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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...

Amazon is taking legal action against more than 1,000 people for fake reviews on its website


The US online retail monster has recorded a claim in Seattle, Washington. It says its image notoriety is being harmed by "false, deceptive and inauthentic" audits paid for by venders looking to enhance the request of their items. It comes after Amazon sued various sites in April for offering fake surveys.  Amazon says the 1,114 respondents, termed "John Does" as the organization does not yet know their genuine names, offer a false survey administration for as meager as $5 (£3.24) on the site Fiverr.com, with most encouraging five-star audits for a vender's items. 

While little in number, these audits can fundamentally undermine the trust that customers and by far most of venders and producers place in Amazon, which thus stains Amazon's image," the innovation goliath said in its protestation, which was recorded on Friday. Amazon said it had directed an examination, which included buying fake client audits on Fiverr from individuals who guaranteed five-star appraisals and offered to permit buyers to compose surveys. It said it had watched fake audit dealers endeavoring to maintain a strategic distance from discovery by utilizing different records from one of a kind IP addresses.  Amazon said the claim was not focusing on Fiverr, which is not a litigant in the dissension. Fiverr said it was working with Amazon to determine the issue. 

"Amazon is conveying this activity to shield its clients from this wrongdoing, by halting litigants and evacuating the biological community in which they take an interest," the claim says.  Anybody, whether they are a client or not, can audit items sold on Amazon's online store, yet the website's guidelines prohibit paid-for or anecdotal surveys

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