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Amazon’s new Alexa and AI features will play doorman, recap Kindle books, and find lost dogs

Amazon unveiled a new lineup of Echo, Kindle, Ring, Fire TV and Blink devices, with artificial intelligence as the common thread. Highlights include Kindle recaps, Ring’s lost-dog “Search Party,” and Alexa+ features that turn the voice assistant into a virtual doorman and entertainment guide. Read More

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‘Unfinished business’: Ring CEO Liz Hamren leads Amazon’s home monitoring products into the AI era

Liz Hamren has been CEO of Amazon’s Ring business for almost a year, as the successor in the role to… Read More

Seattle UX company Blink acquired by India-based IT services giant Mphasis

Seattle-based UX and design firm Blink has been acquired by Mphasis, a publicly-traded IT services giant based in Bangalore, India.… Read More

Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad

If it wasn’t enough to be a co-founder of what could be the longest running UX shop in the U.S.,… Read More

Amazon’s Blink unveils new security camera with ‘exclusive’ chip and two-year battery life

Amazon’s acquisition of video doorbell and security camera company Ring last year got lots of attention, thanks in part to… Read More

Amazon completes Ring acquisition, drops price of original video doorbell under $100

Amazon completed its acquisition of smart-home security company Ring this morning and dropped the price of the Santa Monica, Calif.-company’s… Read More

Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts, aiming at Echo, cameras, and AI

Amazon has been designing its own chips for a few years, ever since acquiring Annapurna Labs in 2016, but it… Read More

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Two Seattle UX design companies join forces as Blink acquires Tectonic

The Seattle-based user-experience research and design company Blink has acquired a little help in the design department by purchasing Tectonic,… Read More

Amazon scoops up wire-free connected camera maker Blink to bolster smart home offerings

Amazon has acquired Blink, a startup based in Andover, Mass. that makes wire-free smart security cameras and video doorbells. Blink… Read More

Amazon’s Alexa gets Washington State Ferry smarts, thanks to new third-party skill

“Ahoy there,” says a playfully nautical Alexa when you ask her for information about the Washington State Ferries. It’s a… Read More

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