Amazon To Hit Sellers With 5% Fuel and Inflation Fee
By Tyler Durden Amazon is the latest company to implement a plan to combat soaring fuel costs: charge sellers on its giant e-commerce platform an…
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Despite Warnings and Opposition, Amazon Approved for Launching 3,236 Broadband Satellites
By B.N. Frank Over the years there has been opposition and warnings worldwide about various catastrophic risks as well as confirmed issues associated with broadband…
Amazon Alexa Suggests that Child Try the “Penny Challenge” Despite Fire and Health Risks
By B.N. Frank Earlier this month it was reported that “15% to 25% of new Alexa users during 2018 through 2021 completely abandoned the device…
“Alexa, You’re Fired” — A Quarter Of Users Abandon Spying Devices Within 2 Weeks
By Tyler Durden Anyone with an Amazon Alexa device has likely noticed that the smart speaker has tried to upsell them while asking about the…
63,000 Websites Hit With Outages As Users Report Amazon Web Service Issues
By Tyler Durden Preliminary reports from Pingdom AB, a Swedish website monitoring company, show more than 63,000 websites are experiencing issues worldwide. At the same…
Amazon Outage Disabled IoT/Smart Devices, Stopped Package Deliveries; People Were Locked Out of Homes and Disney Parks
By B.N. Frank Experts have been warning for years about security risks associated with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, Internet of Things (IoT) technology, and various IoT/Smart…
Facebook, Amazon, Venmo Down As AWS Outage Hits Thousands
By Tyler Durden Earlier in the day Merrill was down, then Vanguard and Robinhood, and now a slew of even more widely used websites are…
Verizon Will Use Amazon’s Satellites and Maybe Others’ to Extend U.S. 4G and 5G Wireless Coverage
By B.N. Frank The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has catered to the telecom and cable industries for decades (see 1, 2, 3). This has led…
10 Robots for Each Human at Amazon’s Biggest Newest Warehouse
By B.N. Frank Businesses started replacing human jobs with Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and robotics years ago. This trend seems to be increasing (see 1, 2,…
“A Huge Deal”: Amazon, Google Workers Demand Companies Sever Ties With Israeli Military
By Kenny Stancil Roughly 400 Amazon and Google workers on Tuesday condemned their employers for contributing to the surveillance and dispossession of Palestinians by selling cloud…
Amazon Developing “Smart Fridge” To Monitor What You Eat
By Tyler Durden Amazon is spending $50 million per year developing a new smart refrigerator that uses high-tech sensors to notify users of low-stock items…
Amazon’s Palm Reader Provides A Sneak Peek Into Our Biometric Future
By Aaron Kesel Amazon’s palm reader will be installed at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver and will be used for future ticketed events. Amazon’s…
Pay-by-Palm: Just an Innocent Technology to Make Life Easier?
By Aden Tate Looks like the folks at Amazon have taken up palm reading with the recent rollout of Amazon One, a pay-by-palm technology. Don’t like…
Amazon Looks To Eliminate Cashiers At Whole Foods Stores
Technocrats at Amazon continue to push cashier-less stores, first with Amazon-Go and now with its subsidiary, Whole Foods. Cashiers do not make up the largest…