Apps, Company News / General Interest
Amazon Blog – 3.28.24
Signing up for Amazon One—our palm recognition service for entry, identification, and payment—just got easier. Until today, customers had to visit a physical location to hover their palm over an Amazon One device to sign up for the service. Now, they can sign up for Amazon One from home, work, or on-the-go via the Amazon One app, available from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. With the app, first-time users will no longer require additional time to sign up during checkout. For retailers, the app ensures faster lines and a more frictionless in-store experience.
Source: Amazon One launches an app to make sign-up for its palm-recognition service even easier
AI
Amazon Blog – 3.26.24
Meet ARIA, the virtual building assistant from BrainBox AI that can carry out tasks like adjust a building’s temperature, or identify a failing piece of equipment, to optimize energy efficiency.
Source: A new virtual AI assistant built on Amazon Bedrock can reduce the carbon footprint of commercial buildings. Here’s how.
AI, Company News / General Interest, Health / Fitness / Wellness
Amazon Blog – 3.26.24
Customers in New York City and greater Los Angeles who need medication to manage flu, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other common conditions can now get their medications delivered to their door within hours.
Source: Amazon Pharmacy now offers Same-Day Delivery in New York City and the L.A. area. Here’s how AI is helping us deliver medication faster.
Company News / General Interest, Startups
Amazon Blog – 3.18.24
When businesses want to see what they can build with Amazon Web Services (AWS), they get their answer inside the AWS Builder Studio, located at Amazon’s newest Manhattan office.
The 8,000 square foot, invite-only space is part showroom, part collaboration space, part prototyping lab. At the Builder Studio, AWS customers and builders get to experience the “art of the possible” and learn about the many different ways AWS technology—including generative AI—can be harnessed.
Source: Inside the 8,000-square-foot studio in NYC where AWS customers are invited to demo and build innovative new products
Company News / General Interest
Amazon Blog – 3.14.24 (3.13.24)
Amazon is one of the top investors in the U.S. economy, and since 2010, we have contributed more than $880 billion to the national gross domestic product (GDP). The investments we make help expand local economies by supporting the creation of direct jobs at Amazon and indirect jobs in fields like construction, health care, retail, and professional services.
Source: 5 ways Amazon is positively impacting small towns across the US
