A charging brick recently caught my eye on Amazon . It was a RAVPower-branded two-port fast charger, and it had five stars with over 9,800 ratings. The score seemed suspect but Amazon itself was the seller, so I added it to my cart anyway.

What's the point in building a crewed spacecraft if you can't take a spin in it yourself? Turns out, those bidding for a seat on Blue Origin's first suborbital tourist flight next month will be joined by two special guests: The private aerospace company's founder, and the world's second richest person, Jeff Bezos, and his brother Mark.

Amazon’s Ring will soon begin requiring police departments’ requests for user videos or information collected by the company’s smart doorbells and cameras to be made publicly. In a blog post Thursday, Ring said starting next week public safety agencies will only be able to submit requests for video clips through its community safety app, called Neighbors, via public posts accessible on the app’s main feed. Previously, agencies could privately message users to request videos.

Amazon tells its warehouse employees to think of themselves not as overworked cogs in an enormous, soul-crushing machine, but as “industrial athletes,” and to prepare their bodies for that experience like someone training for a sporting event, according to a pamphlet obtained by Motherboard. The comparison is a troubling euphemism for a company whose workers have almost double the amount of serious injuries as the rest of the warehousing industry and who reportedly are often unable to take bathroom breaks.

A new antitrust case shows that Prime inflates prices across the board, using the false promise of 'free shipping' that is anything but free.

On June 8, Amazon will unleash a program that will see all Amazon users share their bandwidth with neighbors unless they choose to opt out. The service is called Amazon Sidewalk and it is explained by the firm as follows...

Amazon plans to put "wellness chambers" in its warehouses so that stressed workers can sit inside and watch videos about relaxation. In a video shared on its Twitter account, Amazon said the "AmaZen" chamber would help staff focus on their mental health. But it deleted the post after a wave of ridicule from other social media users. The US retail giant has been repeatedly criticised over working conditions in its facilities.

The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it. A few years ago, attending a tech conference that catered to an industry-friendly audience, I listened as a venture capitalist praised the upcoming possibilities for growth in the U.S. health care market.

Amazon on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement to acquire Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) for $8.45 billion. MGM's vast catalog of more than 4,000 films include "Basic Instinct," "Creed," "James Bond," "Legally Blonde" and more. It also has some 17,000 TV shows, including "Fargo" and "The Handmaid's Tale." All together, MGM's collection of movies and TV shows have won more than 180 Academy Awards and 100 Emmys.

Amazon is in the sights of American justice. The Washington prosecutor has just launched proceedings against Jeff Bezos’ firm for abuse of a dominant position. The e-commerce giant is accused of preventing competition with unfair practices and of imposing excessively high commissions on sellers of its marketplace. Amazon quickly stepped up to defend itself.

Amazon has launched an ad-supported, free video streaming service called MiniTV within the Amazon India app, TechCrunch reports. It’s a different offering than its separate Amazon Prime Video service, as MiniTV is contained within Amazon’s traditional shopping app, rather than its own standalone app.

Bezos tried to hire Gwynne Shotwell to run Blue Origin in 2016. By as early as the fall of 2016, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had already started to worry deeply about the progress—or lack thereof—being made by his rocket company, Blue Origin.

Amazon is beefing up its network of connected devices to take on technologies like Apple’s new AirTags. Amazon announced Friday that it is partnering with Tile, a company that makes trackers for lost items, and Level, which makes smart locks, to use those devices to enhance its tracking network based on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX just won a $2.9bn Nasa contract to land astronauts on the moon, beating out Jeff Bezos. The money isn’t a big deal for either of them. Musk is worth $179.7bn. Bezos, $197.8bn. Together, that’s almost as much as the bottom 40% of Americans combined.

New Zealand said on Friday it has agreed to give Amazon (AMZN.O) extra rebates on its expenses for the filming of "The Lord of the Rings" TV series in the country, hoping to reap multi-year economic and tourism benefits.

In his final letter to Amazon shareholders, Jeff Bezos says new CEO Andy Jassy "will muster the energy needed to keep alive in us what makes us special."

The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers.

As the Alabama warehouse votes on whether to unionize, Amazon has been facing mounting pressure from progressive lawmakers — and on Friday, the company went on the offensive, calling out Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for their criticism of the company’s policies. Predictably, tweets provoked more tweets, turning into days of jousting between progressives and a corporate PR account.

Linda Burns was excited at first to land a job at the Amazon warehouse outside Birmingham, Alabama. The former nursing assistant had always enjoyed ordering from the company, Now, she would be working for them.

Amazon's public relations Twitter account messed with the wrong lawmakers. The account, @amazonnews, appears to be trying out a new PR strategy. Over the past few days, it has issued tweets denying labor abuses and (legal) tax dodging, in a tone that can only be described as.... sassy?