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Movie studios often use the Super Bowl to drop trailers for their coming blockbusters. Since last year, a rival source of video entertainment has been doing the same. |
Amazon Prime Video will return to the Super Bowl this year, dropping a 60-second trailer in the third quarter for “Hanna,” a new drama centered on a powerful young girl who must thwart agents who want to take her down, along with her father. The commercial will will show Amazon getting more aggressive in the realm of b... |
The Super Bowl developed into a streaming-video showdown last year, with Amazon, Hulu, Netflix and HBO all dropping video previews of coming features during the event. Netflix surprised the audience with the news that a new entry in the “Cloverfield” movie franchise was available for view immediately, and HBO released ... |
Amazon’s interest in the game comes as new competitors are entering the streaming field in 2019. Walt Disney is expected to unveil a new subscription-video service, Disney +, in coming months, as is AT&T’s WarnerMedia. NBCUniversal has said it will enter the field in 2020. |
In a different era, TV networks shied away from letting video rivals take to their air and attempt to herd viewers elsewhere. But that resistance seems to have diminished int the face of a dizzying array of new-tech video outlets willing to spend millions of dollars in advertising to woo linear viewers to their new war... |
Based on the 2011 film, “Hanna’s” eight-episode first season was written and produced by David Farr who co-wrote the original feature. Director Sarah Adina Smith led episodes one and two of the series, which filmed entirely on location in Hungary, Slovakia, Morocco, Spain and the U.K. British actress Esme Creed-Miles s... |
A series about a young woman with heightened skills working out a relationship with her father while being targeted by enemies offers familiar terrain to Amazon’s Benson. When he led marketing at ABC in a previous role, he helped launch the series “Alias,” a J.J. Abrams drama that starred Jennifer Garner and brought he... |
Move short of full embassy; Brazilian officials fear embassy move would harm economic ties with Arab and Muslim world which imports an estimated $5 billion in halal food; 'I love Israel,' Bolsonaro said in Hebrew at the ceremony, he later told reporters of his Christian devotion to the Holy Land and sense of cultural a... |
Brazil opened a new trade mission to Israel in Jerusalem on Sunday, edging back from earlier signals it would follow the United States with a full embassy move to the contested city. |
The announcement came during a visit by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, an outspoken admirer of President Donald Trump, who broke global consensus by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital in late 2017 and moving the U.S. embassy there last May. |
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "Welcome to (Israel) brother Jair. Welcome to the Brazilian president and delegation. I am very excited as Sara and I, along with our son Yair, were at your inauguration. You represent a new hope for Brazil. Clearly this is the start of a wonderful new period in Brazil-Israel rel... |
The Brazilian President responded: "I feel as if I have arrived home. It looks like you named your son after me." Netanyahu responded that "chronologically, that is correct." Bolsonaro: "Brazil is a giant and rich country; that is why our two countries are close, religiously, culturally and democratically." |
"I hope, and I would like to believe, that this (office) is the first step toward the opening of the Brazilian embassy in Jerusalem, when the time comes," Netanyahu told reporters. |
Bolsonaro offered no public comment on the embassy plans. His son Eduardo, a Brazilian federal lawmaker, said it took the Trump administration several months to implement the U.S. embassy move. "We are on the right path," he tweeted. |
Greeting Bolsonaro at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, Netanyahu said he and the Brazilian leader would visit Judaism's holy Western Wall, "in Jerusalem, our eternal capital". |
"I love Israel," Bolsonaro said in Hebrew at the ceremony. He later told reporters of his Christian devotion to the Holy Land and sense of cultural and ideological affinity to Israel. |
Brazil has not officially recognized Jerusalem's as Israel's capital. Most world powers say the city's status should only be decided as part of a peace process with the Palestinians. |
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Brazil's opening of the Jerusalem office, calling it "a flagrant violation of international legitimacy (and) direct aggression against our people and their rights". |
Visiting Brazil for the Jan. 1 presidential inauguration, Netanyahu said Bolsonaro had told him that moving the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem was a matter of "when, not if". |
But Bolsonaro's economic team and the country's powerful farm lobby have advised against. |
Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao, a retired army general, told Reuters last month that moving the embassy was a bad idea because it would hurt Brazil's exports to Arab countries, including an estimated $5 billion in sales of halal food that comply with Muslim dietary laws. |
Separately on Sunday, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras would take part in Israel's latest tender for offshore oil and gas exploration. |
See all talkbacks "Brazil opens Israel trade mission in Jerusalem" |
The matchup for the New England Little League regional final is set, as Lincoln, R.I., and Westport, Conn., will battle for a trip to Williamsport. |
Steve Andrews‘ three-run bomb that cleared the scoreboard in center field helped push Rhode Island to a 5-2 win over Vermont, and Connecticut rode a dominant pitching performance to a 3-0 victory over Maine. |
To see Jack Edwards and Ken Ryan‘s recap of all the day’s Little League action, check out the video above. |
Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based maker of video cameras, doorbells and other smart home technologies, GeekWire has learned. The companies are expected to announce the acquisition this afternoon. |
The surprise acquisition marks the latest move by the Seattle-based tech giant into the smart home technology market. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Reuters puts the deal at more than $1 billion. Amazon is expected to treat the Ring deal similar to past acquisitions such as Zappos, Twitch and Audible, pursuing... |
Amazon is positioning its Echo smart speaker, with the embedded Alexa voice assistant as a home technology hub. |
Ring makes WiFi enabled doorbells equipped with cameras that detect when someone is at the door. The smart doorbell rings users’ tablets or smartphones through an app that lets them see audio and video and talk to the person at the door, wherever they are. |
The company’s mission is to reduce crime in neighborhoods while providing affordable options that work for every home. It started with a single video doorbell, now priced at $179, and has since expanded to offer several different versions as well as security systems and cameras. |
Just last month Ring acquired a startup called Mr. Beams that makes WiFi-enabled LED lighting with motion-sensing capabilities. |
Amazon previously invested in Ring via its Alexa Fund, which helps companies building skills and products for the tech giant’s digital brain. |
This past October Amazon unveiled its own $119.99 home security camera, Cloud Cam, with a companion Amazon Key app that works with smart locks to let Amazon Prime members give house cleaners, dog walkers, package delivery companies and other service providers access to their homes. Amazon sells an Amazon Key In-Home Ki... |
The Cloud Cam competes with a variety of security cameras on the market, including Ring, Arlo and Google’s Nest Cam. It can be used with subscription plans for extended storage and other extra features, ranging from $7 to $20 a month, or a free plan offering 24 hours of cloud storage. |
The technology addresses the ongoing challenge of package theft and provides an additional benefit for Amazon Prime members. The concept, however, is not popular with some people concerned about Amazon controlling access their front doors. |
Ring rolled out integration with Amazon’s Alexa voice platform in June, connecting select products to the Echo Show and Fire TV devices. “By working with Alexa, Ring is making home security even simpler and more convenient. Now, you not only have the power of home security at your fingertips, you can also have it at th... |
Ring CEO and Chief Inventor James Siminoff appeared on the show Shark Tank in 2013 to raise money for his product, which was called Doorbot at the time. He failed to make a deal on the show, but since then, the company has raised more than $209 million, according to CrunchBase, including a $109 million round in January... |
In an update to the show last November, Siminoff said the company is valued at more than $1 billion and employed at the time more than 1,300 people and offered 10 core products, sold in more than 16,000 stores. |
Ring counts Virgin CEO Richard Branson as an investor. Branson described in a 2015 blog post what he liked about the company. |
In December Amazon acquired Blink, a startup based in Andover, Mass. that makes wire-free smart security cameras and video doorbells. |
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In 1971, the Swiss authorities imported two breeding pairs of Eurasian lynx. Today there are enough to share with other countries. |
Swiss gamekeepers have had to put down a badly injured Eurasian lynx that was hurt during efforts to catch him. The animal was supposed to start a new life in a country with too few lynx. |
The authorities of the canton Appenzell Outer Rhodes announced on Tuesday that the lynx died on Sunday, a few hours after people noticed the unwell animal crouching in a woodshed at the edge of a small town called Gais. |
The lynx was malnourished and his wounded forepaw still had parts of the snare on it. It was the same animal that hunting authorities in neighbouring canton St Gallen had tried to catch in mid-March as part of an international resettlement project. |
Despite search efforts with a canine team, the hunters were unable to find the lynx. |
“Apparently the lynx was injured so badly in the escape that he couldn’t hunt properly afterwards, so he had to be shot,” explained the statement from the Appenzell authoritiesexternal link. |
The Centre for Fish and Wildlife Medicineexternal link in Bern is examining the corpse, and the incident is under investigation. |
Formerly extinct in Switzerland, the Swiss lynx population has made an impressive recovery over the past 40 years. The current population is estimated at about 300 animals – enough that Switzerland is able to share some of its big cats with Italy, Austria and Germany. |
Once hunted to extinction in Switzerland, lynx are doing well now – thanks partly to the successful matchmaking services of the Swiss government. |
Lynx dead after botched capture attempt in Switzerland Apr 10, 2018 - 16:20 Swiss gamekeepers have had to put down a badly injured Eurasian lynx that was hurt during efforts to catch him. The animal was supposed to start a new life in a country with too few lynx. The authorities of the canton Appenzell Outer Rhodes ann... |
A conservation biologist explains the role of predators in an ecosystem, and tells us why we should stop and smell the free-tailed bats. |
CAIRO, April 3 (Reuters) - Islamic State carried out the kidnapping and killing of a Canadian citizen in Burkina Faso in January, the group's weekly newspaper Al-Naba said, claiming responsibility in its latest issue without providing evidence. |
Kirk Woodman's body was found on Jan.16, two days after his abduction by a dozen gunmen at a mining site operated by Vancouver-based Progress Minerals in the northeast of the landlocked West African country. |
Burkina Faso officials said he had been shot, and his body was dumped in an area that the government says is under growing threat from Islamist militants. |
Prior to the claim made in the Islamic State newspaper there had been no word on who was responsible. |
In an article trumpeting Islamic State's insurgencies in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the newspaper detailed the operation to kidnap and kill the Canadian geologist and showed a photograph of what it claimed was his driver licence. |
The Islamic State newspaper said "the kidnapping and killing of a Canadian crusader" has increased the West's interest in "the war of the Mujahideen" in Burkina Faso. |
Woodman's body was dumped in the desert by "the Caliphate soldiers", Al-Naba said, though it put a date on Woodman's execution using the Hijri, or Islamic, calendar, that would equate to Jan.25 - which would have been several days after the body was found. |
HAVANA, Cuba, July 9 (Aini Martín / www.cubanet.org) – A husband-and-wife team of independent journalists was prevented this week from attending a meeting of the Agenda for Cuban Transition dissident organization. |
The Agenda organization said in a press release that agents from the political police stood guard outside the home of Iván Sañudo and his wife, Ainí Martín, preventing them from leaving for the meeting in the municipality of Regla. |
The police stayed until it was too late for the couple to attend the meeting. |
Danica Patrick won the pole for the season-opening Nationwide Series race at Daytona.Patrick became the first woman to secure the top qualifying spot in NASCAR�s second-tier series since Shawna Robinson at Atlanta on March 12, 1994. |
The former IndyCar star turned a fast lap of 49.250 seconds around the high-banked speedway, averaging 182.741 mph. Trevor Bayne qualified second, followed by Elliott Sadler, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Austin Dillon. |
Patrick is entering her first full-time season in the Nationwide Series, driving for JR Motorsports and team owner Earnhardt Jr. She also is making her Sprint Cup debut in the Daytona 500 on Sunday. |
Sarah Fisher finally found an engine deal for her IndyCar team, signing with Honda for the 2012 season. |
Fisher�s team will field a car for rookie Josef Newgarden. The season begins with the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on March 25. |
Fisher thanked fellow team owner Bobby Rahal for helping the deal come together. Rahal originally had the rights to two Honda engine lease agreements this season but only plans to field one car. By giving up the rights to a second engine, Rahal opened the door for Fisher�s team to resolve its uncertain engine situation... |
Fisher says Rahal �personified the definition of a gentleman and sportsman.� Fisher helped out Rahal�s son, Graham, by allowing him to race her car for four races in 2010. |
The 2018 list from U.S. News ranks more than 200 universities around the country based on academic performance as well as faculty and financial resources. All told, 13 D.C.-area universities were nationally ranked. |
WASHINGTON — Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Georgetown University in D.C. and the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, remain the top three universities in the wider D.C. area, according to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report. |
The 2018 list from U.S. News ranks more than 200 universities around the country based on academic performance — including freshman retention rates and six-year graduation rates — as well as faculty and financial resources. |
All told, 13 D.C.-area universities were nationally ranked, with three of the them falling in the top 30 schools nationally. |
Johns Hopkins, which ranked No. 11 nationally, was also cited as a “best-value,” school by U.S. News. In 2016, 45 percent of students received need-based grants. The average cost of attendance after those grants were factored in was $30,067 — a 56 percent discount from the total cost without grants. |
Johns Hopkins University in Maryland was ranked No. 11 nationally in the U.S. News 2018 Best Colleges rankings. |
The University of Virginia, ranked No. 25 nationally, was also No. 3 in the country specifically among public universities. |
Among the top-performing local schools, Howard University jumped 14 spots on the list, from 124 to 110 — ahead of the Catholic University of America, George Mason University and Virginia Commonwealth University. |
Howard was also ranked No. 2 among historically black colleges, behind Spelman College in Atlanta. |
The D.C. area also rated highly for top-ranked schools that offer benefits for veterans. Schools in this category had to be certified for the GI Bill, which pays tuition and fees for active-duty service members and veterans; participate in the Yellow Ribbon program, which provides additional funds; and enroll a minimum... |
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