At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced that LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) research hub of LG, has used AWS to develop its new pathology foundation model (FM) for earlier cancer diagnosis and treatment.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced new enhancements to Amazon Q Developer, including agents that automate unit testing, documentation, and code reviews to help developers build faster across the entire software development process, and a capability to help users address operational issues in a fraction of the time.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest £8 billion over the next five years (2024-2028) building, operating, and maintaining data centres in the UK.

Amazon has inaugurated its first micromobility hub in Norfolk at its Norwich delivery station, marking a significant stride towards sustainable urban logistics.

Amazon has opened its first micromobility hub in Northern Ireland, located in its delivery station in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. 

On National Engineering Day, Amazon announces the expansion of its Amazon Future Engineer Bursary Programme, providing financial support to 30 women from low-income households studying engineering and computer science degrees in the UK.

Project Kuiper is the name of Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network that is hoping to close the global issue of digital divide.

Amazon has announced plans to invest over £300m in the UK and €1bn across Europe to electrify and decarbonise its transportation network over the next five years.

Amazon has announced the next-gen Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids tablets—bringing more speed, performance, and battery life to the company’s most affordable tablet.

Amazon’s ‘Echo Look’ has just been shown to provide a virtual assistant to those frantic women that need help on their daily outfit choices first thing in a morning. The Alexa embedded device which includes a camera for hands-free photos or videos of you posing or twirling, works as a standalone selfie machine so you can see yourself in a full-length view to check every angle of your outfit.

  Imagine a world without cashiers, tills and mainly, queues. Well this world could become a reality with the new Amazon Go store. The online retailer has devised a store with no checkout required. 

Imagine wanting to listen to music on your wireless speaker - it's great as you don’t have to get up, but then imagine not having to move a muscle to turn it on. Well, the only muscle you need is in your mouth. The new Echo from Amazon turns on with just the command “Alexa” (which you can change to “Echo” or “Amazon”.)

As the variety of applications suited to UAVs and drones has increased in recent years, so has discussion over their use as 21st century postman that are capable of making rapid deliveries to our front doors. However, tight regulations, high profile collisions and some unscrupulous drone users have proved a restrictive barrier to making delivery drones a reality and have made some of the general public very wary of them.

Amazon has officially entered the semiconductor market with the news that it is selling its own-brand of ARM-based chips to manufacturers. U.S. tech companies went transatlantic on more than a few occasions last year in their search for innovation, but one of the more curious cases was when Amazon headed to Israel and snapped up Annapurna Labs for a reported $350 million. 

Designed around voice recognition, Amazon Echo is hands-free and always on. With seven microphones and beam-forming technology, Echo can hear from across the room, even while music is playing. It is also an expertly tuned speaker that can fill any room with immersive sound. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news and check sports scores or the weather. All you have t...