Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of blackmailing him — and publishes the details himself

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he is being blackmailed with nude selfies by AMI, owner of the National Enquirer and reportedly protector of the President’s reputation, over claims the publisher has acted as a political operative. The events feel almost as if they have been arranged by cosmic forces as a microcosm of the “tech elite vs. the President” narrative.

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Jeff Bezos says National Enquirer threatened to reveal his nude photos

In personal blog post, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos claimed the National Enquirer is threatening to publish his “intimate photos.”
Bezos is revealing the details rather than “capitulate to extortion and blackmail,” and said the publication believes the …

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Meet the tiny startup that helped build Amazon’s Scout robot

When Amazon unveiled a six-wheeled urban delivery robot called Scout a couple of weeks ago, its website was pretty definitive about who was behind it. “These devices were created by Amazon,” the page reads. “We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development lab in Seattle.” But that is only part of the story, TechCrunch […]

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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth

3D-printing the first rocket on Mars. That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. At the time they were working from a WeWork in Seattle, during the darkest winter in Seattle history, where Ellis was wrapping up a stint at Blue Origin . The […]

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Amazon is holding a public version of its secretive MARS conference

All most of us will see from Jeff Bezos’s secretive MARS conference are a few photo shoots of the world’s richest man attempting to look as cool as possible around some very cool robotics. This summer, however, Amazon will be spinning the event out into a more public facing conference. Re:MARS retains the original event’s […]

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Great work, internet: Jeff Bezos’ alleged sext is a meme now

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If the National Enquirer is to be believed (idk!), Jeff Bezos sent some pretty gnarly sexts to news anchor Lauren Sanchez. And by “gnarly,” we mean so boring and bad. Jeff Bezos might be good at shaving his head and collecting an enormous amount of your personal data, but he is bad at sexting.

Perhaps the worst line in these alleged sexts is Bezos referring to Sanchez as “alive girl.” “I love you, alive girl,” he reportedly wrote. “I will show you with my body, and my lips and my eyes, very soon.”

There are loads of questions to be asked here, but it’s hard to focus on anything but the word “alive.” Why did Jeff B need to specify Sanchez was alive? Was it an autocorrect error, or is he really that inept? MacKenzie, get your money! Read more…

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Oil and gas giants Chevron and Occidental are backing tech to combat carbon emissions

Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and process it for use in enhanced oil recovery or in the creation of new synthetic fuels, has locked in financing from two big industry backers — Chevron and Occidental Petroleum — to bring its products to market. The undisclosed amount […]

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Jeff Bezos is getting divorced and of course people are making Alexa jokes

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People can’t help but make jokes about the richest couple in the world splitting up. 

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announced their divorce on Wednesday, after 25 years of marriage and attaining a $137 billion net worth. And while ending a marriage is undoubtedly an unhappy experience for their family, Twitter users started making Amazon-themed jokes about the couple’s end.

Some poked fun at Amazon’s mildly terrifying targeted ads. 

Mrs. Bezos, Customers Who Viewed Jeff Bezos Also Viewed..pic.twitter.com/1Ht6eYeRvf

— Dan Ozzi (@danozzi) January 9, 2019

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