Chinese artist Ai Weiwei announced a new documentary at Art Basel Miami Beach, where he has several pieces on display, the Art Newspaper reports. With one film already in the works on animals and the environment, Ai sent a camera team to the Brazilian states of Rondônia, Mato Grosso, and Amazonas to capture footage of the ongoing fires in the Amazon Rainforest, along with another team which went to Pará to shoot cattle farms. This footage will be used for a separate documentary on the fires, as well as in next year's production of Turandot at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, which Ai is directing. Agribusiness and the deforestation of the Amazon are inextricably linked issues. Ai said in his announcement: "We can clearly see that the fires are a part of a wide-ranging and premeditated plan to cause deforestation to increase land use for agriculture and cattle farming."

This month, images of the burning Amazon rainforest have reverberated around the world. These fires, believed to have been set deliberately by cattle ranchers and loggers, have now spun out of control, leading to unprecedented destruction and dire warnings from environmentalists that the crisis will lead to the loss of a precious ecosystem and an acceleration of climate change. Brazil has rejected aid and the crisis has been blamed on the country's president Jair Bolsonaro, who critics say has encouraged farmers and loggers to burn far more of the forest than they typically do to clear land in order to graze cattle. But elsewhere, technology is helping some communities prevent and tackle wildfires...

What to do about all those set-top boxes piling up in the living room? Caavo wants to be the master box to run Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Amazon Fire and others. DANA POINT -- Remember the universal remote control, the device that controls all of your various remotes? Caavo, introduced at the Code Media conference here, proposes to be a master box for all those growing set-top boxes and devices in the home-- Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Amazon Fire, as well as the cable box. The $399 unit will ship in the fall, the company says.