Amazon is developing a powerful new data center chip
Amazon will soon no longer rely on other companies for its computing hardware as its cloud computing department is working on a powerful new custom data center chip. The new chip will be 20% faster than the ones on the market. Amazon often rents out its servers to other companies and this brings in around $34.9 billion in sales every year.
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Amazon is launching smart grocery carts
Amazon is launching smart grocery carts
Amazon is launching shopping carts that track items as shoppers add them, then automatically charges them when they remove the grocery bags, allowing them to skip the checkout line. The Dash Carts will roll out at Amazon’s new Los Angeles-area grocery store, which is slated to open in 2020, the company announced Tuesday. Dash Carts are embedded with cameras, sensors and a smart display that automatically track a shopper’s order
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Amazon’s $90 tablet for quarantined families
Amazon’s $90 tablet for quarantined families
Amazon announced on Wednesday that the company is rolling out new 8-inch Fire tablet models with a starting price of $89.99. The Fire HD 8 tablets include the new HD 8 and the HD 8 Plus. The HD 8 is priced at $89.99. Unlike Apple’s expensive range of iPad Tablets starting at $329 and up, Amazon’s strategy is to try to gain a wide customer base for less-expensive Fire tablets
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D-Wave provides COVID-19 researchers with free access
The Canadian quantum computing startup D-Wave has announced that they will provide free cloud access to their quantum processors for any researchers that are working to develop solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. This includes not just pharmaceutical research but also research that seeks to solve logistical problems, diagnostics or contagion modeling.
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Saudi Arabian spies hack US phones
Saudi Arabian spies hack US phones
According to a new report Saudi spies have been exploiting security flaws within the world's cell networks to spy on US citizens through their own phones. US carriers have long since been aware of these flaws but have not made any efforts to patch them. Saudi Arabia has also planted spies at Twitter to surveil critics of the regime.
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