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The Ring Outdoor Camera Pro, like the other new products, use AI to tune their video over the first few weeks.

Could AI-powered surveillance cameras keep your home safe?

Amazon’s latest 4K cameras with ‘Retinal Vision’ come with AI features that will cost you $300 per year.

  • Tim Biggs

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Larry Ellison briefly became the world’s richest person thanks to the AI-powered growth of his company, Oracle.

The college dropout who just became the world’s richest person

Larry Ellison’s success was boosted by a close relationship with Donald Trump and has been accompanied by a well-documented history of lavish living.

  • Diana Li, Brody Ford and Anders Melin
The Colorsoft is great for comics but not as good for black and white text.

Not black and white: Colour Kindle is pretty but imperfect

Amazon’s first colour Kindle has arrived in Australia, bringing with it the ability to read comics and other multi-hued books on a glare-free e-ink screen.

  • Tim Biggs
The AI craze has surprised Wall Street forecasters and spurred a race among strategists to keep up with a sharemarket rally.

America’s $6.8 trillion monster has a China problem

The world’s most valuable company again passed its Wall Street test, but there’s a big hole in its numbers.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb? The short answer is yes… but you need the long answer to win the game of online reviews.

Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb? How to win the game of online reviews

Swaths of studies have shown the flaws of online reviews are rampant. But there’s one way they can still be useful.

  • The Economist
Amazon is launching Amazon Haul, which will sell hundreds of thousands of products under $25 to go head to head with ultra-cheap online retailers Temu and Shein.

Amazon launches its own ‘trusted’ version of Temu in Australia. Here’s what we know

Amazon is introducing Haul, which will sell thousands of products under $25 to go head-to-head with ultra-cheap online retailers Temu and Shein.

  • Jessica Yun
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Markets are getting increasingly jittery as they brace for a range of scenarios.

The multitrillion-dollar ‘bubble’ that could sink markets

Unimaginable sums of money are being sunk into AI by some of the world’s most valuable companies. Is this a re-run of the 1990s dot-com and tech bubbles?

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Tesla chief Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos were mentioned specifically as billionaires who should do more to help solve the food crisis.

NBN Co snubs Musk, inks satellite deal with Bezos’ Amazon

The US tech giant will provide high-speed broadband to hundreds of thousands of Australian users from next year.

  • David Swan
Yarra mayor Stephen Jolly

Enthusiasm leaves Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly in the temporary naughty corner

The Jolly band of independent councillors decided to release a newsletter announcing their grand plans. It set off alarm bells within the council.

  • Stephen Brook, Kishor Napier-Raman and Gemma Grant
Once Jeff Bezos returns from his honeymoon with Lauren Sánchez, he will return to his other love: Blue Origin.

Jeff Bezos 2.0: New wife, newish job, old vision

The newlywed Amazon founder’s semi-retirement plan is to live a childhood dream without regrets.

  • The Economist

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