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Tall, capable, and vaguely insectoid looking, a series of Digit robots are now moving around empty bins at an Amazon research and development facility. The trial run is the first step towards using the bots to automate repetitive warehouse processes.

Two test satellites blasted off on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket emblazoned with Amazon’s famous logo on Friday, ahead of more than 3,200 planned to orbit the Earth, challenging Elon Musk’s reign over broadband real estate in space.

Amazon is hoping to make buying easier by employing artificial intelligence to collate reviews and deliver a single summary, in order to save online shoppers time. It's also very optimistic that the function will be unbiased and immune to bots.

In a world first, Amazon has partnered with Cochlear to make watching movies and shows more accessible for folks with hearing loss by streaming audio from a Fire TV device directly to a Cochlear hearing implant's sound processor.

Zoox has announced the deployment on open public roads of its purpose-built electric robotaxi. Able to carry up to four passengers, the fully self-driving vehicle is being put to work shuttling the company's employees around Foster City, California.

Amazon has lofty and long-held ambitions when it comes to aerial deliveries and has today offered a glimpse of its latest Prime Air delivery drone, which it says will be lighter, quieter and capable of operating in the rain.

While there are already a number of sleep-tracking systems to choose between, many are made by small startups without much of a track record. Electronics giant Amazon has now thrown its hat in the ring, however, with the unveiling of the Halo Rise.

While the Amazon Kindle does simulate the experience of reading a paper book, it doesn't let you hand-write notes onto the pages – at least, not until now. The new Kindle Scribe allows users to do exactly that, utilizing an included stylus.

Amazon revealed it has supplied Ring doorbell video footage to police 11 times this year without a warrant or permission from the device owner. The revelation comes as part of an investigation into Amazon’s privacy practices by US senator Edward Markey.

Amazon is looking to reduce its carbon footprint in central London with the launch of a micromobility hub for e-cargo bikes and walking couriers, which will replace thousands of traditional van trips each year.

Amazon has been planning to deliver packages by drone for almost a decade, with the company reckoning that the service was just months away in 2019. But now it actually looks like it's happening – at least for Prime members in Lockeford, California.

Amazon announced today that it is going ahead with its Project Kuiper, its rival to SpaceX's Starlink orbital global internet service, by launching a pair of prototype satellites into low-Earth orbit under an experimental license from the FCC.