As with Amazon’s Dash scanner, hiku customers can speak or scan items they want to order, which are stored on a shopping list and matched to online...
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Humans And Machines
As Amazon applies machine learning, Alexa will learn and develop her personality to fit in my home differently from yours. Ask her, “How are you so...
Partly Cloudy Business
As the operator of the world’s biggest e-commerce site, Amazon has lots of experience running huge computer systems. In 2006 it launched its cloud as...
IoT Overload Prevented by Amazon's Kinesis Firehose
Amazon Web Services SVP Andy Jassy said that, while Kinesis was useful for helping companies store streaming data and build custom applications on...
Why Amazon Kicked Out Apple TV And Chromecast
Both Apple and Google have television on their minds: The tech titans have updated their streaming devices, the Apple TV and Chromecast. But soon,...
Amazon Cloud Business Worthing Billions
In fact, two years later and an amazing quarter later, it's equally clear that Amazon is increasingly "a computing company with books," as Quentin...
SmartThings Home Kit Launches In Amazon
SmartThings sensors hook into a main hub and are designed to tell you all sorts of things about your home, from detecting intruders or sensing if...
The New Amazon Fire TV Is Does It All
The new Fire TV includes Alexa, Amazon’s powerful voice search system. Whereas the previous version of the Fire TV let you ask very basic things –...
Why And How Startups Are Tying Into Amazon's DRS System
Having launched last spring, Amazon's Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) may be young, but it's growing up fast. In fact, it just took another big step...
Amazon’s New Fire HD 8 Adds Removable Memory And More
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs in the tablet world when removable memory is a way to lead off a review but there you have it – the Fire HD 8,...