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Watch Amazon's Project Kuiper launch first satellites into space
The company sent its first two prototype satellites into space on Friday as part of Project Kuiper, its answer to SpaceX’s Starlink service.
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At Glasgow, Jeff Bezos pledges $2B as the financing to fight climate change comes into focus
On Tuesday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos pledged to donate $2 billion of his personal fortune to "restoring nature and transforming food systems" affected by climate change.
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Watch: Jeff Bezos launches to edge of space on Blue Origin's first human flight
Nine days after the billionaire Richard Branson made history by becoming the first person to launch himself into space on his own Virgin Galactic plane, his fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos did the same on a rocket from his company Blue Origin.
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Blue Origin launch: What we know about the Jeff Bezos spaceflight
Nine days after billionaire Richard Branson made history by becoming the first person to launch himself into space on his own Virgin Galactic plane, fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos is hoping to do the same.
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Billionaire space race: For all mankind or just themselves?
Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson insist that the advances made by their companies will benefit everyone, but critics say their interplanetary ambitions come from a combination of vanity and greed.
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'Skullduggery' political podcast: 'The untaxed rich (with ProPublica’s Stephen Engelberg)' — June 11, 2021
The ultrarich have ways of avoiding paying income tax that regular people simply don’t have access to. This unfair balance-tipping is the subject of new reporting by ProPublica investigators, whose sources furnished them with a trove of data revealing the secrets of the megawealthy. ProPublica editor in chief Stephen Engelberg joins Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman and Victoria Bassetti to discuss their reporting.
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'Skullduggery' political podcast: 'The Postal Service's surveillance program' — May 20, 2021
Based on the dogged reporting of investigative journalist and Yahoo News contributor Jana Winter, Americans have recently learned about the covert internet surveillance operation being inexplicably run out of the U.S. Postal Service. The operation, charmingly dubbed “iCop,” targets citizens’ social media posts, and both the exact ends of this invasive effort and the legal authority under which it exists are unknown. Winter joins Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman and Victoria Bassetti on this epis
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