'For example, we say 'Alexa, time for bed' and it turns our downstairs lights off and turns our bedroom lights on! It's also very easy to set alarms which wake us up to our favourite radio station every day.'

The roughly eight-hour Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday shut down communications between the e-commerce giant and the fleet of thousands of drivers it relies on, preventing drivers from getting route assignments or packages, according to The disruption hit the app Amazon uses to communicate with the network of independent contractors who carry out much of its last-mile shipping, leaving vans that were supposed to be on the road idle, sources told the outlet.

Bezos, who is estimated to be worth $131.9 billion, is the third richest man in the world after Tesla owner Elon Musk, who knocked him off the top spot with a net worth of $213.9 billion and Bernard Arnault, who oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora, according to Forbes.

But smart home control is what makes the Echo Dot so great. With help from Alexa, you can control compatible appliances and devices with a simple voice command, including robot vacuum cleaners, home security, lights and heating.

But the bandwidth marketing specialist, who asked to remain anonymous, also noted that low-orbiting spacecraft are far more vulnerable than geostationary ones, as demonstrated by the recent loss of dozens of Starlinks after a magne

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The Amazon founder first became a billionaire in 1998, the year after Amazon went public as an online bookseller and has since increased his fortune by 12,425 percent — now raking in more than $140,000 per minute.

The company said by 6pm that the issue was mostly resolved, and at 7.30pm the network device issue had been fully resolved, with Amazon adding that it was 'working towards recovery of any impaired services.' The AWS outage began at around 10am ET and had widespread impacts.

The open-ear approach also makes for challenging listening when walking a busy New York street.  The Frames have four speakers (two in each arm), but when I played music, it often sounded hollow and tinny, with songs sounding like they were being clipped at higher volumes.

The cloud-service operation is a huge profit center for Amazon. It holds roughly a third of the $152 billion market for cloud services, according to a report by Synergy Research - a larger share than its closest rivals, Microsoft and Google, combined.

You will want to keep that USB charging cable handy to make sure you can get through a full day. Roughly a half-hour of charging got me back to 60%, with Amazon saying that a full charge takes about 75 minutes.





In late March, the United Nation's International Telecommunication Union remarked that "once considered a luxury, internet connectivity became crucial for many during the COVID-19 pandemic as populations faced stay-at-home orders and many practices move





To technologist and public data access activist Carl Malamud, the AWS outage highlights how much Big Tech has warped the internet, which was originally designed as a distributed and decentralized network intended to survive mass disasters such as nuclear attack.

In addition to the satellites themselves, Amazon plans "small, affordable client terminals" along the lines of Echo smart-homes and Kindle e-readers, and promises to "provide service at a price that is affordable and accessible to customers," with no further pricing details im



The US online retail giant wants to strengthen its lucrative diversification into IT services, and "provide low-latency broadband to a wide range of customers," including those "working in locations without a reliable internet co

Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues, the company said in a post on the AWS status page that it had 'mitigated' the underlying problem responsible for the outage, which it did not describe.

Keep in mind that muting the mics on the glasses will mute them for everything, including for phone calls. When I wanted to talk to someone I had to remember to unmute my glasses, which was a bit of a pain.

To mute Alexa, double-click the power button under the right arm. At first, I found the blue light distracting but I got used to it over time. A little red light will flash and Alexa will tell you it's muted, while a little charging light under the right arm will also turn red, not that you can see it while wearing the Echo Frames.  It also made for a few awkward encounters when my eyes were looking towards the Frames itself. To others around me, it looked like I was just cross-eyed.

Satellite internet already exists: US customers have access to HughesNet and Viasat, while in Europe, Orange subsidiary Nordnet -- among others -- uses the power of the Eutelsat Konnect satellite to offer broadband to its