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amazon is opening a prime photo storage to the whole family amazon has added a new feature to the prime photo service it's called the family vault which lets a prime account holder invite five other people to share unlimited photo storage everyone also gets five gigs of storage for video and other files for free now I'm sure some of you with prime subscriptions are watching this and thinking wait I didn't even know I had unlimited photo storage well yeah that's one of the many perks of the $100 yearly Prime membership you'll find all of this inside the Amazon Photos app and you can also manage your photos from the web on amazon.com / photos everyone you invite has a private backup of photos and they can choose which ones are shared with the group in the family vault the idea is that it makes it easier to share photos especially for things like a family vacation so everyone can quickly access the photos and order prints or books of what they want Amazon even lets you make special cards with the photos and delivery is free for Prime members there's another perk instead of scrolling to find the photo you want Amazon is able to use image recognition so you can type in a keyword to find photos with a specific object or person it's similar to how you could search images on google photos but that's not all that's new at Amazon the company is also launching a new type of Kindle paperwhite it's called the manga model targeting fans of the Japanese graphic novels you can find this version on the Japanese Amazon site it has eight times more storage than the normal paperwhite which can get you about 700 volumes of manga it also has a better processor so it can load those graphic heavy pages faster meanwhile Amazon rival eBay is also busy trying new things to stay ahead of the competition such as creating shopping BOTS for facebook Messenger yeah now you can chat with the eBay shop bot as if you didn't have better things to do with your time tell it what you're looking for and it will pull up some suggestions or at least it will attempt to I tried searching for a Pikachu baby costume and it pulled up some adult inflatable elephant costume that's a big fat nope but thanks for trying shopbot that for your tech news update I'm Bridget Carey stay on top of all of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash an update