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Amazon crowd pokes fun at $40,000 TV

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They don’t seem to appreciate the fact that it’s been marked down from $ 45,000.

Or that this is nowhere near the most expensive television available via Amazon.

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No sir, the some 2,000 customer reviewers offering opinions about the (deep breath) Samsung UN85S9 Framed 85-Inch 4K Ultra HD 120Hz 3D Smart LED TV (above), are simply flummoxed by the notion of anyone dropping 40 large on an appliance that these days has more or less become a commodity. The reviews have been piling up for a solid year now. Here are the top two:

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Android tablets at Best Buy, Target, Amazon, Walmart found to include major … – Apple Insider

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Android tablets at Best Buy, Target, Amazon, Walmart found to include major …
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A Zeki Android tablet sold by Kohl's "was the worst tablet encountered out of the entire lineup," the firm stated, detailing that it "is vulnerable to four major Android security vulnerabilities, has USB debugging turned on by default, comes with a …

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Amazon Lambda takes the administration out of cloud computing

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At its AWS re:Invent cloud computing conference today, Amazon announced AWS Lambda, a way of performing computing in the cloud in response to events without the need for virtual machines, compute instances, or any kind of administration.

The usual model when performing computation in cloud services is to create some kind of a persistent application, such as a Web server on a virtual machine. Sometimes the developer manages everything on the VM. Sometimes aspects of this are abstracted away—Azure’s Web roles, for example, leave management of the base operating system and server up to Microsoft, letting developers focus solely on the Web content—but those persistent deployments, with their time-based billing, have become the basic model of cloud computing.

With Lamba, those things are abstracted away even further. Developers write functions—currently using JavaScript running on node.js, though Amazon says there will be more options available in the future—and plumbs those functions into event sources, such as file uploads to S3 storage. Every time an event fires, Amazon’s cloud will trigger the Lambda function, seamlessly taking care of managing the underlying resources.

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Amazon to use a neighbor’s data center to heat its new Seattle high-rise

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If waste heat could be considered the lemon of data center output then Amazon and a Seattle partner have come up with a way to make lemonade.

From a report on TechFlash.

In what’s believed to be the first of its kind system, Amazon.com will use the waste heat from a data center to provide much of the heat in its high-rise campus under construction in downtown Seattle.

Once it’s implemented, Amazon will save three-quarters of the electricity it would have bought for heat otherwise, according to McKinstry, a Seattle construction and energy services company. In addition, the operator of the data center, Clise Properties, will save some money on electricity and a lot of water. Earlier this year, Clise and McKinstry formed a company called Eco District to design and build the system.

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