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Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Ghost Hunting Comedy Has Dropped Its First Trailer

When Nick Frost and Simon Pegg team up, the results are usually very good. That’s one of the many reasons why we’re pumped for Truth Seekers, the latest creation from the stars of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, and Paul. Truth Seekers’ eight-episode first season will debut this fall on…

io9 Germain Lussier Jul 23

Jeff Bezos Makes $13 Billion in One Day During Pandemic

The U.S. is hanging on the precipice of economic collapse, with around 25 million Americans slated to be kicked off extended coronavirus pandemic uninsurance later this week and the White House mulling tax cuts and screw you as a replacement. But every cloud has an obscene silver lining: world’s richest man and ghoulish Amazon overlord…

Commerce Tom McKay Jul 20

Amazon’s Next Big Bet on Cashless Shopping Is a Smart Grocery Cart

Amazon opened its first cashless Go convenience store in 2018 before following that up with its first full-size cashless grocery store earlier this year. But for its next attempt to revolutionize brick-and-mortar shopping, Amazon is betting on a smart shopping cart. Amazon calls it the Dash Cart, and it’s designed to help traditional grocery stores…

Commerce Sam Rutherford Jul 14

How to Wipe Your Viewing History on Any Streaming Service

You might not want your recently watched movies and shows so readily available. Here’s how to erase your watch history.

Gadgets David Nield Jul 13

Wells Fargo Directs Employees to Delete TikTok, Citing Security Concerns

America’s fourth-largest bank, Wells Fargo, is barring the app TikTok on company devices and instructing any employees who have it currently installed to remove it immediately, citing privacy concerns. “We have identified a small number of Wells Fargo employees with corporate-owned devices who had installed the TikTok application on their device,” Wells Fargo said in…

Privacy & Security Alyse Stanley Jul 11

Amazon Prime Video Mercifully Rolls Out Individual User Profiles Similar to Netflix

Long-awaited support for individual user profiles has finally arrived on Amazon’s streaming TV service, Prime Video. This means the niche streaming interests of your partner or family members can be saved to their own profiles—meanwhile, you, reader, can continue to binge the original Unsolved Mysteries at your own uninterrupted pace. An Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo…

Tech News Catie Keck Jul 7

Tax Amazon’s Successor Passed Seattle’s City Council, and You Can Already Guess What It Does

Unemployment in the US is still over 11%, and yet during this economic crisis, Jeff Bezos has added an astonishing $56.7 billion to his already colossal fortune. If ever there was a time to redistribute some of that wealth, it’s now, and it seems that experiment in equity will begin in Seattle. The Tax Amazon…

Commerce Avery Ellis Jul 6

Amazon May Have to Share Its Algorithm If India’s New Ecommerce Policy Passes

I think we can all agree that the chokehold that Amazon wields over the ecommerce landscape is, quite frankly, a pain in the ass. It’s a pain in the ass for the millions of third-party sellers at the mercy of its platform. It’s a pain in the ass for the lawmakers who’ve spent the past…

Commerce Shoshana Wodinsky Jul 6

New Zealand Authorizes Several Film and TV Productions to Start Up, Including Lord of the Rings and Cowboy Bebop

New Zealand is handling covid-19 better than most, with ongoing cases in the country down to a handful. That makes it a promising place to resume production on all those TV shows and movies we love, and the country has recently authorized a handful of productions to resume or begin inside the country’s borders. As…

io9 Julie Muncy Jul 4

Somehow Crucible Is Not the Biggest Amazon Screw Up, But It’s Trying

A month after Amazon released its flagship third-person shooter/MOBA/battle royal/what the heck even is this game, Crucible, the company has unreleased it due to copious amounts of negative feedback. “Starting tomorrow, Crucible is moving to closed beta,” said the Crucible team in a blog this morning. All current players will automatically be included in the…

Commerce Joanna Nelius Jun 30

It’s Not a Bonus, and It’s Less Than You Deserve

In a blog post today, Amazon announced it would be distributing “a special one-time Thank You bonus” to its workers, the largest sums of which would go to non-hourly managers. Let’s begin by stating the obvious: Labor has value That value is, for most workers, compensated with money Because of covid-19, the value of essential…

Commerce Avery Ellis Jun 29

18 Names for Amazon’s ‘Climate Pledge Arena’ That Would’ve Made More Sense

So we’re really doing this, huh? Seattle is getting a hockey team, which is great (now bring back the Sonics, you monsters). While the team doesn’t have a name yet, the arena they’ll be playing in next season does. Because Seattle is a company town, Amazon of course bought the naming rights. And it decided…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jun 26

Whole Foods Bottled Water Found to Contain Potentially Dangerous Levels of Arsenic

A recent investigation into arsenic contamination levels in bottled water has found that a brand sold by Whole Foods—and, by extension, on Amazon—contains high levels of the toxic metal, butting up against the federal cap for maximum contamination. And not everyone agrees that the federal cap is safe enough. A new Consumer Reports investigation found…

Tech News Catie Keck Jun 24

Amazon’s Prime Video Is Looking to Buy Its Way Into the Live TV Market

Amazon is “actively pursuing” deals to turn its Prime Video streaming service into something more like Prime TV, an industry source told Protocol on Tuesday. This is backed up by several job listings focused on the project. Adding live and streaming options would immediately distinguish Prime Video from competitors like Netflix and Disney+ that only…

Commerce Tom McKay Jun 23

The Danger of Amazon’s $2 Billion Climate Fund

On Tuesday, Amazon rolled out a shiny new addition to its flawed climate plan: a $2 billion venture investment fund for low- and no-carbon technology. It is instantly one of, if not the, biggest climate venture funds out there. But it also shows a fatal flaw that runs through Amazon’s—and capital in general’s—thinking about climate.…

Earther Brian Kahn Jun 23

Goodbye Useless Amazon Dash Wand, May You Rest Peacefully in Eternal Obscurity

In an email, Amazon notified Dash Wand owners that it’s ending support for the device as of July 21. What’s that you say? You’ve never heard of the Dash Wand? Well, that’s hardly surprising. The first iteration of the gadget was introduced back in ye olde days of 2014. It was a lil wand thing…

Commerce Victoria Song Jun 22

Amazon Fire OS vs Android: What You’ll Miss With an Amazon Device

Pick up a Fire TV device or an Amazon Fire tablet, and the on-board operating system is only loosely based on Android: You’re actually dealing with a modified OS, cut off from Google’s apps and services, but it’s not particularly clear exactly what that means for your choice of apps and options. Allow us to…

Gadgets David Nield Jun 19

U.S. Lawmaker Calls Out Amazon’s ‘Performative’ Support of Black Lives Matter

Last week, Amazon made a terse announcement that it would institute a “one-year moratorium on police use of Amazon’s facial recognition technology,” known as Rekognition, in response to the wave of global protests against police brutality spurred by the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At least one lawmaker is unsatisfied by the company’s…

Commerce Avery Ellis Jun 17

Amazon Introduces Social Distance Software at Warehouses, but That Won’t Fix Its Coronavirus Problem

Amazon is debuting a new software that will send its warehouse employees real-time visual cues about their physical proximity to other workers, one of the company’s latest initiatives in response to covid-19—a problem the company has been struggling to address in its facilities. Called Distance Assistant, the system will be deployed in high-visibility areas and…

Tech News Catie Keck Jun 16

Amazon’s Reportedly Fielding Probes From California, Washington State Over Trade Practices

Officials in California and Washington State are investigating Amazon’s business practices with a focus on whether the tech giant abuses its power over third-party sellers on its online marketplace, according to reports from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Amazon’s been facing increasing antitrust scrutiny from both the U.S. and abroad over…

Commerce Alyse Stanley Jun 12

Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s Ghost Hunting Comedy Has Dropped Its First Trailer

Jeff Bezos Makes $13 Billion in One Day During Pandemic

Amazon’s Next Big Bet on Cashless Shopping Is a Smart Grocery Cart

How to Wipe Your Viewing History on Any Streaming Service

Wells Fargo Directs Employees to Delete TikTok, Citing Security Concerns

Amazon Prime Video Mercifully Rolls Out Individual User Profiles Similar to Netflix

Tax Amazon’s Successor Passed Seattle’s City Council, and You Can Already Guess What It Does

Amazon May Have to Share Its Algorithm If India’s New Ecommerce Policy Passes

New Zealand Authorizes Several Film and TV Productions to Start Up, Including Lord of the Rings and Cowboy Bebop

Somehow Crucible Is Not the Biggest Amazon Screw Up, But It’s Trying

It’s Not a Bonus, and It’s Less Than You Deserve

18 Names for Amazon’s ‘Climate Pledge Arena’ That Would’ve Made More Sense

Whole Foods Bottled Water Found to Contain Potentially Dangerous Levels of Arsenic

Amazon’s Prime Video Is Looking to Buy Its Way Into the Live TV Market

The Danger of Amazon’s $2 Billion Climate Fund

Goodbye Useless Amazon Dash Wand, May You Rest Peacefully in Eternal Obscurity

Amazon Fire OS vs Android: What You’ll Miss With an Amazon Device

U.S. Lawmaker Calls Out Amazon’s ‘Performative’ Support of Black Lives Matter

Amazon Introduces Social Distance Software at Warehouses, but That Won’t Fix Its Coronavirus Problem

Amazon’s Reportedly Fielding Probes From California, Washington State Over Trade Practices

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AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job

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Judge Kills Lawsuit Against Infamous Study That Might Have Increased Teen Suicides

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