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Amazon Pushes Its Cashierless Tech To Enterprise Retailers
March 15, 2020

Amazon has been extending an olive branch to other large retailers offering collaborating for cashierless, automated stores — but so far, rivals Walmart and Target haven’t been swayed. The eCommerce giant is not trusted by its more traditional brick-and-mortar peers, which have usually thought of Amazon...

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Amazon Sells ‘Just Walk Out’ Technology To Merchants
March 09, 2020

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...

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Hey Alexa, Do You Get Me?
November 29, 2019

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...

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Amazon Sends Thousands Of Alexa Recordings To German User  
December 20, 2018

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....

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Amazon Go ‘Mini’ Opens In Seattle
December 13, 2018

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....

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Amazon Alexa ‘Asks The Audience’
December 07, 2018

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...

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Amazon Echo Speakers Faced Outages In UK, Europe
September 26, 2018

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...

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Amazon Scout Uses Machine Learning To Show Shoppers Personalized Products
September 20, 2018

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...

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Amazon Web Services Rolls Out Pay-Per-Session Pricing
May 31, 2018

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...