Blue Origin CEO says he wants to bring Amazon's customer-centric culture to Bezos' space rocket company

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Blue Origin's facility in Florida. The company hopes a planned November rocket launch will prove it can still catch up to SpaceX.

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  • Jeff Bezos' space rocket company, Blue Origin, has long lagged behind Elon Musk's SpaceX.
  • Its CEO, David Limp, thinks adopting some of Amazon's customer-centric culture will help.
  • He is also looking to the November launch of its New Glenn rocket to

A couple took 31 trips to Orlando and vacationed at Walt Disney World using government funds, prosecutors say

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A view of Main Street at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

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  • An Army contractor and his girlfriend used government funds for "numerous" personal vacations, prosecutors said.
  • They took 31 trips to Orlando, where they "spent time at the pool and Disney parks," the DOJ said.
  • A judge earlier ordered one of them to pay almost half a million dollars in
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Hezbollah members were likely holding pagers with both hands when they exploded due to a dark feature: report

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Thousands of people were injured after the devices detonated.

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  • Thousands of electronic devices used by Hezbollah fighters detonated across Lebanon last month.
  • Israel has not confirmed its involvement in the attack, but it is widely believed to have been behind it.
  • A new report has detailed a dark feature that made some of the devices even more deadly.

Thousands of electronic devices

Apple’s revamped Mac mini and iPad mini could be here as soon as November 1

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It seems Apple has a slew of hardware announcements in store for us this fall. In the Power On newsletter this week, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is gearing up to announce new MacBook Pro models, the redesigned Mac mini, the M4 iMac and a new iPad mini before the end of the month, and is targeting a release date of November 1 for “at least some” of these products.

According to Gurman