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• Amazon launches a portable Echo speaker for India

  Amazon has just launched an Echo speaker with a battery pack in India. The device, called the Echo Portable Speaker Edition, is priced at Rs. 4,999 ($69.70). The new Echo device has a 4,800 mAh battery that can last up to 10 hours in a single charge. https://twitter.com/AmazonNews_IN/status/1202083461055631360?s=20 developing... ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Amazon unveils musical AI keyboard that teaches humans about machine learning

  Last night, Amazon announced an AI-powered musical keyboard for developers at its re:Invent 2019 conference in Las Vegas. The keyboard, called AWS Deepcomposer, is available in physical and emulator form for folks to try their hand at machine learning. It has 32-keys in two ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Amazon fires are melting glaciers in the Andes even faster

  If you have turned on a TV or read the news during the past few months, you have probably heard of the widespread fires that wrought havoc on the Amazon rainforest this year. Fires occur in the rainforest every year, but the past 11 months saw the number of fires increase by more ...

  • The Conversation

• Amazon's 2nd Gen Fire TV Cube is a great buy — if you don't have the original

  Amazon beefed up its Fire TV Cube with a few new hardware upgrades, refreshing it for the 2019 market. It's undoubtedly better -- but the changes are so incremental that if you have the original, it might not be worth your money to upgrade. Everything Tristan said about the original Fire Cube in ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon’s Dash Smart Shelf was made for the office — but it really belongs in the toilet

  Amazon just launched its Dash Smart Shelf that automatically re-orders office supplies - but we have a better idea for how ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• US Senator: 'Amazon Ring’s policies are an open door for privacy and civil liberty violations'

  US Senator Edward Markey yesterday revealed the results of a months-long investigation into Amazon's Ring camera-doorbells and the company's relationship with law enforcement. The Senator's press team dubbed the findings “alarming” and called the company's policies “an open ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon's roadmap for Alexa is scarier than anything Facebook or Twitter is doing

  Amazon has big plans for its virtual assistant. One day, perhaps sooner than you think, Alexa will take a proactive role ...

  • Tristan Greene

• A new hack uses lasers to send inaudible commands to your Amazon Echo

  A new photoacoustic flaw in voice assistants can render them vulnerable to a number of attacks that use lasers to inject ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• PSA: Amazon Fresh grocery deliveries are now free for US Prime members

  Amazon Fresh - the $14.99/month grocery shopping and quick delivery service - is now available for free to Prime subscribers ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Amazon prepares to strike back after Microsoft wins $10B JEDI contract

  Microsoft's been awarded the controversial Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, a $10 billion planned ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon joins Facebook and Microsoft to fight deepfakes

  Deepfakes have come across as serious problems this year and big companies are now paying attention. Amazon announced today it's joining the DeepFake Detection challenge (DFDC) driven by major corporations such as Facebook and Microsoft to boost efforts to identify manipulated content. The ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• CHEAP: Stop staring, the Amazon Fire TV stick 4K is really selling for just $35

  Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! In the past year or so a lot of companies including OnePlus and Motorola released their smart TVs. However, smart TVs don’t always feature apps like Netflix, and sometimes struggle when it ...

  • Ivan Mehta