Amazon claims developers only code for an hour a day
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Black and white and red all over
Amazon has finally listened to its users and made a colour version of its e-reader.