Amazon claims developers only code for an hour a day
Published in AI

But it is not really their fault

Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims the average developer spends a mere hour daily writing actual code—barely enough time to decide whether to indent with tabs or spaces.

Amazon stopped giving Prime service to black customers
Published in News


Even if they paid for it

The District of Columbia sued Amazon, claiming that the brown box shifter had secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighbourhoods while still charging for a membership that promised the benefit.

Amazon's Data Centres to become carbon capture machines
Published in News


Offsetting the CO2

Amazon’s Web Services are partnering with an AI company to build carbon capture machines, which could mitigate the harmful effects of the colossal energy required to operate them.

Tame Apple Press comes up with new Apple vapourware
Published in News


Apparently it is going to build a TV now

Desperate to create an illusion that Apple is on the cutting edge of something, the Tame Apple Press is claiming that Jobs’ Mob is working on a TV.

AMD Ryzen rules Amazon's top processor list
Published in News
Wednesday, 20 November 2024 11:41

AMD Ryzen rules Amazon's top processor list


Intel invisible

Amazon's top ten processor list now exclusively features AMD Ryzen CPUs with Intel, relegated to 12th place.

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips on fire
Published in Network
Tuesday, 19 November 2024 10:51

Nvidia’s Blackwell chips on fire


And not in a good way

Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell data centre processors have significant overheating problems when installed in high-capacity server racks.

Amazon's first colour E-reader has issues
Published in News
Monday, 04 November 2024 11:32

Amazon's first colour E-reader has issues


Users moan about Kindle Colorsoft

Amazon's first-ever colour e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft, has only just gone on sale, and early adopters are already expressing dissatisfaction.

US is making consumers pay for corporate data centre plans
Published in News


It is the American way

The US has a novel way of funding big IT company data centres and AI plans: it hikes ordinary people's power bills.

Outift which shamed Apple does the same to Amazon
Published in Cloud


37Signals gets off its cloud

The outfit, which publicly shames big-name vendors when it stops being their customers, has focused on Amazon’s cloud operations.

Amazon finally makes a colour version of e-reader
Published in Mobiles


Black and white and red all over

Amazon has finally listened to its users and made a colour version of its e-reader.