Amazon opens its first cloud data center in Africa

Posted on 22/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Amazon’s cloud data centers have arrived in South Africa, helping millions of people, businesses and organizations to benefit from faster connectivity and viable access to next-generation technology. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is located in Cape Town...

Samsung no longer syncs keyboard data between phones

Posted on 20/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If you’re about to hop from your current Samsung phone to a Galaxy S20, don’t expect your keyboard info to come along for the ride. Samsung has stopped syncing keyboard data through its Cloud service as of April 13th, according to a notice seen by Sa...

IBM shares AI tools to better understand and treat COVID-19

Posted on 06/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

IBM wants to help researchers better understand and treat COVID-19. To do so, it’s putting its AI to work. It has released a series of new tools to aggregate data, help researchers explore potential therapies, advance the study of newly sequenced SAR...

Dropbox beta for Mac can finally sync your desktop

Posted on 29/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Dropbox has been less alluring to some Mac users than iCloud in part because of its limited syncing. Where Apple's service can sync your desktop and Documents folder, you've had to be content with syncing a special folder with Dropbox's service. Yo...

Shadow’s cloud-based gaming service now starts at $12 per month

Posted on 12/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Shadow made a big splash when it launched its cloud-based PC gaming service back in 2018. For a monthly fee, the service brings the power of PC gaming to almost any device – from smartphone to laptop -- by streaming gameplay from super powerful...

Google’s new terms of service will (hopefully) be easier to read

Posted on 22/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Terms of service still tend to read like legal alphabet soup, but Google thinks it can do better. It's notifying users of a TOS change on March 31st that, among other things, should remove some of the mystery. The internet giant said its new terms...

Judge grants Amazon’s request to put Microsoft’s Pentagon contract on hold

Posted on 13/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

For months, Amazon has been making a fuss over the Pentagon's decision to award Microsoft the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract. The company has said that President Trump's "personal vendetta" cost it the contract, a...

BlackBerry and Amazon team up to make connected cars more secure

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The more connected cars get, the more we'll need to depend on high-quality security -- especially when dealing with the cloud. BlackBerry, which is more into cars than smartphones these days, is addressing that issue with a new connected vehicle soft...