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A text exchange between an Amazon driver and her managershowcase some of the chaos and gross negligence by the company during the weekend’s disaster.

Amazon Wouldn’t Let Driver Stop Deliveries as Tornado Struck

By Tony Ho Tran

Amazon Workers Say Company Failed to Warn Them of Deadly Tornado

Amazon Workers Say Company Failed to Warn Them of Deadly Tornado

By Tony Ho Tran

Amazon is under fire for its controversial workplace cell phone ban in the wake of a deadly warehouse collapse in Illinois during Friday night's tornado.

Amazon Under Fire for Workplace Cell Phone Ban After Deadly Warehouse Collapse

By Tony Ho Tran

We now have yet another reason to despise Amazon after the company's Tuesday outage left tons of people with "smart homes" in the lurch.

Internet Of Things

Amazon Outage Shuts Down IoT Vacuums, Doorbells, Fridges, Even Home Locks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amazon has partnered with climate scientists to help create models that show what exactly would happen if we blocked the Sun.

Science & Energy

Amazon Is Quietly Researching How to Block Out the Sun

By Tony Ho Tran

According to documents and video meeting recordings obtained by Vice, engineers aren't exactly thrilled by the $999 robot they came up with for Amazon.

Creators of Amazon’s New Robot Secretly Admitted It’s “Terrible”

By Victor Tangermann

Companies Are Ditching Drug Tests Because They’re Blocking Good Candidates

Companies Are Ditching Drug Tests Because They’re Blocking Good Candidates

By Tony Ho Tran

In a letter, Amazon took aim at Elon Musk's freewheeling and often blatantly anti-regulations approach to leadership, aruging SpaceX is breaking FCC rules.

Amazon Throws Tantrum, Calls Out SpaceX for Breaking FCC Rules

By Victor Tangermann

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.

After Killing Department Stores, Amazon Now Plans to Make Department Stores

By Tony Ho Tran

Jeff Bezos Is No Longer the World’s Richest Man

By Tony Ho Tran

Bitcoin's value shot up above $39,000 for the first time in almost six weeks, a jump of almost 12 percent within the last 24 hours, according to CoinDesk.

Bitcoin Price Suddenly Shoots Up

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos's great Eureka moment: why don't we take all the bad, emitting stuff and stick it in space out of harm's way?

Jeff Bezos Says Now He’s Gonna Pollute Space, Too

By Victor Tangermann

It's debatable whether Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos managed to get to outer space today. Was it all a marketing stunt to appeal to the ultra wealthy?

Jeff Bezos Heads Toward Space, Turns Back Before He Gets There

By Victor Tangermann

In a world saturated with Amazon's Alexa, bullied kids have actually had to change their names in hopes of a fresh start.

Teenager Named Alexa Legally Changes Name Because of Amazon Product

By Dan Robitzski

A new Change.org petition is politely asking Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos to please stay in space forever after he takes off next month.

Petition: Please Keep Jeff Bezos in Space Forever

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is being roasted for sharing a video of its "AmaZen," essentially a phonebooth-sized box where employees can go to "focus on their mental wellbeing."

Amazon Says Sad Workers Can Shut Themselves in “Despair Closet”

By Victor Tangermann

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.

Science & Energy

Amazon Admits It Was Fibbing About the Pee Thing

By Tony Ho Tran

New York just sued Amazon over its failure to protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus and for punishing anyone who spoke out.

New York State Sues Amazon Over Coronavirus Protocols

By Dan Robitzski

Jeff Bezos has become a household name at Amazon. But now, he said in a letter to employees, he's stepping down from the retail giant.

Jeff Bezos Is Stepping Down as CEO of Amazon

By Jon Christian

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused Amazon of trying to "hamstring Starlink" for a system that is "at best several years away from operation."

Elon Musk Says Jeff Bezos Is Trying to Ruin Starlink

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is reportedly developing a device, codenamed "Brahms" that uses radar to track your breathing and monitor for sleep apnea.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Alexa Device Scans Your Body Using Radar

By Dan Robitzski

The tech giant's new wearable called Halo Band is designed to listen to your every word and tell you if your voice is too "overbearing" or "irritated."

Amazon’s Judgy Wearable Tells You If You Sound “Condescending”

By Victor Tangermann

A pilot program in Jackson, Mississippi would give police real-time access to participants' Amazon Ring security cameras.

Amazon Will Let Police Livestream Your Ring Doorbell Camera

By Dan Robitzski

A new Amazon patent describes how trolls and toxic gamers could be sequestered into their own matches full of other trolls.

Science & Energy

Amazon Patent Makes the Most Horrible Gamers Play With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

Call center contractors for Amazon's Ring say they're forced to work in an unsanitary office where dozens have gotten sick.

Amazon Contractors Forced to Work in Office With Sick Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

Despite all of Amazon's claims to the contrary, warehouse workers suffer extremely high rates of injuries, and impossible quotas and robots make it worse.

Injuries Went Up When Amazon Deployed Warehouse Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The smart doorbell company Ring just announced a drone that flies around and records video inside your home. It sounds like a privacy nightmare.

Amazon Announces Security Drone That Flies Around Your Home

By Dan Robitzski

AmazonBasics products seem to have a troublesome tendency to explode or catch fire. Despite that, many troublesome products are still avaialbe online.

Science & Energy

Amazon Products Are Reportedly Exploding and Catching Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart just kicked off its own drone delivery pilot, a collaboration with Flytrex, an end-to-end drone delivery company.

Walmart Just Started Delivering Stuff With Drones

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is launching a Alexa for Residential service that makes it easier for landlords to convert units into smart apartments.

Amazon Promises Its Alexa For Landlords System Doesn’t Spy on Tenants

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon Prime Air, the retail giant's drone delivery company, was designated an "air carrier" by the Federal Aviation Administration today.

Amazon Gets Permission to Start Making Drone Deliveries

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon was approved by the Federal Communications Commission to launch 3,326 satellites as part of its Kuiper constellation. That has astronomers worried.

Amazon’s Constellation of 3,236 Satellites Has Astronomers Very, Very Freaked Out

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk recently called Amazon a monopoly that should be broken up due to allegations that Amazon censored a controversial book.

Elon Musk Calls To “Break Up Amazon”

By Dan Robitzski

The machine learning algorithms that recommend products online can't keep up with how rapidly the pandemic has changed our lives.

Machine Learning

The Pandemic Has Seriously Confused Machine Learning Systems

By Dan Robitzski

In a scathing letter, Amazon VP and Distinguished Engineer Tim Bray announced he's leaving the company over the company firing protesters.

Amazon VP Quits Over “Chickenshit” Firing of Whistleblowers

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers

By Dan Robitzski

It was bound to happen at some point: The first case of COVID-19 was detected inside an Amazon warehouse. Another was detected inside a major online retailer of groceries, FreshDirect.

First Coronavirus Cases Detected in Amazon Warehouse, FreshDirect

By Foster Kamer

Because of a surge in demand, Amazon warehouses will only be processing medical supplies and other essentials for the next few weeks.

Amazon Warehouses Will Only Process Medical Supplies, Essentials

By Dan Robitzski

According to Associated Press White House reporter Zeke Miller, e-commerce giant Amazon is looking to hire 100,000 people to "keep up with crush of orders."

Amazon Seeks to Hire 100,000 Workers to Keep Up During Outbreak

By Victor Tangermann

In an Instagram post, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced he is dedicating $10 billion of his net worth to combat climate change.

Bezos Coughs Up Pathetic 7% of Net Worth to Fight Climate Change

By Victor Tangermann

A newly published Amazon patent that dates back to 2017 lays out plans for a ship-based launch system that whips paylods into space using a miles-long whip.

Amazon Patented a System That Literally Whips Stuff Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

In a letter to Senators, Ring confirmed at least four instances of employees abusing their power to watch customers' video footage.

Amazon Employees Were Watching Ring Footage For Fun

By Dan Robitzski

Man Sues Amazon, Claims Ring Camera Hackers Harassed His Kids

Man Sues Amazon, Claims Ring Camera Hackers Harassed His Kids

By Kristin Houser

Tech giant Apple reportedly has a secret team working on satellite-based wireless data beaming technology, according to Bloomberg.

Apple Is Reportedly Working on Secret Satellite Tech

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon is full of third-party merchants selling food and other stuff they found in the garbage. It turns out it's not hard to sneak through the system.

Scammers Are Selling Dumpster-Dived Food on Amazon

By Dan Robitzski

Creeps have used Ring cameras to hack into customers' homes, using the internet-connected cameras to spy on and harass families and children.

Watch Terrifying Creeps Hack Ring Cameras and Spy on Families

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon just unveiled its new quantum computer cloud service, Braket, which will give developers a chance to test out their quantum applications.

Quantum Physics

Amazon Is Now Letting Anyone Run Programs on Its Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

A new investigation reveals just how dangerous Amazon warehouses are for workers. Injuries are dangerously high, and people's jobs are always on the line.

Report: Amazon Warehouses Are “Permanently Maiming” Workers

By Dan Robitzski

Customers using Amazon to buy food have reported receiving spoiled, expired products, and the company isn't always quick to grant a refund.

Amazon Keeps Delivering Moldy, Spoiled Food to Customers

By Kristin Houser

Deaths, injuries, and suicide attempts have landed Amazon on a list of the country’s most dangerous employers according to a new report from The Guardian.

After Deaths, Amazon Lands on List of Most Dangerous Employers

By Natalie Coleman

Amazon, a company that makes facial recognition software for police, is now attempting to write the laws that regulate facial recognition.

Facial recognition

Amazon Is Writing Its Own Facial Recognition Bills

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is working on a system called Orville that would let people pay for things by waving their hands in front of a scanner.

Amazon Wants You to Pay for Things With Your Handprint

By Dan Robitzski

Seven book publishers, including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible.

Artificial Intelligence

Several Large Book Publishers Are Suing Amazon

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon: Those Bizarre Brand Ambassadors Are Real Employees

By Dan Robitzski

An army of clearly-fake "Amazon FC Ambassador" accounts once more flooded Twitter to brag about a job that offers great perks like "using a real bathroom."

Science & Energy

Those Obviously-Fake Amazon Warehouse Workers Are Still Tweeting

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon claims its Rekognition software can now detect fear on a person's face, as well as provide a better estimate of their age.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Claims Rekognition Can Now Detect Fear

By Kristin Houser

An investigation reveals that schoolchildren in China are working illegal hours to manufacture Amazon Echo products as part of a school internship.

Robots and Machines

Foxconn Used Child Labor to Manufacture Amazon Alexa Gadgets

By Dan Robitzski

When police departments partner with Amazon's smart doorbell company, Ring, the company gets control over all statements to the press or public.

Amazon Is Feeding Talking Points About Its Spy Doorbell to Police

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon cut a confidential deal with a police force to push its doorbell camera, Ring, onto the local community in exchange for surveillance tech.

Florida Police Cut a Secret Deal to Promote Amazon’s Ring Cameras

By Dan Robitzski

Protests broke out at an Amazon AWS Summit in New York City on Thursday. Tech workers and immigration activists demanded the company stop helping ICE.

Protesters Interrupt Amazon Event to Decry Its Work With ICE

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon and Microsoft are bidding for a $10 billion Pentagon contract for a wartime cloud computing system, but lawsuits over favoritism slowed the process.

Amazon and Microsoft Want to Build A “War Cloud” for the Military

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon has officially filed an application with the Federal Communications Comission (FCC) to launch some 3,236 broadband satellites.

Amazon Wants to Join SpaceX and Launch 3,200 Internet Satellites

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon just won exclusive rights to the ".amazon" internet domain after a seven-year-long dispute wiith eight South American governments.

Amazon Beats South American Nations in Fight Over .amazon Domain

By Dan Robitzski