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Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents

Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Over the past few months, Amazon has been rapidly deploying its Prime delivery drones to cities across the US, from Arizona to Florida. The drones promise to enable the delivery of small parcels to suburbanites in under two hours, for a modest fee of $4.99. But as more and more videos are starting to show, they might also be delivering a lot of broken glass. In one clip, teacher-turned-influencer Tamara Hancock explores what happens if you order something fragile. In the comments under a previous video about Amazon drone delivery that shows the drones dropping cargo from a surprising height, the “number one question is, what if [I order] something fragile?” Hancock says in her latest. To test it, she bought a container of blue raspberry syrup, to be delivered by drone. She notes that the bottle could be plastic or glass, but since “it does drop from 10 feet in the air,” it could go bust either …

Watch this Harbinger electric van chase down package thief [video]

Watch this Harbinger electric van chase down package thief [video]

Published by skeptic

With some 440 hp and nearly 1,200 lb-ft of instant electric torque on-hand, the Harbinger electric delivery van is more than capable of keeping up with modern day traffic. To show off just how capable it is, Harbinger’s marketing team has put together this fun, fictional, high octane voltage chase scene. Electric vehicles have been redefining the high-performance driving scene since the first Tesla Model S drag raced a Corvette on YouTube. Now, as that model drives off to the big garage in the sky, a whole new wave of next-generation of EVs is coming to stake their claim to the outgoing Model S’ high-powered heritage – and that wave seems to include Harbinger’s all-electric commercial delivery vans. That seems to be the message in this recent, Harbinger-produced video, anyway, which highlights the trucks’ rapid acceleration, powerful electric motors, and tight turning radius in a fun, frantic commercial (yes, it’s a commercial). Harbinger | Built to deliver more Promotional video by Harbinger. While it’s fun to pretend that any big box delivery driver cares enough about …

Resident doctors lose jobs package and will strike next week | UK News

Resident doctors lose jobs package and will strike next week | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Resident doctors in England are primed to go on strike next week after a deadline set by the prime minister arrived without a deal agreed. Sir Keir Starmer issued an ultimatum on Tuesday, saying the government would withdraw its offer of thousands of NHS jobs, extra training places, and pay reforms if the walkout wasn’t called off within 48 hours. With no agreement reached, the medics – formerly known as junior doctors – will strike for six days from 7 April. The British Medical Association’s (BMA) resident doctors’ committee has maintained the government’s pay rise offer does not go far enough to deal with the cost of living. Sir Keir has pointed out the 3.5% proposal is above inflation and would take their total raise over three years to 35%. Writing in The Times earlier this week, he said strikes would be “reckless” and damage the NHS. But the committee’s chair, Dr Jack Fletcher, said the government’s approach was “extremely disappointing”. Using the offer of more training places as a “pawn” in negotiations was “simply …

Arc Boats’ new ‘high-octane package’ makes your boat worse for April Fools

Arc Boats’ new ‘high-octane package’ makes your boat worse for April Fools

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It’s April Fools’ Day, also known as the worst day on the internet, where everyone thinks they’re clever with their fake announcements. But Arc Boats has a pretty clever one today, which makes a real point about the benefits of electric propulsion. Arc is an electric boat company, which started out making high-performance sport boats and is now working to hybridize other parts of the marine industry. As such, it likes to tout the superiority of electric propulsion, and to point out the annoyances that boat owners have always had to go through in order to keep their fossil-powered boats running. Advertisement – scroll for more content Electric propulsion is cleaner, more reliable, quieter, cheaper to fuel, easier to maintain, and if you’ve got a dock then you don’t even need to go anywhere to fill up. So, how better to make all those points than to offer an optional package to make your boat worse, just to remind you of the bad old days of having to burn millions-year-old dino juice to get around. …

U.S. Postal Service seeks 8% fuel surcharge for package deliveries

U.S. Postal Service seeks 8% fuel surcharge for package deliveries

Published by Sam Flores

Postal carrier Marc Jacques delivers the mail in a neighborhood on March 19, 2026 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday said it is seeking to impose a temporary 8% fuel surcharge for package and express mail deliveries to deal with rising transportation costs, which include higher oil prices as a result of the Iran war. If approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission, the surcharge would take effect April 26 and remain in place until Jan. 17, 2027, the Postal Service said in a notice on its website. The 8% surcharge would apply to postage on Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage, and Parcel Select products. First-class stamps and other mail services would not be affected. Oil prices have jumped more than 40% since Feb. 28, when the United States and Israel attacked Iran. Read more U.S.-Iran war news FedEx and UPS, two major package shippers, for years have imposed fuel surcharges on deliveries. Those surcharges have sharply increased since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran …

I didn’t understand Linux package managers until everything broke — now I have one rule

I didn’t understand Linux package managers until everything broke — now I have one rule

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For the longest time, I treated Linux package managers like a vending machine. Need an app? Install it. Need another one? Install that too. APT, Flatpak, Snap were mixed and match, and then sprinkled in a PPA or two. What could possibly go wrong? For a while, nothing did. And that was the problem. Because it gave me just enough confidence to keep going. Linux didn’t push back. It didn’t warn me. It didn’t pop up a helpful little message saying, “Hey, maybe don’t install three different versions of the same app from three different ecosystems.” It just … let me. And the more it let me, the more I assumed I knew what I was doing. Until one day, everything broke. Not dramatically, and definitely not in a satisfying, explosion-and-error-messages kind of way. Just … subtly wrong. Apps stopped launching, updates failed, and dependencies started arguing with each other like a dysfunctional family that had been politely avoiding conflict for years and suddenly decided tonight was the night. That was the evening I realized …

EU leaders slam Hungary’s Orban for blocking Ukraine aid package | Russia-Ukraine war News

EU leaders slam Hungary’s Orban for blocking Ukraine aid package | Russia-Ukraine war News

Published by Sam Flores

Hungarian leader sparks EU outrage with veto on $103bn Ukraine aid, citing pipeline dispute amid tense election campaign. Published On 19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026 European Union leaders, meeting for a summit in Brussels, have piled pressure on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, accusing him of hijacking and blocking a vital aid package for Ukraine and undermining EU decision-making as Russia’s war on its neighbour is now in its fifth year, with any peace deal remaining elusive. The EU’s top diplomat warned on Thursday that it was urgent to show support for Ukraine’s war effort. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “It’s really, really time to show our support to Ukraine,” Kaja Kallas told reporters on arrival at EU summit talks where leaders hope to unlock the 90-billion-euro ($103bn) funding, which Hungary had signed up to in December along with the rest of the 27-member bloc. EU leaders agreed to the $103bn loan in December, but Orban has clashed with ⁠Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and blocked its implementation last month, citing a dispute over …

Suspicious Package Probe Limits Flights at Montreal International Airport

Suspicious Package Probe Limits Flights at Montreal International Airport

Published by Sam Flores

MONTREAL, March 18 (Reuters) – ⁠The ⁠Montreal-Trudeau International ⁠Airport was handling a ​limited number of flights ‌on Wednesday due ‌to an investigation ⁠into ⁠a suspicious package that was found ​on a landing flight, an airport spokesperson said. One ​of the two runways at ⁠the airport ⁠was closed ⁠due to ​the investigation, the spokesperson added. The ​suspicious package ⁠led to a U.S. FAA ground stop advisory for about ⁠90 minutes. After cancelling the ground stop, the ⁠U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said departures to Montreal International Airport were delayed by an average of 54 minutes due to airport volume. (Reporting by ⁠Allison Lampert in Montreal and Ismail Shakil in Ottawa; Editing by Caitlin ​Webber, Costas Pitas and ​Mark Porter) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Source link

Expectations from the EU Citizens Energy Package

Expectations from the EU Citizens Energy Package

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Chris Vrettos, Senior Policy Advisor and Sara Tachelet, HR Director of REScoop, a EUSEW partner organisation, explore how the EU Citizens Energy Package will deliver community energy projects and promote clean power across the continent. Yesterday, the European Commission published its long-awaited Citizens Energy Package (CEP). The Package includes 1) a widely ambitious European goal for community energy projects (90GW by 2030), and 2) the commitment that the Commission will deliver much-needed guidance to Member States on creating regulatory frameworks and financing tools for energy communities. But, without being legally binding, will the Package live up to expectations? Connecting the legislative puzzle pieces There is a huge potential for citizen participation in the energy transition: 1 in 2 EU citizens could be producing their own energy by 2050, covering 45% of the EU’s energy demand. Crucially, these lofty goals translate into immediate, tangible benefits for EU citizens and businesses: participation in an energy community can result in yearly savings of up to €1100. Yet energy communities still struggle with the basics: an enabling regulatory framework, …

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a 2M pay package

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package

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Sundar Pichai’s new pay package could be worth $692 million. Per a filing first spied by the FT, Alphabet has structured a three-year deal for its Google CEO that could make him one of the highest-paid executives on the planet — but most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture. What’s striking is how little public fascination Pichai attracts compared to Google’s founders. Larry Page and Sergey Brin — the second- and fourth richest people in the world — have lately captured headlines for a different reason entirely; both have been snapping up lavish Miami properties, widely seen as a response to California’s proposed Billionaire Tax Act — a ballot initiative targeting the state’s roughly 200 billionaires with a one-time 5% levy on net worth exceeding $1 billion. Page reportedly spent over $173 million on two mansions in Coconut Grove, Florida, recently, while Brin was just linked to a $51 million megamansion 14 miles away, atop two earlier purchases totaling $92 million. Pichai, …