Apollo astronaut: ‘You go to heaven when you are born’

On February 27, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that two unnamed people are paying his rocket company, SpaceX, to send them on an auto-piloted trip around the moon in 2018. Later The Washington Post revealed that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his own rocket company, Blue Origin, had circulated a 2020 moon colonization plan around Capitol Hill.

Google Expands Cloud Data Center Plans, Asserts Hardware, Connectivity Leadership

Google has added three locations to the list of cloud data center construction projects it is doing to expand geographic reach of the physical infrastructure that supports its enterprise cloud services, investing billions to catch up with its biggest rivals in the space – Amazon, and Microsoft. Urs HA lzle, the company’s senior VP for technical infrastructure, announced the plans from stage Thursday at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco.

India’s Flipkart looking to raise $1 billion in latest funding round, says source: Reuters

India’s top e-commerce company Flipkart is holding talks with investors to raise up to $1 billion in one of its biggest funding rounds so far, a source familiar with developments said on Wednesday. The source declined to name the potential investors and the exact valuation Flipkart was looking for, but said it hoped the valuation would be in the “double digits”, referring to a valuation of $10 billion or more.

India’s Flipkart looking to raise $1 billion in latest funding round, says source: Reuters

India’s top e-commerce company Flipkart is holding talks with investors to raise up to $1 billion in one of its biggest funding rounds so far, a source familiar with developments said on Wednesday. The source declined to name the potential investors and the exact valuation Flipkart was looking for, but said it hoped the valuation would be in the “double digits”, referring to a valuation of $10 billion or more.

India’s Flipkart looking to raise $1 bln in latest funding round – source

India’s top e-commerce company Flipkart is holding talks with investors to raise up to $1 billion in one of its biggest funding rounds so far, a source familiar with developments said on Wednesday. The source declined to name the potential investors and the exact valuation Flipkart was looking for, but said it hoped the valuation would be in the “double digits”, referring to a valuation of $10 billion or more.

Research: Cloud Impacts ‘Data Management Solutions for Analytics’

The latest Gartner Inc. report about the “Data Management Solutions for Analytics” market is still dominated by big, traditional vendors with on-premises legacy-like solutions, but cloud computing companies are making disruptive headway. In the for-pay ” Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics ” report, cloud vendors figure prominently and are “gaining traction,” according to Gartner.

Deluxe Barware Glasses Adds New and Improved Feature to Best-Selling Whiskey Glass Set

International company specializing in designing and manufacturing whiskey glasses, Deluxe Barware Glasses has just announced in a press conference that they have just added a new and improved feature to their best-selling whiskey glass set https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IVTGF0A . This improved version of their product was conceptualized, designed and manufactured in Ireland, Europe.

Your family robot may be teaching your kids bad manners

Emerson and Asher Labovich play with “Alexa,” an Amazon Echo voice assistant, while their mom, Laura Labovich, looks on. As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants to turn off lights, order pizzas and fetch movie times, children are eagerly co-opting the gadgets to settle dinner table disputes, answer homework questions and entertain friends at sleepover parties.

Amazon Prime Video Announces Exclusive Deal with Global Content Leader Lionsgate

Blockbuster movies like La La Land, which has grossed over at the worldwide box office and won six Academy Awards, event films including Deepwater Horizon and The Divergent Series: Allegiant and upcoming 2017 releases Power Rangers, The Shack and others will also be exclusively available only to Prime members, and will not be available on Satellite or Pay Television. “It is awesome that Lionsgate has partnered with Amazon Prime Video to bring its original, daring and highly acclaimed content to Indian , Director and Country Head, Amazon Prime Video India.

Amazon Prime Video Announces Exclusive Deal with Global Content Leader Lionsgate

Blockbuster movies like La La Land, which has grossed over at the worldwide box office and won six Academy Awards, event films including Deepwater Horizon and The Divergent Series: Allegiant and upcoming 2017 releases Power Rangers, The Shack and others will also be exclusively available only to Prime members, and will not be available on Satellite or Pay Television. “It is awesome that Lionsgate has partnered with Amazon Prime Video to bring its original, daring and highly acclaimed content to Indian , Director and Country Head, Amazon Prime Video India.

Amazon’s huge cloud computing outage tracked to bad keystrokes

Amazon is back with an apology and an explanation for a high-profile malfunction that caused websites across the internet to grind to a halt for hours on Tuesday. The online retail giant, which runs a popular cloud computing platform for sites such as Airbnb, Netflix, reddit and Quora, is blaming the outage on a simple – and perhaps somewhat amusing – employee mistake.

AWS’s S3 Brought Down by Single Typo in a Server Command

The problems Feb. 28 caused more than 150,000 websites and apps to become unavailable, while others indicated broken links and images. A single mistyped server command during a routine debugging of its billing system in Amazon Web Services’ northern Virginia data center turned out to be cause of a huge outage Feb. 28 that stilled an estimated 150,000 websites and/or business services for about half the day.

AWS Outage: Implications for Internet, Enterprise Cloud Customers

Yesterday’s hours-long Amazon Web Services outage provided a vivid illustration of how much large parts of the Internet depend on the cloud service. It also presented a puzzle for many users: because the AWS health dashboard itself depends on the cloud service, the status messages failed to indicate any signs of trouble throughout the outage.

Amazon web service outage affects thousands of US companies

Thousands of US websites and applications have been affected by a failure of Amazon’s cloud-computing service known as AWS , that has been impacted by “increased error rates.” Amazon Web Services identified and is repairing a problem in its web storage system that experienced a blackout affecting numerous US entities, the company said via Twitter.

Amazon cloud storage failure causes widespread disruption

Amazon’s cloud-computing service, Amazon Web Services, is experiencing an outage in its eastern U.S. region, causing unprecedented and widespread problems for thousands of websites and apps. Amazon is the largest provider of cloud computing services in the U.S. Beginning around midday on the East Coast, one region of its “S3” service based in Virginia began to experience what Amazon, on its service site , called “increased error rates.”

Amazon Web Services says it’s working to repair disruption

Amazon.com’s cloud-computing service was beset by “high error rates” on parts of its S3 data-storage system, disrupting many internet sites and mobile applications that rely on the company for their online presences. “We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue,” the company said on its website at 11:35 a.m. in Seattle.

Amazon said to be developing its own suite of office productivity apps

For the longest time, there have been two titan when it comes to office productivity software: the ever enduring Microsoft Office suite, and the more recent web-based Google Docs. But there soon could be a new challenger in the form of Amazon , as sources have indicated the company is planning to beef up its Amazon Web Services platform with a productivity suite that will attempt to lure enterprise customers away from Microsoft and Google.

The skinny on Atkins’ digital coupons

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Walmart Surprisingly Didn’t Have an Ugly Holiday Season

Walmart shares climbed by 2.35% to $71 a share in pre-market trading Tuesday after the retail giant reported strong fourth quarter and full-year results. Fourth quarter earnings came in at $1.30 a share on revenue of $133.6 billion, Analysts had estimated earnings of $1.28 a share on sales of $131.1 billion.

Amazon to create 5000 full time jobs in UK

Online retail giant Amazon will create more than 5000 new full-time jobs this year at its UK operations, increasing the total workforce in the country to 24,000. As per the company, people with a wide range of skills, education and experience can now apply for the jobs.

Expedia and Amazon Double Down on Britain

As politicians and businesses wrestle with potential changes to U.K. border controls, one of the world’s largest online travel booking companies has decided to double its headcount in London, and it’s not alone in looking to expand. Expedia Inc. will expand its U.K. office by 138,000 square feet, or to roughly twice the size of its existing space, and has signed a new lease that runs until 2030, according to a company statement.

Amazon Intros Video Calling Service

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SpaceX halts launch of rocket cargo from historic NASA pad

It’s the same pad where Americans flew to the moon almost a half-century ago, and where the shuttle program ended in 2011. Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket was prepared for launch to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center, on a renovated Space Shuttle launch pads The Falcon 9 rocket launch of the Dragon cargo ship was scheduled for 10:01 am from Cape Canaveral.

Who’s Winning in Online Beauty Right Now

Online beauty became a $1.2 billion industry in 2016, and cosmetics companies such as Estee Lauder have been expanding their e-commerce efforts while Amazon gains market share. Digital beauty sales rose 14% year over year in 2016: one in every five beauty purchases online was made through Amazon Marketplace, according to new research released this week from data analytics firm 1010data.