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Amazon’s new lip sync feature keeps human dub actors and uses AI to move the on-screen performer’s mouth to match them. It debuts on Maxton Hall, and it quietly crosses a line dubbing has respected for ninety years.

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.

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

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

Amazon is going on the defensive after a report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that the ecommerce giant plans…

Starting on April 10, Amazon Prime subscribers will pay $5 per month for ad-free Prime Video without ads, up from…

Usually, when you see a feel-good story about finding a lost dog, you don’t immediately react with fear and revulsion.…