Venmo and Amazon team up to streamline your checkout

Venmo and Amazon team up to streamline your checkout

Post Views: 253 “We understand our customers want options and flexibility in how they make purchases on Amazon,” Ben Volk, Amazon’s director of global payment acceptance, said in the release. “We’re excited to team-up with Venmo and give our customers the ability to pay by using their Venmo accounts, providing new ways to pay on…

Workplace cellphone bans for ‘safety’ can put employees at risk

Workplace cellphone bans for ‘safety’ can put employees at risk

Post Views: 287 In the aftermath of a devastating tornado ripping through an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, on December 10, 2021—killing six employees—the online retailer is reportedly reviewing its policy over mobile phone bans during working hours. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, it was common for Amazon to require its employees to leave phones…

Recent AWS glitches illustrate the power, and fragility, of cloud computing

Recent AWS glitches illustrate the power, and fragility, of cloud computing

Post Views: 295 Whenever you connect to anything over the internet, your computer is essentially just talking to another computer. A server is a type of computer that can process requests and deliver data to other computers in the same network or over the internet. But running your own server isn’t cheap. You have to…

Alexa will tag along on an uncrewed mission to the moon

Alexa will tag along on an uncrewed mission to the moon

Post Views: 220 Today, Amazon, Cisco, Lockheed Martin, and NASA announced that new technology onboard the Orion spacecraft in the upcoming Artemis I moon mission would include a version of Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, and Cisco’s video-conferencing platform, Webex. Alexa and Webex will be part of a technology demonstration called Callisto, named after the Greek…