Amazon starts to show its depth off....FedEx to stop Amazon overnight deliveries....At Amazon, the ro
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Amazon starts to show its depth off….FedEx to stop Amazon overnight deliveries….At Amazon, the robots are rolling….Walmart wants to go into fridge……UBER making exec changes…..Self driving truck firm rolls with real drivers…..FTC is more than just looking at Silicon Valley….Keanu Reeves steals the XBox 3 party…..What you need to know about Facial Recognition…How the Google crash happened…Apple sign on takes on Google, Facebook…OpenTable moves to get more personal….What’s hot in DTC retail….those stories and much, much more are all in today’s COMUNICANO!!!
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As Jeff Bezos ponders space travel, Amazon execs emerge from shadows
Amazon’s founder seems to be preparing investors to put their confidence in his chiefs.
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Inside the Amazon Warehouse Where Humans and Machines Become One
In an Amazon sorting center, a swarm of robots works alongside humans. Here’s what that says about Amazon—and the future of work.
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How Amazon’s delivery robots will navigate your sidewalk
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact that the company had started to make deliveries in a neighborhood in Washington State.
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FedEx Says It’s Ending Express Shipping Service for Amazon
The decision, while not financially significant for either company, shows how the online retailer has gone from a sought-after customer to a direct competitor of FedEx.
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Walmart employees will soon deliver groceries directly into your fridge
Starting this fall in the US, Walmart customers in select cities can choose to have their groceries delivered directly into their refrigerators when away from home. The InHome service will use Walmart vehicles and its own workers equipped with proprietary wearable cameras.
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We’re Taking Walmart Grocery Delivery One Step Further
U.S. Customers have more choices than ever before when it comes to how they get their groceries.
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Two Top Uber Executives Are Out as C.E.O. Consolidates Power
A month after Uber’s rocky I.P.O., its chief executive laid off two members of his executive team: the chief operating officer and the chief marketing officer.
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On the road to self-driving trucks, Starsky Robotics built a traditional trucking business
More than three years ago, self-driving trucks startup Starsky Robotics was founded to solve a fundamental issue with freight — a solution that CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher believes hinges on getting the human driver out from behind the wheel.
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OpenTable and Upserve Partner to Better Personalize the Restaurant Experience for Guests
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Keanu Reeves won the Xbox E3 2019 press conference
Keanu Reeves appeared during the Xbox E3 press conference on Sunday and completely stole show.
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Facial Recognition Is Already Here: These Are The 30+ US Companies Testing The Technology
US corporates are currently using facial recognition for everything from fast food orders to trying on makeup to issuing life insurance policies, and more.
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FTC went to Silicon Valley to solicit antitrust complaints
The FTC’s outreach is a visible sign of the approach the commission is taking toward antitrust scrutiny of tech.
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Opinion | The Roots of Big Tech Run Disturbingly Deep
Out of more than 350 mergers by Facebook or Google, none raised serious regulatory concerns. They should have.
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Not Your Daddy’s Regulation: Tech Giants Face A Complicated Reckoning In Washington
Old rules and moving targets create new challenges for regulators and Congress.
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How a Google Cloud Catch-22 Broke the Internet
A Google Cloud outage that knocked huge portions of the internet offline also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it.
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Google Made $4.7 Billion From the News Industry in 2018, Study Says
Journalists create the content, and big tech companies are profiting off it, according to a new analysis. “We need to share the revenue,” a news publisher says.
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Answers to your burning questions about how ‘Sign In with Apple’ works
One of the bigger security announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple’s new requirement that app developers must implement the company’s new single sign-on solution, Sign In with Apple, wherever they already offer another third-party sign-on system.
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iOS 13 now shows a map of where apps have been tracking you when requesting permission
Apple continued its intense focus with the announcement of iOS 13 this week with a handful of new location permissions. Here’s what you need to go.
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Multi-cam support in iOS 13 allows simultaneous video, photo, and audio capture
In iOS 13, Apple is introducing multi-cam support for apps to simultaneously capture photos, video, audio, metadata and depth.
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You Can Mute Emails, Texts, Tweets and More—And You Should
Muting someone online is like putting in invisible earplugs: The talkers can keep talking, but you don’t have to listen. And they’ll never know the difference
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The Next Big Phones Could Bring a Billion People Online
About half of humanity don’t have internet access, and a lot of those people are in Africa. Enter a $20 device with smartphone brains and a five-day battery.
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The company behind Maker Faire and Make magazine has abruptly shut down
Maker Media, the company that publishes Make Magazine and Maker Faire is laying off its staff and halting its operations amidst financial troubles.
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China Summons Tech Giants to Warn Against Cooperating With Trump Ban
Chinese officials told companies Dell, Microsoft and Samsung that there would be dire consequences if they cut sales or pulled production from China, people familiar with the meetings said.
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Warner Bros. On ‘Precipice of Change’ as Studio Preps for WarnerMedia Boot Camp
Toby Emmerich and Peter Roth discussed the future of Warner Bros. Entertaiment under AT&T
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45 cult-favorite startups that began as direct-to-consumer and now sell at major retailers like Amazon, Nordstrom, and Target
As direct-to-consumer startups mature, they’ve begun to expand to other retailers like Amazon, Target, and Nordstrom. Here are 45 examples.
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London will soon be home to the world’s most frightening hotel pool
Have you ever visited a hotel and thought to yourself “Boy, this place would be so much better if the entire roof was a pool”?
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Starbucks Bets London Airport Can Crack the Reusable Cup Code
Coffee chain starts charging for disposable cups in Gatwick Airport to persuade consumers to use reusable ones.
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