One of the first things to greet you at the Boxed warehouse floor in Union, New Jersey, is a four-story-tall gray robot employees call the Opex. It doesn’t have any arms and legs — it looks more like a massive metal-and-glass briefcase. Inside its glass-encased belly are 1,400 gray bins filled with 700 kinds of …
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Editors’ note: This was originally published on May 25, 2016, and has since been updated to reflect changes to the Paribus service. I do a considerable amount of shopping online, so when a service comes along promising to help me save money, I pay attention. Paribus is one such service; it monitors your purchases at nearly 30 stores, watches for …
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Amazon is putting a cork in its wine sales marketplace after five years. The internet retail giant began notifying wine sellers Monday it would shut down its Amazon Wine business at the end of the year. The marketplace, which launched in 2012, offers hundreds of wines that can be ordered directly from the winery through Amazon. As “Amazon continues to …
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A frayed Apple cord ranks high on my list of first-world problems, right up there with stepping on a Lego or living in a city without a Shake Shack. I’ve had some sort of portable Apple product since I got my first iPod in 2005. The flimsy connectors that come with each device have been thorns in my side ever …
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The Sonos One may be the hottest smart speaker right now, but if you have an existing Sonos system you don’t need to spend $200 to control your system with your voice. Now anyone with a Sonos and an Amazon Echo can control their music collection by simply speaking into thin air. “Alexa, play The Pixies in the living room,” …
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If you regularly find yourself running out of data at the end of the month following a binge of Breaking Bad on Netflix then Vodafone’s new bundles may be just the ticket. If you’re on a pay monthly plan, you can add a pass to your account. It’ll let you use certain specific data-heavy services without eating into your monthly …
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Because one voice assistant apparently isn’t enough, Amazon and Motorola have unveiled the Moto Smart Speaker. It’s one of the many mods available for the Moto Z and part of Motorola’s attempt to make hardware add-ons for phones cool. You can add better cameras, batteries, projectors and now a new voice assistant. In a blog post Wednesday, Motorola introduced the …
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It’s natural to be feeling a little nervous about online security these days, what with nonstop reports of new ransomware, password thefts, Equifax breaches and Wi-Fi vulnerabilities (namely KRACK). There’s another security risk, too: targeted attacks. That’s when hackers go after the accounts of business leaders, politicians, journalists and other folks in the public eye. Thankfully, Google just introduced a …
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Amazon Studios chief Roy Price has resigned, Amazon said Tuesday, following allegations he sexually harassed a female producer. “I can confirm Roy Price resigned from Amazon,” a company spokeswoman said in an emailed statement, without providing any additional information. Albert Cheng, the studio’s chief operating officer, will run Amazon Studios on an interim basis. Amazon last week suspended Price, the …
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