Department of Computer Science - University of Texas at Austin

Meet Our Grads: Landing Amazon Before Graduation

After interning at Amazon the summer before her senior year, she secured a return offer as a software engineer at their Seattle headquarters. She sat down to talk about what surprised her at UT ...

Amazon unveils latest warehouse robot as tech giants continue AI layoffs

"Our experience of robots is that it's actually driven up employment rather than the reverse," Amazon executive John ...

Amazon Now Has a Warehouse Robot That Understands Human Language

Reading time 2 minutes Amazon says that thanks to advances in AI, its next-generation warehouse robot can now be assigned ...
Computerworld

Amazon finds out AI programming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Businesses love that they can use AI to replace those pesky, expensive developers. For example, Atlassian just laid off 10% of its workers, about 1,600 jobs, to throw more money into AI. Block ...
USA Today

When are Amazon Fresh stores closing? Some will convert to Whole Foods

Amazon is closing 72 of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores, converting some into Whole Foods Markets. Amazon announced on Tuesday, Jan. 27, that it will close 57 Amazon Fresh and 15 Amazon Go ...
Cleveland.com

Popular free streaming app officially shut down

Amazon has officially shut down its free, ad-supported streaming service Freevee. The closure took effect Sept. 3, ending the platform just four years after it was rebranded from IMDb TV. The app now ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Disney, Amazon Ink Deal to Expand Advertising Partnership

The pact unlocks more opportunities for brands using Amazon's Demand Side Platform to reach consumers watching Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN content. By Erik Hayden Executive Editor, Business As media buyers ...
Gizmodo

A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon’s Brutal Technical Interview. He Got an Offer and Someone Tattled to His University

Roy Lee built an AI system that bypasses FAANG's brutal technical interviews and says that the work of most programmers will be obsolete in two years. Reading time 5 minutes A Columbia University ...
The Verge

PBS channels are streaming free inside Amazon’s Prime Video app

You can now watch a broad selection of PBS programming on Amazon Prime for free even if you don’t have a subscription. You can now watch a broad selection of PBS programming on Amazon Prime for free ...
Reuters

Amazon Prime Video shifts focus to live sports to boost profits, The Information reports

Jan 24 (Reuters) - Amazon's (AMZN.O), opens new tab Prime Video has shifted its strategic focus towards live sports and away from original television shows and movies, seeking to meet internal ...
InfoWorld

3 Python web frameworks for beautiful front ends

Have you ever wished you could generate interactive websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while programming in nothing but Python? Here are three frameworks that do the trick. Python has long had a ...