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Amazon's Palm Reader Launches at First Non-Amazon Venue in Sneak Peek of Our Biometric-Based Future

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Amazon’s electronic palm reader technology, known as Amazon One, launched at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver on Tuesday, according to a press release from the retailing giant. It’s the first deployment of Amazon One’s biometric reader outside of an Amazon-owned property and is certainly a sign of things to come.…

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A Staggering Amount of Amazon Rainforest Disappeared Last Month

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The number of trees cut down in the Brazilian section of the Amazon rainforest in January was five times greater than the same period last year, according to satellite imagery data from Brazil’s space research agency, INPE. Read more.

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Look at This Stretch of Amazon Rainforest Cleared in a Year

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The Amazon rainforest in Mato Grosso Brazil is shrinking. Brazil’s space research agency, INPE, reported that the first quarter of 2022 set a new deforestation record for the rainforest— 941 square kilometers were cleared from Janaury to the end of March. This is the largest area of deforestation that the agency… Read more.

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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Alexa

Digital Trends

Beginning on September 15 and lasting a full month, Alexa celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month and recognizes the contributions of this vibrant community in the United States, as well as the influence of their ancestors from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Spain.

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These Dream-like Photos of the Amazon Reveal a Hidden Nightmare

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The Amazon’s destruction in everyday color is terrible enough. But a special photographic method reveals the true toll of mining, logging, and other human activities on the world’s largest rainforest. Read more.

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Discover Latin America’s XR ecosystem with Oscar Cartagena

The Ghost Howls

For instance… do you know that there are many difficulties related to getting and using a VR headset in South America? Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges. Do you know that there are some XR blogs and magazines all in Spanish to cater to Spanish and Southern American markets?

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Bolsonaro Oversaw a Connecticut-Sized Chunk of Deforestation in the Amazon Last Year

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Last year was a bad one around the world—but especially, it seems, in the Amazon rainforest. Deforestation in the Amazon rocketed up 17% last year, due in large part to increased logging, agriculture, mining, and wildfires, new data published Wednesday shows. Read more.