A 2.5% rise in Amazon shares on Thursday means Bezos’s wealth has now eclipsed the Microsoft co-founder by $1.4bn, according to the BBC. Jeff Bezos, 53, owns about 17% of the shares in Amazon, whose value has now exceeded $500bn. ...
Read More »Amazon’s Alexa Calls Police Over Domestic Abuse
The police in a town near Albuquerque, New Mexico, arrested a man for allegedly beating his girlfriend and threatening to kill her, according to The New York Post. A man reportedly got angry with his girlfriend and threatened her with ...
Read More »Amazon Wants To Store Goods In Underwater Warehouses
The move shows that the ecommerce giant wants to build warehouses in water reservoirs, lakes etc., probably in order to reduce the storage expenses, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Indian Times. It should be recalled that in December the media ...
Read More »Blue Origin reveals interior of New Shepard flight capsule that will take tourists to into orbit next year
Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has revealed the first images of its reusable passenger capsule, due to take tourists to space next year, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Mail. The ‘New Shepard’ capsule’s roomy ...
Read More »This Inflating Bracelet Could Save Your Life
The device contains an inflatable nylon balloon that’s kept inside a small pocket next to a carbon dioxide cartridge. Its users can inflate Kingii in less than 1 second by pulling a metal lever which triggers the CO2 cylinder and ...
Read More »Watch Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Control a Giant Mech Robot
Jeff Bezos tried out the 13-foot-tall (4 meters) robot on Sunday, March 19, at his company’s private Machine Learning, Home Automation, Robotics and Space Exploration (MARS) conference, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Live Science. Video of the bot, developed by ...
Read More »‘Reasons to Vote for Democrats’ with blank pages jumps to top of Amazon’s bestseller list
“Reasons to Vote for Democrats: A Comprehensive Guide”, published Feb. 8, is described as the “most exhaustively researched and coherently argued Democrat Party apologia to date” and “a political treatise sure to stand the test of time”, Joinfo.com reports with ...
Read More »Bezos and Blue Origin Reportedly Pitch ‘Amazon-like’ Delivery for the Moon
As Space reports, in a January white paper circulated within NASA and the Trump transition team, Blue Origin proposed developing a cargo lander called Blue Moon that could support a future lunar base at the south pole, where there are ...
Read More »Amazon’s web servers are down and it’s causing trouble across the internet
That appears to be happening today, with Amazon reporting “high error rates” in one region of its S3 web services, and a number of services going offline because of it, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Verge. Trello, Quora, IFTTT, ...
Read More »Ivanka Trump’s Perfume Soars on Amazon Bestseller List Despite Boycott
Sales for 35-year-old businesswoman’s self-titled perfume were so high that the product took the top two beauty spots, as of Saturday afternoon, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the US Magazine. A 3.4 ounce bottle of the eau de parfum spray ...
Read More »This is why you better check twice before ordering on Amazon
Redittor cewallace9 posted a picture of a cat tree purchased on Amazon. It looked like a good deal for less than 20 dollars, right? It looked like a good deal for less than 20 dollars, right? The surprise was great ...
Read More »Amazon plans to send delivery drones from flying warehouses
Zoe Leavitt from CB Insights’ has revealed details about Amazon’s plans about drone deliveries from “airborne fulfillment centers,” the Tech Crunch reports. “I just unearthed the Death Star of #ecommerce via @cbinsights… AMZN patent for airborne warehouses at 45K ft ...
Read More »Amazon’s Grand Tour is the most illegally downloaded show ever
The Grand Tour, the Amazon’s auto show presented by Jeremy Clarkson, is the most illegally downloaded show ever, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Telegraph. According to the data analytics company MUSO, The Grand Tour, broadcasted from November 18, has ...
Read More »Amazon lets you shop with just your smartphone
At Amazon’s stores, customers don’t need to wait in line or checkout formally. There are no cashiers. Customers simply use Amazon’s new Go app, according to Mashable. The store is powered by what Amazon has dubbed its “Just Walk Out” ...
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