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An app based around a single word, a phone from Amazon that helps you buy stuff from Amazon and details about Apple's expected wrist candy. All that and more in the week's tech news.

Also: A literary magazine's dating service; Neil Gaiman makes a video game; the virtues of Barnes & Noble.

Rocco has asked Alexa to deliver fruit, light-bulbs and a kite. Rocco is Marion Wischnewski's African grey parrot. He was adopted by Marion after he cursed too much at an animal sanctuary.

The Postal Service has struck a deal. Starting with New York and Los Angeles, it will deliver Amazon's packages on Sundays. More cities will be added next year. The early analyses are that both sides of the deal will benefit.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is on the rise. With fire season underway, the rainforest faces the threat of even more destruction. But President Jair Bolsonaro dismisses those fears as a lie.

Amazon is the latest tech company to respond to demands that law enforcement not have access to controversial facial recognition technology.

Broad swaths of the Amazon Rainforest burned this year. An NPR correspondent met one character deep in the rainforest who told him something that didn't end up in a radio story but stuck with him.

With new producers, a new studio, and a new 007 on the way, change is expected for the next James Bond.

Inside the Amazon rainforest, wildcat miners dig out rocks and grind them down in search of gold. These illegal operators are blamed for deforestation, pollution and driving people off their land.

Also: an excerpt from George R.R. Martin's upcoming novella; a plea from the OED; a new short story from Adam Johnson.