Tag: amazon

December 14, 2017 at 10:37 am

How to Hijack Amazon’s ‘Prime Now’ for Good

How to Hijack Amazon's 'Prime Now' for Good

When you want to help, but maybe you’re in a rush yourself to somewhere (or somebody)

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May 22, 2017 at 1:34 pm

When You Need to Transfer Petabytes to the Cloud, Amazon Will Send You This

When You Need to Transfer Petabytes to the Cloud, Amazon Will Send You This

AWS Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service that uses 45-ft long trucks to physically move data to the cloud

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January 13, 2017 at 1:47 pm

This Guy Built a Chat Bot That Responds Entirely Through GIFs

This Guy Built a Chat Bot That Responds Entirely Through GIFs

Abhishek Singh built an open source robot named ‘Peeqo’ that responds entirely through GIFs

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December 30, 2016 at 3:32 pm

So Alexa Doesn’t Understand Kids Very Well

So Alexa Doesn't Understand Kids Very Well

It’s Alexa Gone Wild! Apparently understanding kids is still a work in progress

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December 7, 2016 at 1:07 pm

Amazon To Open Grocery Store With No Checkout Lines in 2017

Amazon To Open Grocery Store With No Checkout Lines in 2017

Imagine walking into a store, grabbing what you want, and being automatically charged as you exit

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November 5, 2016 at 12:01 am

A Developer Just Programmed Amazon’s Alexa Into a Big Mouth Billy Bass

A Developer Just Programmed Amazon's Alexa Into a Big Mouth Billy Bass

It was never a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’

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September 19, 2016 at 6:36 pm

Data Analysis of 18 Million Amazon Reviews Finds Incentivized Reviewers Give Higher Ratings

Data Analysis of 18 Million Amazon Reviews Finds Incentivized Reviewers Give Higher Ratings

People given free or discounted products in exchange for reviews were found to rate products 0.4 stars higher

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December 11, 2015 at 3:54 pm

Alton Brown Reviews Ridiculous Kitchen Gadgets on Amazon

Alton Brown Reviews Ridiculous Kitchen Gadgets on Amazon

Celebrity chef and Thyme Lord Alton Brown is no fan of “unitaskers” — kitchen gadgets with only one purpose. But maybe these Amazon offerings aren’t so bad.

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November 30, 2015 at 10:32 am

Jeremy Clarkson Unveils Amazon’s Latest Delivery Drone

Jeremy Clarkson Unveils Amazon's Latest Delivery Drone

Amazon Prime Air wants to deliver packages weighing up to 5 lbs to customers in 30 minutes or less using drones.

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December 6, 2014 at 2:15 pm

Inside Amazon’s High Tech Fulfillment Centers

Inside Amazon's High Tech Fulfillment Centers

Amazon unveils their eighth generation fulfillment center which utilizes robotics, Kiva technology, vision systems and almost 20 years worth of software and mechanical innovations. The company is currently operating 10 of these new generation fulfillment centers across the U.S. Some features of Amazon’s eighth generation fulfillment center include: – Kiva robots of which Amazon…

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