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Your Amazon Account Might Be Getting Scammed with False Replacement Orders and You Can’t Do Anything About It

When our dear friend Mat Honan got hacked earlier this year, it was because of gaping security flaws in Apple and Amazon’s customer service systems. It hasn’t been fixed. Amazon’s customer service has another security flaw and it’s being exploited to hijack Amazon accounts and snag false replacement orders. And the scammers don’t even need…

Report: Amazon Is Possibly Maybe Building a Smartphone

Amazon just might be building a smartphone, according to the Taiwan Economic News. It claims Amazon has ordered 5 million devices and will launch the phone in the middle of 2013. This is one of those rumors that pops up every so often. It’s not very reliably sourced, so we can’t say that there’s a…

Games Workshop gets someone’s book yanked from Amazon for using the term “Space Marine”

Who owns the term “space marine”? According to Wikipedia, the term was first used in 1932 in a story called “Captain Brink of the Space Marines” by Bob Olsen — but now, Warhammer 40K owner Games Workshop is claiming to have a trademark on the longstanding term. M.C.A. Hogarth has been selling a serial called…

TNT is blowing up on Amazon. Falling Skies and The Closer will now be available on Prime Instant Streaming.

You Can Watch Amazon Instant Video on Your iPhone Now

One of the great things about Amazon Prime is it lets can stream a lot of movies and TV shows. And now you can do it through an iPhone app too. Amazon Instant Video has existed on the iPad, but the new version is totally updated for the iPhone 5’s extra bit of real estate.…

The Best Full Size Tablet

This is the year tablets stopped being a one-horse race. There are real options now, and that means making real decisions. Here’s how the top four choices compare—and which one measures up to be the best. Testing Methodology We’ve already run reviews of all of these products (except for the iPad), and a lot of…

Every Kindle Fire Is on Sale Today—If You’re a Mom

On Monday, Amazon slashed prices on its 8.9-inch Kindle Fire tablets. If you missed that sale, you’re in luck; it’s back today, and this time applies to all Kindle Fire models. Oh, except this time you’ve got to be a mom. https://gizmodo.com/amazons-got-50-off-every-8-9-inch-kindle-fire-hd-today-5967084 The sale, limited to Amazon Mom members who also have Amazon Prime, includes…

Amazon Wants to Ship You a Laborer to Install Your Purchases

Amazon is always trying out new ideas: some work, others fail. Now the retailer is testing the idea of sending laborers to your house. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-lockers-review-the-drugstore-is-your-new-mailbo-5951272 Geek Wire has spotted that Amazon is testing a service—just in the Seattle area for now—whereby a friendly guy turns up at your place to install a new TV mount…

Is Amazon’s 8.9-Inch Kindle Fire HD a Flop?

You’ve probably heard by now that Amazon’s offering fifty bucks off every 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD. But while that’s great news for you, it hints at disappointing early days for Amazon’s big-boy tablet. Is the 8.9-inch Fire HD dying on the vine? https://gizmodo.com/amazons-got-50-off-every-8-9-inch-kindle-fire-hd-today-5967084 It would seem unlikely at first; Amazon recently crowed that it had…

Amazon’s Got $50 Off Every 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD Today (If You’re Quick)

Amazon’s Deal of the Day is a belter: its already competitively priced 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD can be had for $50 less than the usual selling price. Does that mean sales have been slower than expected? Who cares! It’s cheap tabletry for you and yours. The sale applies to all of Amazon’s larger Kindle Fires…

If You Order Amazon Gift Wrap, You Might Get This Instead

Amazon lets you pay a few extra bucks to “gift wrap” an order in case it’s being sent to someone special. Say, this holiday season! What they don’t tell you is that it’s being done by a mule. Redditor thinkimasofa sprung for the extra $3.99. He was expecting this. Instead, he received this. Close enough,…

Are we at the start of a new golden age of superhero TV shows?

Eight episodes in, Arrow is officially a mega-hit, at least by The CW’s standards. And not only that, but Arrow is actually… pretty decent. The Christopher Nolan-inspired “gritty” superhero soap opera manages to be addictive fun, blending some solid action with the kind of relationship drama that makes Vampire Diaries our crack. So we have…

Amazon’s Silk Browser Can Be Hacked to Provide Free Grid Computing

Cloud computing is big business. Companies and individual users rent bandwidth from large cloud services to perform all manner of tasks, from hosting small websites to churning through large, computing-intensive tasks like modelling new drug compounds. But what if you could gain access to all that computing power for free? It turns out that you…

The 10 Most Important Tablets of 2012

The tablet market went through some huge changes in 2012. Apple finally introduced a (somewhat) more affordable iPad. Microsoft released Windows 8 and launched its own hardware. And for the first time, every major player had a tablet that was actually, you know, good. 10. LeapPad2 The original incarnation of LeapFrog’s LeapPad was great! Virtually…

Amazon’s New $3 Kid-Friendly Subscription Service

Amazon’s just launched Free Time Unlimited for its range of Kindle Fire tablets. It offers unlimited access to age-restricted movies, games and books for kids, for $3 a month. Essentially a subscription service for children, the service lets you tell Amazon your offspring’s gender and age, and then a custom library of books, movies, apps…

This Crazy Sea of Packages Is Santa’s Real Warehouse

Madness. That’s what Amazon’s warehouses are during the holiday shopping season. Take a look at these images. While I’ve seen others in the past, this angle of one of their warehouses is particularly striking. Endless sea of packages never ends! This is like the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Except nothing is…

How to Spread Your Music Across the Web

Cloud storage has transformed the way digital music collectors access their media. But with so many competing hosting services, which should you choose? How about: All of them. Here’s how to sync your music collection throughout the cloud. iTunes Apple’s supplemented its ubiquitous media management program in 2011 with iCloud, a 20,000 track music locker.…

Amazon’s Maps API is out of beta, which means developers will be adding it into plenty of new apps from now on. [Amazon]

Let’s Just Assume Amazon Has Sold, Like, Eight Kindles

There’s no doubt that Amazon sells a lot of Kindles; it’s the most popular product on a site that sells many very popular things. But we’re five years into the Kindle Age, and we still don’t have a single firm sales number to pin on them. Come on, guys! Let us quantify how impressed we…

Hot on the heels of Netflix and Hulu, Amazon has brought 140,000 movies and TV episodes to the Nintendo Wii U. [TNW]