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Amazon has slashed the price of the flagship Bowers & Wilkins Px8 noise-cancelling headphones by 36%, bringing them down to $479 from their original price. The discount currently applies to the Royal Burgundy colorway, though stock at this price is limited.
Several U.S. states that previously granted multi-decade tax exemptions to lure data center investments from Amazon, Meta and Google are now reconsidering or rolling back those deals. The reversal follows growing public backlash over the facilities' strain on local resources and limited job creation relative to the tax revenue forgone.
Amazon Prime Video has rolled out an AI-driven visual effects feature that adjusts actors' lip movements to match dubbed audio tracks, starting with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall's first two seasons. The company says the tool blends AI and VFX to sync mouth movements with human-translated dialogue, and plans to bring it to season 3 in December and more titles later.
Corning shares jumped 8% after announcing a multibillion-dollar partnership with Verizon to build fiber-optic cables for AI data centers, extending its 2025 gain to 90%. Qualcomm also rose after disclosing it issued Amazon warrants worth up to $4 billion in stock as part of a deal where AWS will buy up to $60 billion in Qualcomm server chips, with revenue starting in the December quarter. The news lifted other AI infrastructure stocks including Intel, AMD, HPE and Coherent.
Workers' rights group LaborLab has released new tools letting employees see which consultants and law firms their employers hire to resist unionization efforts, and how much money is being spent. The launch highlights a roughly $1.7 billion industry of union avoidance specialists that, per Labor Department data, about 75% of employers rely on when facing organizing drives.
A new nationwide class-action lawsuit filed against Amazon alleges the company routinely failed to provide basic workplace accommodations for pregnant employees. Advocates say the suit follows nearly 200 calls in 2026 to a pregnancy rights hotline from Amazon workers reporting similar problems obtaining accommodations on the job.
Amazon has reduced the price of Netgear's Orbi 770 Series tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh system from $549.99 to $449.99, an 18% cut. The system spans 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands on one unified network, offers combined speeds up to roughly 11 Gbps, and covers about 5,500 to 8,000 square feet depending on the bundle size.
Amazon has cut the price of the Tapo MagCam C460 wireless outdoor security camera to $84.99 from its $119.99 list price, matching its lowest recorded price. The battery-powered camera features a magnetic mount, 4K recording, color night vision, and AI-based alerts for people, pets, and vehicles.
Amazon is selling the XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser portable projector for $539, a $170 cut from its $709 list price. The 24% discount matches the lowest price the device has hit, previously only available during Prime Day.
Amazon is selling Anker's compact Nano Laptop Docking Station for $111.99, a 25% cut from its $149.99 list price. The dock offers 13 ports total, including a removable 6-in-1 hub, and supports triple monitors via dual HDMI and one DisplayPort output.
PyPI experienced intermittent 502 and 503 errors on files.pythonhosted.org for about two weeks in August 2026, breaking package installations for some users. Investigation traced the issue to a Fastly canary deployment that misconfigured a single cache node, plus separate longstanding bugs in PyPI's Fastly setup around origin fallback and range requests. Both issues were resolved, with downloads fully restored by August 28.
An Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767-300 overran the runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, tearing through a chain-link fence and striking a ground crew and an SUV before stopping just feet from a lot of parked Tesla Cybercabs. Five people were killed in the crash. Elon Musk's only public response so far has been a one-word tweet, 'Weird.'