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Women in Tech
1st November 2023
Amazon awards over £1M to women to increase diversity in STEM

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.

Communications
22nd March 2023
How Amazon’s Project Kuiper is bringing fast and reliable broadband globally

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.

Eco Innovation
10th October 2022
Amazon turns to EVs for deliveries

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.

Displays
20th May 2022
Amazon's next-gen Fire 7 and Fire 7 Kids

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.

Analysis
24th May 2017
Alexa, does my bum look big in this?

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.

Sensors
8th December 2016
Take your pick in the new ‘Amazon Go’ stores

  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. 

Wireless
11th October 2016
Is there an Echo in the room?

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”.)

Robotics
26th July 2016
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s my wife’s birthday present!

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.

Analysis
8th January 2016
Amazon’s own brand of ARM processors

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. 

Analysis
6th July 2015
Speaker can answer questions

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...

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