Amazon has beta launched a new generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered shopping assistant. Dubbed “Rufus,” the assistant is now available to a small subset of customers using the Amazon mobile app and will be rolled out to more customers in the U.S. in the coming weeks, the...
Amazon has unveiled two features for the Alexa Together function on its Alexa devices designed to help older people and their caregivers. In an announcement posted on its website Wednesday (May 11), Amazon said its new Circle of Support feature would let aging people use...
The rumors are true: Amazon is making moves into the quick-service restaurant (QSR) space, partnering with Starbucks to bring its “Just Walk Out” frictionless checkout technology into the latter’s stores. The coffeehouse chain announced on Thursday (Nov. 18) that it has launched a new concept...
London is opening the first market outside of the U.S. to use Amazon’s white-labeled Just Walk Out technology, Bloomberg reported Monday (Nov. 15), citing sources who said that Amazon Sainsbury’s is expected to open to the public Nov. 29. Sainsbury’s is calling the new offering...
Amazon is taking its palm scanning technology, Amazon One, out of the retail aisles and into entertainment venues through a partnership with ticketing solutions firm AXS. The collaboration brings the “first-ever palm-based ticketing platform” to live entertainment events, including at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in...
Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology will be trialed at Whole Foods locations in Washington, D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood and Sherman Oaks, California, giving shoppers the option of skipping the checkout line, according to a blog post on Wednesday (Sept. 8). “We launched the technology first...
Amazon is looking into developing Alexa-powered wearable GPS-equipped devices for children aged 4-12, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday (July 14). The new wearable, which is code-named Seeker, could be a wristband, keychain or clip, Bloomberg reported, citing documents it reviewed. The voice-activated wearable would also offer access...
Vodafone and Amazon Web Services are partnering to bring so-called “edge computing” to business customers in the U.K. Edge computing quickly analyzes bulk data — collected from, say, the factory floor, oil pumping rig or office building —before moving it out to servers in the...
Amazon has announced new partnerships in hopes of enhancing its connected devices to compete with products such as Apple AirTags. The company said Friday it had formed partnerships with Tile, which makes trackers for lost items, and the smart lock maker Level in hopes of...
