From Amazon spying on little kids to 50 years of cell phones – Here's your April 4 news briefing
Amazon has a special Echo speaker and subscription service for kids with kid-friendly apps and books.
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FTC takes aim at Amazon's Alexa for illegally collecting kids' data
Amazon has a special Echo speaker and subscription service for kids with kid-friendly apps and books.
What’s the future of Amazon Go?
Back in 2018, Amazon opened its first major in-person retailer: a grocery store called Amazon Go.
Indigenous groups are struggling to save the Amazon
The world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, is at risk because of massive deforestation. Today, only 74% of the original forest remains. And at the forefront of protection efforts to save it are South American Indigenous groups.
A new study on the Amazon by scientists and Indigenous organizations working together
Amazon, iRobot and data
On Friday, Amazon announced it was buying iRobot for US$1.7 billion. You probably know iRobot from their signature autonomous vacuum, the Roomba. Experts say that Amazon can probably reduce their logistics costs a bit, as well as some of its sales, marketing, and administrative costs, and at the
Amazon’s challenges to turn Jeff Bezos’ drone delivery dreams into reality
Have you ever been so impatient that you wished your package would just teleport to your house at that given moment? Jeff Bezos had a similar (not so instant) vision – delivery drones that could bring parcels to customers’ homes in just 30 minutes. But it’s been 10 years since
Now that Microsoft’s JEDI contract has turned into a group project with Amazon, what’s next?
Amazon lawyers said that Trump “used his power to ‘screw Amazon’ out of the JEDI Contract," and, much like their competitor Oracle, filed a suit against the decision with the US Court of Federal Claims.
* Microsoft Corp. had this deal for a contract called the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI)