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We’re just a few weeks away from Amazon Prime Day 2022 – the online retailer’s yearly discount event – but it might not be the only one it hosts in 2022. Usually, the Prime member-exclusive sale takes place around the middle of the year, this year falling on July 12 and 13 . But according to leaked notices sent to Amazon retailers, we might see another happen in “Q4" later this year. The notice ( via Insider ) sees Amazon asking retailers to submit lightning deals by July 22 for what it’s calling 'Prime Fall'. Lightning deals are limited-time savings on items that appear throughout Prime Day, encouraging shoppers to hang around on Amazon in hopes of benefitting from one of these high-demand deals. Amazon has yet to announce anything publicly about Prime Fall, but you can be sure we'll be on the lookout for any and all of the best tech deals as they materialize. That being said, Prime Day 2 might not be a bargain. Analysis: More Prime days might not mean more de...

Amazon's new warehouse robot looks like a Roomba , but lifts like an Olympian. The company's first fully-autonomous robot arrives a decade after Amazon bought robot coordination and fulfillment company Kiva and made its first nearly billion-dollar bet on robotic automation. Amazon now employs roughly 200,000 robots across its 1,137 fulfillment centers but, up until now, the bots have never worked freely alongside human Amazon workers. Proteus, though, is different. In a release on the new bot , Amazon explained that Proteus was built for autonomy and to work around employees. Amazon also released a video showing Proteus in action. Looking like a giant iRobot Roomba, but with friendly, monochrome eyes blinking in the front, the flat robot rolls under an Amazon GoCart stuffed full of products (basically a product cage). The robot rolls to what one assumes is the center space under the cart, does a 90-degree spin, and then lifts the entire cart off the ground. Amazon d...

The next time you go on a cruise, you could be enjoying high-speed Wi-Fi provided by Starlink , the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk and SpaceX . Cruise line Royal Caribbean has submitted a filing to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting that Starlink be approved for use on moving vehicles (via PC Mag ). In the filing, the company's Vice President John Maya says that “working with Space X Services Inc., we believe we have identified a true next-generation solution for our vessels.” Currently, Starlink is available in over 20 countries, including parts of the US, UK, and Australia. Most recently the service added Ukraine to the regions it supports in an effort to keep citizens in the war-torn country online. Analysis: Travelling by the Starlink  You’ll find plenty of complaints online about Starlink internet if you go looking, from astronomers concerned about the disruption it could bring to the night sky to those who just aren’t fans of ...