63,000 Websites Hit With Outages As Users Report Amazon Web Service Issues
By Tyler Durden Preliminary reports from Pingdom AB, a Swedish website monitoring company, show more than 63,000 websites are experiencing issues worldwide. At the same…
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Amazon Outage Disabled IoT/Smart Devices, Stopped Package Deliveries; People Were Locked Out of Homes and Disney Parks
By B.N. Frank Experts have been warning for years about security risks associated with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, Internet of Things (IoT) technology, and various IoT/Smart…
Facebook, Amazon, Venmo Down As AWS Outage Hits Thousands
By Tyler Durden Earlier in the day Merrill was down, then Vanguard and Robinhood, and now a slew of even more widely used websites are…
Verizon Will Use Amazon’s Satellites and Maybe Others’ to Extend U.S. 4G and 5G Wireless Coverage
By B.N. Frank The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has catered to the telecom and cable industries for decades (see 1, 2, 3). This has led…
10 Robots for Each Human at Amazon’s Biggest Newest Warehouse
By B.N. Frank Businesses started replacing human jobs with Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and robotics years ago. This trend seems to be increasing (see 1, 2,…
“A Huge Deal”: Amazon, Google Workers Demand Companies Sever Ties With Israeli Military
By Kenny Stancil Roughly 400 Amazon and Google workers on Tuesday condemned their employers for contributing to the surveillance and dispossession of Palestinians by selling cloud…
Amazon Developing “Smart Fridge” To Monitor What You Eat
By Tyler Durden Amazon is spending $50 million per year developing a new smart refrigerator that uses high-tech sensors to notify users of low-stock items…
Amazon’s Palm Reader Provides A Sneak Peek Into Our Biometric Future
By Aaron Kesel Amazon’s palm reader will be installed at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver and will be used for future ticketed events. Amazon’s…
Pay-by-Palm: Just an Innocent Technology to Make Life Easier?
By Aden Tate Looks like the folks at Amazon have taken up palm reading with the recent rollout of Amazon One, a pay-by-palm technology. Don’t like…
Amazon Looks To Eliminate Cashiers At Whole Foods Stores
Technocrats at Amazon continue to push cashier-less stores, first with Amazon-Go and now with its subsidiary, Whole Foods. Cashiers do not make up the largest…
Amazon’s Revised Guarantee: Compensation up to $1M for Medical Expenses, Lost Wages, Property Damage from Defective Products
By B.N. Frank Last month the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) filed a complaint against Amazon over the sale of hundreds of thousands of…
Security Flaw Allowed Attackers to Take over Amazon Kindles, Turn Them Into Bots, Steal Personal Info, and More
By B.N. Frank Even if you aren’t concerned about biologically harmful blue light or wireless radiation exposure (see 1, 2) from your Amazon Kindle, you…
How Amazon’s $10 Billion Contract Squabble with the Pentagon Reveals the Shady Nature of Military Contracts
By Peter Jacobsen Earlier this month the US Department of Defense (DOD) canceled a $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract awarded to Microsoft…
FCC Approves Amazon’s Sleep Tracking Tech; Includes “a radar-wave emitter” Next to Your Bed
By B.N. Frank Experts have warned for years about privacy and security risks with Amazon products (Alexa, Echo, Ring, etc.) and most recently about the…