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Longtime Washington state residents can now formally hold ownership of a grandiose school dubbed “The Bezos School” in Seattle. Former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the $75 million campaign that will fund the construction of the institution, which is set to open to the public in 2021. Amazon already has its hands full with facilities to accommodate its growing workforce, so it only made sense for Bezos to invest in education as well. According to GeekWire, the project will turn the headquarters of Seattle-based fintech company Zulily into a new…

Blue Origin, the commercial space venture founded by Jeff Bezos, announced a new milestone for the company, producing its seventh “verified,” or reusable, New Shepard rocket. “Starting next month, New Shepard will launch and land payloads for customers,” says Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Blue Origin. “That is a major milestone for the world’s most ambitious rocket company. This is a hard technical challenge, but one we are not going to accept at the expense of our mission.” Cerberus and Mad Max Partner Jeff Bezos’s space venture just broke another…

Shopify is asking customers to change their passwords in the wake of a large security breach. The report comes less than a month after Shopify said “rogue” employees had siphoned usernames and encrypted credit card data. Shopify has admitted the data breach was a result of the attackers taking advantage of “a security flaw.” The thieves gained access to customer and merchant data. In particular, Shopify says the information compromised was credit card numbers, payment card expiration dates, and user names. The hackers are believed to have accessed 2.8 million…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will appoint a Digital Accountability and Transparency Board (DATA) under the influence of Facebook and the Russian government in the weeks before the 2020 Presidential election. The new board will be responsible for verifying fake accounts and fake social media profiles that attempt to manipulate elections. As TechCrunch explains, the new board is a growing realization that there was rampant election meddling online at the same time the Obama Administration was in the midst of a PR campaign for social media friendly critics. The original…

One of the biggest buzzwords in the world of business and investments right now is the electric vehicle (EV). The United States is no stranger to negative headlines regarding China’s controversial plans to buy up electric vehicles by 2025. Not long ago, the aforementioned plans sparked electric vehicle market speculation that Tesla’s stock could go through the roof – a trend that has yet to pan out. In the eyes of many investors, the bottom line matters most and investing in electric vehicles can be seen as an important way…