Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how Amazon scrambled to handle traffic on Prime Day
Within 15 minutes of the kickoff of one of Amazon’s biggest sales days of the year, it was quickly apparent the e-commerce giant didn’t have …
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We spoke with ‘Lost’ showrunner Carlton Cuse and writer Graham Roland about their new Amazon show
If there was such a thing as the ability to wind back the clock about a decade, screenwriter and producer Carlton Cuse would be back …
If you saw Amazon dogs on Prime Day, you were not the only one
Amazon kicked off its fourth annual Prime Day sales festival on Monday, but things weren’t off to a great start. Many Prime members looking to …
Amazon’s website went down just as Prime Day 2018 kicked off
As you’ve no doubt heard, today is the beginning of Amazon’s 36-hour Prime Day deals bacchanal, an occasion that’s supposed to be a glorious celebration …
Target has its own sale next week, a day after Amazon’s Prime Day
Add Target to the growing list of retailers that aren’t going to sit idly by, as Amazon hosts its fourth annual Prime Day event. eBay, …
Teenage app researcher gets the scoop on new Snapchat camera feature using Amazon
Word of a new Snapchat camera feature in the works — which would let users scan products and send them to Amazon listings — sent …
Alexa vs. Google Assistant: One is better at commerce, the other at understanding you
With the smart speaker wars heating up and voice looking to be one of the next major computing platforms, Amazon and Google have taken commanding …
Terrifying new wasp species wears a massive, sword-like stinger on its butt
Wasps suck. Unlike many common species of bees, wasps (which are NOT bees) are often openly hostile, and sometimes they seem to pick a fight …
eBay’s summer sale is designed to be the opposite of Amazon Prime Day
Amazon earlier this week announced its Prime Day 2018 sales event, its fourth annual Black Friday in July shopping festival. Amazon rivals, of course, will …
Amazon could start selling cheap drugs ‘right away,’ experts think
Hot on the heels of #disrupting the grocery world by purchasing Whole Foods, Amazon is dipping its toes into the US healthcare market with a …
Amazon Prime Day 2018 starts July 16th – here’s everything you need to know
A few days ago, Amazon UK mistakenly leaked a marketing image that revealed Prime Day 2018 would start on July 16th, a day after this …
Amazon’s new Show Mode turns your Fire HD tablet into an Echo Show
Amazon’s Echo Show is something of a niche device, slapping a display on an Echo equipped with Alexa, but starting next month, you won’t have …
Alexa is one step closer to replacing Siri as voice control comes to iOS app
Over a year after landing on the App Store, the Alexa app on iOS finally supports voice commands starting today. The feature arrived on Android …
Few people are actually using Amazon’s Alexa to shop on Amazon
British consumers are buying technology with embedded voice assistants and asking it do things like … help them boil an egg. That’s one of the …
Amazon Prime savings will be available at all Whole Foods stores beginning Wednesday
Amazon’s annual Prime Day shopping event takes place each year in mid-July, which means we’re probably now less than one month away from Prime 2018. …
Amazon and Microsoft are under serious pressure to kill surveillance contracts with ICE
Donald Trump rescinded the order to separate migrant children from their parents at the border, a mess his administration caused in the first place, but …
The date for Amazon Prime Day 2018 might’ve just leaked
Have your wallets ready, Amazon Prime subscribers, as the third annual Black Friday event of the summer is soon going to kick off. Amazon’s fourth …
A Supreme Court decision is about to make your online orders more expensive
The Supreme Court just voted to close a loophole that has seen American consumers dodge billions in sales tax on online orders since 1992. The …
Crypto-mining virus invades Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick
Be careful what you side-load on your Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, as there’s a new strain of malware going around that can …
Amazon just gave Prime members even better deals at Whole Foods
Since buying Whole Foods last year, Amazon has been working aggressively to get as many of its million of Prime members to shop in-store as …
Forget Siri – you can run Amazon’s Alexa on your Apple Watch right now
Apple is bringing several new features to Siri in iOS 12, but that doesn’t mean Siri will become the most popular voice assistant in town. …
Amazon’s innovative Echo Look is finally available for anyone to buy
A year and change after introducing the Echo Look, Amazon has finally unleashed its style assistant on the general public. Up until this week, the …
How to delete everything Alexa ever recorded in your house
A story last week revealed something that should have been obvious from the very moment that Amazon released the first Echo: Putting a cloud-connected always-recording …
How to check if Alexa or Google Assistant is secretly recording you
Last week, we learned a little more about the very human flaws of Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant. One couple in Portland, OR, discovered that their …
Amazon Alexa recording ‘bug’ shows how little we actually know about our smart home gadgets
Yesterday, the news cycle worked overtime to first bring us the story of how an Amazon Echo secretly sent recordings of a couple’s conversations to …
Google just dethroned Amazon in the smart speaker wars
Amazon invented the market for smart speakers when it first launched the Echo, and unsurprisingly, it has dominated the market ever since. Even the HomePod, …
Amazon might have a serious Alexa problem on its hands
News broke out earlier this week that Amazon’s Alexa assistant recorded a private conversation between two people and then sent that recording to a third …
Amazon Echo bug recorded a couple’s private conversations and sent them to a friend
We’ve welcomed smart speakers into our homes with the kind of enthusiasm you don’t normally see around always-on listening devices, because from the very beginning, …
Amazon is permanently banning customers that make too many returns
One of the many perks of shopping on Amazon is the company’s fairly lenient return policy. If you’re not happy with an item you purchased, …
Amazon just gave you a Whole Foods reason to get Prime
If you’re not an Amazon Prime subscriber but love Whole Foods, which is also an Amazon property, you should check out the retailer’s brand new …
