Amazon patent shows small robotic vehicles delivery packages from the van to doorsteps

Amazon may soon employ a little robotic helper to assist with delivering packages from vans to a customer’s drop-off destination. The firm was awarded a patent earlier this month entitled, ‘Directing secondary delivery vehicles using primary delivery vehicles,’ which describes its delivery van bringing packages to a customer’s drop-off  destination and a smaller vehicle carrying … Read more

Bestselling charcoal face mask that shoppers call ‘miracle stuff’ reduced to under £6 on Amazon

This bestselling charcoal face mask that shoppers call ‘miracle stuff’ for congested skin is reduced to less than £6 on Amazon By Emily Knott For Mailonline Published: 17:18 BST, 12 July 2021 | Updated: 17:38 BST, 12 July 2021 Products featured in this Mail Best article are independently selected by our shopping writers. If you … Read more

Bids to become the first paying customer on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft top $3 million

Bidding to be the first paying customer, on Blue Origin’s New Shephard rocket topped $3 million on Monday, flying alongside company founder Jeff Bezos and his brother.  According to the company’s website, the highest bid to ride on the July 20 flight is $3.2 million, up from $2.8 million in late May. The identity of … Read more

Bids to take a ride on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft approach $3M as more still flood in

Bidding to be the first paying customer on the New Shephard rocket from Blue Origin approached $3 million on Thursday, with additional bids to be placed in the coming days.  According to the company’s website, the highest bid is $2.8 million, up from $2.4 million on Wednesday. The identity of the top bidder is not … Read more

Spotify shares fall as Apple and Amazon give subscribers free access to ‘lossless music’ services 

Spotify stocks tumbled nearly 3 percent Monday as Apple and Amazon both announced they’re offering millions of lossless songs to subscribers at no additional charge.  Lossless audio maintains CD-quality sound in small files sizes, allowing listeners to hear songs ‘the way the artists created them in the studio,’ Apple said. Apple Music will add some 20 million … Read more

Amazon threatens legal action against Worcestershire shop set up to fight homelessness over logo

Amazon has threatened to take legal action against a shop which was set up to fight homelessness in Worcestershire – sending in lawyers to order the company to change its ‘smile’ logo on its signage.   Amaze, which is due to open tomorrow in Malvern, received a 35-page letter from Amazon’s legal advisers outlining concerns the … Read more

University lecturer slams Amazon for sending five packets of seeds in massive boxes

University lecturer slams Amazon’s excessive packaging after packets of carrot seeds were delivered in FIVE separate cardboard boxes Dr Robin Pettitt shared images on Twitter of the five large boxes of packaging  University lecturer ordered five bags of carrot seeds from online retail giant Revealed the seeds came packed separately, and said he was going to … Read more

Alexa ‘ghostbot’ hopes to use AI to ‘digitally reincarnate’ the dead

Alexa ‘ghostbot’ could let relatives ‘speak to their dead loved ones’ by using artificial intelligence to create realistic replies using their old letters, social media posts and videos Microsoft applied for patent for an app that could digitally reincarnate deceased Would allow living relatives to interact with loved ones from beyond the grave The technology … Read more