Alexa powered

Online bookseller Amazon is planning to release at least eight  new voice controlled hardware devices before the end of the year.

Old patent

A patent filed in 2016 in which human workers are put into cages while robots scuttle around has returned to haunt Amazon just as it's under major pressure over the way it treats people who work in its warehouses.

France suggests a sunset clause

The European Union is working out a way to tax big tech and thinks that an agreement could still be found by the end of the year.

Herculean task

Online bookseller Amazon has had enough of Oracle’s database ways and says it will be off the software by 2020.

So that works then

The US Congress is up in arms when Amazon’s face recognition software, called Rekognition, identified more than two dozen members of Congress as people arrested for crimes.

Sorry, can I hear an echo?Sorry, can I hear an echo?

A report suggests that Google is so alarmed by Alexa's dominance on the home intelligence assistant front that it is pouring vast amounts of energy to play catch up with Amazon.

Combines Echo with Fire TV for US $119.99

Amazon has officially announced the Fire TV Cube, a small cube which combines Echo with Fire TV to bring, what Amazon calls, the first hands-free media player with Alexa.

Trying to start a Krays 

Oracle customers are getting upset with the company’s aggressive sales tactics as it tries to catch up to Amazon in the cloud market

Google is brighter, Siri is as intelligent as plankton 

A new report has named Google as the cleverest AI but warns all three of the leading machines are pretty pants and disappointing.

Thanks to cloud

US president Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump's favourite US company, Amazon, more than doubled its profit on Thursday and predicted strong spring results – the outfit was so pleased with its results it jacked up the price for its US Prime subscribers.