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Surprise, Echo Owners, You’re Now Part of Amazon’s Random Social Network

Since the Echo’s release in 2014, millions of people have given in to Amazon’s nonstop advertising and welcomed Alexa into their homes. Amazon’s original sell for the always-on, voice-activated device was that users could “ask Echo for information, music, news, sports scores, and weather from across the room and get results or answers instantly.” But…

Commerce Kashmir Hill

At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark

Amazon is an unstoppable beast, consuming all industries that are ripe for disruption and unfortunate enough to cross its path. On Monday, its latest victim was the struggling food delivery service Blue Apron. https://gizmodo.com/whole-foods-employees-must-be-shitting-their-pants-righ-1796274910 Following Amazon’s bombshell announcement of an agreement to acquire the Whole Foods grocery chain for $13.7 billion, stock prices for competitors…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Amazon Delivery Driver Drops Off a Bag of Poop on Family’s Driveway

A man in east London was expecting a package from Amazon but the special delivery on his driveway was not what he’d ordered. After finding a bag filled with poop and Amazon calling cards, a quick check of CCTV cameras indicated that a delivery driver for the e-commerce giant was responsible. https://gizmodo.com/whole-foods-employees-must-be-shitting-their-pants-righ-1796274910 The home owner,…

Commerce Rhett Jones

The Deadliest-Looking Deals of Amazon Prime Day

Amazon would like you to believe its annual “Prime Day” extravaganza is all about the deals, but a true keyboard warrior knows that every day begins and ends with the same goal: total combat readiness. With that in mind, we’ve collected some of the baddest, brutal-est, and straight-up most lethal-looking Prime Day offers, suitable for…

Commerce Hudson Hongo

Amazon’s Newest Product Is Human Workers It Sends to Your House

Remember when Bill Clinton was president, and Amazon was just a website where you could buy books? Those were the halcyon days. Now, the world’s biggest store runs brick-and-mortar shops, builds affordable hardware, operates artificial intelligence, and soon, it will hire out humans to help you set up your gadgets. Why? Because if it’s possible…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

If You Want Your Five Bucks Back, The FAA Is Refunding Drone Registrations

Good news for drone hobbyists who were noble enough to register their aircrafts but could really use $5 right about now: The US Federal Aviation Administration is refunding registration fees and removing names from its registration database. The FAA first started requiring drone owners to register small aerial vehicles on December 21, 2015. The registrations…

Commerce Jennings Brown

FAA Is Working on a Remote Identification System For Consumer Drones

Year after year, drones are becoming more popular with the public and the industry is expected to grow for the foreseeable future. This, coupled with an antsy commercial drone industry, has created a lot of regulatory headaches for the FAA. The latest proposal on the table is to create a remote identification system in order…

Commerce Rhett Jones

The Fourth of July Twilight Zone Marathon Schedule, With Links For Cordcutters

It’s that time of year again. Time to hunker down and watch the Twilight Zone marathon on the SyFy Channel. Or, if you’re impatient, time to get ahead of the curve and binge-watch the entire series on Netflix or Amazon Prime. The SyFy Channel has been doing Twilight Zone marathons for years on both New…

Commerce Matt Novak

Trump Accuses Amazon of Not Paying ‘Internet Taxes,’ Which Aren’t a Thing

In an apparent attempt to discredit The Washington Post the day after it published a report on fake Donald Trump Time magazine covers hanging up at his golf courses, the president posted one of his most confusing tweets since taking office. Syntax issues aside, this sentence makes absolutely no sense. Of course, there is no…

Commerce Jennings Brown

Amazon’s Cheap 4K TVs Are Good Enough for Almost Anyone

Remember when 4Ks used to cost a damn fortune? Those days are quickly coming to an end, and if you need proof, look no further than Amazon’s new line of budget televisions, manufactured under the Westinghouse and Element brands. They come with all the smarts of Amazon’s excellent Fire TV set-top box as well as…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Whole Foods Employees Must Be Shitting Their Pants Right Now

For 20 years, Whole Foods has enjoyed the honor of being on Fortune magazine’s list of the top 100 best places to work. But if recent comments by co-founder and CEO John Mackey are any indication, that all might change soon. That’s because Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and Mackey thinks the company should take…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Conflicts for Trump Officials Show That the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Should Go Smoothly

“Goldman Sachs owns him, he will do anything they demand,” Donald Trump tweeted last year. He was referring to his opponent Ted Cruz. But now he’s president and he has assembled the richest Cabinet in history. That fact bodes very well for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his plans to take over the world. https://gizmodo.com/just-in-time-amazon-patents-method-to-prevent-comparis-1796195563…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Just in Time, Amazon Patents Method to Prevent In-store Comparison Shopping

Amazon is perfecting a different kind of business model than we’ve traditionally known. First, crush an industry by focusing on growth instead of profit. Then, swoop in to “fix” the industry that was destroyed. Now that the online retailer is moving into the brick and mortar world, it’s trying to prevent the in-store price comparisons…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Holy Heck: Amazon Is Buying Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion in Cash

Bloomberg News and others report that Amazon will buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in cash. In cash! That breaks down to Jeff Bezos and company paying $42 per share for a chain of health food and lifestyle stores. In cash! Here’s a funny Twitter joke about that: Amazon confirmed the Bloomberg report just minutes after…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Amazon Erects 79-Foot Cylindrical Shaft in Times Square

Look, I’m a straight woman with the maturity level of a 13-year-old boy. I am willing to admit that maybe—maybe—I sometimes see phalluses where they don’t exist. But this thing totally looks like a dick, right? Amazon announced today that it had erected the “largest Times Square advertising installment ever,” which is actually a 79-foot-tall…

Commerce Sophie Kleeman

Tech Companies and Activists Set Date for Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’

The last time we had a major fight over net neutrality, the “Internet Slowdown Day” protests were credited with helping push the FCC to reclassify the internet as a Title II utility. Now that net neutrality is the closest it’s ever been to dead, activists and tech giants are rallying to mount a protest and…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Be the Saddest Guy in the Office With Amazon’s Embarrassing ‘Covfefe’ Swag

The loud man did a word bad on the internet and now you can buy an everything of it. Welcome to The Resistance™, we take credit or debit. https://gizmodo.com/president-trump-pretends-like-he-meant-to-tweet-covfeve-1795682131 What is “covfefe”? One explanation is that it’s an attempt at spelling “coverage” when you’re a doddering old man with holes in your brain. Another is…

Commerce Avery Ellis

This Is How Miserable IBM Voice Recognition Probably Was in the ’80s

In the age of Siri, we take for granted how far speech recognition technology has come. But a quick glance back at 1986, when IBM introduced its voice recognition software, shows that we’ve travelled light years since the earliest version of this game-changing software. And it’s even more fun in satire form. The goofballs at…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Companies Are Creating So Much Data, It Has to Be Shipped in Trucks

A terabyte isn’t cool, you know what’s cool? A petabyte. And companies like DigitalGlobe are creating more of them than they can upload to the cloud. That’s why Jeff Bezos has a service for shipping huge amounts of data via traditional roadways. https://gizmodo.com/uber-reportedly-will-invest-500-million-into-mapping-t-1784626844 DigitalGlobe is a company that sells highly-detailed satellite imagery to clients ranging…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Surprise, Echo Owners, You’re Now Part of Amazon’s Random Social Network

At This Point, Amazon Can Crush a Company Just By Filing for a Trademark

Amazon Delivery Driver Drops Off a Bag of Poop on Family’s Driveway

The Deadliest-Looking Deals of Amazon Prime Day

Amazon’s Newest Product Is Human Workers It Sends to Your House

If You Want Your Five Bucks Back, The FAA Is Refunding Drone Registrations

FAA Is Working on a Remote Identification System For Consumer Drones

The Fourth of July Twilight Zone Marathon Schedule, With Links For Cordcutters

Trump Accuses Amazon of Not Paying ‘Internet Taxes,’ Which Aren’t a Thing

Amazon’s Cheap 4K TVs Are Good Enough for Almost Anyone

Whole Foods Employees Must Be Shitting Their Pants Right Now

Conflicts for Trump Officials Show That the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Should Go Smoothly

Just in Time, Amazon Patents Method to Prevent In-store Comparison Shopping

Holy Heck: Amazon Is Buying Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion in Cash

Amazon Erects 79-Foot Cylindrical Shaft in Times Square

Tech Companies and Activists Set Date for Net Neutrality ‘Day of Action’

Be the Saddest Guy in the Office With Amazon’s Embarrassing ‘Covfefe’ Swag

This Is How Miserable IBM Voice Recognition Probably Was in the ’80s

Companies Are Creating So Much Data, It Has to Be Shipped in Trucks

‘Payday’ Dev Starbreeze Kills Co-Op ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Game

‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Almost Had an Echo/Punisher Teamup

‘The Batman II’ Should Be Out This Weekend. Why Do We Care?

Even More Pasta Just Got Recalled in That Deadly Listera Outbreak

Here’s Why We Haven’t Seen ‘Fast and Furious 11’ Yet

LEGO Can’t Make This Public, So Amazon Is Selling the Star Wars Millennium Falcon for Pennies

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Forget Every MacBook, This 2TB HP Laptop Is $2,600 Off for Prime Members on Amazon

Lego Game Boy Review: The Designers Share All the Secrets to the Fun, Nostalgic Set

Oakley Meta HSTN Review: Sporty AI Glasses With a Confusing Game Plan

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Apple Watch Ultra 3 Review: Biggest Is Best, Except If It’s Not

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