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These 10 Amazon Alexa skills are more weird than useful
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is a lot of different things at once. To some people, it’s a useful tool that makes daily household life significantly more convenient.
To others, it’s a bit invasive and creepy to have something listening to all …
How Amazon and Walmart are putting robots to work behind the scenes
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week Brian Heater, fresh off a trip to Pittsburgh to visit a handful of robotics companies, led a discussion about the current state of robotics and how startups are integrating the machines […]
View More How Amazon and Walmart are putting robots to work behind the scenesAmify raises its first venture round on a promise: to boost revenue for third party sellers on Amazon
Small businesses have a complicated relationship with Amazon . While they fear the company because they have no control over it, Amazon’s platform is also a great way to reach shoppers, particularly small businesses that rise to the top of its results pages. Amify, a nine-year-old, Alexandria, Va.-based company, says it can get them there, […]
View More Amify raises its first venture round on a promise: to boost revenue for third party sellers on AmazonTC Sessions: Mobility, a one-day session event on the future of transportation
The way people and packages move from Point A to Point B is in the midst of a remarkable transformation driven by technological innovations in AI, robotics, electric battery development, digital platforms and manufacturing. A mobility revolution is in the making. And TechCrunch is here — and we’re not just along for the ride. We’re […]
View More TC Sessions: Mobility, a one-day session event on the future of transportationAmazon Pay inks Worldpay integration as it branches out in the wider world of e-commerce
Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce marketplaces in countries like the US, but today it’s announcing a deal that it hopes will be a start its plan to have that same kind of ubiquity outside of its walled garden. The company has inked a deal with Worldpay for the latter to become […]
View More Amazon Pay inks Worldpay integration as it branches out in the wider world of e-commerceAmazon updates the $90 Kindle with a front light
Cost has always been a big part of the Kindle line’s appeal at the low end. Amazon’s very good at undercutting the competition, while still managing to provide a workhorse e-reader in the process. Of course, paying $90 for the device comes with a number of cut corners, not the least of which has been […]
View More Amazon updates the $90 Kindle with a front lightMedia fragmentation is annoying consumers
Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications division published its 13th-annual Digital Media Trends survey, focused on identifying changes in the ways US consumers engage with various types of media. Led by an independent research firm, the survey had roughly 2,000 consumer respondents across demographics – with the report categorizing respondents based on age (Gen-Z: ages 14-21, […]
View More Media fragmentation is annoying consumersIn big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentive
Yung Wu Contributor Yung Wu is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a Toronto-based innovation hub. More posts by this contributor To actually change the world, Big Tech needs to grow up The cancellation of Amazon’s planned expansion in New York exposes the truth about its HQ2 promises. In the end, the company seemed mainly […]
View More In big tech’s future expansion plans, public good should be the corporate incentiveAmazon is offering £5 off selected orders of £25 or more for one day only
We’ve all seen those acceptance speeches, where the grateful winner reads through a lengthy list of friends and family, thanking them all for their help. Well Amazon.co.uk has just won an award in the 2019 UK Retail Week Consumer Choice survey, and we are all being thanked for our votes.
Amazon has been named as the UK’s favourite retailer at the Retail Week Awards, winning the prize for the third year running. To say thank you to customers, Amazon is offering £5 off selected orders of £25 or more placed on March 19. You can redeem this offer by entering the promo code BIGTHANKS at the checkout. Read more…
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View More Amazon is offering £5 off selected orders of £25 or more for one day onlyNvidia’s T4 GPUs are coming to the AWS cloud
In the coming weeks, AWS is launching new G4 instances with support for Nvidia’s T4 Tensor Core GPUs, the company today announced at Nvidia’s GTC conference. The T4, which is based on Nvidia’s Turing architecture, was specifically optimized for running AI models. The T4 will be supported by the EC2 compute service and the Amazon […]
View More Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are coming to the AWS cloudThese are the robots that help you get your Amazon packages on time
Months before the hard-fought battle for its second global headquarters in Queens, Amazon planted a massive, 855,000-square-foot flag in Staten Island. The $100 million JFK8 fulfillment center opened last fall, after an “on the spot” hiring spree, aimed at employing an eventual 2,250 people. The new factory smell still permeated the air when we visited […]
View More These are the robots that help you get your Amazon packages on time