Amazon is introducing its “Go” concept to other merchants interested in its “Just Walk Out” technology, Reuters reported on Monday (March 9). The eCommerce giant is in talks with other retailers and has “several” signed deals with unnamed customers. The new business division aligns with...
Machines don’t have feelings, at least not yet. But machines – notably, the voice-assisted and voice-activated devices that are increasingly populating consumers’ homes – are becoming much better at reading emotions. And that will stand as one of the top trends in the new decade, at least...
A man in Germany was curious what Amazon’s Alexa had recorded in his home, so he contacted Amazon and asked to listen back to his recordings. What he got back was something unexpected: thousands of recordings from someone else, according to a report by CNBC....
Amazon has opened a smaller version of its cashier-free Amazon Go food stores in one of its Seattle offices, according to a report by the New York Post. The eighth Amazon Go store is 450 square feet, about one-fourth the size of the original location....
Amazon has launched an invite-only program that asks customers to submit answers to Alexa’s more difficult questions. According to a report, Amazon has been internally testing the program, dubbed Alexa Answers, adding more than 100,000 responses in the past month. Now it’s opening up the...
Amazon’s Echo smart speakers were facing connectivity issues in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe earlier on Wednesday (Sept. 26), but are now up and running again. Reuters, citing outage tracker Downdetector.com, reported the website had logged hundreds of reports about problems with the Echo...
Amazon is working on a website for consumers who aren’t sure what they want to purchase and want automated help. CNBC, citing Amazon, reported the service dubbed Scout queries consumers about whether they like or don’t like a product and then shows other products based...
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the unit of Amazon, announced Thursday (May 31) that it rolled out pay-per-session pricing for Amazon QuickSight, its cloud-powered business analytics service. In a press release, AWS said QuickSight enables anyone within a company, regardless of skill, to create visualizations, perform ad...
Democratic Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri are demanding answers from Amazon as to how its facial recognition technology dubbed Rekognition is being used by law enforcement agencies around the country. The Intercept, citing a letter sent late last week to...
