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F-1 engines (red cones) on the Apollo 8 first stage. Credit: NASA Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO and one of the richest people in the world, has an abiding interest in the future of space exploration. His start-up Blue Origin is building suborbital launch vehicles and has received millions in NASA funding to develop next-generation spaceflight technologies.
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FREEDOM AND COMMERCE The commentary by Jonathan Zittrain on “ Freedom and Anonymity ” [Forum] misses the point.
Read More »Amazon.com explains recent cloud computing outage that took down Foursquare and Reddit
Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS) , the cloud computing arm of online marketplace Amazon.com, on Friday explained what happened during last week's service outage, which disrupted many of its customers' Web sites. AWS, formed by Amazon in 2006 to capitalize on the cloud computing hype, ran into problems on April 21 with a network configuration change that took several days to fix, slowing or disabling access to sites run by location-based social network Foursquare , fellow cloud service provider Engine Yard , social news outlet Reddit and several others.
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