👨🚀 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to be on blue origin's first human space flight
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to be on blue origin's first human space flight. Jeff Bezos plans to travel to space next month as one of the first passengers carried by Blue Origin, the Amazon.com Inc. founder's space-travel company. (Matt Grossman via Wall Street Journal)
YouTube expands TikTok rival shorts to the UK, Canada, Latin America, lets users tap all of YouTube for tunes. One of Google's strong advantages in the world of online video has been the sheer size of YouTube: currently, the site has more than 2.3 billion monthly active users and over 500 hours of content… (Ingrid Lunden via TechCrunch)
Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like. Twitter announced earlier this year it was working on a Super Follows feature that would allow some users to charge followers and give them access to extra content. (Kim Lyons via The Verge)
There's a New Vision for Crypto, and It's Wildly Different From Bitcoin. The market is still treating the space as a monolith. It's time for that to change. It's kind of weird to say this, but after more than a decade of Bitcoin's existence, there's finally some consensus about what it is. (Joe Weisenthal via Bloomberg)
France fines Google $267 million for abusing 'dominant position' in online advertising. The French Competition Authority said Google has agreed to end some of its self-preferencing practices in the automated online advertising business. (Sam Shead via CNBC)
US IT salaries start to grow as jobs growth remains steady. As the US IT jobs market remains steady in its post-COVID recovery, salaries have started to increase as organizations struggle to fill some positions. That's based on a survey to be releasd June 15 by IT employment consultancy Janco Associates.(Galen Gruman via Computerworld)
Eric Swalwell Finally Serves Mo Brooks With Lawsuit Holding Him Responsible For Jan. 6 Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) successfully served Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) with a lawsuit holding Brooks and other top Republicans “responsible for the injury and destruction” on Jan. 6 after initially failing to locate him – but Brooks alleged the server committed criminal trespassing, which Swalwell’s attorney denied. (Andrew Solender via Forbes)
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