JetBlue will use Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites for free in-flight internet
While many other airlines are choosing Starlink, JetBlue is opting for Amazon’s newer Kuiper satellites. But the service won’t launch until 2027.
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Major Amazon leak spoils the Philips Hue party
The Philips Hue store on Amazon’s UK site is hosting a number of new products that have yet to be announced as the big IFA 2025 show gets under way in Berlin, Germany. We’re seeing that rumored Hue Doorbell, a new Hue Bridge Pro (in black), a new Essential lighting sub-brand, and something called MotionAware that turns “light […]
Amazon’s Lens Live AI shops for anything you can see
Amazon will now let you shop for products by pointing your camera at them. On Thursday, the company announced Lens Live, a new feature that uses your camera to scan things in the environment around you, while surfacing matching product listings. This feature, which is only rolling out to the Amazon Shopping app on iOS […]
Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world
Lens Live will not replace Amazon’s existing visual search tool, Amazon Lens, which lets you take a picture, upload an image, or scan a barcode to discover products. Instead, it brings a real-time component to Amazon Lens.
Amazon ends shared Prime free shipping outside your home
Amazon is axing the program that lets Prime members share their free shipping perk with people outside their household. In an update to its support page, Amazon says it will cut off Prime benefit sharing on October 1st, 2025, prompting invitees who don’t live with the account holder to sign up for their own subscription […]
The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music
When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company’s contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding to follow the musicians’ example. More recently, some users have threatened to bail after CEO Daniel Ek invested in […]
TikTok Shop, Amazon, and other marketplaces hosted antisemitic T-shirts
Some TikTok users have reported seeing a troubling product in the last few days: T-shirts for sale on TikTok Shop that are an antisemitic parody of the Jaws movie poster. In the image printed on the shirts, the shark has been transformed into a human nose, the swimmer at the surface of the water is […]
The new entry-level Kindle Colorsoft is $30 off for a limited time
Amazon’s 16GB Kindle Colorsoft is less than a month old, but it’s already on sale for $219.99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. Meanwhile, the new Colorsoft Kids — which includes a 12-month subscription to Amazon Kids Plus, a two-year extended warranty, and a cover-style case — has been discounted to $239.99 ($30 […]
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Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race
Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. One of the biggest topics in AI these days is agents — the idea that AI is going to move from chatbots to reliably completing tasks for us in the real world. But the problem […]
Hertz is selling its used cars on Amazon
Hertz has announced that it will start selling used cars from its rental business on Amazon Autos. The company’s pre-owned vehicles are now available in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and Seattle, according to a new page on Hertz’s website, with “more locations coming soon.” The Verge was unable to find any live Hertz vehicle listings […]