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(Photo : Flickr/Stock Catalog) Amazon Alexa COVID-19 vaccination sites All of Amazon's Alexa-enabled devices can now help direct people to the nearest COVID-19 vaccination sites, the company announced on Apr. 20. Alexa's COVID-19 vaccination sites list After hearing the list, users can also ask Alexa to call a vaccination site, which Amazon said in a blog post, can help users get information about appointment availability. Making COVID-19 vaccine appointments by phone is usually easier for older adults or other people who struggle to use online scheduling platforms. Amazon introduced an Alexa...

Amazon apologized for lying in tweet about pee bottles, lied again in apology Amazon said the pee bottle problem is a delivery driver issue, ignoring well documented evidence that warehouse workers are forced to pee in bottles too Amazon quietly issued a rare apology late Friday evening ahead of the Easter long weekend. In a blog post shared to the ‘About Amazon’ webpage, the company apologized for lying about the pee bottles. Except, the apology was directed to U.S. Congressional Representative Mark Pocan, not to the workers forced to urinate in bottles or defecate in bags ...

Jeff Bezos is done being Amazon's CEO Amazon will gain a new CEO this summer. As part of its fourth-quarter earnings disclosure, the company announced that Jeff Bezos will transition to the position of executive board chairman while Andy Jassy moves up from Amazon Web Services where he was CEO. In an email posted to the About Amazon site, Bezos told employees that he will step back from day-to-day operations to focus more on "new products and early initiatives" as well as corporate philanthropy and his other properties like The Washington Post. Bezos co-founded Amazon.com as a bookselling web...