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Amazon Prime will no longer let clothes shoppers ‘try before you buy’ after this month
11 Jan

Amazon Prime will no longer let clothes shoppers ‘try before you buy’ after this month

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Amazon is shutting down its Try Before You Buy Prime program at the end of January. The move, first reported by , was announced with a notice at the top of the Prime Try Before You Buy page, which puts its last day in effect as January 31. The service has been available to members since 2018, when it was . With it, you could choose up to six items to try on, and send back whatever you didn’t want within a week for free. You’d only be charged for the items you decided to keep, and you could pick…
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Amazon sued for alleged Prime delivery disparities in two majority-Black DC neighborhoods
04 Dec

Amazon sued for alleged Prime delivery disparities in two majority-Black DC neighborhoods

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Washington, DC’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing Amazon for allegedly excluding certain ZIP codes from enjoying Amazon Prime’s speedy delivery. Schwalb claims that, beginning in 2022, Amazon stopped using its in-house delivery systems for Wards 7 and 8 while still charging those customers the same amount for a Prime subscription. According to Census Reporter, and are 83 percent and 82 percent Black, respectively.According to the suit, instead of using its own trucks, Amazon relied on UPS and USPS carriers to make deliveries — a decision that resulted in longer delivery times. Only 24 percent of packages to these Wards…
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Amazon Music now has its own version of Spotify Wrapped
04 Dec

Amazon Music now has its own version of Spotify Wrapped

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It’s that festive time of year again. All of the algorithm elves living inside our favorite music-streaming apps have begun cranking out personalized “best of” lists in the vein of Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay. This year, however, there’s a new kid on the block. Amazon Music just rolled out .It’s called Amazon Music Delivered, which I guess is a play on the fact that the company delivers lots of packages in real life? In any event, the yearly recap displays all of your favorite songs, artists and podcasts from throughout the year. The tool will even show off…
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Amazon will now use AI to recap what you’re watching
05 Nov

Amazon will now use AI to recap what you’re watching

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Have you ever started a show, stopped mid-season and then struggled to get back into it because you have no idea exactly where you stopped watching or what was going on? Amazon just might have you covered. The company just launched a new tool for Prime Video that uses AI to generate personalized recaps.X-Ray Recaps uses generative AI to create “brief, easy-to-digest summaries” of entire TV seasons, single episodes or even portions of episodes. All of this is personalized, so the recap will go up to the “exact minute of where you are watching.” The company promises “short textual snippets…
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Amazon Prime ‘free’ games for November include Dishonored and Guardians of the Galaxy
03 Nov

Amazon Prime ‘free’ games for November include Dishonored and Guardians of the Galaxy

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It's the start of a new month and, as always, Amazon is set to give away a ton of PC games to Prime members. Once again, it's a pretty strong lineup. There's a broad range of offerings from immersive sims and classic platformers to splashy action-adventure titles and chaotic cooking simulators.Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (one of our ), Mafia: Definitive Edition (a 2020 remake of the 2002 original), Dishonored, Elite Dangerous and Super Meat Boy are among the more well-known titles on the list. Overcooked is brilliant fun and, in my opinion, a perfect relationship test. Meanwhile, if the…
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Amazon Prime ‘free’ games for October include BioShock Remastered, Doom Eternal and A Plague Tale: Innocence
14 Oct

Amazon Prime ‘free’ games for October include BioShock Remastered, Doom Eternal and A Plague Tale: Innocence

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Amazon has revealed the extensive list of PC games that Prime members can snap up at no extra cost in October. It's a very solid line up with a little something for everyone, including big hitters, killer indies and, since it's spooky season, a cauldron full of horror games.BioShock Remastered, Doom Eternal (one of our favorite games of 2020) and  are among the most immediately recognizable names on the list. , the terrific  and the icky  are all perhaps worth checking out if you haven't already done so. Nineties kids may be interested in playing , which is based on…
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Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up
12 Sep

Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up

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“Amazon prides itself on being an ambitious and innovative company, but it’s making quite a problem for itself with its air freight cargo growth,” Archer says. “If Amazon is serious about climate progress, that’s a really easy place to start: stop flying so much.”Amazon is no stranger to climate criticism. Its overall emissions have skyrocketed since it rolled out the Climate Pledge in 2019, despite an incremental drop in 2023. Last year, Amazon lost the support of a key UN-backed global climate organization, the Science Based Targets Initiative, for not meeting certain deadlines to set targets to reduce emissions; it…
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Etsy just announced a loyalty program that’s (sort of) similar to Amazon Prime
31 Jul

Etsy just announced a loyalty program that’s (sort of) similar to Amazon Prime

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Etsy just announced an upcoming loyalty program for buyers called Etsy Insider. This is the first-ever program of its type on the platform and the company begins testing in September. Select customers will receive an invite for the service as it gets closer to launch.So what do you get? It’s sort of like Amazon Prime, but without the streaming video and all of that other stuff. Etsy Insider offers free shipping and access to discounts. Pricing has yet to be announced, but COO Raina Moskowitz says the monthly fee will be close to the cost of a latte. So, anywhere…
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Amazon is giving away 15 free video games ahead of Prime Day 2024, including Star Wars: KotOR 2
27 Jun

Amazon is giving away 15 free video games ahead of Prime Day 2024, including Star Wars: KotOR 2

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Amazon Prime Day 2024 will be here next month, but the company has already pushed out its latest batch of free(ish) games that Prime members can snag right now (there are also a number of regular early Prime Day deals live today, too). In the run up to Prime Day on July 16 and 17, Prime members can grab 15 PC games at no extra cost, and there are actually some pretty groovy titles in the mix.On July 11, you can scoop up Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 — The Sith Lords for the Amazon Games App. This…
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Amazon Prime’s ‘Yakuza’ adaptation launches October 25
04 Jun

Amazon Prime’s ‘Yakuza’ adaptation launches October 25

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Amazon has announced its latest series coming to Prime Video, and gamers might recognize it. The streamer is releasing Like A Dragon: Yakuza, a live-action adaptation of the Yakuza SEGA game series. The Japanese Original show will premiere worldwide in two batches of three episodes on October 25 and November 1, 2024.SEGA launched Yakuza in 2005, with over 20 other titles and spinoffs joining it in the years since. Amazon bills Like A Dragon: Yakuza as a "crime-suspense-action series, follows the life, childhood friends, and repercussions of the decisions of Kazuma Kiryu, a fearsome and peerless Yakuza warrior with a…
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