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Hyderabad: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez recently gave their first sit-down exclusive television interview to CNN. In the same interview, Bezos announced that he will donate the majority of his $124 billion net worth to charities to combat climate change and to support people who can unify humanity amid growing social […]

On Monday, Scott, a billionaire philanthropist, filed for divorce in Washington State's King County Superior Court, per the New York Times, Page Six reported.

Uju Anya, an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, posted in a tweet: "May her pain be excruciating."

New York: “You want to bring down inflation? Lets make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share,” US President Joe Biden had said in a tweet. You want to bring down inflation? Let’s make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share. — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 13, 2022 Never one to balk, Amazon […]

San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos has donated $118 million to a nonprofit, but it is unclear to which nonprofit he donated, media report said. According to a Securities and Exchange Filings (SEC) filing, Bezos transferred 47,727 shares of Amazon stock to an unnamed nonprofit, worth a total of $118 million based on that […]

San Francisco: Amazon President and CEO Andy Jassy has said that the e-commerce giant wants to improve worker safety at its warehouses and fulfilment centres, as the company faces intense scrutiny over employees’ conditions. In his first shareholder letter as the head of Amazon, Jassy, who took over as CEO from founder Jeff Bezos last […]

San Francisco: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday agreed with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to convert Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters in the US into a homeless shelter. Musk and Bezos, who have been sparring over who will win the space race for years, finally agreed on a noble cause on the social media. […]

Hyderabad: American tech giant Amazon was started by Jeff Bezos out of the garage of his house in 1994 as an online marketplace to sell books. It was initially incorporated with the name Cadabra, Inc. While all this information might not be new to you, here is how the company’s first job posting looked like. […]

Hyderabad: American entrepreneur Elon Musk has once again reclaimed the title of the world’s richest man. ‘Forbes’ magazine said that Musk has made new records for himself – the only third person in history to amass a net worth of $200 billion. In the process, Musk has now surpassed Amazon founder and fellow billionaire Jeff […]

The passenger would feel weightless for 20 to 30 seconds until the plane descends back to 24,000 feet.

The US space agency was expected to pick two lunar lander prototypes (including one of Blue Origin's) but funding cut from US Congress led the agency to select SpaceX over Blue Origin

We bring to you a comparison of their crews and other details about both the successful missions.

Bezos and his brother, Mark Bezos, plan to fly on the much-anticipated first human flight of the New Shepard spacecraft

Read here about space tourism and the firms involved in the commercial activity…

Bezos is expected to fly approximately 328,000 feet (about 100 kilometres) to the Kármán Line on New Shepard on the day that marks NASA’s Apollo moon landing anniversary.

While billionaire Branson is set to fly to space aboard his Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spaceplane on July 11, Amazon Founder Bezos is expected to take off in his own space tourism rocket on July 20.

With this, Sirisha, currently the Vice President, Government Affairs at Virgin Galactic, will be the second Indian-born woman to reach space after Kalpana Chawla.

Wally Funk, who is one of the 13 women who passed NASA’s astronaut training program in the 1960s, will be aboard the July 20 launch from West Texas, flying in the capsule as an “honored guest.”

A single seat aboard the New Shepard crew capsule, dubbed the RSS First Step Crew Capsule, went up for auction earlier this month, starting with a sealed bidding round that drew "more than 5,200 bidders from 136 countries".

Jassy has led AWS since it was founded in 2003 and was named the CEO of the Cloud arm in 2016.