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Amazon rejects curbing use of facial recognition tech
Amazon on Wednesday said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial recognition service despite calls to regulate the technology. Read more…
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Amazon backlash in India – Hindu gods on toilet seat covers
Amazon.com faced a social media backlash in India after toilet seat covers and other items with images of Hindu gods were spotted on its website. Read more…
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Amazon introduces machines that pack orders, replace humans
Amazon.com is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its human workers: boxing up customer orders. Read more…
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US presidential candidate vows to break up big tech
Presidential candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Google and Facebook if elected to promote competition in the technology sector. Read more…
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India will ban e-commerce companies under new rules
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will ban e-commerce companies such as Amazon.com and Walmart-owned Flipkart Group from selling products from companies in which they have an equity interest. In a statement, the government also said Read more…
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Amazon builds its own machine-learning chip
(Reuters) – Amazon.com on Wednesday launched a microchip aimed at so-called machine learning, entering a market that both Intel and Nvidia are counting on to boost their earnings in the coming years. Amazon is one Read more…
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Amazon launches cloud-based satellite data transfer service
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Amazon.com said on Tuesday it was starting a new antenna service for uploading and downloading data from satellites, in a bid to lure space industry and other customers to the cloud. Read more…
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Amazon’s scrapped recruitment AI didn’t like women, apparently
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon’s machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new AI-powered recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resumes with Read more…
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US and UK agencies back Apple/Amazon denials of spy chip report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday it currently had no reason to doubt statements from Apple and Amazon that have denied a Bloomberg report that their supply chains were Read more…
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Apple, Amazon deny report of Chinese spy chips in supply chain
(Reuters) – Apple and Amazon denied a Bloomberg Businessweek report on Thursday that said their systems had been infiltrated by malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence agents. Bloomberg cited 17 unidentified sources from intelligence Read more…