Jan 24, 2019, 9:21 AM Amazon Web Services continues open-source push with code behind SageMaker Neo Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project,… Read More
Jan 24, 2019, 9:16 AM Amazon reveals new Thursday Night Football streaming stats, brings back first female NFL broadcasting duo Amazon is bringing back Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer to commentate its Thursday Night Football streams on Prime Video next season. The… Read More
Jan 24, 2019, 8:56 AM UnitedHealth sues exec for taking trade secrets to Amazon health care joint venture Amazon’s joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase is just getting started, but it’s already rattling health care giants.… Read More
Jan 24, 2019, 8:37 AM Amazon’s HQ2 picks are conspicuously absent from America’s 10 best-performing cities list When Amazon announced it would split its second headquarters between New York City and the Washington, D.C., area, it seemed… Read More
Jan 23, 2019, 7:10 PM Amazon temporarily stops selling its Echo Wall Clock: Why we wouldn’t buy another one anyway Amazon has decided to temporarily stop selling its Echo Wall Clock, a device that displays the time of day and… Read More
Jan 23, 2019, 12:50 PM Geared Up: A review of the DJI Osmo Pocket, new iPhone battery case, and testing out Amazon’s Echo Wall Clock Geared Up is back! Our weekly consumer electronics podcast and live video show returns this week with a new co-host:… Read More
Jan 23, 2019, 10:00 AM In the year of HQ2, Amazon’s 2018 lobbying budget ballooned to a record $14.2 million Amazon spent more money lobbying the government in 2018 than any year in the company’s history. The Seattle tech giant’s… Read More
Jan 23, 2019, 9:49 AM Amazon rolls out autonomous package-delivery robot ‘Scout’ to a test area north of Seattle Amazon today unveiled a cooler-sized package delivery robot named Scout that it is testing in the Seattle area. Scout is… Read More
Jan 19, 2019, 10:25 AM Amazon and Microsoft diverge on approach to housing crisis in their home region As two of the world’s most valuable companies, Amazon and Microsoft have created mind-boggling wealth and economic vitality in the… Read More
Jan 19, 2019, 10:00 AM I read MacKenzie Bezos’ books, and this is what I learned She was an aspiring fiction writer with an audacious start along that path. She pursued creative writing at Princeton, and… Read More
Jan 19, 2019, 6:40 AM Time’s up, Alexa: After one lukewarm leftover too many, we pulled the plug on Amazon’s microwave Instead of using our fingers to push the buttons on a microwave keypad over the past couple months, we here… Read More
Jan 18, 2019, 3:28 PM Shareholders pressure Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement Amazon shareholders have filed a resolution asking the company to stop selling its facial recognition software to government agencies until… Read More
Jan 18, 2019, 9:30 AM Can Big Tech solve the housing crisis? The politics of private companies taking on public issues Big tech companies are stepping in to help solve the housing crunch in the face of mounting frustration from their… Read More
Jan 18, 2019, 8:20 AM Microsoft gives up on Cortana as an Alexa rival, now views assistant as cross-platform skill Microsoft no longer views Cortana as a competitor to the Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa, and the priority has changed… Read More
Jan 17, 2019, 2:56 PM Amazon Alexa now does her best ‘newscaster’ impression when reading the headlines Is that you, Walter Cronkite? Amazon unveiled a feature that alters Alexa’s voice to imitate the way broadcast news anchors… Read More
Jan 17, 2019, 11:35 AM Think you know news? Don’t ‘Wait Wait’ to prove it as NPR brings popular quiz show to smart speakers If you’re used to just talking at the radio on Saturday mornings and playing along with NPR’s weekly news quiz… Read More
Jan 17, 2019, 10:19 AM Amazon Web Services thinks new cloud service will make it easier to coordinate backups One of the hardest parts of running modern enterprise technology infrastructure is keeping track of everything that is going on,… Read More
Jan 17, 2019, 10:13 AM New survey estimates Amazon Prime membership in the U.S. exceeds 100M Last year, Amazon disclosed for the first time the number of Prime subscribers worldwide — 100 million. A new survey… Read More
Jan 15, 2019, 12:55 PM AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project The promise of so-called “low code/no code” software-development tools is to enable anyone to create business applications around their custom… Read More
Jan 15, 2019, 11:16 AM Amazon is officially hiring at New York ‘HQ2’ Over the weekend, the first job listings cropped up for Amazon HQ2, the now imprecise moniker for the 50,000-person second… Read More
Jan 15, 2019, 10:49 AM With another new office lease for Amazon, this Seattle-area city is almost out of downtown space Amazon will take another high rise tower in Bellevue, Wash., according to a real estate brokerage report, and because of… Read More
Jan 15, 2019, 8:55 AM Amazon bundles new second generation Alexa remote with Fire TV Stick for $40 Amazon is updating its Fire TV Stick bundle to include the new Alexa Voice Remote, which was released late last… Read More
Jan 14, 2019, 5:04 PM Amazon Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Round 2: Digital assistants duke it out in the desert LAS VEGAS — Sin City has served as the backdrop to some of the most famous bouts and rematches in… Read More
Jan 14, 2019, 3:12 PM More than half of DC workers would consider leaving their jobs to work for Amazon, survey finds Workers in Washington D.C. appear eager to jump ship for Amazon jobs, according to a new survey. Millennials and IT… Read More
Jan 14, 2019, 12:00 PM Glasses give sight to the legally blind, opening eyes to the broader potential of making tech accessible LAS VEGAS ― More than 180,000 people attended CES to see the latest in consumer technology. From autonomous suitcases to a… Read More
Jan 14, 2019, 9:14 AM Amazon Web Services acquires TSO Logic, a Vancouver startup working on cloud spending analysis It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase… Read More
Jan 14, 2019, 8:51 AM Trump mocks Amazon’s ‘Jeff Bozo’ over divorce and tabloid exposure Perhaps it was only a matter of time until the president tweeted about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce from MacKenzie… Read More
Jan 13, 2019, 5:00 PM Building a wall around the cloud: Why China will soon be a very important cloud computing market Cloud computing was invented by American tech companies. By the end of the next decade, it might be the domain… Read More
Jan 12, 2019, 7:25 AM Facebook, groceries and … divorce? Catch up on the week’s big stories with the GeekWire Podcast We’re back! John Cook, Monica Nickelsburg and Todd Bishop get the GeekWire Podcast rolling for 2019 with our weekly news… Read More
Jan 10, 2019, 12:01 PM Amazon reportedly working on game streaming service, talking to publishers about signing up Amazon is looking to get into game streaming, joining its tech titan contemporaries Microsoft and Google, according to a report… Read More
