Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) yesterday filed a complaint against Amazon over the sale of hundreds of thousands of hazardous products, including carbon monoxide detectors that fail to detect carbon monoxide, hair dryers without required protection from shock and electrocution, and flammable sleepwear meant for children. […]
Enlarge / Turning the lens on ourselves, as it were. There’s a moment in any foray into new technological territory that you realize you may have embarked on a Sisyphean task. Staring at the multitude of options available to take on the project, you research your options, read the documentation, and start to work—only to […]
Enlarge / Image released by Amazon when it announced a deal with United Launch Alliance to use launch vehicles for Project Kuiper. (credit: Amazon) Facebook has sold its small-satellite Internet division to Amazon and said that it has no plans to become an Internet service provider. Amazon and Facebook both confirmed the sale to Ars today. […]
Enlarge / Lina Khan speaks to the Senate Commerce Committee on April 21, 2021, when her nomination to the FTC was being considered. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) In an attempt to avoid government scrutiny, Facebook today petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to have Chair Lina Khan removed from the antitrust case against the social […]
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Enlarge (credit: US Department of Defense) Following years of controversy and intrigue, the Pentagon canceled its JEDI cloud computing contract with Microsoft today. Microsoft was awarded the contract in October 2019, but work stalled as Amazon, the other finalist, mounted a legal challenge. Now, the Department of Defense has scrapped the entire project, saying that […]
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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Like most Internet-of-things devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so , as the corporate behemoth says , users can “remove any… personal content from the applicable device(s)” before selling or discarding all of them. But researchers have recently found that the digital […]
A dissolved truce between Microsoft and Google, alongside federal antitrust concerns around Amazon, Apple and Facebook, signals that tech firms are gearing up to fend off monopoly allegations. Read More