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Pluto is quite the complex little frozen world I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update we now have a closer look at the world at the edge of our solar system NASA released the very first close-up photos from the surface of Pluto taken by the New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby on Tuesday this was taken just below the heart shape area a hundred and fifty miles across and it shows substantially sized mountains 11,000 feet high there's still lots of data being downloaded but there's already a discovery so far there is evidence that this icy world has geological activity to produce these mountains because there are no impact craters in this image now they are hunting for things like geysers and cold volcanoes very cool stuff we'll get more info Friday we also have a detailed look at one of plutos moons Sharon and in other news on planet Earth Apple has upgraded the ipod touch for the first time since 2012 the refreshed models now come in new colors shades of grey and gold along with a bright blue and pink those colors are now available in the other models the Nano and the shuffle but it's the touch that got a hardware update giving it similar parts as the iphone 6 with an 8 megapixel camera a 64-bit processor and a motion tracking chip but it's still the same 4-inch screen the ipod touch starts at two hundred dollars for the low-end 60 gig model same as before amazon's big primed a birthday sales bash failed to live up to the hype for many shoppers to mark the site's 20th birthday amazon announced it would host more sales than Black Friday for Prime members but one does not simply invoke the phrase black friday because if you do crowds will expect make a crazy electronics deals amazon did have some electronics on sale like the Roomba and a few laptops and headphones with discounts 250 some sixty percent off but they were scattered throughout the day and sold out of inventory almost instantly and some TVs didn't go up until later in the afternoon most notable tech sales were for Amazon's own products like the Kindle but sold out very quickly and weightless also filled up fast many shoppers took to Twitter to complain about lack of interest items comparing the selection to a garage sale because all that was left to comb through worth lightning deals and those tend to be random assortment civ oddities like vitamins knee braces some dish detergent either way Amazon did get more people shopping then they may have on a Wednesday but just think of how different things were 20 years ago when this website only sold books here at cnet we dug into the archives and found this video from a news report in 1997 two years after amazon launched here our employees on the warehouse floor handpicking books and packing them themselves just think now Amazon uses robots that can assist with 300 orders an hour that's it for this tech news update and there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey