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Amazon is making two-hour grocery delivery free for all Prime members

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Amazon just added a new perk to its popular Prime membership program: free grocery delivery.  Amazon Prime members will now be able to get two-hour grocery delivery for free. Until now, Prime members had to pay an additional $14.99 per month to get access to Amazon Fresh, the company’s grocery delivery service. The change reflects […]

Researchers used a laser to hack Alexa and other voice assistants

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San Francisco (CNN Business)Usually you have to talk to voice assistants to get them to do what you want. But a group of researchers determined they can also command them by shining a laser at smart speakers and other gadgets that house virtual helpers such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google’s Assistant. Researchers at […]

New Amazon capabilities put machine learning in reach of more developers

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Today, Amazon announced a new approach that it says will put machine learning technology in reach of more developers and line of business users. Amazon has been making a flurry of announcements ahead of its re:Invent customer conference next week in Las Vegas. While the company offers plenty of tools for data scientists to build […]

Amazon’s AI creates synthesized singers

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AI and machine learning algorithms are quite skilled at generating works of art — and highly realistic images of apartments, people, and pets to boot. But relatively few have been tuned to singing synthesis, or the task of cloning musicians’ voices. Researchers from Amazon and Cambridge put their collective minds to the challenge in a […]

What will make cargo bike package delivery succeed in New York?

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Lessons from other cities that have started replacing trucks with bikes. What will make cargo bike package delivery succeed in New York? At a UPS operating center in midtown Manhattan, two cargo delivery bikes will soon begin rolling out of a driveway in the morning a few hours before the usual delivery trucks begin their […]

Vast majority of UK adults ‘uncomfortable’ with delivery drivers entering their empty homes

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Waitrose’s While You’re Away service allows delivery drivers to enter customer’s homes to unpack their shopping The vast majority of UK adults are uncomfortable with the idea of delivery drivers entering their homes to drop off shopping while they’re out, new research has revealed. Waitrose first trialled its While You’re Away delivery service in October […]

Jeff Bezos bullish on India, will invest $1 billion to digitize small businesses

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Amazon hopes to export goods worth $10 billion from India by 2025  Jeff Bezos said Amazon will invest another $1 billion in India to help 10 million Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) sell online amid nationwide protests by neighbourhood shopkeepers against his visit and the competition watchdog ordering a probe into ecommerce platforms. Amazon, […]

Amazon is working to develop biometric scanners to link handprints to credit cards, allowing shoppers to buy with the swipe of their palm

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Amazon is working with credit card companies to create terminals to allow users to pay for items with biometric data from their handprint. The online retailer previously patented such technology, which had been presumed to be used at its Whole Food stores Amazon currently allows shoppers at its Amazon Go grocery store to pay for […]

Amazon’s AI automatically dubs videos into other languages

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Ever wish you could automatically dub foreign film dialogue into another tongue? Amazon is on the case. In a paper published this week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, researchers from the tech giant detailed a novel “speech-to-speech” pipeline that taps AI to align translated speech with original speech and fine-tune speech duration before adding background […]

Amazon is expanding its cashierless Go model into a full-blown grocery store

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The first Amazon Go Grocery opens today in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district Amazon is getting more serious about its brick-and-mortar retail ambitions with its first-ever Amazon-branded grocery store. The store opens today in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district, confirming reports from last year that Amazon was developing a more ambitious version of its cashier-less Go model. […]

Amazon looking to buy four Fairway stores amid coronavirus chaos

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The Woodland Park, New Jersey Fairway Market (pictured) is one the locations Amazon is targeting. Amazon is on the prowl once again — and this time it’s eyeing a handful of supermarkets owned by New York City grocer Fairway Market, The Post has learned. The tech juggernaut run by Jeff Bezos is bidding on four […]

Now all your home’s Alexa devices work like an intercom

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Amazon’s ‘Drop In’ feature now works across the entire house. Amazon Alexa users can now use the “Drop In” feature to talk with all of their Echo devices at once, Amazon announced on its blog. Previously, Drop In messages could only be sent to one other Alexa-enabled device at a time — a user with […]

Amazon is rolling out grocery carts that let shoppers skip checkout lines, bag their groceries and walk out

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Amazon launching smart grocery carts that track shoppers’ items Amazon is launching smart shopping carts at its Woodland Hills, California, grocery store in 2020. Dash Carts are embedded with cameras, sensors and a smart display that automatically track a shopper’s order. Similar to Amazon’s cashierless Go stores, Dash Carts allow shoppers to avoid checkout lines […]

Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet

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  KEY POINTS Amazon on Monday received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate its fleet of Prime Air delivery drones. The approval will give Amazon broad privileges to “safely and efficiently deliver packages to customers,” the FAA said. Amazon joins UPS and Alphabet-owned Wing, who previously won FAA approval for their drone delivery […]

Amazon plans to invest $100 million to help small businesses attract sales on Prime Day

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  Amazon Global Online Stores Net Sales Amazon is investing $100 million to help small businesses attract sales on Prime Day and during the holidays, This is a key moment for Amazon to recruit SMBs because of the coronavirus pandemic and a rise in competition. The etailer is investing $100 million to help small businesses […]

Amazon and FedEx push to put delivery robots on your sidewalk

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Amazon hopes its Scout robots will carry packages autonomously the “last mile,” from delivery hubs to homes. – ROGER KISBY/GETTY IMAGES The companies are backing bills in more than a dozen states that would legalize the devices. Some bills would block cities from regulating them at all. IN FEBRUARY, A lobbyist friend urged Erik Sartorius, […]

Amazon Unveils a flying security drone

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A security drone is on the way from Amazon and it has more than few people asking questions about privacy. At the same time, tech enthusiasts seem to be pretty excited about this newest addition to the home surveillance marketplace. Amazon’s smart home security division Ring has unveiled a new home security drone that will […]

Amazon One lets you pay with your palm

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Amazon wants its palm recognition technology in stores, stadiums, and office buildings Amazon is unveiling its own palm recognition technology today that will be used initially to turn your hand into a personal credit card inside the company’s physical retail stores. Amazon One uses the palm of your hand to identify you, using a combination […]

‘Future of last mile delivery’: Amazon reveals first custom electric delivery vehicle built with Rivian

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Amazon is lifting the hood on one of three custom-designed electric delivery vans it built in partnership with Rivian.  The new vehicle is 100% electric and features various technology such as sensor detection, exterior cameras that provide 360-degree views, Alexa voice integration, and more. “We combined Rivian’s technology with our delivery logistics knowledge, and the […]

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture fleshes out plans for 2023 cargo delivery to the moon

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  An artist’s conception shows the human landing system that’s being developed by Blue Origin and its industry partners in the foreground, and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon cargo lander in the far background. (Blue Origin Illustration) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is working on a landing system that could put astronauts on […]




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