Instacart is pulling in-store shoppers out of Whole Foods markets. On Thursday, Instacart said its partnership with Whole Foods is “beginning to wind down,” with the online grocery-delivery service wrapping up in-store shopping operations at Whole Foods markets during the next few months. “For our in-store Whole Foods shoppers who are personally impacted by this …
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Amazon shoppers can once again buy Google’s Chromecast media streaming devices direct from the online retailer. Listing pages for the Google Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra appeared a year ago, after the products were removed from Amazon in late 2015. The devices were never available for purchase, however, until now. Google’s Chromecasts compete with Amazon’s own Fire TV line of streaming devices and initially Amazon …
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After a year of anticipation, Amazon last month announced its winners for two new, 25,000-employee campuses and was summarily met with a flood of derision and mockery. There was even a protest in Queens, where one of the offices will go, with people lambasting the billions of dollars in incentives Amazon will receive for the projects. That backlash was the …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Many of the potential pitfalls Amazon faces in 2019. Apple plans a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas. Now playing: Watch this: From HQ2 to Trump, Amazon to face a lot of challenges… 4:45 The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by …
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There are tons of products and companies vying for our attention during the chaos and bustle of the CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show held every January in Las Vegas. But whether or not those products actually hit store shelves by the end of the year — or any year — is a different question altogether. Some “concept products” …
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Intel has been struggling to keep up as its biggest rivals, Samsung and TSMC, erased its once-formidable manufacturing lead. But the chipmaker has a new 3D trick up its sleeve. At an event to tout its processor architecture plans, the company announced it’s perfected a manufacturing technology it calls Foveros to stack different chip elements directly on top of each …
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Amazon on Wednesday revealed its first small-format Amazon Go convenience store. The store opened in Seattle today but will be available only to Amazon employees and their guests for now. An Amazon spokeswoman said these small-format stores “can be as compact as 450 square feet.” Comparatively, the original Amazon Go store is 1,800 square feet. Amazon Go is the company’s …
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Over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, nearly every Amazon device — Fire TV sticks, Fire tablets, Echo speakers and so forth — was available at their lowest prices of the year. But the price of the brand-new Kindle Paperwhite — which has only been available since Nov. 7 — didn’t budge: It remained at $130. As of a few days ago, however, …
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There are two porgs from Star Wars running around a living room. One waddles near my feet while the other is out of my sightline behind a small bookshelf. Things are getting chaotic, but also really fun. To get them to behave, a hologram of C-3PO advises I gain their trust by offering the porg near my feet a treat. …
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These days I have exactly one requirement when buying a laptop: It must have a solid-state drive. If you’ve ever had a system with one, you know it’s an order of magnitude faster than a traditional (i.e. mechanical) hard drive. Alas, it’s pretty rare to find a laptop with a decent-size SSD for below $600. Heck, even for below $700. …
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