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• Amazon patent details desire to rain Prime deliveries from the heavens

  Amazon filed a patent for a parachute/packing label hybrid for their drone deliveries -- meaning future Amazon packages could ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon and Audible get dramatic, offer enticing grants for playwrights

  Audible and its parent company Amazon have created a $5 million commission fund for fledgling playwrights, but their endorsement ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon Web Services users are carelessly leaking tons of sensitive data

  There is a growing trend of negligence among uninformed Amazon Web Services users that is putting stacks of valuable data ...

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• Department of Defense data discovered on unprotected Amazon server

  Sensitive government information from an American defense contractor was recently found on an unsecured Amazon server. It ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• IKEA adds Google Home and Amazon Alexa support to its smart light bulbs

  IKEA has announced its line of smart home lighting systems will soon get support for Google Home, Apple HomeKit and Amazon ...

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• Amazon launches new training and certification portal to lure talent to AWS

  Amazon has launched a dedicated portal so you can conveniently manage your training and certification efforts for AWS in ...

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• Amazon gives away 1.7M bananas around its headquarters in Seattle

  Amazon's free fruit stands are making locals and employees go bananas, but businesses in the area are split. Amazon first opened the Community Banana Stand in 2015, and there are now two on it's sprawling corporate campus. Since then, it's given away an estimated 1.7 million bananas ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon's new Charts track the most read books each week

  Amazon has introduced Charts, a weekly bestseller list which tracks which 20 books have been sold -- and read -- the most. https://twitter.com/amazon/status/865190238397837313 Each list is divided between fiction and nonfiction books. Each book has a description, links to ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon's Alexa is getting opt-in notifications

  Amazon's Alexa is becoming more of an assistant with a new feature: opt-in notifications that will keep you updated on skills of your choice, as well as shopping updates from Amazon. In a post on Amazon's Developer blog, the company gives a preview of what notifications will look ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Amazon Web Services just launched its own Twitch channel

  AWS Maker Studio is the Amazon's first show for Twitch, which it acquired for $970 million in 2014.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Amazon's Echo skills to get adverts... kinda

  It was bound to happen eventually. As more and more Echo devices are making their way into people's homes -- including the utterly pointless Echo Show --  marketing companies are figuring out how to monetize Alexa skills with adverts. One company, VoiceLabs, has announced a platform ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Report: Apple to announce Amazon Prime Video on Apple TV at WWDC

  As we reported last week, the stand-off between Apple and Amazon appears to be over. Rumors suggested that, at long last, Amazon Prime Video was coming to Apple TV. According to BuzzFeed News sources, it's a certainty, and the announcement will happen at Apple's Worldwide Developers ...

  • Bryan Clark