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I Just Bought My First CD Since 2006 and You Should Too

Hello. I’m a 33-year old father of two, and I just bought a Taylor Swift CD on Amazon. Let me explain the CD part. I realize that for many of you the act of buying an album—instead of streaming subscriptions or torrents—is borderline unfathomable. Much less an album in compact disc form. That’s fair! But…

A Gold Moto 360 Just Appeared (and Disappeared) on Amazon

A couple weeks back, we reported on the curious disappearance of a Gold Moto 360 on one of Motorola’s promotional material. Now, that disappearing act has reached its natural conclusion: With the blinged-out wearable briefly reappearing on Amazon. This new model appeared right alongside the upcoming metal watchbands that will be available for the smartwatch.…

Last Chance to Preorder Amazon’s Chromecast Competitor for $19

In case you somehow missed it yesterday, today’s your last full day to preorder Amazon’s Fire TV stick for $19, or $20 off MSRP. You’ll still need to be a Prime member to get the deal, but you can sign up for a free trial if that isn’t in the cards. In terms of sheer…

Fire TV Stick vs Chromecast vs Roku Stick: Streaming Dongle Showdown

Amazon just announced the Fire TV stick, a cheap streaming media dongle, which looks a lot like Google’s Chromecast, and the Roku streaming stick. But there some important differences that might make each device slightly better suited to different people. We’ll have a full review of the Fire TV stick soon; you can check out…

Amazon’s New Chromecast Competitor Is Just $20 Until Wednesday

Amazon just announced its very own (crazy cheap) $40 Chromecast competitor, the Fire TV Stick. And if you’re an Amazon Prime member, you have until Wednesday to pick one up for a mere $19. More specifically, Prime members have 40 hours—or until 9am ET on Wednesday—to pick up what’s actually a pretty sweet deal, considering…

Amazon’s Fire TV just got some new apps and games, most notably good-Amazon-Prime-Music-alternative Spotify, and season two of Telltale’s fantastic Walking Dead game series.

Report: Simon & Schuster and Amazon Just Made Nice

Amazon and publishing house Simon & Schuster have reached a multi-year deal, sources told Business Insider. This means the tides could be turning in favor of Amazon in its battle against publishers. And that means you’ll likely see cheaper Simon & Schuster books on Amazon soon, though whether or not that’ll be good for the…

Amazon Fresh is now delivering groceries in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It’s the first time the service has popped up on the east coast.

Amazon Is Opening Pop-Up Stores in San Francisco and Sacramento, Too

Perhaps not content with its first physical store in Manhattan, Amazon has confirmed that it’s also opening pop-up stores in San Francisco and Sacremento in time for the holidays, too. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-opening-a-brick-and-mortar-store-in-manhattan-1644425412 The retailer will open its San Francisco store in Westfield San Francisco Centre, a mall located in the heart of downtown San Francisco on…

WSJ: Amazon Is Opening a Brick-and-Mortar Store in Manhattan

Amazon, the cyber store that sells everything, plans to open its first physical store at 7 W 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan just in time for the holiday season. The experimental store will work as a mini-warehouse for some same day deliveries in New York. It’ll surely serve as a nice little billboard, too. The…

Transparent, the first truly good Amazon original series, just got renewed for a second season. The series chronicles Jeffrey Tambor’s late-in-life gender transition, and it is excellent. [h/t @KateAurthur]

New Kindle Fires Might Get the Washington Post For Free

Ever since Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plucked up the Washington Post, we’ve wondered how he would merge it into his personal empire. And here we have it: The Post is launching a magazine-style app that will come preloaded on new Kindle Fires, according toBloomberg Businessweek. Sources tell Bloomberg that the Post app will be free…

Amazon Sells the Most Vinyl Records, Not Urban Outfitters

Urban Outfitters is a poseur. In recent weeks, the claim that the trendy chain sells the most vinyl of any other retailer has been repeated over and over and over again. It is a lie, according to Billboard, because it’s actually Amazon dot com that sells the most vinyl. The false claim reportedly first came…

Transparent: Another Reason Amazon Prime Is the Best

Lately, Amazon’s been doing whatever it can to get you to sign up for Amazon Prime, which we’ve long said is one of the best tech deals around. If you still needed an excuse to sign up, here’s a very good one: Amazon’s new original series Transparent, which I happily binge-watched all weekend. I’m not…

What Bad Movies Have You Streamed Online That You Secretly Love?

We spend a lot of time talking about all the great films that are always a quick click away on our particular streaming platform of choice—and rightfully so. Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime do an admirable job of curating a rotating cast of blockbusters, art house sweethearts and critic-praising cinema. But to be honest, I…

A Map of Amazon’s Empire of Warehouses and Shipping Centers

Over the past decade Amazon has developed an incredible infrastructure of warehouses and fulfillment centers dedicated to delivering your toilet paper and books within hours. For customers, these spaces are invisible, rarely thought about or even seen. But a new map reveals exactly where they are—and how quickly they’re springing up. The map was compiled…

The Amazon Fresh same-day grocery delivery service is finally reportedly coming to New York City—perhaps as early as October. To handle logistics, Re/Code’s sources say that Amazon’s been prepping a warehouse in New Jersey that could also serve the Philadelphia market. We saw this one comingbut it’s still exciting for New Yorkers!

Report: Amazon Wants Your Smart Home To Know What You Need Before You Do

Despite having almost a quarter of a billion active users, Amazon is struggling to find a footing for its hardware in peoples’ homes. You might have ten old Amazon boxes lying around—but did any of them contain a Fire phone? A new report from Reuters details how Jeff Bezos plans to change that by doubling…

AT&T’s $40 Internet, HBO and Amazon Prime Plan Is One Hell of a Deal

In the quest to entice us into their cord-tethered grasps, cable companies will come up with anything to win us over. But AT&T might have struck upon the first truly innovative deal: Broadband, plus HBO, and a year’s subscription to Amazon Prime. For only $39 per month. The closest one might come to such a…

Kindle Voyage: This Is What a $200 E-Reader Looks Like (It’s Gorgeous)

It’s been a few years since e-ink Kindles took a big step forward. 2012’s Kindle Paperwhite was the last big splash. But now Amazon’s got a new, beautiful, premium e-reader for you to read words off of. This is the Kindle Voyage. The first thing to note about the Kindle Voyage is the design. Unlike…