Amazon on Thursday pledged to spend $700 million over the next few years to retrain 100,000 of its US workers. The Upskilling 2025 program will be one of the largest retraining initiatives any US company has undertaken and follows similar efforts by corporations such as AT&T and Accenture. The program is designed to help one-third of Amazon’s …
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The Federal Communications Commission has voted to free up another band of wireless spectrum for next-generation 5G wireless service. But the vote wasn’t without controversy. On Wednesday, the agency voted 3-2 to auction spectrum in the 2.5GHz band. This sliver of airwaves, known as the Educational Broadband Service, had been set aside for educational purposes during the 1960s. License holders …
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Update, July 11: The refurb AirTV is sold out at the $50 price. You can pick up a new AirTV at Amazon for $80 ($40 off), or you can check out the similar Amazon Fire TV Recast for $130 ($100 off). That latter product costs more — and only works with a Fire TV streamer — but it includes a …
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A Lord of the Rings online game is coming, and it’s being co-produced by Amazon Game Studios and Leyou Technologies’ Athlon Games label. The massively multiplayer online game based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien will be free to play, with a release date yet to be set. Amazon Game Studios, launched in 2012, makes games including New World, The …
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Google has announced that YouTube, YouTube TV and YouTube Kids apps are now available on Amazon’s Fire TV streamers and TVs worldwide, after 18 months of hostility and user workarounds. The companies announced the truce back in April, which also includes the ability for Amazon Prime Video apps to connect to Google Chromecast streamers and Android TV from today. The official …
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Microsoft has denied that it’ll be moving production of its tech products out of China, following a report that the rising US-China trade tensions had spurred the potential move. Last week, the Nikkei Asian Review said Microsoft, along with Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony, Nintendo, Asus and Lenovo, would start manufacturing products in other Asian countries such as Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia …
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Amazon continues to play it fast and loose with the definition of “Prime Day,” which is actually two days (July 15 and 16) and is not, in fact, confined to those two days. Rather, there are all sorts of Prime Day deals available right now, and Amazon recently announced another one for Prime subscribers: From now through July 16, when …
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Amazon has taken another step toward providing global broadband internet from space through its Project Kuiper. The company filed paperwork with the US government to launch the thousands of satellites needed for the plan. Amazon submitted its application with the FCC for Project Kuiper on July 4. The internet heavyweight asked the commission for permission to “launch and operate a …
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The OnePlus 7 is taking a Mirror Blue turn, at least in India. A banner on Amazon’s Indian site revealed the new color variant for the OnePlus 7 Pro‘s budget sibling for India’s Prime Day on July 15. The phone is only available in Mirror Gray in the UK, and isn’t available at all in either the US or Australia currently. …
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A lot of online retailers are betting Amazon will crash on Prime Day, anonymous workplace social network app Blind has reported. After running a two-day survey last week that saw 4,222 people answer on its app, Blind said eBay employees responded in the affirmative 60% of the time. Meanwhile, 47% of Walmart employees said it would crash, 42% of Wayfair …
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