Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, took the stage at the company’s re: Invent developer conference for a wide-ranging discussion with the company’s CTO Werner Vogels about Amazon’s web service and retail business, as well as his view about entrepreneurship and his personal projects, such as the 10,000 year clock and the Blue Origin space program.
There has been a lot of speculation that Amazon is going to start making and selling its own smartphone.
From time to time, this speculation gets "confirmed."
Last week, for example, one report suggested that Amazon would be rolling out its smartphone at the Kindle launch presentation.
Nope.
And, in fact, it doesn't sound like Amazon is going to be rolling out a smartphone (or anything else) for the rest of this year.
A Jeff Bezos-funded team of sea explorers has located the Apollo 11 rockets that helped get man get to the moon.
On July 16th, 1969, five F-1 rockets powered Apollo 11 off the ground with one and a half million pounds of thrust, and 32 million horsepower. A few minutes later, the first stage rockets detached from the space craft and plummeted 38 miles to the ocean.
