Amazon Pulls Books Peddling Toxic 'Autism Cures'
Amazon has pulled two books peddling pseudoscientific “autism cures” that promote giving children potentially toxic…
Report: Amazon Warehouses Called 911 for Mental Health Crises At Least 189 Times in Five Years
E-commerce giant Amazon has long been reported to be an unpleasant place to hold down a job. Article after article has…
Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Break Up Big Tech Is Just the Beginning
Breaking up the tech giants is one of the few major issues that cuts across party lines in Washington, D.C., and it…
Philadelphia Just Banned Most Cashless Stores, a First for a U.S. City
The city of Philadelphia has banned cashless stores, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, in a move that “will…
Amazon Could Get $23 Million From Arlington Just for Being Itself
In New York, Amazon’s (scrapped) plans for a Queens headquarters were ultimately received with a derisive Bronx cheer. L…
Amazon Appears to Yank Anti-Vaxxer Documentaries From Prime Video Streaming
Following an open letter from Representative Adam Schiff calling on Jeff Bezos to curb the promotion of…
Amazon May Open an Entirely New Chain of Grocery Stores: Report
Less than two years after purchasing Whole Foods Market (WFM), increasingly not-online retail giant Amazon looks to be…
RIP Amazon Dash Button—You Died as You Lived, Sort of Unnecessary
Those quirky Amazon Dash buttons will soon be dead, gone, no more. Intended to be an easy way to reorder items, Amazon…
Report: Amazon Cuomo Is Giving Jeff Bezos the Full Say Anything Treatment
Amazon may have left New York’s governor high and dry weeks ago, but Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo appears no closer to letting…
Amazon's New Plan for Fighting Counterfeit Crap Is Letting Brands Deal With It
Fake products aren’t a new headache for Amazon, but now the tech retailer is shifting its strategy on how to deal with…
The Federal Trade Commission Is Starting a New Antitrust Task Force Looking at Big Tech
The Federal Trade Commission is launching a new task force focused on the tech industry, the Wall Street Journal…
Amazon and Chase Are Still Confusingly Opaque About What They Do With Your Credit Card Data
Last month, I tried to find out what Amazon learns about people who have an Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card from…
Fake FCC Comments, Shark DNA, and the Edge of Everything: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
Hopefully your week has been better than leading New York politicians, like NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor…
Amazon Cuomo Is Mad as Hell
Andrew “Amazon” Cuomo appears to have fully embraced the anger phase of his process of grieving the loss of Amazon’s…
Amazon Air Jet Crashes in Texas, With Three on Board Believed Dead
An Atlas Air Boeing 767 cargo plane crashed in a bay near Anahuac, Texas on Saturday afternoon with three people on…
How Google, Microsoft, and Big Tech Are Automating the Climate Crisis
In a deal that made few ripples outside the energy industry, two very large but relatively obscure companies, Rockwell…
Amazon Reportedly Has Lord of the Rings Writers in a Locked Office With a Guard and Fingerprint Scanner
Amazon has a lot riding on its secretive, $250 million deal with The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate,…
Bill de Blasio Does Not Appear to Be Taking the Amazon HQ2 Breakup Well
Jeff Bezos yanked his would-be HQ2 campus this week in a show that Amazon simply couldn’t take the heat from New…
This 1920s Concept for a Drive-Through Grocery Store Completely Failed
Today, the grocery delivery battle is being waged between companies like Amazon, Walmart, Target, FreshDirect, and…