Amazon has unveiled significantly expanded plans and shared initial renderings for its advanced nuclear energy project in Washington State, its home headquarters. Read: Apple bumps entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro to M5 chip The planned facility, now officially named the Cascade Advanced Energy Facility, will be built near Energy Northwest’s Columbia Generating Station outside of Richland,…
James Hickman, AWS country manager, South Africa. The SOLA Group has achieved early commercial operations for the Springbok Solar Power Project, Africa’s first multi-buyer, energy wheeling facility and the company’s most significant project to date. Delivered ahead of schedule, the 195MW solar photovoltaic plant marks a major milestone in large-scale renewable energy procurement and a…
Amazon has suspended its drone delivery service in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area of Arizona following an incident on Wednesday where two of its MK30 drones crashed into a construction crane. Read: Sony ULT Field 5 Review: ULTimately Based The crash occurred around 10:00 AM local time in Tolleson, Arizona, approximately two miles from…
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company duped users into paying for Prime memberships, the regulatory agency announced Thursday. The surprise settlement comes as Amazon and the FTC were just three days into the trial in a Seattle federal court. Opening arguments in the case occurred Tuesday, but…
Third-year students pursuing a degree in IT and computers are invited to apply for the Amazon (Software Development Engineer) Recruitment Bursary, for the 2026 academic year. Bursaries will be awarded for studies related to the following fields (Undergraduate and Honours): Artificial Intelligence Computer Engineering Computer Science Data Science Information Systems Information Technology Machine Learning Software…
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced that Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP® is now a supported external storage option for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon EVS, now generally available, is a new AWS service that allows users to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly…
Regulatory obstacles in South Africa could cost Starlink its usual first-mover advantage, potentially allowing Amazon’s Project Kuiper to enter the local market concurrently or even sooner. Kuiper, which began launching satellites in April, plans beta testing soon, with a commercial rollout expected in 2026. Amazon representatives have reportedly met with local telecoms ahead of this…
Following the critical and commercial success of its Fallout adaptation, Amazon is reportedly delving into another beloved video game franchise: Wolfenstein. Variety reports that Amazon is developing a series based on the alternate-history Nazi-hunting game, enlisting some of the creative minds behind the hit Fallout show. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Nvidia…
Jeff Bezos gestures as he leaves Aman Venice hotel, ahead of their expected wedding, in Venice, Italy, June 25, 2025. Guglielmo Mangiapane | Reuters Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sold nearly three million shares worth $665.8 million over two days in July, a regulatory filing Tuesday showed. The stock sale is part of a plan announced…
As AI replaces human roles, the tech sector could lose as many as 235 000 positions this year. Amazon has warned that artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI (GenAI), will trim its workforce as the technology will “change the way our work is done”. The company, the world’s fourth most valuable in terms of market…
