Amazon.com to cut ‘several hundred’ Alexa jobs
By Greg Bensinger (Reuters) – Amazon.com on Friday announced it is trimming jobs at its Alexa voice assistant unit, citing shifting business priorities and a greater focus on generative artificial…
Amazon’s area delivery drones arrive in Europe
After the US and together with the UK, Italy will be the first EU country to test Amazon’s sky delivery drones. The official announcement came from the US company during Delivery the Future,…
Amazon launches first test satellites for Kuiper internet network
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon‘s first pair of prototype satellites for its planned Kuiper internet network were launched into space on Friday from Florida, the company’s first step…
Big Tech’s core businesses face overhaul under EU tech rules
By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter (Reuters) – The European Union has picked out 22 so-called “gatekeeper” services, run by six of the biggest tech companies in the world, to…
Can an e-book ever defeat a paperback?
More books are being sold now than five years ago. Per Wordsrated, the international sales of published books were US$129 billion as of June 2023, about a US$7 billion increase compared…
Virgin Galactic opens new frontiers for space flight
Virgin Galactic’s first suborbital mission successfully concluded, inaugurating commercial flights and opening up a new frontier for travelling around space for companies interested in carrying out scientific research. Taking off from Spaceport…
Analysis-Boeing, Northrop face obstacles in commercializing flagship US rocket
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA‘s plans to turn over its flagship rocket to contractors Boeing and Northrop Grumman to find more buyers and bring down costs faces steep…
Kuiper is Amazon’s new internet connection service via satellite
Amazon in space in the sign of Kuiper. The giant intended to provide the first test customers with an internet connection from space in 2024. Also, by 2026, half of…
Relativity postpones Florida launch of 3D-printed Terran rocket
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – California-based startup Relativity Space called off the planned debut launch of its 3D-printed rocket in Florida on Wednesday over fuel temperature concerns, delaying a key…
SpaceX to raise $750 million at $137 billion valuation
By Aarati Krishna (Reuters) – Elon Musk‘s SpaceX is raising $750 million in a new round of funding that values the rocket and satellite company at $137 billion from investors,…