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Friday Morning Spice
20 Mar 2015 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Amazon allowed to test drone deliveries. Top Gear co-hosts won’t budge. UK Hispanic communities HIV spike. Massive Hyde Park Mall robbery. More Eskom drama. Kirstenbosch wins big. Black man hanging in Mississippi tree.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
20 Jan 2015 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Amazon will be making films now. ANC says Zelda is a ‘spoilt white person.’ Charlie Hebdo protestors torch 45 churches. Dramatic rescue at Camps Bay beach. Instant reply TV guy dies. Has the Sun dropped its Page 3 models?
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Behold: Amazon Reveals Its New Robot Staff [Video]
02 Dec 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Amazon has revealed the robots it uses to ship your packages. They are basically very diligent, extremely efficient short people. Check it out…
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Jeepers – Amazon Are Opening A Physical Store In New York
10 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Amazon are planning to open a Manhattan-based retail store to offer a face-to-face experience with the online giant.
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Footage Of Uncontacted Brazil Rainforest Tribe [Video]
01 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Brazilian researchers have made first contact with an isolated Amazon jungle tribe, and the footage has now been released.
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Everything You Need To Know About Amazon’s New ‘Fire’ Smartphone [Video]
19 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Amazon has unveiled its new Fire Phone device which is set to rival the top-end smartphones on the market, and it has a few tricks up its sleeve.
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Amazon Becomes Contender In Streaming Music Market
12 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The e-commerce company has introduced a music element to its portfolio, adding to the video and literary media offerings of Amazon.
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David Beckham Talks About His Journey Into The Amazon [Video]
03 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Former England football captain David Beckham talks about his new documentary, Into the Unkown, which sees him journey into the heart of the Amazon rainforest with three friends by his side.
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Amazon Drones Are No Joke As Jeff Bezos Reveals Extensive Plans
14 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last year Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos announced plans for an aerial drone delivery system, titled Amazon Prime Air. It turns out Amazon’s flying drones are no joke, according to what Jeff Bezos revealed in a recent shareholder’s letter.
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Please Enjoy Netflix Drone Video Mocking Amazon [VIDEO]
27 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Need your DVD delivered to you no matter where you are, even if you are busy using the loo? To meet DVD rental lovers’ exorbitant demands, Netflix has the solution – Drone 2 Home. This satirical video takes a jab at Amazon’s planned drone delivery service.
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Guys, There’s A New Species Of Toad – Check It Out Here
23 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of scientists and researchers have discovered a previously-unknown species of dead-leaf toad in the mountains of the Peruvian Andes.
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Amazon Is Now Shipping Items Before They Get Ordered
20 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s delivering packages on time and there’s just ridiculous. Amazon just got ridiculous.
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Elon Musk On Branson’s Space Project [VIDEO]
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s a race towards space between Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson. In this clip, the South African-born CEO of SpaceX, and Fortune Magazine’s businessman of the year explains why he wants us to become a “multi-planet species”. We’ve got our money on the man who makes space sound sexy.
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Drug Cartels And Amazon.com Have The Same Business Model [VIDEO]
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Billions of dollars in sales. Quick shipments. Ultra-efficient distribution chains. Carefully orchestrated PR. Drone delivery. If you think we’re talking about a major business like Google or Amazon, you’d be wrong.
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Forget Drones, Groupon Are Using Catapults To Make Deliveries [VIDEO]
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While Amazon plans to use ultra-modern drones in their Prime Air service, Groupon are going full-medieval with plans to launch a catapult delivery service.
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Here It Comes: Google Is Getting Serious About Robots
05 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While Amazon was shooting its mouth off about drones that can deliver packages, Google was quietly acquiring several technology companies in a bid to create a new generation of robots.
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This Is Why Amazon’s Drone Plans Aren’t So Stupid
03 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A lot of people are talking about Jeff Bezos’ plans for the delivery methods of Amazon, and “drone” has become something of a buzzword. So you should know that Amazon’s new PrimeAir service wont actually be using drones. They’ll be using robots.
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This Is Why Amazon.com Is Setting Up Call Centres In Cape Town
03 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
In 2010, Amazon set up a call centre in Cape Town to service British, American and German clients. It was quite cool, you know, being an essential part of an international, first-world-run industry. That is, until you learn the real reason they came here.
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Jeff Bezos Wants To Use Drones To Deliver Amazon Online Purchases To Homes [VIDEO]
02 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos appeared on an episode of ’60 Minutes’, where he revealed that the world’s largest online store has been working on experimental drone-based delivery systems.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
05 Nov 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
AT&T / Vodafone merger – what about Vodacom? Jeff Bezos’ wife slams new book on Amazon about Amazon. Blackberry calls off sale. The return of Ali G. Kendall Jenner turns 18 – gets tons of porn offers. SA dog fighting ring bust. Tesco will scan customers’ faces.
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Jeff Bezos Hints At His Plans For The Washington Post
04 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Jeffrey Bezos is one of the richest men in the world. He’s the CEO of Amazon and soon to be new owner of The Washington Post. We’re looking forward to see the changes he brings to the newspaper, aiming for what he calls a “golden era”.
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South American Mashco-Piro Tribe Make Contact With Outside World [VIDEO]
21 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Footage of yet another isolated South American tribe has emerged. Last week we brought you rare footage of the isolated Kawahiva Tribe from Brazil. This week, a tribe living near Peru is making a second attempt at contacting the outside world. The Mashco-Piro tribe were caught on video trying to cross a river, and venture beyond the border of their isolated community in Manu Nationl Park.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
06 Aug 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Escaped pet-store python strangles 2 kids. Washington Post sold to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Jo’burg apologises to Mandelas. Waratahs sign Springbok. Toxic combination of autism and child porn. Another Bieber club brawl.
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Amazon Wants To Case Their Headquarters In A Mammoth Glass Bubble [PICS]
22 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here we have Amazon’s proposed new headquarters in Seattle. These are the latest drawings of the office. The building is more of a greenhouse than an office space, different forms of plant life including mature trees will be housed in the special building.
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SA Adventurer In Peru Ran 5Km To Safety After Being Shot Three Times
28 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
While on a kayak trip down the Amazon River, a young South African adventurer was ambushed by a pair of youths. His attackers shot him three times and left him for dead but, despite his serious wounds, he got up and ran 5km to the nearest village to receive help.
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Brazil’s Congress Approves Contentious New Forest Laws
26 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved contentious new legislation that eases rules on how much land farmers must preserve as forest. Environmentalists are up in arms, and say the new forest legislation will be a disaster, and lead to further destruction of the Amazon.
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Google Street View In The Amazon Basin [VIDEO]
22 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last year, Google announced that it was sending its Street View team to the Amazon basin – and images from that trip are are now being made available on Google Maps. You probably won’t end up using it for directions, but there are some awesome panoramic images on display.
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New Amazon Ad Pokes Fun At iPad [VIDEO]
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
In the battle for king of the ebook readers, Apple has been fighting pretty hard. iBooks for the iPad is a beautiful piece of software, there’s no denying it. Apple’s only real competition comes from Amazon, with it’s range of Kindle products. These have all been revamped recently – with a new ad to go with it. Full vid after the jump.
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Google Would Like To Buy Your Privacy Now, Please
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
See, it turns out that Google doesn’t actually know everything about your online browsing habits. But boy, they’d sure like to! Which is why they’re rolling out two services that records users’ online activities in full, in return for Amazon gift cards or – in the sightly more intense version – hard cash.
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“Footsteps” By Simon Burrow – Provence And The Luberon Valley
26 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Everyone knows the greatest holidays are the ones where “we bumped into this local guy, who knew about all the secret spots and gave us bits and pieces of information and facts that no-one else knew.” Nobody wants to go to every single tourist hotspot and, if they do, they want to tick the right […]
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