Amazon Ready to Roll Out Alexa Conversation Mode on Echo 10 - Make Tech Easier

Amazon announced that Alexa is now gaining Conversation Mode to make your patter with it even more natural. Find out how it will work.

The Pentagon and the Washington Post: Cold War Brothers-in-Arms

Caveat Emptor.  There is no better way to exaggerate perceptions of the threat than to rely on the worst-case assumptions of the Department of Defense.  Since the creation of the department in the National Security Act of 1947 we have been...

Artists, Rights Groups Denounce 'Invasive' Palm-Scanning of Concertgoers by Amazon

"Red Rocks, AXS, and AEG must... refuse palm-scanning devices and all other forms of invasive biometric surveillance."

'Inappropriate Giveaway of Galactic Proportions': Outrage Over $10 Billion Taxpayer Gift to Bezos Space Obsession

"Providing Jeff Bezos with $10 billion of taxpayer money would be an inappropriate giveaway of galactic proportions," says Stuart Appelbaum of RWDSU.

Output your microphone to a remote computers speaker

Output your microphone to a remote computers speaker

EXCLUSIVE Indian agency seeks documents from Future on disputed Amazon deal

India's financial crime fighting agency has ordered Future Group to submit documents related to its 2019 deal with Amazon.com Inc as part of an investigation into possible breach of foreign investment laws, according to sources and a notice seen...

Friend or foe? Amazon probe reveals divided loyalties for brands

An investigation into Amazon’s use of proprietary information to create knockoffs has made counsel wonder how to balance IP protection with making money

Amazon Is The Flywheel, AWS Is The Cash Register

The coronavirus pandemic giveth to Amazon retail business and its Amazon Web Services cloud business, and the pandemic taketh away from the Amazon retail

Let Me Rewrite That For You: Washington Post Misinforms You About How Facebook Weighted Emoji Reactions

Journalist Dan Froomkin, who is one of the most insightful commentators on the state of the media today, recently began a new effort, which he calls "let me rewrite that for you," in which he takes a piece of journalism that he believes...

Christian nationalists seek a ‘parallel’ digital world to skirt the power of Big Tech

Millions of primarily right-wing netizens frequent sites like Gab, Natural News and CloutHub — online clones of larger social media platforms that tout themselves as havens of free speech.

Do We Really Want Amazon's Internet-Connected Autonomous Surveillance Robots Wandering Around our Homes?

It might seem strange that Amazon has figured so many times on this blog, what with its facial recognition service, eavesdropping Alexa devices, Ring home autonomous

Amazon sent a man through my neighborhood to figure out why so many packages are being stolen.

Today, a man named Mario, from Amazon, came through our neighborhood. He stopped by my apartment building and rang a bunch of the doorbells and talked to some of us about stolen packages. The conse…