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  1. AlphaAtlas

    17% of Americans Use Smart Speakers

    According to a report published by Strategy Analytics, about 17% of Americans use smart speakers, and most of them are from Amazon. The research firm claims that "satisfaction levels are typically in the 90% range, nearly two thirds of users expect to buy another one within the next two years...
  2. cageymaru

    Amazon Alexa Devices Now Have a Whisper Mode

    Amazon has added a whisper mode to Alexa devices. Now you can whisper to your device and it will respond in kind. Here is an example of normal mode and whisper mode. I suggest that everyone try it with the "Sweet Talker" skill enabled. Or just command Alexa to "talk dirty to me." If you're...
  3. AlphaAtlas

    Employee Criticizes Amazon's Facial Recognition Technology

    On Medium, an Amazon employee spoke out against the company's own facial recognition software. In the op-ed, the employee says that Amazon is "currently allowing police departments around the country to purchase its facial recognition product, Rekognition, and I and other employees demand that...
  4. AlphaAtlas

    Amazon Posts Environmental Footage from Their MMO

    Tech giant Amazon has their fingers in a lot of pies, and now they want to make their own games. The company bought Double Helix back in 2014, and after posting some screenshots earlier this year, Amazon Games Studios uploaded some environmental footage of an MMO called "New Worlds". According...
  5. cageymaru

    Jeff Bezos Interview at Wired25 Summit

    Jeff Bezos was interviewed at the Wired25 Summit and the discussion touched on a myriad of subjects. He discussed topics such as his space company called Blue Origin, sending civilians into space, Amazon, Montessori schools, working with the Department of Defense, why new technological...
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  6. cageymaru

    4TB External Hard Drive Is $67 @Amazon

    $67.00 WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN/dp/B00E3RH61W $85.99 ($77 Amazon Warehouse Deals also) WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBBGB0040HBK-NESN...
  7. cageymaru

    Amazon Alexa May Detect Emotional and Physical States in the Future

    Amazon has patented a method for the voice assistant Alexa to detect emotional and physical states based on vocal cues that it hears. It will then tailor its conversations in such a way to appeal to the person. For example if a person sounds like they are bored then Alexa will deliver an ad...
  8. AlphaAtlas

    Amazon Scraps Biased Recruiting AI

    An AI Amazon built to automate the hiring process reportedly took a turn for the worse. According to the report, the machine learning algorithm was programmed to sort through resumes and pick out the best candidates for a job. Machine learning algorithms learn from the data they're trained on...
  9. cageymaru

    TSMC to Start 5nm Production with Full EUV in April 2019

    TSMC has taped out its first chip with limited use of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) and will start risk production on a 5nm node with full EUV in April 2019. "TSMC said that N5 will deliver 14.7% to 17.7% speed gains and 1.8 to 1.86 area shrinks based on tests with Arm A72 cores. The...
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    • 5nm 7nm amazon arm cloud eda euv microsoft pcie 4 pcie 5 planar 22-nm risk production tsmc
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    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  10. AlphaAtlas

    Ebay Accuses Amazon of Poaching Sellers

    On Monday, Ebay accused Amazon of illegally poaching sellers from its platform. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, about 50 Amazon employees sent "sent more than 1,000 messages to sellers" on Ebay. One of the sellers reached out to Ebay after allegedly being contacted by Amazon...
  11. cageymaru

    Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All US Employees

    Amazon has raised the minimum wage for all US employees to $15 starting on November 1st. This includes all full-time, part-time, temporary, seasonal, and even those associates employed from temp agencies. This will benefit the 250,000 Amazon employees and the 100,000 seasonal employees...
  12. cageymaru

    Amazon to Tap Customer Data to Choose Appealing Ads for Free Fire TV Service

    Sources are alluding to Amazon releasing a free Fire TV exclusive video service through their subsidiary IMDB. The service is described as similar to Hulu and will use 1st and 3rd party data collected by Amazon and partners to tailor advertising to appeal to individual viewers. This is the...
  13. AlphaAtlas

    9900k Allegedly Listed on Amazon

    According to momomo_u gs on Twitter, Amazon listed a "9th gen" Intel i9 processor with 8 cores, 16 threads, and a $582.50 price tag . The screenshot of the Amazon webpage also revealed some interesting, dodecahedron shaped packaging. Another screenshot posted by the same user shows an October...
  14. AlphaAtlas

    Amazon Partners With Iridium to Bring Internet to the Whole Planet

    Amazon announced a partnership with Iridium Communications, with the goal of developing a satellite network for Internet of Things devices called CloudConnect. Iridium CEO Matt Desh told CNBC that he intends to cover the "whole planet," and expects the service to launch in 2019. SpaceX is almost...
  15. cageymaru

    Developers Receive 100% Revenue Share from Viveport Subscription Until End of 2018

    HTC has graciously extended their offer of granting developers 100% revenue sharing from the Viveport subscription until the end of the year. Normally HTC would take 30% of the subscription revenue and the developers would get 70%. Viveport now boasts a library of over 500 titles and 5x the...
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    • amazon htc oculus rift revenue sharing subscription virtual reality vive viveport vr
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    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  16. AlphaAtlas

    Snapchat Partners with Amazon

    Snapchat just announced a new feature that lets users search for products on Amazon. Point a camera at the object you desire, touch it on the screen, and Snapchat will attempt to open the corresponding Amazon page for the product via the Amazon app. The scanner works with barcodes too, and...
  17. AlphaAtlas

    Amazon Sets Traps for Package Thieves

    As part of an ongoing effort to crack down on bad employees, Amazon is planting fake packages in delivery trucks to root out package-stealing drivers. Business Insider reports that Amazon plants these "dummy" packages with fake labels at random. When drivers scan the label, an error message pops...
  18. cageymaru

    Jeff Bezos Announces Philanthropic "Bezos Day One Fund"

    Jeff Bezos is an entrepreneur who has dabbled into starting online retail businesses such as Amazon, spaceflight research with Blue Origin and even delivers the daily news with the Washington Post. Now he has decided that he wants to commit to a philanthropic endeavor with the start of a new $2...
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    • amazon bezos day one fund blue origin children homeless jeff bezos philanthropy poor school washington post
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    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  19. cageymaru

    Tech Corporations to Testify Before the US Senate About Data Privacy Practices

    Representatives from multiple internet based businesses and ISPs are scheduled to testify about their consumer data privacy practices before the U.S. Senate. This is being done so that lawmakers can eventually draft new laws to protect consumer data privacy. "U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.)...
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    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  20. cageymaru

    Amazon Hits the $1 Trillion Milestone

    Amazon has finally surpassed the $1 trillion milestone after a brief increase in value of 1.9% even though the tech sector has been hammered on the stock exchanges. The value of Amazon stock has tripled in price over the past 3 years. Not bad for Jeff Bezos as he started the company as an...
  21. DooKey

    Amazon may Make a Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Service for Fire TVs

    Amazon may be making a free, ad-supported streaming service called Free Dive for Fire TVs. It may be similar to The Roku Channel and have licensed content from studios like Sony and Paramount. Also, this won't replace Prime Video and will simply be a supplement to that service. How well this...
  22. cageymaru

    Contractors Working as Amazon Delivery Drivers Sue over Denied Breaks and Overtime

    Amazon uses contractors to deliver packages to homes and even finances entrepreneurs to start delivering their goods. Now Amazon and its contractor NEA Delivery Services are in the cross-hairs of a potential federal class action lawsuit alleging that the online retail giant knew that NEA was...
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  23. cageymaru

    Sennheiser Headphone Sale @Amazon and More

    Sennheiser headphones are on sale @Amazon. I didn't look to see what the historical lowest pricing is. :) 559 is $99. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01L1IIEKM/ref=s9_dcacsd_dcoop_bw_cr_x__a_w 579 is $102.95 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01L1IIF1K/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_cr_x__a_w Both...
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    • Forum: [H]ot|DEALS
  24. cageymaru

    Amazon Data Center Electrical Bills Are Secretly Funded by Taxpayers

    Amazon is negotiating secretive deals with state regulators to fund the building of new electrical grids that power the Amazon Web Services data centers and the rates that they pay. The agreed upon prices are considered "trade secrets" by the company, so even though state regulators are...
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    • amazon amazon web services data center electrical grid tax taxpayer virginia
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    • Forum: HardForum Tech News
  25. DooKey

    Google to Debut Display-Equipped AI Speaker Before Holidays

    Amazon is leading the way in smart speakers by a huge margin over Google. Google wants to grab more of this business and coming this fall you'll be able to grab a Google spy in the form of a smart screen if you aren't satisfied with the other tracking that Google conducts. The new screen will...
  26. DooKey

    St. Louis University Is Installing Amazon Alexa-Enabled Echo Dots Campus-Wide

    St. Louis University is going to install Echo Dots campus-wide. These Dots are pre-programmed to answer 100 questions about the campus and activities. This will be the first time a university will be deploying these devices in every single dorm room. Amazon Alexa for Business is managing the...
  27. DooKey

    Amazon Launches an Alexa Auto SDK

    Amazon has announced the release of their Alexa Auto SDK today and it's available on GitHub. It does all the things you're used to doing with Alexa in your home and will include additional features like navigation and search. Amazon currently works with a handful of companies to provide this in...
  28. cageymaru

    Amazon Alexa Learns Skills to Ward Off Potential Burgulars

    Amazon has been pushing their Echo smart devices into the homes of their customers for quite a few years now. Echo devices have been calling loved ones, playing music, and ordering more Amazon packages on a regular basis to make life a little easier. Now Amazon's voice assistant Alexa might...
  29. cageymaru

    FAANG Stocks Could Lose Big According to Experts

    The FAANG stocks known as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google (Alphabet) have been the darlings of Wall Street for years. Now they are coming under fire Monday as they have lost $185 billion in value over the past 2 sessions. Larry McDonald from 'The Bear Traps Report' predicts a 30%...
  30. DooKey

    Amazon Just Posted an Insane Earnings-Per-Share Beat

    Yesterday Amazon reported an amazing beat for earnings per share. Analysts predicted an EPS of $2.50 and Amazon posted an EPS of $5.07. This company has become an unstoppable juggernaut and it just steams along squashing all that stand before it. It's about to become a $1T company and if this...
  31. cageymaru

    The Department of Defense Begins Taking Proposals for $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract

    The Department of Defense (DoD) has begun taking proposals for the JEDI Cloud contract. These proposals will be evaluated and a single cloud provider will be awarded a $10 billion contract to provide secure cloud services for the DoD. The contract will be competitively awarded but Amazon Web...
  32. DooKey

    Internal Documents Show How Amazon Scrambled to Fix Prime Day Glitches

    Amazon's Prime Day got off to a rough start earlier this week, but they still managed to make a boat load of money. Their rough start began with the front page of their website showing a bunch of dog pictures with an error code. They got things straight after a few hours and then went on to make...
  33. cageymaru

    Prime Day 2018 Fuels Amazon Sales to 100 million Products in 36 Hours

    Amazon is celebrating their biggest global shopping event of all time as they sold 100 million products in 36 hours. During Prime Day 2018, Amazon Prime customers had exclusive access to more than 1 million products on the Amazon shopping portal. PCs and computer accessories was a top five...
  34. FrgMstr

    Walmart in Bed with Microsoft - Fluffy Cloud Comforter on Aisles 9

    Walmart is not sitting around content waiting on Amazon to continue to whittle away at its brick and mortar sales. Walmart is looking to Microsoft to make its online shopping faster and easier for it customers by migrating "a significant portion" of its online shopping to to Microsoft's Azure...
  35. DooKey

    Blue Origin Targets Moon Landing by 2023 as an Early Step Toward Lunar Settlement

    Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space company are literally shooting for the moon it appears. Blue Origin's business development director recently laid out a plan to land a human on the moon by 2023 and then expand their capability from there and put permanent settlements on the moon. As a matter...
  36. FrgMstr

    Home Depot Looking to Fend Off Amazon

    We have seen more than a few companies fall to the talents of Amazon in many different fields, but Home Depot is not looking to be the next one. This story over at the WSJ is telling us that Home Depot is going to spend over $1.2B over the next five years to make sure that Amazon does not eat...
  37. cageymaru

    NES Classic on Amazon

    NES Classic on Amazon. $59. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IFJBQ1E/
  38. R

    Amazon Buys Online Pharmacy, Competitors Lose $11 Billion

    CNBC is reporting that Amazon has signed an agreement to purchase online pharmacy PillPack. While the terms of the deal were not disclosed, competing pharmacies lost $11 billion in market value after news of the purchase broke. Rite Aid dropped 11.1%, Walgreens fell 9.9%, and CVS went down by...
  39. DooKey

    Wanted: Hundreds of Entrepreneurs to Start Businesses Delivering Amazon Packages

    Amazon has announced a new program to get entreprenuers to start up buinesses that deliver Amazon packages. Amazon says successful owners can earn up to $300K per year in profit by operating a fleet of up to 40 delivery vehicles. If this is something you are interested in doing you can contact...
  40. R

    Amazon's "Pivot" Program Takes Employees to Court

    In the latest news about being an Amazon employee, Business Insider is reporting on the "Pivot" program. The Pivot program was introduced last year, and many employees are protesting the "performance-improving" program. Underperforming employees under the pivot program have three choices, quit...
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