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Things you can do when you have $25B: Amazon CEO recovers Apollo 11 rockets from bottom of Ocean
Two mammoth rocket engines that helped boost Apollo astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the Atlantic.
An expedition led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pulled up the engines and is headed back to Cape Canaveral, Florida, after three weeks at sea.
Bezos and NASA announced the recovery on Wednesday.
“This is a historic find and I congratulate the team for its determination and perseverance in the recovery of these important artifacts of our first efforts to send humans beyond Earth orbit,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a release. (AFP PHOTO / Bezos Expeditions)
Kindle Fire half the price of iPad
Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet computer, taking aim at Apple Inc.’s bestselling iPad with a device that’s smaller and less than half the price.
The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for US$199, compared with US$499 for Apple’s cheapest iPad, Amazon executives said. The device, a souped-up version of the Kindle electronic-book reader, will run on Google Inc.’s Android software, the Seattle-based company said. (Photo: Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg)
We have a hunch that Amazon.co.uk might wait a few weeks before filling the orders that caused these items to surge more than 5,000% in popularity in the last day.
Culture Club: The end of bookstores?
Last month, Amazon reported that, for the first time ever, it now sells more e-books than paper books. This news came the same day that the owners of The Flying Dragon, a beloved Toronto independent bookstore that specializes in children’s literature, announced it was going out of business at the end of June — this coming just days after it won the 2011 Libris Award for “specialty bookseller of the year” from the Canadian Booksellers Association. In this installment of the Culture Club, National Post books editor Mark Medley asks: Whither the independent bookstore?
Brazil releases photos of undiscovered tribe
The Brazilian government and tribal culture advocacy group Survival International have released photos of a possible undiscovered tribe in the Amazon.
The photos were taken by a Brazilian observation plane and one of them shows a group of seemingly healthy tribe members with food they’ve gathered.
The Brazilian government released the photos to raise awareness about the tribe and the dangers they face.
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