Federal prosecutors are investigating General Motors' driverless car unit over its handling of an accident involving one of its driverless cars. Cruise acknowledged the probe, as it released findings from its review of the Octob...
Amazon's takeover of vacuum cleaner maker iRobot is set to be blocked by the European Union's competition watchdog, the BBC understands. It's a blow to the tech giant, which was previously given the all-clear for the purchase by...
Amazon has become the latest tech giant to announce a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI). It said that the bot, called Q, would help businesses to do things like summarise long documents or group chats and would increase prod...
A severe drought in the Brazilian Amazon is disrupting transport, isolating communities and killing wildlife. The Brazilian government attributes the drought to climate change and the El Niño weather phenomenon, which has caus...
US regulators have sued Amazon, alleging that the internet giant is illegally maintaining monopoly power. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Amazon uses "a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies" to push...
Amazon will invest up to $4bn (£3.3bn) in San Francisco-based AI firm Anthropic, mirroring the earlier tie-up between Microsoft and OpenAI. It is the latest multi-billion dollar investment in a race among the big tech firms to explo...
This week, delegates arriving in Belém's international airport are being welcomed with a lively "Boi de mascara" folkloric dance routine. In fact, the whole city is celebrating being in the spotlight, playing host to the Amazon Su...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a wide-reaching outage on Tuesday afternoon, which affected countless major websites. AWS is a cloud computing offering that makes money by charging businesses to host websites and other applications....
Learner driver flips car during driving test in Argentina...
The US space agency has enlisted a second billionaire to help it put astronauts back on the Moon. Nasa is already working with Elon Musk's SpaceX firm on a descent system based on its novel Starship rocket that will touch down as early as...
Driverless taxis, or “robotaxis”, have been rolled out on the streets of San Francisco, and BBC technology show Click has been to see how they work. The vehicles are capable of getting passengers from A to B across the city, but there is...
Amazon is taking legal action against four companies it has accused of deliberately flooding its shopping platform with fake reviews. Three of the firms had nearly 350,000 reviewers on their books. The companies act as u...
Over the next five years, three new heavy-lift rockets will put thousands of satellites into low earth orbit as part of Amazon's Project Kuiper. The project aims to provide broadband connections using a constellation of 3,23...
The incident happened during a shift change, when winds were reportedly gusting up to 155 miles per hour....
Wisconsin officials will seek to charge a driver who ploughed into a Christmas parade on Sunday with five counts of intentional homicide. Police said Darrell Edward Brooks Jr, 39, killed five people, aged between 52 and 81, and i...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in over 15 years, official data shows. A report by Brazil's space research agency (Inpe) found that deforestation increased by 22% in a year. Brazil w...
Amazon is launching Astro, its first household robot, powered by its Alexa smart home technology. The company said it can be remote-controlled when not at home, to check on pets, people, or home security. It can also pat...
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos blasts to the edge of space...
Future James Bond films will continue to be screened in cinemas, despite Amazon's deal to buy the movie studio that co-owns the rights to 007. The tech giant bought MGM in a purchase worth $8.45bn (£5.97bn) this week. ...