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Jeff Bezos commits $1 billion to conservation as Amazon destroys the world

Vox

Amazon’s carbon emissions have grown every year since 2018, and last year alone, when global carbon emissions fell roughly 7 percent, Amazon’s carbon emissions grew 19 percent to 60.64 Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses massive amounts of energy to keep its servers online. million metric tons of carbon dioxide.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

More recently, under the tutelage of former CTO Mark Holt, Trainline became a story of scale and mobility, moving to DevOps, agile principles and leveraging compute power through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute.

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Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena to feature Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ tech to avoid lines in select stores

GeekWire

Amazon purchased naming rights in June 2020 and put the Climate Pledge name on the 18,100-seat venue as a way to draw more attention to the actual Climate Pledge, a promise to be net-zero carbon by 2040 that was first announced by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in September 2019.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet, Qumulo, Zipwhip add board directors; Bardy hires a new president; Maven co-founder steps down; and more

GeekWire

” Fink retired in 2018. million, up 41%, and a non-GAAP net loss of $0.06 based CloudMoyo, Kaiser Permanente, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft. . “Qumulo’s forward-thinking strategy and disruptive file data technology will help customers thrive in the digital era,” Fink said in a statement.

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Former AWS real estate managers, accused of taking millions in kickbacks, challenge Amazon’s motives amid FBI investigation

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services had embarked on a data center building boom to handle soaring demand as attendees gathered for its 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services needed more capacity. An Amazon Web Services data center in Sterling, Va. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). IPI received the rest.

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How the pandemic is bringing Elon Musk’s dream to connect everyone on Earth closer to reality

Vox

One could imagine Amazon using satellite broadband to boost its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business, or Facebook using it to ensure that more people get online and look at Facebook. The company abandoned the project in 2018. Satellite broadband could also be very profitable for whichever company figures it out first.

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Top 10 countries attracting international tech talent

CIO Business Intelligence

In total, the businesses operating in the technology park brought in $13 billion to Canada’s GPD in 2018, including QNX Blackberry, Amazon Web Services, Nokia, Cisco, and Mitel. It’s also home to Canada’s largest tech park, called Kanata North Technology Park, home to more than 540 companies and 23,000 employees.

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