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Greenpeace finds coral reef in Total’s Amazon drilling area – an annotated infographic

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Scientists aboard a Greenpeace ship have discovered that a massive coral reef near the mouth of the Amazon extends further than thought, overlapping areas where French company Total plans to drill for oil. The research could further complicate plans by oil companies to explore an area that some geologists say could hold up to 14 billion barrels of petroleum – more than the entire proven reserves in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2013, Total led a group including Britain’s BP Plc and Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras in buying five exploration blocks in the Foz do Amazonas basin, but the … Continue reading Greenpeace finds coral reef in Total’s Amazon drilling area – an annotated infographic

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Book review: The Cambridge Phenomenon: Global impact – Kate Kirk and Charles Cotton

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By Jade Fell “There’s a well-known saying, ‘it takes a village to raise a child,’ and in Cambridge, you could say ‘it takes a cluster to raise a company.’” For nearly 40 years, a technological powerhouse has been growing in the English countryside. Nestled on the southern tip of East Anglia, Silicon Fen, also known as the Cambridge Cluster, may pale in popularity to its older, wiser sibling – Silicon Valley in California – but is of no less importance locally and indeed, globally. Widely acclaimed as a centre of excellence for knowledge and education, Cambridge is ranked as the … Continue reading Book review: The Cambridge Phenomenon: Global impact – Kate Kirk and Charles Cotton

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#AmazonPrime Air delivery #drones cleared for take-off, almost – an annotated infographic

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Amazon, the largest e-commerce company in the US, wants to use autonomous drones to deliver packages to customers. However, it is being frustrated at the slow pace of drone legislation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), so is now testing its Prime Air system in countries more favourable to drones. As E&T News reported recently, while the FAA has issued an experimental airworthiness certificate to an Amazon business unit and its prototype drone, allowing test flights over private rural land in the state of Washington, a British delivery firm has already beaten Amazon to complete the UK’s first test delivery … Continue reading #AmazonPrime Air delivery #drones cleared for take-off, almost – an annotated infographic

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New Amazon #Kindle Fire HDX tablets, faster, stronger, more more more – an annotated graphic

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Coo, you think you know all about the Kindle product evolution, then you look at the Wikipedia page for Amazon Kindle. We positively guarantee that there are versions of the Kindle on there that you have never seen or heard of before. Anyway, there’s another one out now: the Kindle Fire HDX. Faster, lighter (natch) and with some other attractive stuff that past Kindle Fire HDs didn’t have. Today’s infographic details these incremental changes and throws in the obligatory comparison with an iPad, still the finest tablet bar none, no matter what anyone says. Take price out of the equation … Continue reading New Amazon #Kindle Fire HDX tablets, faster, stronger, more more more – an annotated graphic

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Amazon Kindle Fire vs Apple iPad – an annotated graphic

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And so it begins, as alphabetically aligned behemoths Amazon and Apple go in to battle, the former’s new Kindle Fire going toe-to-toe with the latter’s iPad. At a glance on paper, the iPad seems to outperform the Kindle Fire in every respect. Bigger, faster, smarter – and of course that peerless integration with app content on the iTunes App Store. But in these straitened economic times, money talks – and the Kindle Fire has a lot to say in that department, coming in at around $200 less than a comparable iPad. That’s a tidy saving for the gadget freak on … Continue reading Amazon Kindle Fire vs Apple iPad – an annotated graphic