Amazon announced last month that by the end of this year, the company will begin using new electric delivery trucks in 16 US cities. The new vans are designed and manufactured by startup Rivian. The company had previously started using these new trucks in Los Angeles. Now Amazon has brought electric trucks to the streets […]
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Amazfit GTR smartwatch drops in price and is already available for $ 100 on Amazon
Amazon offers the Amazfit GTR smartwatch for $ 100, while it usually costs $ 140. The Amazfit GTR smartwatch is equipped with a 1.39-inch AMOLED display and a selection of watch faces to choose from. The smartwatch is equipped with Smart Sports Tracking technology, which allows you to track 12 different sports and fitness, including […]
AWS Announces Availability of Amazon EC2 X2gd Instances Powered by Proprietary Graviton2 Processors
Amazon Web Services (AWS) yesterday announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2gd instances. They are characterized as next-generation memory-optimized instances based on AWS proprietary Graviton2 processors. AWS Graviton2 processors are built on the Arm architecture. Recall that an instance is a virtual machine instance running in the cloud that provides […]
Nokia and Sony join Ericsson and will not attend the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona due to the coronavirus
The celebration of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​whose organizers had guaranteed for next June, seems less and less certain. Following the decision announced yesterday by Ericsson not to attend the technology show, Nokia and Sony have announced today that they will not participate, at least in person, in this year’s event. “Given the […]
Strategy Analytics estimates over 150 million smart speakers sold in 2020
Strategy Analytics prepared a report on the smart speaker and display market in the fourth quarter. According to analysts, the release of new models from Amazon, Apple, Google, Alibaba and Baidu, synchronized with the seasonal rise in demand, provided a “positive end to a difficult year.” Over the year, according to Strategy Analytics’ calculations, more […]
Smart Cuckoo Clock and Rubik’s Cube Printer Introduced
American tech giant Amazon has unveiled its own Build It co-financing platform, which will work on the same principle as Xiaomi Youpin, Indiegogo and Kickstarter. The main difference between Build It is that only Amazon products will be presented on the platform so far. The first set of products presented for funding includes a cuckoo […]
Fire TV Stick 4K and Fire TV Cube get new UI in March
Amazon continues to roll out a new UI for its Fire TV devices amid recent news that Google has begun updating Android TV. A new user interface that is more personalized was announced in September and began rolling out back in December 2020 for the Fire TV Stick Lite and the 3rd Gen Fire TV […]
Sustainable but empty: the virus pauses the ‘green boom’ of tech headquarters
Hanging tree houses for business meetings, futuristic structures powered by renewable energy, green spaces that rival the best botanical gardens in the world … In 2019, big tech companies rushed to create idyllic workplaces with which to attract the best talent. After a year of pandemic, these headquarters -some already completed, others half-built- are now […]
GameStop and conspiracies on social networks
An investor can obtain information in many ways. For example, with binoculars to control the passage of tankers. Or with satellite data to examine production in refineries or the arrival and departure of cars in the parking lots of a supermarket chain. The French company Kairros, for example, is dedicated to obtaining all kinds of […]
Amazon sales reach $ 386.1 billion in 2020
Amazon, which owns the largest online store in the world, reported for the last quarter of 2020 and for the year as a whole. Q4 2020 sales reached $ 125.6 billion. This is 42% more than in the same period in 2019, when the company generated $ 87.4 billion. Quarterly operating income increased from $ […]