How Amazon uses AI to drive sales, well everything
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, is the wealthiest person in the world. Was it DI (Divine Intervention) or how Amazon uses AI (Artificial Intelligence Intervention) to ...
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Big Tech needs even bigger Digital Privacy regulation – ban data-harvesting
Big Tech – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (even little tech and throw Microsoft under the bus as well) could not exist in the same form today as d...
ACCC sets hounds on Apple and Google app stores
The ACCC (bless them) have placed Apple and Google app store policies under the microscope. In part, it is about monopolies affecting consumers and in part, ab...
Alexa hack – hackers can control Alexa and its IoT with a single click
Yes, another Alexa hack. While this attack vector is now closed the fundamental problem remains. Alexa is very hackable.
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Review: Amazon Eero Wifi System 3-pack
For years I’ve been hearing the word “eero” in advertisements on podcasts. Most of them have been US ones, but as of a month ago, the Eero Wifi System has beco...
COVID-19 triggers new levels of Amazon antitrust scrutiny
Amazon has long been in the spotlight, and not always for the most positive reasons. The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed Amazon antitrust scrutiny. It is not sur...
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Review: Echo Show 8 smart display with Alexa
In the battle of the voice assistants it was inevitable that the combatants, Google and Amazon, would go visual. Amazon’s Alexa devices with screens are called...
Can you trust Netflix?
Can you trust any FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) member? Can you trust Netflix is part of our continuing series on Big Tech Trust.
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Can you trust Amazon?
In his continuing series on Big Tech Trust, US correspondent Sam Bocetta poses the
question, “Can you trust Amazon?”
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Review: Kindle (10th Gen) ebook reader
Okay, we’ve already reviewed the best of the Wi-Fi Kindles, the current Kindle Oasis. But what if you don’t have $399 (or $449) to spend on it? So let’s look a...
Ring – Perfect storm of security issues – Part II
The BBC has published two news reports that are damning in the
extreme to Amazon-owned Ring.
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Seriously Siri, Crikey Cortana – smart speakers can activate up to 19 times a day.
Seriously Siri, Crikey Cortana - your secret is out. Researchers at Northeastern University and Imperial College London have found that smart speakers suffer f...