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Scotsman
a day ago
- General
- Scotsman
Scottish charities and schools receive tech donation from Amazon Dunfermline
The Amazon Devices team at the Dunfermline fulfilment centre has donated £10,000 worth of Amazon technology to two Scottish charities and two schools in the area. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... The donation, which includes eight Fire TVs and 35 Fire Tablets, was delivered to Safe Harbour, Friends of Queen Margaret Hospital, Lumphinnans Primary School and Lochgelly High School. The donation aims to support these groups with education, healthcare and community wellbeing by providing essential tech resources. Speaking on the donations, General Manager, Jamie Strain, said: Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'We are committed to supporting charities and schools across Scotland through donations and volunteering. We hope these devices will have a meaningful impact on the teams, helping students with their learning and supporting the essential work done by these incredible organisations.' Safe Harbour and Amazon Jessie Concannon, an Amazon Devices associate from Dunfermline, added: 'It's fantastic to be part of a company that gives back to the community. The devices will be a great resource for both the students and charities, helping them stay connected and access important digital tools.' Melissa Mann, principal teacher from Lochgelly High School who received three Fire TVs and 15 Fire Tablets, said: Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Having access to Fire Tablets and Fire TVs will allow us to provide better support for the students we teach. These devices will make digital learning more engaging and accessible. We are incredibly grateful for Amazon's continued support and commitment to our community.' Community donations and employee volunteering are just two of the ways Amazon supports the communities where it operates. Amazon co-founded The Big House Multibank in Fife with former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown to support to families in need. The Multibank network has now donated more than 7 million surplus goods to over 600,000 families across Scotland, Wales, Greater Manchester, London, Tees Valley and Birmingham. Amazon has supported more than one million students across the UK with free STEM education programmes through Amazon Future Engineer and helps community organisations transport meals and other essentials to families in need through its pro bono logistics programme, Amazon Local Good. Amazon partners with Comic Relief and is the official home of the charity's iconic Red Nose. Together with its employees, customers, and partners, Amazon has raised over £4.8 million to fund projects that support people across the UK, and around the world.
Daily Mirror
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Watch out Sky - new UK rival adds more TV features and is totally free to watch
Freely is back with a big update to its Sky Glass-style TV. The streaming revolution continues to pick up pace with providers trying to woo homes away from traditional ways of watching the telly. Sky recently unveiled its all-new Glass TV, which gets an improved display, easy setup up plus better sound from its built-in speakers and soundbar. Unlike older systems, Sky Glass doesn't need a dish with all content beamed to the pin-sharp 4K display via the internet instead. It's top-rated telly, but those wanting one in their homes do face having to pay a monthly price to use this premium platform. if signing up for a long-term deal sounds like too much of a commitment, there is now another way to stream live and on-demand content and it's totally free to watch. Freely launched last year, and offers a simple way to get your fix of entertainment via the web. Just like Sky Glass, it doesn't require an aerial and everything needed to tune into channels comes built in. When Freely was first announced last summer, it was well behind Sky Glass. There was a very limited channel list, not many manufacturers were onboard, and it lacked some must-have features. Freely has been getting better, but the team behind the service, who also look after Freeview, have just confirmed one of the biggest upgrades to date. Firstly, there will soon be a whole swathe of new screens that will feature Freely. These include models from Philips and JVC. Those tellies will now join Amazon Fire TVs, Bush, Hisense, METZ, Panasonic, Sharp, TCL, TiVo, Toshiba and VIDAA which already have Freely installed. More choice is great news for consumers, but it's not the only new update that's been announced. Freely has confirmed that it's boosting the user experience via three smart updates, including a Backwards TV Guide. As the name suggests, this allows users to scroll back over the past seven days and catch up on anything they might have missed. Then there's an improvement to recommendations with an upgrade called Never Miss. This highlights shows that people are talking about and includes programmes that are coming up or have already aired. Freely says this new feature will continue to evolve introducing new ways to bring live content to the fore across the Freely interface. Finally, there's a change that is similar to Sky's Playlist function on Glass TVs. It's called My List and allows Freely users to save up to 50 favourite shows from the UK's biggest free-to-air broadcasters - all in one place. That means no more endless searching, just instant access TV from UK's leading free-to-air channels, right on the homepage. 'We know viewers love watching live TV and catching up with their favourite programmes soon after broadcast, so we've made it even easier,' said Sarah Milton, Co-Chief Product Officer at Freely. 'Our new features—Backwards TV Guide, Never Miss, and My List—make finding, saving, and jumping back into great content effortless, whether live or on demand. Freely keeps evolving, offering premium features for free that other streaming platforms don't have. And now with Freely becoming available on a wider range of new smart TVs, even more households will be able to enjoy this enhanced free streaming experience.'
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Netflix debuts its generative AI-powered search tool
After hinting at a new AI-powered search experience during its recent earnings call, Netflix officially unveiled the feature at its tech and product event on Wednesday. This new search experience will utilize OpenAI's ChatGPT to provide users with a conversational discovery experience. Users can enter their preferences using natural phrases like 'I want something funny and upbeat' or even more detailed requests, such as 'I want something scary, but not too scary, and maybe a little bit funny, but not haha funny.' The feature is set to roll out this week to iOS users as an opt-in beta. Some subscribers in Australia and New Zealand have already had access to it, as reported by Bloomberg last month. Other competitors are also leveraging generative AI for search. For instance, Amazon has an AI voice search experience on Fire TVs that responds to open-ended inquiries about TV shows and movies. A closer comparison is Tubi's ChatGPT-powered search tool, which answered content-related questions and suggested movies based on a user's specific request. However, Tubi later discontinued the feature, probably because of low adoption. It remains to be seen whether Netflix's new feature will face similar challenges. Additionally, at the tech and product event, the company mentioned plans to use generative AI to update title cards in subscribers' preferred languages. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch at
TechCrunch
07-05-2025
- Business
- TechCrunch
Netflix debuts its generative AI-powered search tool
After hinting at a new AI-powered search experience during its recent earnings call, Netflix officially unveiled the feature at its tech and product event on Wednesday. This new search experience will utilize OpenAI's ChatGPT to provide users with a conversational discovery experience. Users can enter their preferences using natural phrases like 'I want something funny and upbeat' or even more detailed requests, such as 'I want something scary, but not too scary, and maybe a little bit funny, but not haha funny.' The feature is set to roll out this week to iOS users as an opt-in beta. Some subscribers in Australia and New Zealand have already had access to it, as reported by Bloomberg last month. Other competitors are also leveraging generative AI for search. For instance, Amazon has an AI voice search experience on Fire TVs that responds to open-ended inquiries about TV shows and movies. A closer comparison is Tubi's ChatGPT-powered search tool, which answered content-related questions and suggested movies based on a user's specific request. However, Tubi later discontinued the feature, probably because of low adoption. It remains to be seen whether Netflix's new feature will face similar challenges. Additionally, at the tech and product event, the company mentioned plans to use generative AI to update title cards in subscribers' preferred languages.
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Where Will Walmart Stock Be in 1 Year?
Walmart's (NYSE: WMT) stock has rallied nearly 50% over the past 12 months as the S&P 500 rose 6%. The retail giant outperformed the market even as concerns of higher tariffs, sticky inflation, and elevated interest rates dragged down other stocks. Let's see why Walmart weathered those headwinds and if its stock can head even higher in a year. Walmart is one of the few big-box retailers that survived the retail apocalypse of the past two decades. It stayed relevant by renovating its stores, upgrading its e-commerce marketplace, using its brick-and-mortar stores to fulfill online orders, and matching Amazon's prices. It also expanded into more overseas markets and opened more Sam's Club stores to compete with Costco in the warehouse club market. From fiscal 2015 to fiscal 2025 (which ended this January), Walmart's revenue rose at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3% as its EPS grew at a CAGR of 4%. It bought back 17% of its shares over the past decade, and it's a Dividend King that has raised its payout annually for 52 consecutive years. At the end of fiscal 2025, Walmart was serving roughly 270 million customers per week across 10,750 stores and numerous online marketplaces in 19 countries. It's also locking more of its customers into its Walmart+ subscriptions, which provide free shipping and returns, fuel discounts, streaming services through Paramount Plus, as well as other perks -- to counter Amazon's Prime memberships. Walmart even acquired the smart TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion last December as a response to Amazon's Fire TVs and to expand its own connected TV advertising business. That diversification and scale give Walmart an edge against many of its smaller competitors, so it's often considered a reliable stock to hold during bull and bear markets. That's probably why investors still bought the stock as the broader market swooned. In fiscal 2025, Walmart's net sales rose 5.1% -- with Walmart's U.S. sales rising 4.7%, Sam's Club's U.S. sales increasing 4.7%, and Walmart's International sales growing 6.3%. Its adjusted EPS grew 13.1%. For fiscal 2026, Walmart expects its net sales to rise 3% to 4% as its adjusted EPS grows between 0% and 4%. Both growth rates will be throttled by temporary headwinds from its acquisition of Vizio, the lapping of an extra day from its leap year in fiscal 2025, and currency headwinds from a strong dollar. Yet Walmart doesn't seem particularly concerned about tariffs, even though the vast majority of its goods are produced in China and other overseas markets. During its latest conference call in late February, CEO Doug McMillon said, "Tariffs are something we've managed for many years, and we'll just continue to manage that." CFO John Rainey added that "We feel good about our ability" to deal with those incoming tariffs. Walmart, like many other U.S. retailers, will likely try to deal with those tariffs in three ways: leveraging its scale to negotiate lower prices with its overseas suppliers, pre-shipping more overseas products to U.S. warehouses before the tariffs kick in, and gradually passing those costs onto its consumers. Combining all three of those strategies could cushion the blow and prevent it from having to absorb too many of those higher costs. Wall Street analysts seem even more optimistic about Walmart's future than the company's own management. Assuming the macro environment stabilizes, they expect Walmart's adjusted EPS to grow by 5% in fiscal 2026 and 12% in fiscal 2027. Those growth rates are healthy, but Walmart's stock looks expensive at 33 times forward earnings -- presumably because it drew in a lot of investors as a safe haven play over the past year. A year ago, it was only trading at 24 times forward earnings. If Walmart matches analysts' expectations and maintains the same forward multiple, its stock could rise 9% to $97 by the beginning of fiscal 2027 (February 2026). But if its forward price-to-earnings ratio slips to 24, its stock would drop 20% to $71. So, while Walmart is still a well-run business and a sound long-term investment, its upside potential over the next 12 months could be limited by its valuations. Its forward dividend yield of 1.1% also won't impress any income investors, so it would be prudent to wait for a pullback to accumulate more shares of this evergreen retailer. Before you buy stock in Walmart, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Walmart wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. 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