Hardware The Web Nvidia RTX 5080 Amazon scam sees RTX 5060 Ti passed off as the $1,400 card The fake card was identified by its single 8-pin power connector By Rob Thubron, January 21, 2026, 6:16 AM
Tech Culture AI Data centers are now the fastest-growing part of US construction Amazon, Google, and Oracle continue to bankroll enormous projects despite inflation and tariffs By Skye Jacobs, January 20, 2026, 6:10 AM
Gaming Software "Games should never die": Rust dev offers $25M to save Amazon's MMO New World Amazon's big MMO experiment is coming to an end, unless... By Skye Jacobs, January 18, 2026, 2:29 PM 21 comments
AI The Web Wikipedia is now getting paid by Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity, and other AI companies The internet's largest free encyclopedia is adapting to the AI era By Skye Jacobs, January 16, 2026, 12:05 PM 29 comments
AI Industry Will AI frenzy give rise to the cloud PC? Jeff Bezos thinks so Local computing machines are going to become museum exhibits, Amazon boss said By Alfonso Maruccia, January 15, 2026, 9:56 AM 25 comments
Gaming Tech Culture Amazon casts Ragnarök veteran Ryan Hurst as Kratos in God of War show Hurst voiced Thor in God of War Ragnarök By Rob Thubron, January 15, 2026, 5:18 AM
AI Software Amazon Prime members are being auto-upgraded to Alexa+ whether they want it or not Alexa+ can be easily rolled back, though By Rob Thubron, January 13, 2026, 11:27 AM 14 comments
Software Amazon updates Fire TV with a cleaner UI, 20 app pins, and Alexa+ Following Google's lead By Rob Thubron, January 6, 2026, 7:13 AM
Hardware Industry The people building humanoid robots say the hype is running ahead of reality Humanoid robots can walk and run – doing useful work is another story By Skye Jacobs, December 29, 2025, 2:13 PM 8 comments
Hardware The Web AMD's 5-year-old Ryzen CPUs are popular again because RAM is too expensive The DDR5 crunch brings back the Ryzen 7 5800X, and even the Ryzen 5 3600 By Daniel Sims, December 26, 2025, 5:21 PM 17 comments
Hardware The Web Amazon sold a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM kit that turned out to be DDR4 in disguise Another return scam slips through Amazon Warehouse By Rob Thubron, December 22, 2025, 9:01 AM
Hardware The Web AMD dominates Amazon's best-selling CPU chart, taking 19 of the top 20 spots All 14 of Amazon's best-selling processors come from Team Red By Rob Thubron, December 22, 2025, 5:16 AM 22 comments
Security The Web Russian hackers exploited misconfigured customer devices hosted on AWS for years, Amazon says Amazon links sustained cyber campaign to Russia's GRU By Skye Jacobs, December 20, 2025, 10:03 AM
The Web Apple Apple and Amazon face £900 million UK lawsuit over alleged price-fixing Squeezing out third-party sellers inflated Apple prices on Amazon By Skye Jacobs, December 17, 2025, 6:15 AM
Software AI Amazon's Kindle app now lets you ask questions about the book you're reading The company vows to provide a "spoiler-free" reading experience By Alfonso Maruccia, December 15, 2025, 5:16 PM
The Web Amazon poised to drop USPS reliance and take full control of last-mile deliveries Nearly 8% of US Postal Service revenue came from Amazon last year By Shawn Knight, December 4, 2025, 12:24 PM 9 comments
Industry AI Amazon is building AI "factories" to run Trainium and GPU racks inside customer data centers AWS wants to help companies train models on their own data By Bob O'Donnell, December 3, 2025, 10:34 AM
Science The Web Amazon data center linked to rare cancers and miscarriages in Oregon, report warns Echoes of Flint as Oregon nitrate crisis worsens By Rob Thubron, December 1, 2025, 6:52 AM 12 comments
Electronics Tech Culture Watch: Amazon drone cuts internet cable in Texas, triggering FAA investigation Soon after two Amazon MK30 drones collided with a crane By Rob Thubron, November 27, 2025, 7:01 AM
The Web Space Amazon's new Leo Ultra terminal promises 1Gbps satellite broadband The new low Earth orbit terminal is rolling out in preview with support for up to 1 Gbps downstream and 400 Mbps upstream By Skye Jacobs, November 26, 2025, 6:58 AM
AI Industry Amazon is building a massive $50 billion AI cloud for the US government The new infrastructure will exclusively serve the needs of thousands of federal agencies By Alfonso Maruccia, November 25, 2025, 5:24 PM 20 comments
Hardware Industry AMD continues to crush Intel in CPU sales, dominating Amazon and Mindfactory AMD is on track to overtake Intel in the Steam survey next year, too By Rob Thubron, November 25, 2025, 8:13 AM 7 comments
The Web Car Tech Ford is now selling certified pre-owned cars on Amazon Pilot program spans Los Angeles, Dallas, and Seattle, with more cities to follow By Skye Jacobs, November 19, 2025, 10:22 AM
AI The Web Amazon warns Perplexity with cease-and-desist over AI shopping agent Perplexity calls Amazon's move "a threat to all internet users" By Rob Thubron, November 5, 2025, 9:13 AM
AI Industry OpenAI signs $38 billion Amazon Web Services deal for Nvidia-powered cloud compute The new AWS contract broadens OpenAI's infrastructure base beyond Microsoft By Skye Jacobs, November 4, 2025, 9:12 AM