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If what corporate boards of directors do can show where a company wants to focus, then Amazon’s board just did something interesting. Richard Ng, who is known for building AI at big tech companies, is joining the board of directors of the company, the company said Thursday. According to the …

Today, Amazon unveiled Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant. Rufus has been extensively trained on Amazon’s product catalog and information from various sources on the internet. The company has announced the launch of a new tool, which will initially be available to a select group of U.S. customers in beta. The …

Amazon One, a palm-scanning payment system, is set to expand nationwide. The retailer announced this morning that the payment tech will be in all 500+ Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market stores by year-end. Hovering a palm over a reader device activates the biometric payment system. The device then matches the customer’s …

Employees at Amazon’s cloud division, including the previous CEO of AWS, Andy Jassy, were not exempt when the company announced today that it was cutting off another 9,000 workers. According to , AWS contributed about 10% of today’s total. The business declined to corroborate such figures, citing Jassy’s memo to …

Amazon is joining the Indian government’s e-commerce program to “democratize” online shopping in South Asia and, amusingly, challenge the dominance of companies like the American retail conglomerate. Amazon said on Friday that it will join India’s non-profit Open Network for Digital Commerce, which was started by the country’s commerce ministry …

According to The New York Times, the positions will be lost in the corporate and technology divisions of the business. The company that manufactures the Alexa voice-assist tool is making cuts to its retail segment, human resources, and devices division. 10,000 employees are expected to be let go globally, while …

Even though Matter is still in its very early phases, the largest rivals in the consumer electronics industry have so far managed to work together in peace. Following its recent debut, a number of companies, including Apple, Samsung, and Google, have described their intentions to adopt the universal smart home …

What you need to know In the upcoming months, Amazon will release a software update that will enable Eero routers to use a mobile hotspot on your phone as a backup Internet connection. When your primary ISP fails, Eero Internet Backup will be helpful. When the DSL, cable, or fiber …

While Amazon is generally recognized for its Ring brand of doorbell camera home security systems, the business debuted a more mobile and significantly cuter monitoring platform, Astro, last year. The $1,500 robot (now on sale for $999) is effectively an Alexa on wheels, moving around your home like an AIBO …

We use gadgets all the time. We constantly carry around with us at least one of these devices, our smartphones, and some of us own quite a few others. The gadgets we have on us at all times are extremely useful. The Amazon Echo Spot is the perfect device to …