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Eager to Host More Classified Data, Amazon Launches New ‘Secret’ Cloud Region for US Intelligence

Amid the unparalleled classified leaks, global acts of cyberwarfare, and colossal data breaches dominating the daily news cycle, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has debuted an entirely new cloud region designed specifically to host classified US government secrets. The newly dubbed “AWS Secret Region” was launched by Amazon on Monday. In a blog post, the company…

Privacy & Security Dell Cameron

The Best Bluetooth Speaker Now Works With Alexa and It’s Amazing

When you’re a gadget blogger, your friends typically have a classic, back-pocket question around the holiday season: What should I get So-and-So as a gift? My most-used answer used to be the Boom, a Bluetooth speaker made by Ultimate Ears. This year is different. This year it’s the Blast, an Alexa-powered speaker made by angels…

Adam Clark Estes

Pentagon Cache of Over 1.8 Billion Scraped Social Media Posts Left Unsecured on Amazon Server

The Pentagon accidentally left at least 1.8 billion publicly accessible posts it scraped from social media sites, forums and other web destinations unsecured on an Amazon S3 repository, where anyone with a free Amazon Web Services account could download the data, PC Mag reported. The data archive was originally found by security firm UpGuard, which…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Amazon’s Last Mile

Who delivers Amazon orders? Increasingly, it’s plainclothes contractors with few labor protections, driving their own cars, competing for shifts on the company’s own Uber-like platform. Though it’s deployed in dozens of cities and associated with one of the world’s biggest companies, government agencies and customers alike are nearly oblivious to the program’s existence. In terms…

Commerce Avery Ellis

The Original Gimli Has a Theory About Why Amazon Is Rebooting Lord of the Rings

Amazon’s quest to become the one streaming service to rule them all has led it to greenlight a rebooted Lord of the Rings series. At least one of the actors from Peter Jackson’s Tolkien films—John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli the dwarf—has some strong feelings about that. While Amazon has produced shows based on preexisting works…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Amazon’s First Whole Foods Deal for Prime Members Is a Coupon With an FAQ

When it acquired Whole Foods in August, Amazon said that Prime members would eventually get “special savings and in-store benefits” at the grocery stores, and the company just announced the first one: It’s for turkey! For Thanksgiving! A whole 20 percent off (non-organic) birds! If you’re a member of Amazon Prime, all you have to…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Amazon Employees Use Pikachu to Test Automated Grocery Store, Which Is a Weird Thing to Do

Amazon is still struggling to get its automated grocery store, Amazon Go, to function right. Who knew it would be so hard to build a brick-and-mortar store with sensors and gadgets instead of cashiers? But in a recent test of the company’s experimental Seattle store, some of Jeff Bezos’ employees got a little weird. They…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Amazon Is Reportedly Bringing Ad-Supported TV to Prime Video [Updated]

Commercial interruptions just will not die. The birth of streaming television has given us a merciful respite from the mind-numbing ad breaks that finance broadcast TV. But you can’t keep a bad thing down, and Amazon is reportedly developing an ad-supported, free version of its popular Prime video service. Citing several “executives familiar with the…

Commerce Rhett Jones

Amazon’s New Lord of The Rings Series Will Feature ‘Previously Unexplored Stories’

After weeks of reports and rumors about Amazon and Warner Bros. negotiating over the possibility of a Lord of the Rings television series, Amazon has finally announced that Frodo and the gang are definitely coming back. Today in a press release, Amazon Studios’ head of scripted series Sharon Tal Yguado expressed the company’s excitement at…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Mad Scientist Behind That Creepy, Viral, Long-Legged Bear Explains Himself

Who could possibly be behind such a nightmare creature?

Physics & Chemistry Jennings Brown

Amazon’s Echo Plus Gets Close to Giving Us the Easy Smart Home We Deserve

Despite what you may have read, the Amazon Echo was never a do-anything smart home device. Sure it could tell you about the weather and maybe control your lights, but it lacked the under-the-hood hub capabilities that could make all your connected devices work together. The new Amazon Echo Plus offers just that. I’m not…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Adam Clark Estes

Report: Amazon Is Working With Warner Bros. to Make Its Own Lord of the Rings TV Show

With Game of Thrones coming to an end soon, there’s going to be a hole in our lives for a big-budget fantasy show. Amazon apparently hopes to fill that hole with one of the biggest fantasy worlds around, with an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved series. Variety reports that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has gotten…

Television James Whitbrook

The New Kindle Oasis Is the Best Ereader of All Time, But Is It Worth It?

I’m not terribly fussy about how I read. I used an old Kindle Keyboard until a stray pen in my backpack broke its display, and I’ve long happily used a Paperwhite without so much as considering thefancier Kindles Amazon has released since I got it back in 2013. Hell, half the time I’m just reading…

Tablets Mario Aguilar

Amazon Echo Has Come a Long Way Baby

The original Amazon Echo was an ugly black tube—a speaker meant to be set back in the corner, hidden from view. It was a cheap imitation of the computer from Star Trek. The new Amazon Echo is a much prettier device. It’s not suddenly faster or smarter, and your old Echo will do the exact…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Alex Cranz

The Rumor That Amazon Will Sell Prescription Drugs Just Got Serious

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch just dropped a helluva news nugget. Citing public records, the paper reports that Amazon “has gained approval to become a wholesale distributor from a number of state pharmaceutical boards.” That might mean that Amazon wants to sell prescription drugs. Then again, it might not. These public records show that Amazon has…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Amazon Key Is Bigger Than Package Delivery

Amazon announced a new service today that will let the tech giant right inside your front door. The service, Amazon Key, is for Prime members, and comes with a kit that includes the company’s Cloud Cam security camera and a compatible smart lock. Here’s how it works: Once Amazon authorizes a delivery, the company will…

Commerce Melanie Ehrenkranz

Amazon’s Tiny New 4K Fire TV (Almost) Does It All

In recent years, set-top boxes have been shrinking down to tinier, cheaper packages with a growing list of fun new features. The new Fire TV dongle with 4K, HDR, and Dolby Atmos showcases some of the best aspects about this trend. It’s cute. It’s a thrill to use. It’s just $70. The only problem is…

Home Entertainment & Smart Home Adam Clark Estes

Florida Couple’s Amazon Delivery Came With 65 Pounds of Free, Dank-Ass Weed

Two Amazon customers who purchased 27 gallon plastic storage bins earlier this year were surprised to find their UPS delivery weighed 93.5 pounds, approximately 65 pounds of which was tightly compacted bales of marijuana. Per WFTV, the Orlando couple who had placed the Amazon order somewhat understandably deemed this precious gift unwelcome and immediately contacted…

Commerce Tom McKay

238 Thirsty Cities to Amazon: Stimulate Me, Daddy

The proposal deadline has come and gone on Amazon’s unusually public search to plant a second headquarters in one of North America’s metropolitan areas. Among other factors, Amazon’s stated “preference” for candidates cities with a population over 1 million should have whittled possible HQ2 locales down to a few dozen. Instead, the final tally of…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Puerto Rico Has Put Itself in the Running for Amazon’s HQ2

Puerto Rico, which is still in shambles after it took an infrastructure-shattering direct hit from Hurricane Maria in September, has submitted a long-shot bid to host Amazon’s second headquarters. According to Bloomberg, Economic Development and Commerce Department spokesman Ivan Caraballo Ortiz confirmed the commonwealth had proposed Amazon build its new facility at the site of…

Commerce Tom McKay

Eager to Host More Classified Data, Amazon Launches New ‘Secret’ Cloud Region for US Intelligence

The Best Bluetooth Speaker Now Works With Alexa and It’s Amazing

Pentagon Cache of Over 1.8 Billion Scraped Social Media Posts Left Unsecured on Amazon Server

Amazon’s Last Mile

The Original Gimli Has a Theory About Why Amazon Is Rebooting Lord of the Rings

Amazon’s First Whole Foods Deal for Prime Members Is a Coupon With an FAQ

Amazon Employees Use Pikachu to Test Automated Grocery Store, Which Is a Weird Thing to Do

Amazon Is Reportedly Bringing Ad-Supported TV to Prime Video [Updated]

Amazon’s New Lord of The Rings Series Will Feature ‘Previously Unexplored Stories’

The Mad Scientist Behind That Creepy, Viral, Long-Legged Bear Explains Himself

Amazon’s Echo Plus Gets Close to Giving Us the Easy Smart Home We Deserve

Report: Amazon Is Working With Warner Bros. to Make Its Own Lord of the Rings TV Show

The New Kindle Oasis Is the Best Ereader of All Time, But Is It Worth It?

Amazon Echo Has Come a Long Way Baby

The Rumor That Amazon Will Sell Prescription Drugs Just Got Serious

Amazon Key Is Bigger Than Package Delivery

Amazon’s Tiny New 4K Fire TV (Almost) Does It All

Florida Couple’s Amazon Delivery Came With 65 Pounds of Free, Dank-Ass Weed

238 Thirsty Cities to Amazon: Stimulate Me, Daddy

Puerto Rico Has Put Itself in the Running for Amazon’s HQ2

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