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Drone discount: Save $52 on the Holy Stone HS720 on Amazon

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Amazon is offering a whopping $52 off the Holy Stone HS720, a great drone for video and photo capture that’s also ideal for inexperienced flyers.  The Holy Stone HS720 is a drone that comes with a number of user friendly features including GPS assisted flight, a camera with image stabilization and long lasting batteries. In … Read more

‘Fallout’ series from Amazon appoints showrunners, Jonathan Nolan to direct premiere

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The live-action TV series based on the post-apocalyptic world of the “Fallout” video games has taken a big step closer to production as Variety reports that Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are now attached to serve as co-showrunners. Robertson-Dworet is best known for her work on the 2018 “Tomb Raider” film starring Alicia Vikander and … Read more

‘Alexa, take me to the moon’: Amazon, Cisco Webex to fly on Artemis 1

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Amazon’s Alexa has a new feature: it can fly you to the moon. The virtual assistant, which is more commonly used (on Earth) to control devices around your home, is set to launch on a journey around the moon aboard NASA’s Artemis 1 mission later this year. Together with Cisco’s Webex video conferencing platform, Alexa … Read more

Arduous trip through Amazon brings COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable groups | Science

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A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 374, Issue 6575. “Vaccine! Let’s vaccinate everyone!” Shouts go up from the steep and muddy banks of the Iriri River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon forest. A team of doctors, nurses, and nongovernmental organization (NGO) workers are hauling plastic foam boxes from a small … Read more

‘The Expanse’ is back on Amazon Prime for sixth and final season

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It’s here … and we almost wish it wasn’t. The sixth and final season of “The Expanse” is currently showing on Amazon Prime Video.  So, sit back, strap in, get comfortable in your crash couch, disengage the docking clamp, fire thrusters, engage the Epstein drive and ready “the juice” … this is the awesome, high-octane, … Read more

Amazon rainforest: Brazil approves gold mining exploration in pristine region

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Gold mining in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira would drive deforestation and increase mercury pollution, say ecologists Environment 16 December 2021 By Luke Taylor An Indigenous village in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil Paulo Lopes/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News The Brazilian government has approved gold exploration in a pristine expanse of Amazon rainforest that … Read more

The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it

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We have been hearing warnings about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest for decades, but experts say a catastrophic tipping point is now just over the horizon. Are they right? And if so, what can we do to pull things back? Environment 8 December 2021 By Graham Lawton The Ecuadorian Amazon Tropical Herping IT IS … Read more