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Reply Sierra Frisbee, a senior at the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology, poses with an Amazon Scout delivery unit. Frisbee was one of 100 high-school seniors nationwide to receive Amazon Future Engineer scholarships. (Tiffani Thomas / Amazon) GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — Georgians have gotten used to Amazon delivering just about anything you can imagine. But it's not every day that Amazon delivers a scholarship. That's how Sierra Frisbee of Braselton received her $40,000 Amazon Future Engineer scholarship earlier this month — carried by one of Amazon's electric Scout units d...

Oklahoma Approves Autonomous Sidewalk Delivery Vehicles Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a law that will allow small “personal delivery devices” to operate on sidewalks and crosswalks, opening the door for robot deliveries. Some believe the pandemic encouraged lawmakers to approve the legislation. May 12, 2021 •  (TNS) — 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 sidewal...

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...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images 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 paren...

Breaking News: Bezos and Musk Launch New USAID Public Private Partnership Washington, D.C. – : 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 foc...