Amazon Prime Air Delivery Drones Revealed By CEO Jeff Bezos
Amazon offering delivery on Sunday for your buys was only the beginning. In an interview with Charlie Rose on Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos revealed Prime Air, a drone-based delivery service. According to Bezos, Prime Air would be able to get customers their products only a half-hour after they click the “buy” button. Prime Air was unveiled to Rose and “60 Minutes” as a surprise, the secret project being part of Amazon’s busy R&D department. The drones will be capable of delivering items up to 5 pounds in weight, which Bezos said account for 86 percent of…
Is ‘Fast & Furious’ in limbo with Paul Walker’s death?
The Fast & Furious franchise has always been as much about family as it has been about street racing. So what happens now that a key family member is gone? As friends and celebrities said goodbye to Paul Walker, who died Saturday in a fiery car crash, fans and analysts pondered the future of his most famous franchise. While Universal Pictures has announced no changes in the seventh Fast & Furious installment, it faces a macabre decision: How does the series move forward? Analysts say the survival of the franchise may rest in how gracefully the studio handles the tragedy…
Cinq pays d’Afrique de l’Est se lancent vers une union monétaire
Le Burundi, le Kenya, l’Ouganda, la Tanzanie et le Rwanda ont signé samedi 30 novembre à Kampala un protocole d’accord instaurant une union monétaire entre leurs pays, préalable à la création d’une monnaie unique. Les cinq pays d’Afrique de l’Est, réunis au sein de la Communauté d’Afrique de l’Est (EAC), sont engagés depuis plusieurs années dans la construction d’un marché unique qui, sur le modèle de l’Union européenne (UE), rassemblerait quelque 135 millions de citoyens, mais peine encore à se concrétiser. Outre le principe de l’union monétaire, entériné samedi à l’occasion d’un sommet des chefs d’Etat de l’EAC, ce marché unique porte sur une union douanière, censée voir le jour dès…
White House meets goals for HealthCare.gov, but more work ahead
(Reuters) – Two months after the disastrous launch of a website that is a key component of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, administration officials said on Sunday they had met their goal of getting the HealthCare.gov site running smoothly but warned that it needs more fixes. Obama adviser Jeffrey Zients said a five-week emergency “tech surge” had doubled the capacity of the online health insurance portal that is crucial to helping millions of people shop for insurance plans, while making it more responsive and less prone to errors. The administration said the effort’s key improvement was to increase HealthCare.gov’s capacity to 50,000 simultaneous users,…
Thai protesters step up action, PM forced to leave building
(Reuters) – About 30,000 protesters launched a “people’s coup” on Thailand’s government on Sunday, swarming state agencies in violent clashes, taking control of a state broadcaster and forcing the prime minister to flee a police compound. But after a day of skirmishes between protesters hurling stones and petrol bombs against riot police firing back with teargas, the demonstrators failed to breach heavily barricaded Government House, office of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. “They haven’t seized a single place,” National Security Council Chief Paradorn Pattanathabutr told Reuters. “They go to different places and they go back out.” The protesters sowed chaos in…
Juventus vs Udinese;Athletic Bilbao vs Barcelona;Charlotte Bobcats vs Miami Heat
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