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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21 year old platform Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artificial intelligence.” Here is why it is closing now, and who is already replacing it.

Amazon says Prime Air will reach nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold jump from seven states today. The drone carries five pounds and flies about 7.5 miles, which explains a lot about what will actually show up in your yard.

404 Media hid an Apple AirTag inside a bulk order of roughly 1,000 secondhand books and followed the shipment across four states. It stopped at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, at a unit whose job is to cut the spines off books, scan the loose pages for AI training, and throw the originals away.

Amazon’s planned Pecos County data center comes with its own 35-turbine gas plant, permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 a year. That is roughly double the emissions of the dirtiest power plant currently running in the United States.

Jason Hiner/ZDNETThe Apple Watch Series 9 is a great addition to your iOS device collection, offering both 5G and Wi-Fi…

I was a late convert to air fryers, in part because I worried about versatility: Just how many wings and…

Adam Breeden/ZDNETWith the recent news that Sony is handing control of the Bravia TV brand to TCL in 2026, retailers…

After a relatively quiet few months, Amazon is bringing back another of its famously invented shopping holidays. The Amazon Spring…

Amazon has acquired New York City-based Fauna Robotics just a couple of months after it unveiled Sprout, a cute humanoid…

Rivr, a Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup known for its stair-climbing delivery robot, has been acquired by Amazon in a deal…