Amazon Now Requires Police to Make Requests for Ring Footage Public

Smart home feeds are a fantastic way to catch criminals in the act, but if mishandled, it gives agencies the power to spy on residents without their permission or knowledge. So now, Amazon has declared that if the police want to use Nest footage to solve a crime, they must do so in a public
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How to Disable Amazon Sidewalk on Your Connected Devices

The connectivity of smart home devices is short range due to the limitations of a Wi-Fi or Bluetooth network. When the devices don’t have any network connection, they won’t function. All that has changed with the Amazon Sidewalk as it extends the network connectivity of your smart home devices for your convenience, safety, and comfort. What Is Amazon
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What Does Amazon Sidewalk Mean for Your Privacy?

Amazon’s latest stride towards creating a Smart Home is Amazon Sidewalk, available from 14 June 2021. While Sidewalk could enable communities to power their smart devices with more consistency, customers have also expressed privacy concerns. So much so, in fact, that Amazon has released a whitepaper explaining why the solution is safe. What does Amazon Sidewalk mean
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Amazon Wants to Buy MGM for $9 Billion

Amazon’s not short of a buck or two, and it’s reportedly in talks to offer a jaw-dropping $ 9 billion of them to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio that owns the James Bond, Rocky, and other high-profile movies and movie franchises. If it’s successful, it would be a massive move in the war between streaming
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Amazon Launches a Free Streaming Service Called MiniTV

Amazon has launched a free video streaming service called MiniTV in India. The service won’t require a separate download as it can be accessed from within the Amazon shopping app itself. MiniTV Could Help Drive Sales to Amazon Shopping As Tech Crunch reports, Amazon claims that its subscription-based streaming platform, Prime Video, helps drive sales to its
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Amazon Launches the Kindle Vella Platform for Publishing Serialized Stories

Amazon has debuted a new episodic self-publishing venture in the form of Kindle Vella. Designed to cash in on the online serialized storytelling craze, the new Kindle program—announced in April—will allow authors in the United States to disseminate serialized, English language stories via the Kindle iOS app. Think Amazon’s answer to Wattpad. While it’s too
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