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Amazon has announced that it has broken its holiday sales record for most items sold worldwide. Consumers purchased millions of Amazon products such as the Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick, Kindle and more. Alexa was used to set 100 million timers this holiday season and the last package delivered via...

According to a recent report by Reuters, Amazon's experiments with Alexa are having some unintended consequences. The publication claims that Alexa blurted out "Kill your foster parents" last year. Other incidents involved chats about sex acts or dog defecation, and anonymous sources claim that...

Reuters reports that a German Alexa user got access to "thousands of recordings" from their neighbor. According to the German trade publication c’t, the customer reportedly contacted Amazon about the mixup, and was able to download the recordings before Amazon deleted the download link. An...

Mark Rober used to build autonomous spacecraft bound for other planets. Now, he's a YouTuber. So one day, when he finally got fed up with thieves stealing packages from his doorstep, he did more than just catch them. He built an elaborate device to screw with the thieves, and documented the...

Scammers in China will do anything to move up the list of bestsellers on Amazon. They will attack other sellers on the eCommerce site with fake reviews by purchasing the competitor's products and then returning them with complaints. This will kill sales for weeks until Amazon realizes what is...

According to "major brand executives and people familiar with the company's thinking," Amazon is allegedly moving away from selling low cost, low profit items. "CRaP," as they call it, simply isn't worth the effort, and Amazon is either removing the "Can't Realize a Profit" items from their...

Police in Jersey City, New Jersey are teaming up with Amazon to plant fake Amazon packages with GPS tracking devices and install doorbell cameras to catch thieves. These sting operations are happening at homes all over the city. Statistics from insuranceQuotes.com says that 1 in 12 Americans...

After a long, public, and heated bidding process, Amazon finally settled on New York City and the D.C. Area as locations for their new headquarters last month. While New York allegedly fought tooth and nail for the bid, Common Dreams points out that many council members, assemblymen, and regular...

Amazon has been recently granted a patent that brings its facial recognition technology to its Ring doorbell business. According to the ACLU, the patent will allow homeowners to scan the faces of strangers that pass by their homes and cross-reference the image with a database of suspicious...

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Intel has dominated the server market with a 96.6% market share even after AMD reentered the competition. Intel seems secure, but the landscape of the server market is different from conventional tech markets as 10 corporations have the purchasing power to command 35% of the total sales in the...

The Wall Street Journal claims that Amazon has fired "several employees" for selling company data to independent merchants. According to Kitguru's interpretation of the report, the workers allegedly sold user email addresses, unbanned accounts, and deleted negative reviews for money, and...

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Amazon is in talks with management at various major airports to bring its cashier-less shopping experience called Amazon Go to the millions of fliers in the USA. Shoppers would scan their smartphones at a turnstile to enter the establishments. The cameras inside the store automatically identify...

24 Amazon warehouse workers have reportedly been hospitalized after a robot accidentally punctured a can of bear repellent. The can contained highly concentrated capsaicin, the same chemical that makes hot sauce hot and pepper spray painful, and reporters say an automated machine ruptured it...

PC Gamer managed to spot an interesting change on Amazon's website. When shopping for certain PC components, users can now enter the make and model of other computers or components to see if the item in question is compatible. Amazon has a long way to go before achieving parity with sites like...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is challenging 30 years of Intel dominance in chipmaking. Intel estimates that yields for its 10nm process node will be viable by the end of 2019. Top tech companies such as Apple, AMD, NVIDIA and others are flocking to TSMC for their cutting edge...

Amazon Web Services has been busy these last few days. The cloud provider has announced dozens of new services and enhancements, including instances based on Amazon's custom ARM chips. Among those announcements was the AWS Ground Station, which will allow customers to efficiently move data...

Amazon AWS has announced Amazon Comprehend Medical to leverage the power of its new HIPAA-eligible Machine Learning expertise to perform medical language processing on unstructured medical text to identify information such as patient diagnosis, treatments, dosages, symptoms and signs, and more...

Amazon has coined the phrase "Turkey 5" to describe the 5 shopping days starting at Thanksgiving and ending on Cyber Monday. During this time period, Amazon sold more than 180 million items. Small and medium businesses selling on Amazon saw sales increase by 20% during this time period. Cyber...

Amazon is seemingly set on diversifying their AWS instance offerings. Just recently, they launched AMD-powered M5a and R5a instances, along with a number of others. But this week, they launched something quite different: A1 instances based on Amazon's custom "Graviton" ARM CPUs. Details on the...

Amazon UK is under fire for listing hardcore pornography among the top results of the "Dad Gifts" category. While the listing has since been taken down, Google managed to cache it beforehand, and I can confirm the listing featured explicit language and censored imagery on the product page...

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Amazon has bid on Disney's 22 regional sports networks that it gained when it purchased television and movie assets from Fox. The Justice Department made Disney divest itself of those properties to close the deal on the Fox assets. While Fox hasn't placed a bid for the 22 regional sports...

BetaNews is reporting that Amazon has sent emails to customers to inform them that a technical issue caused their names and email addresses to be revealed. Affected customers do not have to take action as the issue was taken care of. In response to our request for a statement Amazon's PR...

The owner of the former CItigroup tower in Long Island has announced that Amazon is moving into the 1.5 million square glass tower. Citigroup is seeking to vacate the building by 2020 and the move is considered a boon for the Savanna firm that owns the building. "We're thrilled that Amazon...

In celebration of America Recycles Day, Amazon has launched a new e-waste recycling program. Amazon's website will show you the nearest recycling truck, and all you have to do is drive up to the truck, and let the staff unload and disassemble the old electronics for you. Amazon specifically...

On its website, Amazon officially announced the locations of its new headquarters. As previous rumors suggested, Amazon is splitting its new operations between locations in Arlington, just outside of Washington DC, and in Long Island City, at the western tip of Queens, New York City. Amazon...

Amazon is accepting pre-orders for the PC version of Sunset Overdrive for $19.99. The release date listed on the Amazon product page is November 16, 2018. The game has a Mature 17+ rating according to the ESRB. Don't miss the single-player campaign from the game that IGN awarded best Xbox...

AP reports that a New Hampshire judge asked Amazon to release recordings made by an Amazon Echo smart speaker. While Amazon objected to these kinds of requests in 2016 and early 2017, Alexa data was apparently used in a murder case last year, but only after a suspect defendant consented to its...

Smart Speakers have the "strongest growth momentum among all categories of consumer electronics," according to a recent report by Trendforce. Shipments are expected to reach 62.5 million units in 2018, and 95.25 million units in 2019, which is significantly more than the 27.66 million units that...

Amazon has entered into the print catalog arena by sending out copies of its "Ultimate Wish List for Kids" to millions of its customers. This is the same advertising that Sears, Roebuck and Company used to use in its prime with the Sears Wish Book. The original Sears Wish Book series were...

At AMD's Next Horizon event, Amazon's Matt Garman announced the availability of new AWS EC2 instances running on AMD's EPYC processors. The AMD versions of the general purpose M5 and T3 and memory optimized R5 instances are 10% cheaper than the Intel equivalents. Oracle beat Amazon to the punch...

According to anonymous sources, the next Amazon headquarters tentatively called "HQ2" will be located in two cities. The same source has listed Dallas, Long Island City in New York and Arlington near Washington, D.C. as possible finalists. An estimated 50,000 people will be hired to fill...

Amazon has expanded the free shipping option, with no minimum purchase, to everyone for the holidays. Prime members will receive free same-day delivery on more than 3 million eligible items. This will last as long as Amazon can promise to deliver items on time for the Christmas holiday...

According to a report by Business Insider, Amazon is cracking down on reviewers that abuse their system. Previous reports by the publication dove into the "underground subculture that trades reviews for deals," and apparently, Amazon has had enough. A whole subreddit full of top reviewers...

NewEgg and Amazon are experiencing shortages of the new Intel Core i9-9900K processors. Hardforum community member, Twitch streamer and hardcore overclocker Elmy has reached out to us to express his frustration at having his Intel Core i9-9900K Coffee Lake processor shipment delayed until the...

According to a report published by Strategy Analytics, about 17% of Americans use smart speakers, and most of them are from Amazon. The research firm claims that "satisfaction levels are typically in the 90% range, nearly two thirds of users expect to buy another one within the next two years...

Amazon has added a whisper mode to Alexa devices. Now you can whisper to your device and it will respond in kind. Here is an example of normal mode and whisper mode. I suggest that everyone try it with the "Sweet Talker" skill enabled. Or just command Alexa to "talk dirty to me." If you're...

On Medium, an Amazon employee spoke out against the company's own facial recognition software. In the op-ed, the employee says that Amazon is "currently allowing police departments around the country to purchase its facial recognition product, Rekognition, and I and other employees demand that...