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Kindle Scribe (2024) review: nothing to write home about

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Verge Score

Amazon’s finally added a key feature to the Scribe, but it has a long way to go before it’s actually useful.

Sheena Vasani
Here are 40 last-minute gifts you can still nab before ChristmasHere are 40 last-minute gifts you can still nab before Christmas
Quentyn Kennemer and Sheena Vasani
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2024) review: slightly larger, slightly faster, slightly better

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Verge Score

Performance upgrades and screen improvements make the new Paperwhite’s minor updates feel more substantial.

Andrew Liszewski
10 great shows to stream on Amazon Prime Video from 2024

This year’s Prime Video streaming content was led by adaptations and spinoffs like Fallout and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Emma Roth
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Musk “cock-blocked” Bezos at Trump dinner.

The New York Times says president Musk “was not initially expected to be part of the dinner but joined as it was underway.” Images originally shared on a now deleted Instagram story from a person who is reportedly “at Mar-a-lago a lot,” described the scene as follows:

“At 8:30 PM Musk appears out of nowhere and sits himself down and Bezos looks completely caught off guard and uncomfortable like he had been cock-blocked... The tension between Musk and Bezos known rivals is palpable as they do their best to engage politely but clearly have no love for each other...”

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“My rocket is so much bigger!”
Image via Kali Hays
The delusion of Amazon HaulThe delusion of Amazon Haul
Mia Sato
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Amazon goes into heavy detail about its new packaging.

When it launched a new lineup of Kindles this fall, Amazon also mentioned a new packaging design with more recycled fiber content, less ink, and tactile-marked QR codes for instructions instead of paper.

Amazon also points to removing more plastic from packaging and cutting weight overall to reduce emissions, which can still be a problem, especially near warehouses.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Taiwan considers Amazon’s Project Kuiper.

Taipei wants to make its communications networks less vulnerable to Chinese attack. Starlink isn’t an option because of Musk’s business ties to China and his company’s refusal to relinquish control in a joint venture. And Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation of low Earth satellites isn’t up to snuff, according to technology minister Wu Cheng-wen:

“We found that their bandwidth is too small for real applications,” the minister said about OneWeb. “So far as I know, the company is in financial problems at this moment, so they have a [delay] in developing the second generation satellites.

Bezos’ Kuiper is still just a promise but is expected to begin offering service from its constellation of low Earth orbit satellites next year.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
AWS is investing billions more in Ohio.

Amazon now says it plans to invest $10 billion to “help meet rapidly growing demand for cloud computing and AI,” up from a $7.8 billion figure announced in 2023.