Amazon One is clear for takeoff. The e-commerce heavyweight on Friday revealed one of its new branded cargo airplanes, which it will also showcase this weekend at the Boeing Seafair Air Show in its hometown of Seattle. Dubbed Amazon One, the plane is emblazoned with the Prime Air name on the sides and Amazon’s smile …
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Amazon now has such a vast inventory of stuff, it needs to work a little harder to find new products to sell you. The online retailer is doing just that by teaming up with Kickstarter to offer more than 300 products that originated on the crowdfunding site. The products, dubbed the Kickstarter Collection, can be found on the startup-focused Amazon …
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Block off a few evenings on your calendar. Amazon said Wednesday it’s adding an assortment of well-known Warner Bros. movies to Prime Video, including the full franchises of “The Matrix,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” and “Lethal Weapon.” And of course, 1998’s “The Wedding Singer,” starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. But if watching Adam Sandler’s mullet doesn’t sound like your …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Cheeps, I’m excited about this one. Well, as excited as it’s possible to be about something as mundane as mobile security. See, just …
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Some fun movies are headed to Amazon’s video streaming service. “Wayne’s World,” starring Michael Myers and Dana Carvey, arrives on Amazon in June. It’s one of the few examples of a “Saturday Night Live” sketch successfully translated for the big screen. It’s right up there with “It’s Pat!” (I’m kidding; “It’s Pat” is a terrible, terrible movie.) The sixth season …
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Amazon@Penn probably doesn’t look like any store you’ve ever visited. The brightly lit space includes no shelves, no standing inventory and no checkout. It’s likely debatable the location is even a “store” at all. Yet this 3,500-square-foot space, which hosted a grand opening Friday at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, serves as another example of Amazon’s evolution, as the …
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Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …
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Streaming video, whether it’s from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Watch ESPN or PBS Kids, is more popular than ever. And the selection of devices to get those shows and movies from the Internet onto your TV continues to expand. In the last six months or so all of the major players in TV-based streaming — Roku, Amazon, Google and Apple …
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As college students, Marc Lore and his childhood friend Lakshman “Lax” Chandra toted a good-luck charm when they bet on horses at the Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey. Their amulet: a laptop computer. The pair would check which betting pools other spectators were putting their money into and fed that data into software Lore had designed to help …
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Whenever Amazon’s Prime Air plan finally gets off the ground, watch for more than just one type of drone coming to your doorstep. The e-commerce powerhouse has unveiled a new design for its delivery drones, nearly two years to the day after it first teased us with its ambitions for the diminutive and unmanned aerial vehicles. In a video posted …
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