Amazon’s Rekognition Software Can Spot Fear The facial recognition tech is also getting better at estimating a person’s age, the company says. Amazon’s controversial facial recognition technology, called Rekognition, has a new skill. It can now spot fear. The company says it recently launched updates to Rekognition’s facial analysis features, Read more…
NH Judge Orders Amazon to Give Echo Recordings in Murder Case Timothy Verrill accused of killing two women in Farmington in 2017 DOVER, N.H. — An Amazon Echo device could play a role in a double-homicide case in Farmington. A judge has ordered Amazon to turn over recordings that might Read more…
China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources. By Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley | Businessweek In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating Read more…
Amazon is turning Simon Stålenhag’s haunting retro sci-fi paintings into a TV series Amazon’s answer to Stranger Things, adapted by Legion writer Nathaniel Halpern Over the last couple of years, Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag has earned considerable acclaim for Tales from the Loop, a science fiction art book that juxtaposes a Read more…
Amazon Go Automated Grocery Store Opens By Jeffrey Dastin SEATTLE (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail. The Seattle store, known Read more…
The Irony: Amazon Building Colossal Warehouse Where America’s Biggest Mall Once Stood The Seattle-based internet book seller Amazon just announced plans to open an enormous fulfillment center in the North Randall, Ohio. This is a big deal for the small community which has suffered greatly since the Randall Park Mall, once the largest in Read more…
Police Ask Amazon’s Echo to Help Solve a Murder Be careful your home digital assistant doesn’t rat on you. In Arkansas, police obtained a search warrant for an Amazon Echo belonging to James Bates in the hopes the device would cough up voice evidence to suggest Bates had strangled his Read more…
Amazon Is Testing A Grocery Store With No Checkout Amazon just officially announced its long rumored grocery store, and it actually looks like the future. The concept is that there’s no place to checkout. You just tap your phone on a device when you walk in and then walk out with Read more…
Windows 10 “Home Hub” feature will compete with Amazon Echo and more 2017, 2018 Updates will offer shared workspaces and a Cortana serving multiple people Windows 10 “Home Hub” feature will compete with Amazon Echo and more. Microsoft is going to make the Windows 10 PC a more family-focused device, taking Read more…
How to Secure Your Amazon Account If you’re like me (and nearly everyone I know), you do a lot of shopping on Amazon. Buying gifts? Amazon. Household items? Amazon. Electronics? Amazon. But because it’s so encompassing, it’s also something you’re going to want to take extra care to secure. Odds are Read more…
Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick comes with an Alexa-enabled remote Amazon seems to be bingeing new device announcements lately. First we got word of the all-new Fire HD 8, then it was the refresh of the Echo Dot, and then the company announced its Kindle for Kids e-reader. The Read more…
Amazon Tests 30-Hour Work Week The program could help Amazon’s image, and previews a future with less work in general. The Washington Post reports that Amazon is launching technical teams whose workers will only clock in for 30 hours a week. While plenty of employees at Amazon are part-time, the Read more…