Three more Amazon Go stores in Seattle are being equipped with Amazon One palm-reading biometric identification scanners, Geekwire reported on Monday (Feb. 1). The eCommerce giant already added the palm scanning equipment to one Seattle store, and is planning to add it two more locations...
Amazon Inc. made good on its previously announced plan to allow group audio- and video-conference calls on its Echo devices, The Verge reported. The feature will work on Echo, Echo Dot and Echo Show in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Australia, the U.K. and parts...
The startup Zoox — which Amazon acquired in June for a reported $1.2 billion — unveiled a self-driving electric taxi Monday (Dec. 14). “Revealing our functioning and driving vehicle is an exciting milestone in our company’s history and marks an important step on our journey...
Call it “home connectivity beyond the home.” eCommerce giant Amazon announced new details this week about Amazon Sidewalk, its bid to create a distributed (localized) IoT network. Amazon announced plans for Sidewalk last year, and the company said in this week’s update that it is now set to...
Amazon has always been a “go big or go home” kind of operation, and so when it rolled out a dozen or so Alexa-enabled devices – embedded in sound systems, car dashboards and even entry-level microwaves – during its big device event last fall, it...
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed that he believes robotic hands, which should be able to grasp items as reliably as humans, will be ready for commercial use in the next 10 years. “I think grasping is going to be a solved problem in the next...
Amazon rolled out Alexa Guard in the U.S. on Tuesday (May 14), enabling Echo speakers to listen for intruders and other dangers and alert users to them. As reported by The Verge, Amazon had been testing Alexa Guard in an invite-only preview, and is now...
Amazon has launched a new lending service in China dubbed Lending Referral Program, which is open to select merchants that sell products on its site. According to a report in CNBC citing an Amazon sellers forum, through the program Amazon chooses and connects sellers with lenders...
Amazon just entered a whole new market now that Alexa, its voice-activated digital assistant, is HIPAA-compliant, which it means it can handle patients’ sensitive information. In a blog post, Amazon announced an invitation-only program that will enable developers to create healthcare skills for Alexa that are HIPAA-compliant....
