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Amazon has hundreds of thousands of robots in its warehouses, but that doesn’t mean all of its robotic initiatives are a success story. The ecommerce giant has halted its Blue Jay warehouse robotics project just months after unveiling the tech, as originally reported by Business Insider and confirmed by TechCrunch. Blue Jay, a multi-armed robot designed to sort and move packages, was unveiled in October for use in the company’s same-day delivery facilities. At the time, the company was testing the robots at a facility in South Carolina and said it took Amazon significantly less time to develop Blue Jay…
Just after 8:00 pm on Sunday night, Evie Magazine’s first live event was finally getting started. The women’s magazine, which was founded in 2019 and once described itself as a “conservative Cosmo,” welcomed eager fans to celebrate the publication, generally, and its new issue, specifically, during New York Fashion Week at the Standard Hotel’s Boom in Chelsea.Guests lined up outside, hugging fur coats around formal dresses, as hosts scanned a list for their names. One blonde woman begged for access to the VIP section; an event planner ran downstairs to tell her coworkers that someone’s hair had caught on fire.…
A trifecta of factors led television viewing in January to a record 12-month high, according to Nielsen’s monthly gauge report.The report, which provides a snapshot of total TV and streaming consumption, revealed that overall TV viewing was up +3.7% compared to the last month of 2025. This was due to win-or-go-home sporting situations, returning broadcast dramas, and colder winter temperatures that kept audiences indoors.The cable segment was the biggest beneficiary during this period, seeing a +9% increase in viewership compared to December. It also had the largest monthly viewing increase across Nielsen’s The Gauge, rising +1.0% to 21.2% from December’s…
Google on Wednesday introduced its latest entry-level Pixel smartphone. The $499 Pixel 10a launches with new AI software capabilities and minor hardware updates. The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5. It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian. The Pixel 10a features a completely flat back, which means the camera bar blends with the back of the phone and lies flat when you place it down on a surface. Google notes that the smartphone’s 6.3-inch Actua display is 11% brighter than the Pixel 9a. It also has faster charging than its predecessor, with more than…
After years spent finding and investigating data breaches, Greg Pollock admits that when he comes across yet another exposed database full of passwords and Social Security numbers, “I come to it with some fatigue.” But Pollock, director of research at the cybersecurity company UpGuard, says he and his colleagues found an exposed, publicly accessible database online in January that appeared to contain a trove of Americans’ sensitive personal data so massive that his weariness lifted and they sprang to action to validate the finding.The UpGuard researchers point out that not all of the records represent unique, valid information, but the…
A new ads leader is on the way to Roku City.Today, Roku announced that Patrick Harris will join the company as svp, global media revenue. With the position, Harris becomes Roku’s new ads leader, reporting to Charlie Collier, president, Roku Media. Harris is based in New York and begins on March 9.The appointment comes after the company’s former ads leader, Jay Askinasi, exited Roku late last year to join Paramount.In the role, Harris is responsible for the “full scope of Roku’s global advertising revenue growth and performance efforts, as well as its media innovations,” according to the company. He is…
Only days after Spotify announced its foray into physical book sales, which included an audiobook feature that lets you sync your listening and your offline reading progress, Amazon-owned Audible has launched a feature that brings ebooks together with audiobooks. The company announced on Wednesday an “immersion reading” feature in the Audible app, which allows readers who have both the ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries to read the ebook’s text while the audio plays. The feature also lets users switch between the different formats across devices. While in the “Read & Listen” mode,…
Kidde has become the best-known name in the world of smart smoke detectors—a relatively low bar given how few people know the brand of their smoke detector. Still, you’ll find Kidde recommended by reviewers and customers across the internet with surprising enthusiasm, which has only increased since the brand started collaborating with Ring and Amazon, making it an easy add-on to Alexa-powered smart homes.Until now, if you wanted a Kidde smart smoke alarm connected to your other devices, one that would send you alerts by Ring app, you could only choose a hardwired model. Anyone who wanted something battery-powered from…
The social influence publisher ATTN: appointed former BuzzFeed and Complex Networks executive Edgar Hernandez as its first chief commercial officer.Hernandez, who started Feb. 17, will oversee the company’s sales organization and lead its go-to-market strategy across branded content, agency services, intellectual property, and social media partnerships. The hire comes as the media company and creative agency looks to accelerate growth following its recent return to independent ownership.“A lot of publishers have tried to transition into a social and creative agency and failed,” Hernandez told ADWEEK. “It’s very hard to be in the publisher business—at ATTN:, the creative work and the…
Marketing is one of the few operations no industry can afford to ignore, which is why we have a veritable host of AI-powered marketing tools being shoved into marketers’ faces today. All the social platforms, from Facebook and Instagram to TikTok, and major incumbents like Microsoft and Google, to content-generation startups like Jasper and Copy.ai, offer AI tools that claim to make marketers’ lives easier in uncountable ways. That was partly why I was confused to see yet another marketing AI startup entering the fray: San Francisco-based Kana just came out of stealth with a suite of AI agents that…
Those are the kinds of refinements Google has made on the Pixel 10a. The pOLED display is nearly identical, except it can now reach 3,000 nits of peak brightness versus 2,700 nits on the 9a. The glass covering the display uses Corning’s Gorilla Glass 7i instead of the aging Gorilla Glass 3, for better scratch resistance.The battery capacity remains 5,100 mAh, but Google has upped charging speeds to 30 watts when plugging in, and 10 watts for wireless charging. Google skipped the Pixelsnap magnetic Qi2 charging here, a feature the company debuted on its flagship Pixel 10 series. Apple is…
Cathay Home is hardly a household name. The New York-based textile distributor has been shifting bedding through Target, Nordstrom and Bed Bath & Beyond for years. Last May, the company filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a refreshed logo on its “Swift Home” line of pillows, mattresses and sheets. The name had been in use for a decade. The original mark was filed in 2015, registered without incident in 2016, and renewed just last month. Perfectly unremarkable branding for a perfectly unremarkable bedding company.There was just one problem. The new logo rendered the word “Swift” in…
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk. The partnership will see the two companies collaborating to explore how World Labs’ models — AI systems that can generate and reason about immersive 3D environments — can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases. The deal is part of a larger round for World Labs, according to Autodesk, which declined to disclose further details. World Labs, which emerged from stealth in 2024 with $230 million at a $1 billion valuation, is reportedly now in talks to…
The build quality is exceptional, as is to be expected, with a hint of flex in the lid and keyboard. You can even open the device with just one finger now, something the XPS laptops of the past have always struggled with.Get the OLEDPhotograph: Luke LarsenThere’s a bit of an issue with how Dell configures the displays on the XPS 14. The base configuration comes with just a very standard 1920 x 1200 LCD display, despite it costing $1,699. This is a pretty serious downgrade from the mini-LED display offered on the 14-inch MacBook Pro, which is sharper, more colorful,…
I just paid 53 clients of my agency, Acadia, their share of the six figure sum in rebates we received for media purchased in 2025.Not all of Acadia’s clients were repaid; they had to qualify based on a rubric that includes timing of the buy, amount spent, the date the client was onboarded, among other factors.But I did this to make a statement at a time when an uncomfortable portion of agency margin is coming from pocketing media rebates that belong to our clients. Industry studies estimate that rebates and “non-transparent incentives” represent 3% to 10% of total spend on digital…
Indian AI company Sarvam plans to bring its newly released AI models to users by deploying them on Nokia feature phones, cars and its own smart glasses. The company, backed by the likes of Lightspeed, PeakXV, and Khosla Ventures, said at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi that it is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline. The company is teaming up with HMD to bring a conversational AI assistant to Nokia and HMD phones. A video demo showed a user clicking…