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Amazon Is Killing Mechanical Turk, the Human Engine That Helped Train AI

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Internet, Artificial Intelligence,

Amazon told workers and customers this week that Mechanical Turk shuts down on September 30, ending a 21-year run for the marketplace that did the grunt work behind the machine learning era. Jeff Bezos once described it as artificial artificial intelligence, a joke about humans pretending to be machines. The actual machines made the joke obsolete.

If you never used it, MTurk paid people a few cents at a time to do small tasks a computer couldn't: labeling images, transcribing audio, filling out surveys, moderating content. More than 500,000 people passed through it. A lot of the training data underneath the AI you use every day started as somebody clicking through those tasks for pennies.

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The Echo Dot Is $79.99 Now, and AI Data Centers Are the Reason

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Home Entertainment, Smart Home, Misc. Tech,

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The Amazon Echo Dot cost $49.99 last week. It costs $79.99 now, a 60 percent jump that Amazon made overnight with no announcement. Fortune caught the change across Amazon's hardware lineup and got the company to confirm it.

Amazon's explanation is the one every hardware maker is giving this year. A spokeswoman said the consumer electronics industry is facing steep increases in memory and storage component costs, and that Amazon absorbed them for as long as it could before adjusting prices across its product lines.

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Meta Just Hired the Person Who Built Amazon’s Cloud Engine

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Artificial Intelligence,

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If you want to know what a company is really planning, don't read the press release. Look at who it hires. Meta just brought on the person who spent almost two decades building the engine room of Amazon's cloud, and that single move says more about where Mark Zuckerberg is pointed than any earnings call could.

The person is Dave Brown, a senior vice president at AWS who ran EC2 and the company's compute and AI services for nearly 18 years. He is leaving to join Meta, where he will report to infrastructure chief Santosh Janardhan and take on two jobs at once: scale Meta's data center build-out to a size almost nobody has attempted, and help stand up a new effort called Meta Compute. If that second one sounds like it could turn Meta into a cloud provider, that is because it might.

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Best Amazon Prime Day 2019 Deals!

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Smartphones, Handhelds, Home Entertainment, Hot Deals, Smart Home, PC / Laptop, Peripherals, Portable Audio / Video, Video Games,

Best Amazon Prime day 2019 deals

It's Amazon Prime Day across the world, and as promised, here are some of the best Amazon Prime Day 2019 deals you can get! I will update this list throughout the day:

TECH DEALS

APPLE DEALS

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Amazon Fire TV Cube hands-on review, new AirPods 2 coming soon - Geared Up!

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Apple, Wearables, Features, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio / Video, Product Reviews,

Amazon is trying to get its Alexa voice assistant into as many homes as possible. Its latest offering: The Fire TV Cube, which essentially turns any TV into a smart TV with Alexa voice control. We try it out live on this episode. The integration with certain apps, like Netflix and Hulu, is pretty cool. Simply saying "Alexa, play Stranger Things," opened the Netflix app and started playing right where we left off. Using voice control to fast forward, switch TV inputs and open apps also works well. But for other apps that aren't integrated, like Sling TV, the experience isn't quite so smooth. The box also doesn't work with over-the-air cable TV, as some reports said it would. In other news, Oculus announced a new virtual reality TV app this week, and some people are unimpressed. We also dive into a report that points to a new line of AirPods coming before the end of the year, including higher-end over-the-ear headphones.

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Bleeding Edge TV 594: Amazon Kindle Oasis review

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Handhelds, Podcasts, Product Reviews, Videocasts, Videos,

The Amazon Kindle Oasis is the best e-reader every made, but it's also the most expensive. I give you a look at all of the features that the Kindle Oasis has to offer, and a look at the Kindle Oasis vs Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis vs Kindle Voyage. Leave your thoughts in the comments below, letting me know what you think of this Kindle Oasis review!

You can pick up the Amazon Kindle Oasis now.

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Amazon Kindle Voyage unboxing & impressions

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Handhelds, Videos,

The Amazon Kindle Voyage brings you 300 pixels per inch - a nice, high-resolution e-ink display. There is an adaptive front light, ambient light sensor that adjusts the backlight on its own, depending on your lighting conditions. It's also the lightest and thinnest Kindle ereader that Amazon offers - this is the top of the line model.

As far as pricing goes, it starts at $199 for the Wi-Fi model with special offers, or $219 without special offers. If you need a model with 3G connectivity, those cost $269 with special offers, or $289 without.

You can pick up the Amazon Kindle Voyage now.

Anova Culinary Precision Sous Vide just $139 for Prime Day

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Hot Deals, Smart Home,

The Anova Culinary Precision Immersion Circulator is one of the best kitchen deals we've seen on Amazon's Prime Day sale. This thing is easy-to-use, connects to your smartphone, and allows you to cook the perfect meal with the touch of a button. Sous vide perfect steaks, chicken, veggies, and more. It's usually $179, but for the next hour or so, can be had for $139!

Astro Gaming A50 Xbox One headset 20% off Amazon Prime Day sale

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Hot Deals, Video Games,

As part of its big Prime Day sale, Amazon is selling the fantastic Astro Gaming A50 headset for the Xbox One at a 20% discount for the next few hours. The headset allows you to communicate with other players, like any other headset, but also offers the added bonus of being able to play the audio from your game as well. So, you get all the sound of your gaming session directed into one of the best gaming headsets around. Grab it now for $239--it typically sells for $299.

Amazon offering GoPro HERO4 Black Prime bundle for $499

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Cameras, Hot Deals,

Here's one to act quickly on - Amazon is offering a GoPro HERO4 Black Prime Bundle as part of its Prime Day sale. For the typical cost of the GoPro HERO4 Black, you get:

GoPro HERO4 Black camera
GoPro LCD Touch BacPac (Camera Not Included)
Wasabi Power Battery (2-Pack) and Dual Charger for GoPro HERO4 and GoPro AHDBT-401, AHBBP-401 (with Car and US Plug)
AmazonBasics Head Strap Camera Mount for GoPro
AmazonBasics GoPro Carrying Case
Lexar High-Performance MicroSDHC 32GB memory card
USB 3.0 Flash Memory Card Reader

All together the bundle would typically cost $691, but today (for the next couple of hours) you can get it for $499.

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