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Harnessing Tech to Safeguard the Amazon: Indigenous Youths Take Charge

In Brazil, where her grandfather once protected native Amazonian lands with bows and arrows, Txai Surui, now uses tech as her weapon of choice. Txai, a 26-year-old Brazilian, is among the standout participants of the Web Summit Rio, the world’s largest annual technology conference. Not only an indigenous activist, Txai is the coordinator of the Kaninde Ethno-Environmental Defense Association, which represents 21 Amazon Indigenous peoples. Txai also produced the National Geographic documentary “The Territory”, continuing her parents’ legacy of activism. She speaks out of the double-edged nature of technology, “technology can also be used for evil.”

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Introducing Amazon Scout – Amazon’s Autonomous Delivery Robot Rover

Look on the sidewalk! It’s a toy, it’s a ground drone, no, it’s Scout, Amazon’s autonomous rolling delivery robot! While the Amazon drone project still hasn’t taken off, remote control delivery robot Scout is already making deliveries in Snohomish County, Washington, not far from Seattle.

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Hover Camera Passport Gimbal Error or Batteries Won’t Charge? Here’s What May be Going On

We’ve had the opportunity to be involved with the unboxing of the new Hover Passport video camera drone from Zero Zero Robot (it’s pretty darned sweet!), and so we have also had the opportunity to observe a couple of things that may happen right out of the box. The first is that the batteries seem not to be charging, which may lead you to think that the charger is defective. The second is a ‘gimbal error’ alert in the app on your phone. We’ll talk about both of these.

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Amazon Prime Air: the Amazon Drone Delivery Service

It’s a bird – it’s a plane – it’s Amazon Prime Air, the new Amazon drone delivery service that Amazon is touting as being a reality. Supposedly the PrimeAir Amazon drones will deliver an order with 30 minutes of it being placed. We checked the calendar – nope, it’s not April 1st. So we looked into the Amazon Prime Air drone delivery service.