Drones aren t just for flying. Personal delivery devices, or drones that crawl along sidewalks, soon could be used to deliver packages after Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law allowing small autonomous vehicles to operate primarily on sidewalks and crosswalks in Oklahoma.
FedEx and Amazon have pushed for similar laws across the country, and both companies already have ground-based delivery drones operating in other states. (The law) basically allows personal delivery devices to operate on sidewalks, crosswalks or any street in a municipality, just to make sure that our citizens of Oklahoma are getting the latest technology and deliverables to their home with ease, said the bill s author, state Sen. Paul Rosino.
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Amazon continued to cash in on our new shop-work-relax-from-home habits in the first three months of this year, reporting a huge rise in sales and a tripling of profits.
Almost every aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic has served to boost the tech giant s revenues, from video streaming to grocery delivery.
It said it expects the boom to continue over the next few months.
The pandemic could herald a golden age for Amazon, one analyst said.
Amazon s are the latest blow-out results from Big Tech this week. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google s parent firm Alphabet have all reported big sales increases a year after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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: Today marks the start of a new era in international development with a unique public-private partnership between two imminent technology visionaries and the Government of the United States of America (GoUSA).
Jeff Bezoz, owner of Amazon, the Washington Post, and Blue Origin, and Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and 1.5 million Bitcoin, are partnering with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Agency for International Development to launch a new organization focused on the next chapter in human development.
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Amazon reports record profits in last quarter of 2020
According to Amazon’s latest financial disclosures, the giant international conglomerate recorded unprecedented profits and revenue in the last three months of 2020, as the pandemic sent its sales soaring, and the company continued expanding its operations around the globe.
In these disclosures, made available last month, Amazon reported a fourth-quarter profit of $7.2 billion, more than double what was expected by analysts. This raised its 2020 full-year profits to $21.3 billion, the highest level in company history. This compared to $17.4 billion in 2019 and $13.2 billion in 2018.
For hundreds of millions of people, the coronavirus pandemic has been an extreme hardship and an economic disaster, punctuated by funerals of loved ones and other tragedies. But for the corporate-financial oligarchy in control of giant corporations like Amazon, it has been a cash bonanza like nothing they have ever seen before.