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Is Amazon selling facial recognition software to ICE? Exec fields tough questions at NY hearing

An Amazon executive did little to quell suspicion that the company sells its facial recognition software to federal immigration authorities… Read More

NYC Council grills Amazon over HQ2: ‘You’re worth $1 trillion. Why do you need our $3 billion?’

Amazon got a healthy dose of New York brashness Wednesday as city councilmembers grilled company executives and their economic development… Read More

Robotics manufacturing firm Bright Machines expands to Seattle, hires senior Amazon engineering leader

San Francisco-based Bright Machines is coming to Seattle. The maker of software and robotics systems for manufacturing plans to open… Read More

New compact Amazon Go store opens the door for locations in office lobbies, hospitals and more

Amazon showed off the newest location of its cashier-less Amazon Go concept for the first time Wednesday, but this store… Read More

Amazon Web Services reveals a public road map for its cloud container services

In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built… Read More

Photos and documents reveal Amazon’s future Queens home and how New York lured the company

Talent, real estate, accessibility, and killer views of the Manhattan skyline. Those are just some of the selling points New… Read More

Amid reports of abandoned projects, Amazon says it’s still ‘excited’ about physical bookstores

Amazon Books was the tech giant’s first take on brick-and-mortar retail, starting in Seattle in 2015 and setting off a… Read More

Amazon reportedly taking action against global staff over leaked or sold third-party seller data

The alleged leaking or selling of inside information about Amazon third-party merchants by Amazon’s own employees is now said to… Read More

‘Are you there, God? It’s me, Alexa.’ Tech and religious leaders ponder the future of AI together

Can a computer become God? Or, more to the point, could humans invent AI that can convincingly impersonate God —… Read More

Planning documents give 1st look at Amazon’s Nashville ‘Operations Center of Excellence’ project

Amazon’s plans for a “Operations Center of Excellence” in Nashville are starting to take shape. New plans submitted to Nashville’s… Read More

Seattle tech scene takes center stage as Microsoft and Amazon become most-valuable companies

Silicon Valley is thought of as the technology capital of the U.S., but it is the Seattle area that now… Read More

New York public radio station won’t be calling Amazon’s new home ‘HQ2’

When news broke that Amazon would split its immensely hyped second headquarters between two cities, journalists covering the year-long search… Read More

Amazon is crowdsourcing Alexa’s ability to answer questions, says safeguards will keep out offensive content

Amazon is enlisting customers to help make its digital brain Alexa better at answering questions. The tech giant today unveiled… Read More

Amazon X-Ray lets viewers take a deeper dive into shows, as 2018’s most popular are revealed

Some 29 stories above the streets of Seattle, in a faux living room with a picture-perfect view of the Space… Read More

Microsoft AI exec joins real estate tech company Compass to lead engineering efforts

Tech companies poach talent from each other all the time, but it’s not every day that you see a tech… Read More

Taps for Amazon Tap? Groundbreaking portable Alexa speaker disappears from Amazon

Amazon has apparently — and quietly — silenced its Amazon Tap smart speaker. The portable Alexa device is not being… Read More

Trump admin’s proposed USPS package hike could push Amazon to bolster private shipping business

President Donald Trump’s mission to get the United States Postal Service to extract better deals from retailers like Amazon got a… Read More

Amazon Prime Video streaming service coming to Comcast X1 set-top boxes nationwide

Amazon and Comcast are teaming up to bring the tech giant’s video streaming service into the Xfinity cable universe. Amazon… Read More

Amazon reportedly testing much larger, Amazon Go-like cashierless grocery store in Seattle

The Amazon Go concept may be getting ready to go bigger. Amazon is said to be testing even larger-format cashierless… Read More

Apple Music arrives on Amazon Echo in new partnership between voice tech competitors

Apple is making its Apple Music service available on Amazon Echo devices in a surprising new partnership between two rivals… Read More

Seattle is the cloud capital and an enterprise town — can consumer tech startups thrive, too?

When Nick Huzar started OfferUp, it was almost a disadvantage to be based in the Seattle area. “Investors didn’t really understand… Read More

Amazon sued by family of deceased employee claiming wrongful death and discrimination

Relatives of a deceased Amazon employee are suing the Seattle company, claiming its negligence led to his wrongful death. The… Read More

Why Amazon Web Services’ Graviton server chip could unleash a new era of cloud-native hardware

LAS VEGAS – Anyone who has built a data center or cloud service provider over the last 15 years knows… Read More

Xealth brings e-commerce to the doctors office with new Amazon integration

Imagine a patient who is having knee surgery. The person’s doctor will prescribe medication for recovery, provide instructions for physical… Read More

Amazon Web Services reveals a managed Kafka service for streaming data

LAS VEGAS – Yet another popular open-source project is now available as a managed service from Amazon Web Services with… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands serverless computing strategy with support for a wider variety of software development tools

LAS VEGAS – Developers building serverless applications on top of Amazon Web Services’ Lambda service will now be able to… Read More

Germany launches investigation after Amazon sellers complain of unfair treatment

German regulatory officials have launched an investigation to find out whether Amazon’s business practices toward sellers in its marketplace are… Read More

New features from Amazon Web Services aim to make cloud security easier to manage

Even after all these years, during which private data centers have fallen victim to countless security breaches while cloud providers… Read More

Amazon Web Services will sell hardware to hybrid cloud customers to run in their own data centers

LAS VEGAS – The hybrid cloud has become an essential part of enterprise computing, and Amazon Web Services has decided… Read More

Amazon debuts new self-driving racing league with tiny machine learning-powered race cars

Amazon’s investment in the sports world continued at the company’s signature cloud technology conference this week, but not in the… Read More