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Amazon Is Building a New Tech Hub Inside an Old Post Office

In another stunning display of its might, Amazon will be transforming an old post office building into a new Amazon office building. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just announced that the Seattle-based online retailer will open a new tech hub on the site of a historic Canada Post building in Vancouver. The massive expansion is…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Avengers: Infinity War, AMD vs. Intel, and Killer Animals: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

With winter fading into the distance, Avengers: Infinity War now in theaters, and the truth about Amazon’s logo finally out in the open, we can take a big breath of fresh air and remember what makes us excited about life in the first place. But we’ll probably just endlessly scroll through Twitter until we feel…

Tech News Andrew Couts

Is the Amazon Logo a Penis?

Amazon has been using its current logo for 18 years. The online retailer started using the logo in June 2000, shortly after it expanded beyond selling books. The logo shows the company’s name, with an arrow that points from the “A” to the “Z” in the name. The design is supposed to convey that it…

Commerce Jennings Brown

Amazon Prime Is About to Get More Expensive

On an earnings call this afternoon, Amazon’s chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky dropped an unexpected bit of information: The price of Amazon Prime is increasing to $119. Prime, which gives customers of the ecommerce giant a variety of perks in addition to free shipping, hasn’t changed its annual price from its current $99 rate in…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon and Tesla Facilities Named Among the Most Dangerous Workplaces in America [Updated]

On Wednesday, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) released a report singling out 12 companies that most put their workers at risk, and Amazon and Tesla both made the list. “Every day there are workers who don’t come home to their families because of tragedies we know could have been prevented,”…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz

Amazon Sued by Former Human Resources Administrator for Alleged ‘Unlawful Employment Practices’

Amazon Logistics acted discriminatorily and unlawfully fired a former senior human resources administrator, a suit filed in Florida’s Southern District Court alleges. The HR staffer, Jorge Mejia, started performing HR duties for Amazon Logistics in late 2014, working a “flexible” schedule. But nearly three years later, when Mejia claims all other senior HR admins would…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon’s Echo for Kids Is a Dot With a Case, Cuter Responses, and Parental Controls

The age of digital assistants is already here, and with them, we have easy-to-use disembodied voices that attempt to answer our every beck and call. However, sometimes those answers aren’t exactly things you’d want a child to hear (Warning: NSFW audio), so Amazon went and created a version of Alexa specifically meant for kids. Starting…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

Amazon Wants to Shove Packages in Your Car’s Trunk Now, Too

It seems that in Amazon’s never-ending quest to get you to buy more stuff, there’s nothing the company won’t try to make taking delivery of said items a tiny bit easier. Last year, it started with Amazon Key, a program that lets Amazon couriers unlock your door so they can deliver packages inside your house.…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

Amazon and Netflix Are Suing a Shady Streaming Service for $150,000 Per Copyright Violation

Amazon, Netflix, and several major Hollywood studios are all suing Set TV, a seemingly too-good-to-be-true streaming service that offers 500 channels for $20 per month. The copyright suit seeks $150,000 per work infringed, and it sure looks like they have a case against the cord-cutting company. TorrentFreak reports that the lawsuit for mass infringement of…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Amazon’s Rumored Home Robot Basically Sounds Like an Echo With Wheels

In case you thought the Echo in your living room laughing maniacally out of nowhere wasn’t creepy enough, just imagine what it would be like if it followed you around. A Bloomberg report suggests that Amazon is working on an actual home robot that will wander around your abode, navigating obstacles and ostensibly following your…

Commerce Patrick Lucas Austin

Westworld Returns, Amazon’s Food Stamp Problem, and DOJ Porn: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

This world is not what it seems. Lurking beneath the sloppy mess and noise of our interconnected world lies something deeper, something secret—a maze of everlasting mysteries one can only hope to solve in this lifetime. Either that or it’s all just really, really dumb. If only we had a sign… DOJ’s Amber Alert Website…

Tech News Andrew Couts

Ewan McGregor and Christina Aguilera’s Zoe Will Be Coming Later This Year Via Amazon

Zoe, a trippy scifi romance starring Ewan McGregor and Christina Aguilera, will be picked up by Amazon for distribution later this year after its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film, which stars McGregor and Léa Seydoux as researchers at a facility responsible for technology used for the purpose of matchmaking—purported to turn romance…

io9 Julie Muncy

James Comey Scheduled to Speak at Amazon Employee Event on Monday

Former FBI director James Comey is scheduled to speak at Amazon headquarters in Seattle on Monday. And so far, President Trump hasn’t tweeted about it. That will probably change once Fox News gets the memo. First reported by The Intercept, Comey is scheduled to speak at 10am PT as part of a “fish bowl” event…

Commerce Matt Novak

Tech Workers Ask Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon to Not Pursue Pentagon Contracts

Google employees have spent the past few months pushing back against their company’s involvement in Project Maven, a Department of Defense initiative to enhance image processing of drone footage using artificial intelligence. As Gizmodo first reported, Google is contracted with the DoD to provide artificial intelligence for Project Maven—a decision that many employees opposed because…

Privacy & Security Kate Conger

A Worrying Number of Amazon’s Warehouse Workers Are Reportedly Living Off Food Stamps

Amazon bills itself as a creator of jobs. Look no further than the ludicrous subsidy packages offered by cities in competition to host its second headquarters. But according to public records requests obtained by the Intercept, Amazon can drain public coffers in other ways, with five states listing Bezos’s empire as a top beneficiary of…

Tech News Avery Ellis

The Creators of Westworld Head to Amazon With New Scifi Series The Peripheral

Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan can’t get enough of killer games and multiple timelines. The pair will create a show for Amazon called The Peripheral, based on acclaimed author William Gibson’s popular cyberpunk murder-mystery novel that doesn’t stick to just one reality. And it has evil ’bots, too. According to The Hollywood Reporter,…

Television Beth Elderkin

Supreme Court Set to Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case

On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could at least somewhat clarify Donald Trump’s complaints about Amazon “not paying internet taxes.” It will also decide if those cheap deals on NewEgg are going to be less of a steal. The case concerns the state of South Dakota versus online…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Report: Amazon’s British Warehouse Workers ‘Peed in Bottles’ to Avoid Punishment for Lost Time [Updated]

According to troubling new allegations, workers in Amazon’s UK warehouses pee in bottles to avoid being penalized for taking bathroom breaks. The claims come from author and investigator Jared Bloodworth, who says he worked undercover as a warehouse worker for six months while writing a new book about low-wage work in the UK. “For those…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Trump, Clearly Still Obsessed With Amazon, Creates Post Office Task Force

Donald Trump signed an executive order last night seeking a review of the United States Postal Service’s business practices—something other government agencies have already done—in what is widely understood to be part of the president’s continued attacks on Amazon. The review body, as outlined, would be headed by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and will have…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon Shows Off Its Updated Take on The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle in a New Trailer

The goofy animal friends created by animation legend Jay Ward are getting re-imagined yet again, this time in a new series premiering next month on Amazon Prime. Moose and Squirrel will be fighting shady bad guys Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale in the all-new The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. A new trailer shows off…

Television Evan Narcisse

Amazon Is Building a New Tech Hub Inside an Old Post Office

Avengers: Infinity War, AMD vs. Intel, and Killer Animals: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Is the Amazon Logo a Penis?

Amazon Prime Is About to Get More Expensive

Amazon and Tesla Facilities Named Among the Most Dangerous Workplaces in America [Updated]

Amazon Sued by Former Human Resources Administrator for Alleged ‘Unlawful Employment Practices’

Amazon’s Echo for Kids Is a Dot With a Case, Cuter Responses, and Parental Controls

Amazon Wants to Shove Packages in Your Car’s Trunk Now, Too

Amazon and Netflix Are Suing a Shady Streaming Service for $150,000 Per Copyright Violation

Amazon’s Rumored Home Robot Basically Sounds Like an Echo With Wheels

Westworld Returns, Amazon’s Food Stamp Problem, and DOJ Porn: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Ewan McGregor and Christina Aguilera’s Zoe Will Be Coming Later This Year Via Amazon

James Comey Scheduled to Speak at Amazon Employee Event on Monday

Tech Workers Ask Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon to Not Pursue Pentagon Contracts

A Worrying Number of Amazon’s Warehouse Workers Are Reportedly Living Off Food Stamps

The Creators of Westworld Head to Amazon With New Scifi Series The Peripheral

Supreme Court Set to Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case

Report: Amazon’s British Warehouse Workers ‘Peed in Bottles’ to Avoid Punishment for Lost Time [Updated]

Trump, Clearly Still Obsessed With Amazon, Creates Post Office Task Force

Amazon Shows Off Its Updated Take on The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle in a New Trailer

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