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Amazon’s new Alexa+ is pretty good — but is that enough in the ChatGPT age?
I’m going to start with a caveat from the top: This is not a formal product review. That’s not my background nor expertise, and...
Gear News of the Week: Amazon Buys Bee, VSCO Has a New App, and CMF Debuts a Smartwatch
That's not all that's new. The company is also adding a feature called Remix, which lets you convert existing photos into art styles, like...
Amazon introduces a more affordable color screen Kindle | TechCrunch
Amazon is making its color screen Kindle more affordable. Following the launch of the Kindle Colorsoft last year, the retailer on Thursday introduced a...
Two New Color Kindles Just Dropped
Out of Kindle's new e-reader lineup released last fall, the most groundbreaking addition was probably the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition (7/10, WIRED Reviews), featuring...
Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive | TechCrunch
Programmable optics startup Lumotive has added a few more strategic backers to its recent Series B round.
Redmond, Washington-based Lumotive reopened its recent Series B...
Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground
As a child, Julian Ako would visit his maternal great-grandfather’s home near Pilaa Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, where he and his family would gather...
Firehose Prime Content With Amazon’s Cheap, Functional Fire Tablets
WIREDA faucet for Amazon content: If you subscribe to Amazon’s Prime service, you can consume all the included movies, music, TV, and books, shop...
If Amazon Ring staff want a promotion, they must now prove they’ve used AI
Amazon’s smart home business will now require employees seeking promotions to prove AI use and ask managers to demonstrate better efficiency using the technology...
Amazon’s AWS has joined the AI agent craze. Now the real work of showing Fortune 500 companies how to actually use them begins
Amazon Web Services joined the agentic AI frenzy in a big way this week, revealing at a New York City event Wednesday a host...
Amazon Ring’s founder is back as CEO with a hard pivot to AI. How Jamie Siminoff went from ‘Shark Tank’ reject to $1 billion brand
Few major success stories come without a bout of rejection. Take Amazon’s Ring.
The popular home-security brand first came into the limelight when founder Jamie...