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Amazon’s second Prime Day of 2023 is here, and it runs October 10-11. Yes, that’s right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November, but if you shop early, there are some good deals to be found on TVs, audio gear, laptops and especially Amazon’s own branded items.

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Yes, Amazon is having a second Prime Day event, this time in the middle of October. The company did the same thing last year, positioning itself right before the holiday shopping season really kicks off in November.

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The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 4 hits a couple of my soft spots. It’s a hybrid PC with an inventive, risk-taking design, and it includes an E Ink display. And not just any E Ink display, but one of the only color E Ink displays I’ve seen in the real world. The other side of the display is a 13-inch OLED panel, which…

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As authors grapple with the anxiety of an impending AI takeover in the publishing world, Amazon wants you to know that it’s taking those concerns very seriously. The bookstore-turned-commerce giant has revealed a new self-publishing limit that cannot exceed three books per day.

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At Amazon’s Fall Devices Event, the pressure was on to come up with a hit product that would stun the world the way Alexa and the Echo speaker did a decade ago. The event, held at Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington, VA was Amazon’s first in-person event since before Covid and the first chance the company has had to have the…

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The back-to-school season has a different feel now than in the pre-pandemic days. Today, hybrid learning is a given for many students, and having a reliable computer is table stakes for even grade schoolers, not just high school and college students.

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Amazon has removed half a dozen AI-generated books published under a living author’s name without her consent following a social media backlash. Though the misleading content was finally removed on Tuesday, the author, veteran publishing industry writer Jane Friedman, worries that a lack of clear, coherent policies at…