The death of retail is greatly exaggerated

 I’ve been thinking a lot about retail these days and I’ve been connecting the dots between…

OpenAI sets benchmark for sentiment analysis using an efficient mLSTM

 The researchers over at OpenAI were able to use a recurrent mLSTM character-level model trained on…

Amazon debuts AmazonFresh Pickup, drive-up groceries delivered to your trunk

 Amazon’s grocery efforts just got a new level of convenience for shoppers: AmazonFresh Pickup, a drive-in…

Amazon’s retail ambitions include furniture and appliances, plus groceries in India

 Amazon’s brick-and-mortar retail plans currently focus on its ongoing roll-out of physical book stores, as well…

What’s next for books?

 I like Digital Reader editor Nate Hoffelder. He is one of the few bloggers about publishing…

Amazon hints at Prime sales in latest filing

 Amazon Prime has driven growth for the e-commerce company for years now. But Amazon has traditionally…

What happens when you dump the App Store?

 In what amounts to one of the purest and most interesting experiments in assessing value of…

Amazon’s Rekognition learns to guess your age

 We know how old your friends think you are. Heck, we even know how old Microsoft thinks…