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The event is an extension of Amazon’s semi-secret MARS conference, but will include plenty of self-promotion For the last couple of years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has held an annual  invite-only event  where billionaires, astronauts, and roboticists could rub shoulders and chat about the future of tech over gourmet nibbles. Now that event is being turned into a  public conference  — one that “embraces an optimistic vision for scientific discovery” and will feature demos, workshops and talks about machine learning and space exploration. “We’re at the beginning of a golden age of AI,” said Bezos in a press statement. “Recent advancements have already led to invention that previously lived in the realm of science fiction — and we’ve only scratched the surface of what’s possible.” The new event will be held in Las Vegas between June 4th and 7th later this year. The earlier, semi-secret conference was known as MARS (standing for Machine learning, Automatio...

The latest patent filing suggests Apple is betting big on health tracking features as the next big evolution for the AirPods. Perhaps conspicuous by their absence on the update calendar for this year, there are great expectations that Apple will update the wireless earphones in 2019. The latest patent filing by the company suggests that the next update for the AirPods will bring in a lot more features. The patent filing suggests that there will be a slight redesign of the earbuds, and the buds will now be compatible with either ear—at present, there are designated ones for the left and the right ears. There will be a bendable band, optional perhaps, to securely lock in the earphones when you are wearing them. There is also a belief that the new AirPods buds will have biometric sensors built-in. These would be very handy for health tracking, such as monitoring the heart rate, blood volume, respiratory rate, body temperature and more.  It would be interesting to see if Apple...

Till now, Amazon's policy spared the customer disputes with couriers, sellers and manufacturers over defective or unsuitable goods. But not anymore. One reason online retailers such as  Amazon  have been able to pull customers from brick-and-mortar stores is the 'no questions asked' return policy. Anyone can return an item within 30 days without having to give an explanation. This policy spared the customer disputes with couriers, sellers and manufacturers over defective or unsuitable goods. But not anymore. Amazon USA    has started quizzing customers over returned items and has even banned accounts from which even 10% of ordered items were returned, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. A number of customers have shared their experience on Twitter. A customer tweeted a letter she got from Amazon, asking her to explain why she had returned so many items in the past 12 months. She said she purchased 50 things and returned only six which coul...

Honor 7A and Honor 7C were launched in India on Tuesday, at an event in New Delhi. The two budget smartphones from Huawei's sub-brand Honor are exclusive to  Flipkart  and  Amazon  in India, respectively. The smartphones were launched in China in April and March respectively. Both smartphones have been priced starting below Rs. 10,000 in India, taking on Xiaomi's  Redmi Note 5  and  Redmi 5  series of smartphones. The two Honor 7-Series smartphones are very similar to each other, with minor differences in screen size and processor. In terms of similarities, they both have the same dual rear camera setup, the same front camera resolution, same screen resolution, same battery capacity, and both also run EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0 Oreo. Honor 7A, Honor 7C price in India, launch offers The Honor 7A price in India has been set at Rs. 8,999. It will go on sale exclusively via Flipkart from 12pm IST on May ...

New documents obtained by the ACLU shed light on Amazon’s Rekognition project Like apple amazon Now go like them they also make new face recognition in surveillance  system and make new trand in it. Some Documents  obtained by the ACLU of Northern California have shed new light on Rekognition, Amazon’s little-known facial recognition project. Rekognition is currently used by police in Orlando and Oregon’s Washington County, often using nondisclosure agreements to avoid public disclosure. The result is a powerful real-time facial recognition system that can tap into police body cameras and municipal surveillance systems. According to  further reporting by  The Washington Post , the Washington County Sheriff pays between $6 and $12 a month for access to Rekognition, which allows the department to scan mug shot photos against real-time footage. The most significant concerns are raised by the Orlando project, which is capable of running real-time faci...

By Bloomberg SoftBank Group, Flipkart’s largest shareholder, may prefer a sale to Amazon in part because of its success in cracking open the ecommerce business, one of the people said.             Walmart looks likely to take the next round in the battle for India’s retail market over rival  Amazon .com. Flipkart  Online Services, India’s leading  e-commerce  company, is leaning toward selling a controlling stake to the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company, rather than Amazon, because of the greater certainty in such a deal, according to people familiar with the matter. Both US companies are bidding for a controlling stake in Flipkart at a valuation of about $20 billion, said the people, asking not to be identified because the matter is private. Flipkart’s board recently met to discuss the competing proposals and thinks Walmart could close a deal more quickly and smoothly, the people said. Walma...

Image: via Amazon upso Amazon has been granted a pair of patents for a wristband that can pinpoint the location of warehouse employees and track their hand movements in real time. The patents,  first spotted by  GeekWire , describe an inventory management system comprised of trackers and receivers used to monitor workers’ performance. The  original patents  were both filed back in 2016 but were granted on January 30th. The proposed system includes ultrasonic devices placed around the warehouse, the wristbands themselves, and a management module that oversees everything. The wristbands also feature an ultrasonic unit that’s used to track where the worker is in relation to any particular inventory bin. If their hands are moving to the wrong item, the bracelet will buzz. Image: Amazon via uspo While the patent describes this tech as a time-saving system, tracking workers in this way seems dystopian. That’s especially true for Amazon, a company that ha...

Want Free Amazon Prime Membership For A Year? Here's How Bharti Airtel has tied up with e-commerce major Amazon India to offer one-year of Amazon Prime membership to its postpaid customers who subscribe to Airtel Infinity plans for Rs. 499 and above. Bharti Airtel, the country's largest telecom company said that both new and existing Airtel postpaid customers will get a one year Amazon Prime membership (worth Rs.999) free of cost, which includes unlimited access to Amazon Prime Video, Airtel said in a statement. Airtel postpaid subscribers will also have access to over 11 million Prime eligible products, early and exclusive deals, special discounts and more, while shopping on Amazon.in. "We are thrilled to come together with Airtel to make Amazon Prime benefits directly available to more customers," said Akshay Sahi, Director and Head of Amazon Prime India. "This move enables seamless access to Amazon Prime for Airtel Postpaid customers, providing a worl...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s net worth has crossed the magical $100 billion mark. Amazon’s shares surged by more than two percent due to Black Friday sales. In the process, he became the first billionaire since 1999 to build a 12-figure net worth. According to Bloomberg, this year itself, worth of Bezos rose by around $34 billion. Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) stock climbed 2.5 per cent on Friday to put Bezos over the top. The stock got a lift from reports that online shopping on Thanksgiving and Black Friday jumped 18 per cent compared with last year. On Friday alone, Bezos made almost $2.4 billion. He owns 78.9 million shares of Amazon, worth $93.6 billion. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other business investments are also managed through Bezos Expeditions. When the financial markets opened on July 27, 2017, the 53-year-old briefly surpassed Bill Gates on the Forbes list of billionaires to become the world’s richest person, with an estimated n...