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Amazon’s plan to infiltrate homes this season

  Bloomberg The race is on to get more consumers hooked on Amazon ahead of the holidays, and music is the latest lure. Amazon.com Inc. is working on a stand-alone music-streaming service and will release more details in the coming weeks, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. With a price tag reported to be about $5 a ...

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Automakers show off electrics at Paris show

  AFP Global automakers are showing off new electric vehicles at the Paris auto show as they look ahead to a world of tighter environmental standards on emissions. Volkswagen on Thursday displayed the I.D, a battery-powered compact it says will sell for about what a fully equipped Golf diesel does when a production version eventually goes on the market in ...

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Developers face challenges capturing wave energy

  AFP Although wave-generated power could meet a quarter of America’s energy needs, the technology lags other renewables such as wind and solar. But the U.S. Navy has established a test site in Hawaii, where power from floating devices travels a mile through undersea cables to Oahu’s power grid — the first wave-induced electricity online in the US. Some things ...

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