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• Amazon’s selling Chromecasts again — a year after it said it would

  I know you've spent the past year counting down the days, but it's here. The time has finally arrived. Yes, you got it right, you can now buy a Chromecast on Amazon. Again. Google's streaming device is one of the most popular in its field, but it hasn't been sold by Amazon in ...

  • Callum Booth

• Amazon cozies up to ICE as Congress cries foul

  Amazon and ICE seem to be the best of friends these days, and friends are supposed to be good at keeping secrets. Congress, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Apple Music arrives on Amazon Echo next month

  In something of a surprise announcement today, Amazon revealed that Apple Music would soon be available on its Echo devices. The feature arrives on December 17, joining existing services like Spotify, Pandora, and, of course, Amazon Music. Users simply need to enable the Apple Music ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Amazon officially joins the blockchain party

  Amazon is now officially part of the party after launching two new blockchain oriented services, Amazon Managed Blockchain ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Amazon's Glacier archiving service now lets you store 1TB for just $1 per month

  Amazon has introduced a cheaper tier for its Glacier long-term data archiving service. It'll let you store 1TB of data in ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Amazon's new software mines medical data for better treatments

  While many major tech companies are increasingly looking to improve people's health with gadgets and services, Amazon is trying a different approach to get into medical tech. The Wall Street Journal notes that the Seattle giant has started selling software that can mine patient data ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Amazon makes its machine learning courses available for free

  Amazon announced today that it's making its range of machine learning courses available to all developers signed up to its AWS platform for free. This program was previously available only to Amazon employees, but anyone can now take advantage of it at no charge by signing up to ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• This site checks if your Cyber Monday Amazon purchase is a good deal

  (spoiler: it probably isn't)

  • Matthew Hughes

• Full moon patents: MIT creates glowing plants and Amazon gets better drones

  Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This November-ish roundup lands ...

  • Dhiraj Jindal

• Amazon Web Services outage forces major cryptocurrency exchanges offline

  Two major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges have been forced offline, after critical Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers ...

  • David Canellis

• Silo is part Amazon Echo, part vacuum sealer, all crazy

  I don't know why, but I really want one.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Indian traders are fighting Amazon by trying to get their town blacklisted

  Traders from the town of Ulhasnagar in India plan to get rid of sales competition from Amazon by placing fake orders in bulk, ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran