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Amazon Found to Be Selling Loads of Expired and Inedible Food

The everything store appears to have a serious expired foods problem. A lengthy report from CNBC, in partnership with data analytics firm 3PM, published Sunday found that Amazon is “littered” with listings for consumer products that are far past their sell-by dates. According to the report, the system is creating products not only for consumers…

Commerce Catie Keck

Amazon to Seattle: Nice City Council You’ve Got There

Seattle, like most metro regions in this country, has an elected city council. Of its nine seats, seven are up for grabs this November. I’ll give you exactly one guess as to where the race’s single largest contribution is coming from, with the caveat that any guess other than “Amazon” is incorrect. Yes, the very…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Human Employees Are Viewing Clips from Amazon’s Home Surveillance Service

Recordings from yet another Amazon-owned smart home device are being reviewed by a team of human workers, again raising concerns that audio and video captured by such devices may not be as private as some customers might assume. Citing sources familiar with the program, Bloomberg reported Thursday that “dozens” of workers for the e-commerce giant…

Commerce Catie Keck

German Synagogue Shooting Was Livestreamed on Amazon’s Twitch

A shooting at a synagogue in Halle, Germany, on Wednesday during Yom Kippur was livestreamed on Twitch. Twitch confirmed to CNBC that the attack, in which two people were killed, was streamed on its platform. The Amazon-owned company is primarily used by gamers who livestream their gameplay and communicate with viewers. “We are shocked and…

Commerce Jennings Brown

The New Fire HD 10 Is Amazon’s First Gadget with USB-C

To date, every Kindle Amazon has ever made featured a micro USB port. The same goes for all of Amazon’s Fire tablets. But all that is about to change with the new Fire HD 10 tablet, Amazon’s first homegrown gadget with USB-C. The new Fire HD 10 is an update to Amazon’s previous 10-inch tablet,…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

Jeff Bezos: How About Just Letting Amazon Draft Any Possible Facial Recognition Laws?

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, is hoping that Congress will take him up on the offer to just let him write any potential facial recognition laws that could interfere with the rollout of Amazon’s Rekognition tech, Recode reported on Wednesday. According to Recode, Bezos dropped news that Amazon’s “public policy…

Commerce Tom McKay

Every Single Piece of Hardware Amazon Announced Today

More Alexa, anyone? Amazon’s September hardware event returned this year to bring us spanking-new devices, with Alexa-enabled features front and center, shocking. The event, which Amazon live-blogged but did not stream, kicked off as it did last year with a presentation from David Limp, Amazon’s senior vice president of devices. He teased out some of…

Commerce Catie Keck

All the Ways That Amazon Is Fixing Alexa

Amazon announced a bunch of new stuff at a big event in Seattle today. Chief among them are a volley of new features and improved functionalities for Alexa. Some of them are pretty neat. One of them involves Samuel L. Jackson. Alexa is a little more private Amazon addressed privacy concerns with Alexa and Echo…

Commerce Adam Clark Estes

Leaker Claims Alexa-Powered Earbuds Are Amazon’s Next Big Device

Amazon has a product launch scheduled for later this week on Wednesday, and alongside a bunch of updated Echo speakers, recent leaks claim Amazon’s next big tech push could come in the form of Alexa-powered wireless earbuds. Based on info from a source who spoke to CNBC, the rumored earbuds are codenamed “Puget” and are…

Commerce Sam Rutherford

Amazon Reportedly Changed Its Algorithm to Favor Most Profitable Products, Including Its Own

Despite internal opposition, Amazon has changed its search algorithms to prioritize listings that translate into bigger profits for the company—including its own private label goods, according to a Wall Street Journal exclusive. Citing sources from Amazon’s A9 search team and the company’s lawyers, the WSJ report claims Amazon tweaked the search algorithm from showing the…

Commerce Victoria Song

Amazon-Owned Whole Foods Slashes Health Care Benefits for Part-Time Workers

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is slashing benefits for 1,900 part-time workers at the start of 2020, with staff working 20 hours a week told the bar to buy into the company health care plan will now be set at 30 hours a week, Business Insider reported this week. The changes won’t affect full-time employees, according to…

Commerce Tom McKay

Soon, Alexa Might Be as Dumb as Your Neighborhood Troll

The next time you ask Alexa a question, the answer could come from some rando with an internet connection. Amazon is publicly launching its Alexa Answers program, a way for the company to crowdsource answers for questions Alexa doesn’t have a response for. Alexa Answers was initially introduced in December to a small invite-only beta…

Commerce Victoria Song

Margaret Atwood Fans Rejoice as Amazon Completely Screws Other Retailers

Amazon, the biggest book vendor in the United States, recently started shipping preorders of Margaret Atwood’s book Testaments. The problem, notably, is that Atwood’s book is not supposed to launch until Tuesday, September 10. Amazon is violating the embargo that all sellers of the book have agreed to. And its indie bookselling rivals are pissed.…

Commerce Alex Cranz

Report: Amazon Really Wants to Scan Your Soft, Soft Hands

Amazon is “quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase” with the aim of rolling it out at retail locations, specifically its subsidiary Whole Foods, per a Tuesday report in the New York Post. According to the Post, Amazon’s system (code-named Orville, presumably not…

Commerce Tom McKay

Just How Bad is Amazon’s Banned Products Problem?

The average American purportedly has more trust in Amazon than their own government, which makes recent reports on thousands of potentially unsafe products making their way onto the company’s online marketplace particularly terrifying. More than 4,100 products available on the site—everything from motorcycle helmets to children’s toys—were “declared unsafe by federal agencies, are deceptively labeled…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Amazon Search Results for ‘Suicide’ Will Now Include a Helpline Instead of Nooses

After searches for “suicide” on Amazon brought up a number of items to aid in causing a customer’s own death, the tech giant pledged to add helpline information to the pages of certain products. Reuters reported on Thursday that search results on Amazon’s U.S. and India marketplace pulled up harmful products. Searching for “suicide” on…

Commerce Melanie Ehrenkranz

Amazon Really Filled Its Diaper Trying to Build HQ2 in New York

Amazon, a trillion-dollar firm that employs some of the brightest minds in engineering and logistics and has the power to upend entire industries just by announcing its possible encroachment into them, just wants to be liked. And like any well-adjusted people-pleaser, it keeps copious notes on the haters who just can’t stand to see it…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon Echoes Walmart’s Claims That Tesla Solar Panels Sparked Rooftop Fire

Yeesh. This has not been a good news week for Tesla subsidiary SolarCity. It seems Walmart isn’t the only one claiming that the flagging renewable energy company’s solar panels caught fire; according to a new Bloomberg report, Amazon had a similarly incendiary incident happen in 2018. A Tesla spokesperson later confirmed to Gizmodo that there…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Amazon Promises to Stop Taking Delivery Drivers’ Tips in DoorDash-Style Scheme [Updated]

As we collectively await word from DoorDash that it’s finally made good on a promise to overhaul its tip-skimming operation, Amazon—which had a similar pay model in place for its Flex workers—has decided maybe that wasn’t such a great idea after all. The Los Angeles Times first reported the news Thursday, citing an email circulated…

Commerce Catie Keck

Study on Amazon and Fake CDs Makes Sweeping Claims After Testing Fewer Than 100 Albums

It’s no secret that Amazon struggles to keep fake products off its online marketplace, and it has for a while now. So when a new study made headlines this week for supposedly finding that a quarter of CDs “Fulfilled by Amazon” are knock-offs, it wasn’t exactly a shocker. But this alarming statistic becomes decidedly less…

Commerce Alyse Stanley

Amazon Found to Be Selling Loads of Expired and Inedible Food

Amazon to Seattle: Nice City Council You’ve Got There

Human Employees Are Viewing Clips from Amazon’s Home Surveillance Service

German Synagogue Shooting Was Livestreamed on Amazon’s Twitch

The New Fire HD 10 Is Amazon’s First Gadget with USB-C

Jeff Bezos: How About Just Letting Amazon Draft Any Possible Facial Recognition Laws?

Every Single Piece of Hardware Amazon Announced Today

All the Ways That Amazon Is Fixing Alexa

Leaker Claims Alexa-Powered Earbuds Are Amazon’s Next Big Device

Amazon Reportedly Changed Its Algorithm to Favor Most Profitable Products, Including Its Own

Amazon-Owned Whole Foods Slashes Health Care Benefits for Part-Time Workers

Soon, Alexa Might Be as Dumb as Your Neighborhood Troll

Margaret Atwood Fans Rejoice as Amazon Completely Screws Other Retailers

Report: Amazon Really Wants to Scan Your Soft, Soft Hands

Just How Bad is Amazon’s Banned Products Problem?

Amazon Search Results for ‘Suicide’ Will Now Include a Helpline Instead of Nooses

Amazon Really Filled Its Diaper Trying to Build HQ2 in New York

Amazon Echoes Walmart’s Claims That Tesla Solar Panels Sparked Rooftop Fire

Amazon Promises to Stop Taking Delivery Drivers’ Tips in DoorDash-Style Scheme [Updated]

Study on Amazon and Fake CDs Makes Sweeping Claims After Testing Fewer Than 100 Albums

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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