Enlarge (credit: Leon Neal | Getty Images) Amazon . com has halted a plan to ban customers using UK-issued Visa for australia credit cards from this week, as the companies work on a “potential solution” to a rancorous dispute that threatened to severely disrupt shoppers. The world’s largest online retailer announced the proposed ban in […]
Enlarge / SpaceX CEO Elon Musk discusses Starlink at Mobile World Congress Barcelona on June 29, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto ) SpaceX has abandoned a Starlink plan that Amazon objected to during a high-profile battle at the Federal Communications Commission last year and wants to launch its second-generation broadband satellites starting in March. […]
Enlarge / A screenshot from Fallout 4 , the most recent main entry in the game franchise. (credit: Bethesda) Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of the Fallout franchise of video games is entering production this year, and its two lead writers have been named, according to reports in Deadline and Variety . It was previously known […]
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Alexa is a helpful device to have around, generally speaking — but she apparently has a sinister side, too! That side was exposed to a very concerned parent who overheard the Amazon product daring her 10-year-old daughter to stick a penny into a live electrical outlet last week. According to the BBC, Kristin Livdahl’s daughter […]
Enlarge / Amazon’s Echo Show 15 is about the largest smart display you can find. (credit: Scharon Harding) When getting a display of any type, the particular first thing to consider is size. And unless the display will be moving around, chances are that the bigger it is, typically the better your experience will be. […]
Enlarge (credit: WichienTep | Getty Images) A 10-year-old girl and her mother got a lesson about the utility of voice assistants after Amazon’s Alexa suggested the girl try the TikTok plug challenge. According to the girl’s mother , Kristin Livdahl, the dangerous suggestion came after her daughter asked Alexa for a challenge to do. (credit: […]
Enlarge (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images ) December has been a rough month for Amazon—at least for Amazon Web Services. The massively popular cloud computing platform suffered its third outage of the particular month Wednesday, affecting Slack, typically the Epic Games Store, and several other services. The AWS Service Health Dashboard shows the problem lies […]
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