Amazon continues to dominate tech news with its new business ventures, gadgets, and services. Tech sites continually report on new Amazon updates, with an increasingly concerning theme of the gadgets gone wrong.
The BBC, for example, reported on Amazon's warehouse robots. Initially created in order to increase efficiency in Amazon's enormous stock rooms, the robots have actually led to an increase in serious injuries in stockrooms with them in use. An investigation found that injury rates are about 50 percent higher in stockrooms with robots as opposed to those without. Some attribute this to the rising in expectations for productivity levels in humans compared to robots, and the confining of human workers to one workstation.
CNET reports on two different new Amazon services: the Amazon Ring Drone Camera, which has the capability of undocking, flying into any room, and recording footage of, for example, a possible break-in. Critics say the camera doesn't offer nearly enough benefits for its intrusion of privacy, and has the potential for disastrous data breaches and leaks.
Another Amazon invention will scan users' palms to allow them to pay at stores, using the veins of their hands and wrists to identify them. This new biometric technology will be put into use in Amazon Go locations in Seattle.
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