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Amazon Health Care

Amazon Health Care

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We may soon see Amazon Health Care as part of our Prime Membership. Or something in the healthcare industry at least. Why? Amazon has just made a huge hire with the FDA’s first chief health informatics officer Taha Kass-Hout, according to CNBC.

This is all due to Amazon’s alleged secret health care division. The e-commerce giant has hired Kass-Hout to work alongside former Google X director Babk Parviz in a business development role. Yet no one really knows what it is Taha Kass-Hout is actually going to be doing at Amazon. While his previous employment may lead to some pretty solid guesses as to why Amazon would want him at their company.

Predictions

Amazon Health Care?

Easier access to a customers health records?

Could Amazon soon be selling prescription drugs?

Are Amazon developing their own range of home health hardware? Echo related health hardware?

While accroding to Engadget, Apple are also developing ways to make it easier for people to access medical history. A betting man would be confident to place some dollar on that. CNBC are reporting that medical errors are a huge cause for death in the US. If a person, or medical professional or a patient are able to get a hold of their medical records, easily and quickly, it could be the difference between life or death.

It’s a lot of fun speculating what Amazon are cooking up with Kass-Hout and to be honest. Any one of the speculations that we stated above would be pretty cool from Amazon. Let’s face it. Amazon are no longer just an e-commerce company. They’re a huge tech company, who could probably make anything they wanted. It’s very interesting at least to see why they’ve hired such a huge player in the health industry to work with them. Let’s see how this plays out.

 

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Amazon Tracking Employees

Are Amazon Tracking Employees?

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Amazon Tracking Employees?

In what seems something horrific, Amazon tracking employees is not so positive and positive. Hear us out. Amazon have patented designs for smart wristbands to put on their warehouse employees. The intent is to help their warehouse employees locate products that their computers tell them to locate. To them put them into boxes to then send products to your homes. As an employee wanders around a warehouse full of thousands of products the wristbands will then vibrate to inform them whether to go left or right for example.

Privacy

While this sounds like a fairly harmless piece of tech, there is a glaring worry that this will affect an Amazon warehouse employee’s privacy. As it can detect your location within a warehouse, it could detect when your taking a quick cigarette break when you shouldn’t. It would also be able to detect how long your taking when collecting a customer’s order. Amazon as a company have a right to sack an employee who takes too long collecting orders and takes regular breaks when they shouldn’t. Afterall time is money.

As Amazon have access to all this data, they could get a whole lot of information based around you as a worker. Rather than you as a person. Which has to be taken into regard in regards to whether or not you’re hired. We as humans aren’t just numbers. You may not be the greatest worker, but your work ethic and ability to get on well with others would trump your ability. Unless your terrible. Yet, by just looking at people as just a number and a bunch of data. That is what people are in danger of becoming. A number. Also you’d become almost robotic.

The idea behind the Amazon wristband for employees seems like it would make an employees life easier. However with all of the data available from simple location data, it’s very dangerous what could be done with it.

What are Amazon going to do with it? Who knows. But as time goes on and robots are taking over people’s jobs, are we becoming closer to robots than we would like to think?

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Amazon’s Haunted House?!

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Amazon’s podcast turned tv series ‘Lore’ is launching on Friday, October 13th, which can mean only one thing. Spooky, scary fun! Amazon are launching an immersive, one hour, eight person at a time, haunted house walk in LA to celebrate it’s release echoing the shows thesis ‘The scariest stories are often true”

Rooms in the haunted house will tell some of the creepiest stories about real events that the podcast have covered since the shows launch in 2015, while Amazon picked it up in April 2016.

The haunted house will  be running a week before on October 5th right through until November 12th.

Amazon Becoming A Fully Fledged Movie Studio?

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Amazon has seen to be buying and producing films and hiring indie film studios to distribute their movies in cinemas. But! That is all due to change with it’s next release, with it’s next move edging it closer to a fully fledged movie studio. According to Variety Amazon Studios are distributing Woody Allen’s Wonder Wheel, due out in December, by itself. What does this mean? Well it will have complete control over how the film is released. That’s everything from marketing to the rollout in cinemas.This helps propel Amazon into the stratosphere after the production company won three Oscars in January, Manchester By The Sea took in $62M globally (budgeted at $10M)

 

Amazon’s race to make Alexa smarter

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Amazon bosses are now pushing themselves to the limit to make the Alexa speaker smarter. 

Dave Limp – the man behind Alexa is not satisfied with the the function of the speaker as it is.

He now has thousands of  engineers inside Amazon adding to its capability every day and then another tens of thousands of developers adding to the skills, this means in the coming years Alexa will be significantly smarter that she is now.

Alexa will understand 15000 commands compared to it’s nearest rival which is Google home and that only understands under 400 questions/commands, Alexa will also be able to understand context.

Netflix is in Debt. LOTS OF IT.

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Netflix, everyone loves it, there are some great shows, there are some incredible shows, but it comes at a cost and according to the LA Times. Netflix are in $20 Billion worth of debt. Yes you read that correctly, it’s BILLION with a B!

LA Times are reporting that, Netflix hopes that more original shows will capture more subscribers to fend off competition from Amazon and Hulu by expanding their original programming. Resulting in Netflix churning through cash at an amazing rate. LA Times are reporting that the company is pouring money into prestige projects and expects to spend at least $6Billion this year.  They are betting that debt financing in the near term will create growth and yield big results down the road.

It’s a pretty hefty read but if you want to know more about Netflix and their numbers head on over to the LA Times!

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Amazon Fresh

Amazon buys Whole Foods for $13.7 Billion

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Amazon just bought Whole Foods for $13.7 billion.

This is one of the biggest deals of the year and is a big move for Amazon into grocery.

This means that Amazon is going to be a huge competitor with other retailers, potentially starting the foodpocalpyse and send other grocery brands crashing.

Amazon, which has long eyed the grocery business, will buy the upmarket supermarket for $42 a share, investors greeted the deal as game-changing for the industry, sending shares of rival grocers plunging.

What could this mean for the future consumer?

Lower prices? Amazon has a long history of deferring profits in favour of winning customers with low prices. It could try a similar strategy at Whole Foods, now knocked by some as “Whole Paycheck”.

Techie shopping? Amazon is also interested in how technology can make shopping more efficient. The firm’s Alexa robot maintains shopping lists and Amazon is testing a convenience store in Seattle that operates without check-out lines.

Oynx Smart Walkie Talkie

Onyx – Smart Walkie Talkie

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As a whole, Onyx is a walkie talkie but with an unlimited range and unlimited channels!

You can send voices messages in real time from one Onyx to another over any distance!

As long as your Apple or Android device is connected to the internet, you can talk anywhere!

The Onyx is ultra lightweight, and clips easily to your top, bag, you name it!

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The app is available to download on Apple and Android

Amazon Echo’s Alexa Top 5 Skills will confuse you!

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Here are the Top 5 (out of 10,000) skills:

  • Animal Game (You think of an animal, Alexa has to guess it)
  • Radioplayer
  • The Magic Door game.
  • Harmony for Logitech products.
  • And Meow? Meow is for cats. (You meow, it meows back!)

MEOW?! MEOW?! What?! – Tech confuses us.

bLaZeR666_uk commented about “Meow” that all their cats “come rushing in to see the “new” cat but can’t find it anywhere! lol”

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Bosch Game for Alexa

Amazon Alexa BOSCH Game?!

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Think you have what it takes to step into the shoes of an LAPD detective?
Join Harry Bosch and members of the cast of Bosch, Season 3 in an interactive mystery. A young woman has disappeared and Bosch has given you one day to find her. Avoid false leads and missteps by making the right “detective’s choice” at each fork in the road.

Featuring Titus Welliver, Analeis Lorig, Christian Gehring, and Erich Anderson.

Now get out there and knock on doors…

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