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Amazon Alexa Recovers After Morning Outage

Alexa wake up alarm didn't work this morning? Smart lights didn't turn on? Outage of Alexa services in the UK…

3 years ago

Google Continues Real Estate Push With $1bn London Office Purchase

Despite delaying staff return to its offices, Google spends £728m ($1bn) acquiring office building in London, and will increase UK…

3 years ago

China Approves Plans For Four Mega Data Centre Clusters

Four mega clusters of data centres have been approved in China, and will reportedly utilise renewable power to deliver low…

3 years ago

Amazon Web Services Suffers Another Outage

AWS recovers from a second outage in the space of a week, which impacted services at Netflix, Slack, and Amazon's…

3 years ago

Australia Switches On Tesla Megapack Facility For Renewable Energy Capture

Australian state of Victoria switches on the biggest battery in the southern hemisphere to provide clean power to one million…

3 years ago

Amazon Prime, Ring Services In US Impacted By AWS Outage

Big name services from Amazon including Prime Video, Ring doorbells and even the Amazon e-commerce websiteetc impacted by Amazon Web…

3 years ago

Russia Seeks To Fine Google, Meta On Annual Turnover

Russian regulator applies to court to fine US tech giants percentage of annual Russian turnover, over failure to remove “banned…

3 years ago

FTC Sues Nvidia To Block ARM Acquisition

US Federal Trade Commission sues Nvidia to block its acquisition of the UK's ARM Holdings, stating it will “stifle next…

3 years ago

AWS re:Invent Conference Welcomes Back Crowds

Over 27,000 attendees and members of the press (including Silicon) attend Amazon Web Services worldwide event in Las Vegas this…

3 years ago

Amazon Web Services Opens Cloud Skills Training Centre

Back to school. AWS to offer in-person training and it expands existing efforts to help people to learn and develop…

3 years ago

Nokia Launches Cloud Software Subscription Service For Telcos

Nokia announces entry into Software-as-a-Service segment, by offering multiple software services to communication service providers

3 years ago

IBM Eagle Quantum Processor Delivers 127-Qubit

Hold onto your servers. Big Blue touts 'breakthrough' 127-Qubit capable Quantum processor, known as the 'Eagle' processor

3 years ago

Intel Touts New 12th Gen PC Processors

Chip giant Intel introduces its new Alder Lake processors for personal computers, as it seeks to dethrone longtime rival AMD

3 years ago

Amazon Web Services Wins Contract From UK Intelligence Agencies

American cloud giant Amazon Web Services wins contract to host the UK's most sensitive national security data, but Labour wants…

3 years ago

Amazon To Allow Teams To Decide Office Time

Directors of corporate teams at Amazon will decide how long their team has to work in offices, and how long…

3 years ago

Dutch Data Centres Seek Government Help Over Rising Prices

Operators of data centres in Holland have called on the Dutch government to financial support, amid surging electricity prices

3 years ago

Facebook Blames Configuration Change For Global Outage

Back online. Facebook confirms 'configuration change' for seven hour global outage that halt access to most of its services on…

3 years ago

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Suffer Global Outage

As CTO departs, a major global outage rocks the Facebook platform, as well as its WhatsApp and Instagram platforms on…

3 years ago

US, Europe Reach Agreement On Chip Supplies, China, Tech Rules

Inaugural agreement between US and Europe to deepen co-operation centred around chip supplies, rules governing big tech, and trade with…

3 years ago

Google To Purchase NY Office Building For $2.1 Billion

Despite small numbers of office workers due to remote working, Google is to spend billions to acquire New York office…

3 years ago

BT Pledges To Curb Carbon Emissions By 2030

Green pledge. UK telecoms giant BT brings forward its net zero carbon emission target from 2045 to 2030, and sets…

3 years ago

Facebook Developing Machine Learning Chip – Report

Engineers at Facebook are reportedly developing a machine learning chip, as part of its internal chip development program

3 years ago

Intel May Invest 80 Billion Euros For Two Chip Fabs

CEO Pat Gelsinger says Intel could invest as much as 80 billion euros ($95bn or £69bn) in Europe to expand…

3 years ago

HPE Wins NSA Cloud Contract Worth $2bn

Hewlett Packard Enterprise wins $2 billion cloud services contract with America's top secret intelligence agency, the NSA

3 years ago

Western Digital ‘In Talks’ To Buy Kioxia In $20bn NAND Deal

Western Digital could face hurdles to its reported $20bn offer for Kioxia, which could restructure NAND memory market and create…

3 years ago

UK Government Sets Out Strategy For Green Hydrogen Sector

Hydrogen has long been touted as a better solution for green transportation among other uses, and now the government sets…

3 years ago

NSA Awards $10bn Contract To AWS, But Microsoft Files Complaint

Revenge for the JEDI? Microsoft files an official complaint with government regulator, after NSA awards $10 billion contract to AWS

3 years ago

Dropbox Data Centres Achieves 100 Percent Renewable Energy Goal

Going green. Dropbox achieves a lower carbon footprint with news its data centres now run on 100 percent renewable energy

3 years ago