but none of them have yet demonstrated the ability to launch more than twice a year. Vulcan and Ariane 6 appear to be on track …

Amazon’s race to challenge SpaceX in orbit is getting a helping hand from its chief competitor: SpaceX, which will launch the next batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites skyward on Wednesday. A flock of 24 Kuiper internet satellites will ride aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket before dawn. The mission, dubbed KF-01, has a 27-minute launch window that opens …