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Amazon's new Echo line and a $47 million mini T. rex

Amazon also unveiled an Echo Studio with a camera, priced at two hundred forty-nine dollars, plus a smart clock and an Alexa photo frame; the camera supposedly won't record.

On air: Hank Ledger, Dr. Nina Byte and Gloria Vance on Coffee Talk
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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentOn to gadgets. Amazon unveiled new Echo speakers on Wednesday, including an Echo Show 16 with a sixteen-inch screen and a thirteen-megapixel camera.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThere's also a photo frame that answers questions and a smart bedside clock called Echo Time.

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentA frame that talks back. My grandmother's photos only judged me silently.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe new Echo Studio has a camera too, two hundred forty-nine dollars. Amazon says it won't record, it's just a live view of your home.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA live view that doesn't record.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI have been promised no recording in several embassies. I left anyway.

  7. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAnd a dinosaur. A tiny T. rex, a Nanotyrannus nicknamed Jodi, sold at Sotheby's for forty-seven point three million dollars after a twelve-minute auction.

  8. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe estimate was six to nine million dollars.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorHalf the length of an adult T. rex, and it still outbid the estimate five times over. Small ones are always the dangerous ones.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorForty-seven million dollars for a skeleton, and I'd still rather have the camera that doesn't record.

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  1. Amazon renames Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+ · New York Post
  2. Amazon rainforest's future could hinge on Brazil's election · The New York Times
  3. Organized crime spreading along Amazon highway, study finds · Mongabay
  4. OpenAI claims AI discoveries; Lula wins; Meghan to co-host · Al Jazeera
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