Qualcomm buys Autotalks to boost SnapDragon Digital Chassis automotive product line

Qualcomm is acquiring fabless Israel-based automobile chip maker Autotalks in a bid to add safety features to its Snapdragon Digital Chassis product family and strengthen its semiconductor product portfolio for the booming car-to-cloud communications and autonomous-driving market.The Snapdragon Digital Chassis product family is designed to provide assisted and autonomous driving technology, as well as in-car infotainment and cloud connectivity.Autotalks has been working on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications since 2009, Qualcomm noted in its  announcement of the deal on Monday. The Israel-based company provides automotive dual-mode global V2X technology compatible with multiple V2X standards that are designed to reduce collisions and improve mobility, Qualcom said.To read this article in full, please click here

AWS and Alexa services back online after outage

Amazon web services and Amazon voice assistant Alexa were back online after an outage on Sunday that lasted over three hours. Users also reported issues with accessing the Amazon mobile app.Downdetector, the website that tracks outages, reported that Alexa was down for thousands of users in the US, while an outage in AWS was reported by hundreds of users. More than 16,000 users reported an outage in Alexa at the peak of the disruption.Users could not complete the account signup process and received error messages on their billing console.The billing console is used to manage ongoing payments and payment methods registered to AWS accounts.To read this article in full, please click here

AWS and Alexa services back online after outage

Amazon web services and Amazon voice assistant Alexa were back online after an outage on Sunday that lasted over three hours. Users also reported issues with accessing the Amazon mobile app.Downdetector, the website that tracks outages reported that Alexa was down for thousands of users in the United States, while an outage in AWS was reported by hundreds of users. More than 16,000 users reported an outage in Alexa at the peak of the disruption.Users could not complete the account signup process and received error messages on their billing console.The billing console is used to manage ongoing payments and payment methods registered to AWS accounts.To read this article in full, please click here