Fast Company

Amazon Gets Physical

THE E-COMMERCE GIANT IS NOW FULLY ENTRENCHED IN THE REAL WORLD. HERE’S WHERE.
At the Amazon Go store, set to open to the public in Seattle this year, customers will be able to simply walk off with merchandise. (Their accounts will be billed automatically.)

TECH HARDWARE

Kindle: Popular for a decade and currently in its eighth generation, the e-reader continues to have few rivals (mainly Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Kobo).

Fire OS devices: The company’s Fire TV set-top boxes and Fire sticks (cheaper, pared-down versions of

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Fast Company

Fast Company2 min readPopular Culture & Media Studies
Finding Your People
THE DESIRE TO FEEL SUPported, included, and in community with others, online or IRL, is universal. But many huge social media apps today seem more adept at making users feel on the outs—or worse. Algorithmic and content-moderation changes at X (forme
Fast Company1 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
09 Openai
THE COMPANY THAT dented the universe in 2022 continues to leave its mark. OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model (LLM), released in March 2023, is considered 10 times more powerful than its predecessor, discerning context and nuance better, as well as d
Fast Company1 min read
37 Gogoro
BEFORE ELECTRIC VEHICLES BECAME mainstream, Horace Luke, cofounder and CEO of Taiwan-based company Gogoro, had the idea of changing how people live in modern cities by creating a network of electric scooters with swappable batteries. Since its foundi

Related Books & Audiobooks