Amazon's Cyber Monday sale drops prices on tons of its most popular and best-reviewed products. Get all your holiday shopping done now. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. The Sunday scaries don't exist on the day before Cyber Monday . In fact, the only fear you should have right now is that you'll miss out on the best deals on the biggest online shopping day of the year.

Gear Computers Laptops Amazon just unleashed its Cyber Monday laptop deals and it's dropping prices on MacBooks, gaming PCs, and more Whether you need a basic everyday driver or a full-featured gaming PC, Amazon's Cyber Monday laptop can save you cash. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. A laptop is a big investment. Not only do they typically cost a lot of money, but you're committing a machine you'll stare at while you shop, do homework, remote work, game, and pretty much everything else in your online life. Amazon just dropped its Cyber Monday deals on laptops and these are some of the lowest prices we have seen all year.

Grab the Kindle Paperwhite for $125 or upgrade to an even fancier model during this limited Black Friday deal. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Amazon just launched its Black Friday Kindle eReader deals, with every single model in the lineup seeing significant discounts. These are the lowest prices we'll see all year, making now the perfect time to upgrade your e-reader or pick up a gift for the book lover in your life. This is the official start of Amazon's Black Friday sales, so don't wait because they likely won't get any cheaper this year or even early next year.

If your feet are chilly or your nose feels dry, you're going to want to jump on these limited-time Amazon deals on Dreo heaters and humidifiers. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. This is a weird time of year here in Upstate New York and much of the country. I wake up and it's freezing, but then I'm sweating through my hoodie by the time the afternoon rolls around. That's where a space heater comes in handy.

Amazon is removing Just Walk Out tech from all of its Fresh grocery stores in the US, as reported by The Information. The self-checkout system relies on a host of cameras, sensors and good old-fashioned human eyeballs to track what people leave the store with, charging the customers accordingly. The technology has been plagued by issues from the onset. Most notably, Just Walk Out merely presents the illusion of automation, with Amazon crowing about generative AI and the like. Here's where the smoke and mirrors come in.

On Tuesday, Amazon announced Astro, a home robot the company says can help owners keep up with tasks such as home monitoring or keeping in touch with family and friends. "One of the things I love about working at Amazon is inventing the future, and I've spent a lot of time since that day on a team that's imagining how robots can help customers in new ways at home," said Charlie Tritschler, vice president of products at Amazon in a blog post. It's available by invite only for $999.99. Astro takes advantage of both Alexa and Ring, its line of home security offerings. The robot can be set to autonomously roam around your home to check for safety.

In addition to new hardware, Amazon also revealed new Alexa features, including "doorbell concierge," which adds the voice assistant to Ring smart doorbells. The update makes Alexa more conversational when interacting with people at a user's front door, including asking if it can "take a message" or telling a deliveryman where to leave a package. Another new Alexa feature uses AI to mimic celebrity voices. For 99 cents, users can select the voice of a celebrity such as actor Samuel L. Jackson to tell them the weather, set alarms and play music. The feature is set to roll out later this year.

If you're considering getting or giving a smart speaker in the near future, the Echo Dot is a great place to start. It doesn't take up much real estate on the counter, it's relatively easy on the wallet, and it comes loaded with Alexa and her many, many capabilities. But now that there is a new generation of Echo Dots available, should you spring for the latest and greatest? Let's look at the new Dot, what makes it different, and whether it's worth the extra cash. The display on the third-generation Echo Dot with Clock can also display timers and weather.

Self-driving car start-up Aurora announced Thursday that it has raised more than $530 million in funding, from investors including Amazon, Sequoia and the investment arm of energy giant Shell. "This funding and partnership will accelerate our mission of delivering the benefits of self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly," Aurora said. Aurora's management has a lot of experience in the automotive industry. The company's CEO and co-founder, Chris Urmson, is the former CTO of self-driving cars at Alphabet, which owns the autonomous vehicle firm Waymo. Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson led the design and launch of the Tesla Model X, according to Aurora's website. Drew Bagnell, Aurora's chief technology officer and co-founder, helped found Uber's Advanced Technology Center.

The cloud is no longer just a data dump--it's an AI battleground, and Amazon wants to beat all comers into submission. The ethereal digital realm that we know as the cloud started as a remote space to store files and run some code. Put the two together--data and algorithms--and you have the ideal place to run AI, letting it chomp through information and do smart things with it. Big tech firms know that, and as we've explained before, competition has become fierce to provide AI on remote servers as a service to developers. Now the cloud computing leader, Amazon Web Services, has AI-savvy firms like Microsoft and Google nipping at its heels.