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Amazon Echo and Alexa privacy issues go way beyond voice recordings
Amazon Echo and the Alexa voice assistant have had widely publicised issues with privacy. Whether it is the amount of data they collect or the fact...
Voice assistant technology is in danger of becoming too human
More than 200m homes now have a smart speaker providing voice-controlled access to the internet, according to one global estimate. Add this to the talking...
Why are Amazon fires so damaging and how can we stop them?
Imagine a rainforest at dawn – the tall canopy laden with dripping ferns and orchids, tree trunks covered in spongy mosses and lichens, and...
Bewildering complexity makes regulating Facebook, Google and Amazon hard
Back in the 1990s – a lifetime ago in internet terms – the Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells published several books charting the rise of information networks....
Here’s a look back at how Amazon has reshaped retailing
A quarter of a century ago, on July 5, 1994, a company, which shared a name with the world’s largest river, was incorporated. It...
