Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, November 27th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, a thin client from AWS. More bad news for gaming as Bightance pulls back from its gaming ambitions

in a major way. Governments have more new joint guidelines for AI development, and Amazon now

delivers more packages than either FedEx or UPS.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

AWS Reinvent is happening sometime today and ahead of that

AWS announced the Amazon Workspaces Thin client a $195 compact computer adapted from the Fire TV cube to let workers access

cloud-based virtual desktops quoting Silicon Angle. A virtual desktop is a workstation hosted in a data center rather than the

user's office. Workers use such machines in much the same way as a standard personal computer

except they log into the machines remotely over the network.

At many enterprises, employees access their virtual desktops from a thin client, a low-cost

computer specifically optimized for accessing cloud-based services.

The newly debuted Workspaces Thin Client is AWS's entry into the Thin Client market.

It's a compact rectangular device that workers can use to log in to virtual desktops hosted on the

Cloud Giant's Amazon Workspaces Service.

Amazon Workspaces Web, a version of the offering that enables users to access virtual desktops from a browser

is supported as well.

The third cloud service with which AWS's new thin client integrates is Amazon Appstream. It targets similar use cases as workspaces but diverges in

the feature department. Companies can use Appstream to host virtual desktops which typically

contain multiple applications as well as to make individual business

applications available to employees from the cloud.

The Workspaces Thin client is based on AWS parent, amazon.com's Fire TV cube, a streaming device

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