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A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993, sharing it with Doomsday Book by Connie ...
There are settings available, as well, to allow Goodreads to post straight to a social networking account, which informs, e.g., Facebook friends, what one is reading or how one rated a book. [48] The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (version 2) and Kindle Voyage feature integration with Goodreads' social network via a user interface button. [49]
Amazon announces the Kindle Fire HD series of touchscreen tablet computers. [127] 2013: March: Acquisitions: Amazon acquires social reading and book-review site GoodReads. [128] 2013: June: International: Amazon launches in India. [129] [130] 2014: July 25: Product: Amazon launches the Amazon Fire. [131] 2014: August 25: Acquisitions
Because Google services are not pre-installed, Amazon develops and uses its own apps in their place, some of which include Amazon Appstore, Amazon Alexa, Prime Video, Amazon Music, Audible, Kindle Store, Silk Browser, Goodreads and Here WeGo.
In 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed plans for Amazon Prime Air in an interview on 60 Minutes. [4] The Amazon Prime Air team worked with NASA and Single European Sky ATM on trials using the Amazon air traffic management system. For additional safety, drones will fly at low altitudes (below 400 feet).
Audible is an American online audiobook and podcast service that allows users to purchase and stream audiobooks and other forms of spoken word content. This content can be purchased individually or under a subscription model where the user receives "credits" that can be redeemed for content monthly and receive access to a curated on-demand library of content.
Hiring a cart had cost a couple of shillings the week before the fire; on Monday, it rose to as much as £40, [80] a fortune equivalent to roughly £133,000 in 2021. [81] Seemingly every cart and boat owner in the area of London came to share in these opportunities, the carts jostling at the narrow gates with the panicked inhabitants trying to ...
The Fire Phone is a discontinued 3D-enabled smartphone developed by Amazon [5] and manufactured by Foxconn.It was announced on June 18, 2014, and marked Amazon's first foray into the smartphone market, following the success of the Kindle Fire.