If you’ve wanted to beef up your home security, now is a great time with thisoffer from August. Amazon has the August Smart Lock Pro and Connect on sale for $211.50. That’s a $68 discount and the best price we’ve found for the smart home device. The Smart Lock Pro can be installed in minutes …
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After a year of feuding, Amazon and Google have finally broken the virtual trade embargo between the two companies, Amazon has announced. Starting later this year, Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Fire TV Cube will have access to YouTube via the native YouTube app, and you’ll be able to watch Amazon Prime Video on Google …
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Summer is just around the corner, and if you’re looking to get in shape, a fitness tracker can be the perfect companion to help you. Lucky for you, Amazon has the best-selling Fitbit Alta on sale for only $84.99. That’s the best price we’ve found for the top-rated activity tracker. The Fitbit Alta is made …
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While the weather’s getting nicer now and the days longer, the sun is setting on this excellent Kindle Paperwhite deal over in the Amazon sale. This £20 discount on one of our favourite ever ereaders means you can enjoy unbeatable range of ebooks for less with a temporary price-tag of just £99.99 at Amazon. Hurry …
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Success and failure often go hand in hand according to Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos who recently told shareholders that the company needs to “occasionally have multi billion-dollar failures” to ensure that it is “experimenting at the right scale” for a business of its size. In his annual letter to shareholders, Bezos reminded them of how …
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I Hear You Amazon pays thousands of workers across the globe to review audio picked up by its Echo speakers — and their behavior raises serious concerns about both privacy and safety. Bloomberg recently spoke with seven people who participated in Amazon’s audio review process. Each worker was tasked with listening to, transcribing, and annotating …
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If you’re looking for a pair of wireless headphones with top-of-the-line noise cancelation technology , then you’ve come to the right place. Right now Amazon has the Sony Noise Canceling Headphones (certified refurbished) on sale for $259.99. That’s a $100 discount and the best price we’ve seen for top-rated wireless headphones. The Sony WH1000XM3 headphones …
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Amazon employees are using their company-issued stock to pressure top brass into reducing the company’s contributions to climate change, in what may be an unprecedented effort to expand tech-worker unease to a new arena: shareholder activism. Amazon’s proxy statement, released Thursday, includes an employee-backed resolution asking the company to report publicly on how it plans …
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The US Department of Defense has revealed that Amazon and Microsoft have been chosen to continue competing for the Pentagon’s $10bn cloud computing contract. This means that Oracle and IBM are officially out of the running for the Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract that is part of the Pentagon’s broad modernization …
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Ongoing Battle The deadline has passed for Amazon and a coalition of eight governments in South America to settle a seven-year dispute over the coveted “.amazon” top-level domain. Both groups want dibs, and neither Amazon nor the countries through which the iconic river runs have agreed to various compromises, according to BBC News. Above all else, the …
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