This Echo Show 8 is handling a group video call. [credit: Amazon ] Amazon launched hardware upgrades for its Echo Show 5 and Echo Show 8 product lineup today; the new versions have higher-resolution cameras, upgraded CPUs, and a new Echo Show 5 Kids. The Echo Show 10 did not get a hardware refresh. If […]
Brad Stone’s book, Amazon Unbound, tells the story of the company’s last decade. Read More
Enlarge / An Amazon Prime delivery truck drives through the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach on April 22, 2020, in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (credit: Robyn Beck / AFP) The trucks that move goods sold by Amazon and other e-commerce retailers have become a growing source of diesel […]
Enlarge / Amazon trailers backed into bays at a distribution center in Miami, Florida in August 2019. (credit: Getty Images | Lawrence Glass) Amazon “seized and destroyed” over 2 million counterfeit products that sellers sent to Amazon warehouses in 2020 and “blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings before they were published in our […]
U.S. futures are modestly higher. The big gainers can be found in commodities, Europe and in crypto alt-coins. Read More
Buying in bulk is great, but one New York boy overdid it just a bit when he purchased almost 1,000 SpongeBob SquarePants popsicles on his mom’s Amazon account, racking up an order close to $3,000! Noah Bryant (above) recently surprised his family by dropping $2,618.85 on the online superstore, ordering 918 popsicles of the beloved […]
Enlarge Thousands of Amazon employees, including those who developed private-label goods for the e-commerce giant, enjoyed years of access to sensitive third-party seller data, according to a new report. An internal audit in 2015 traced the issue to lax security protocols, including the use of a tool called “spoofer access,” which allowed Amazon employees to […]
Although giant neural networks get much of the attention, smaller neural networks are more easy to explain, making them more appealing to regulators. Read More
U.S. futures point to a weak Friday open. Read More
A group of Amazon workers called Amazonians United have been forcing change at warehouses across the nation. Read More