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Amazon Silk is a web browser developed by Amazon.It was launched in November 2011 for Amazon Fire and Fire Phone, [1] and a Fire TV version was launched in November 2017. [2] The addition of Silk to the Echo Show was announced at an Amazon event in September 2018.
The third-generation Fire TV, also known as the Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD and Alexa Voice Remote, was released in 2017. It eschewed the previous set-top box design for a small, diamond-shaped " pendant " reminiscent of the Fire TV Stick, which plugs directly into a television set's HDMI port and can be hung from a short HDMI extender cable.
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, [2] is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. [3] [4] It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot, Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126.
Amazon has a number of products and services available, including its digital assistant Alexa, Amazon Music, and Prime Video for music and videos respectively, the Amazon Appstore for Android apps, the Kindle line of electronic paper e-readers, Fire and Fire HD color LCD tablets. Audible provides audiobooks for purchase and listening.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [2] [3] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[4] [5] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
A woman grinding kasha, an 18th-century drawing by J.-P. Norblin. In Polish, cooked buckwheat groats are referred to as kasza gryczana. Kasza can apply to many kinds of groats: millet (kasza jaglana), barley (kasza jęczmienna), pearl barley (kasza jęczmienna perłowa, pęczak), oats (kasza owsiana), as well as porridge made from farina (kasza manna). [4]
In American television in 2024, notable events included television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; information on controversies, business transactions, and carriage disputes; and deaths of those who made various contributions to the medium.
Kasa Jizō (笠地蔵) is a Japanese folk tale about an old couple whose generosity is rewarded by Jizō, the Japanese name for the bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha. The story is commonly handed down by parents to their children in order to instill moral values, as it is grounded in Buddhist thought .