Alex Davies

1 week ago | aboutamazon.com | Alex Davies

The next time you drop a coin on the ground, consider how you go about picking it up again. Maybe your hearing tells you which way it bounced. Your vision lets you zero in on its location. And for the final, crucial act of getting it from the ground to your hand, you rely on your sense of touch to know exactly when to clasp your fingers together and how to flip it into your palm or your pocket. But what many humans do so easily, few robots can tackle.

2 months ago | aboutamazon.com | Alex Davies

Last November, we took the latest big step in our Prime Air journey, launching our MK30 drone for commercial delivery service in the West Valley of Arizona’s Phoenix metro area and in College Station, Texas. As we expected, delivering packages to customers across these different environments provided valuable operational insights. For example, we knew that we’d experience more dust in the air in Phoenix than we would in other places, and that proved to be true.

Jan 29, 2025 | gbnews.com | Alex Davies

BBC Flog It! star Michael Baggott has died aged 65 after suffering a heart attack at Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham. The antiques expert passed away yesterday following months of treatment after experiencing a stroke in October. His death was confirmed in a statement posted on his social media accounts on Monday evening.

Jan 26, 2025 | gbnews.com | Alex Davies

Katya Jones appears to have thrown her support behind Strictly Come Dancing star Wynne Evans after he apologised for making an "inappropriate and unacceptable" sexual remark about presenter Janette Manrara during the show's live tour launch. The 52-year-old Welsh opera singer, known for his Go Compare adverts, made the crude comment during a photocall at Birmingham Arena on January 16. "My language was inappropriate and unacceptable, for which I sincerely apologise," Evans said in a statement.

Jan 24, 2025 | gbnews.com | Alex Davies

Question Time viewers have voiced their outrage after Ecotricity founder and Labour donor Dale Vince shared his thoughts on the actions of Axel Rudakubana following his murder of three young girls at a dance party in Southport last year. Rudakubana, 18, will spend the next 52 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty to the atrocities of July last year in which Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Bebe King, six, all lost their lives in the knife attack.