Video games are nice, but Amazon badly wants Twitch to be the next YouTube
This could get interesting. Twitch has reportedly been approaching big stars like Will Smith about streaming live, and it’s likewise been quietly making overtures to …
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Sorry, Alexa – practically no one uses you to buy things from Amazon
Researchers estimate that voice shopping is a market that’s going to explode in a big way over the next couple of years, hitting more than …
Amazon Prime Video is coming to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 cable box
As cable companies come to terms with the fact that streaming services are stealing millions of their customers every year, they’ve suddenly become more open …
NES and SNES Classic Editions are available at Best Buy and Amazon right now
Although the NES Classic Edition and SNES Classic Edition sold out immediately at launch, Nintendo is making good on its promise to keep the retro …
Amazon’s response to its mugshot AI labeling congressmen as criminals: You’re using it wrong
Amazon has a pretty straightforward response to the news that emerged last week about its facial recognition system incorrectly matching photos of 28 members of …
Amazon is launching a new feature that’s been on users’ wish lists for a while now
Amazon is about to launch a new feature that’s somewhat minor in the scheme of things — but it’s one which users have wanted for …
Amazon’s mugshot AI says 28 members of Congress are known criminals
Identifying a criminal can be tricky for law enforcement when they’re on the hunt for a wanted person, which is why many agencies have begun …
Guess which tech giant that’s good at crushing rivals may be the first company worth $1T
Books, retail, hardware, groceries — Amazon is such a sprawling enterprise today and such an effective e-commerce machine that it may soon have an eye-popping …
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 …
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 …
