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That's two out of two successful crude launches for Blue Origin

as the company today sent a crew of four people to space and back from its facility in West Texas,

including actor William Shatner, aka Captain James T Kirk on Star Trek.

The mission dubbed NS18 is the fifth rocket launch for the company this year and the 18th for the company overall.

In other news, a draft decision concerning Facebook, the Irish Data Protection Commission, and GDPR could find the

social giant some $36 million.

It may sound like a lot, but the financial penalty would take the AT-TEC giant just over two and a half hours to earn in revenue,

based on its second quarter earnings of $29 billion.

But even more worrying for privacy advocates is the apparent willingness of the DPC to allow

Facebook to simply bypass their regulation by claiming users are giving it their

data because they're in a contract with it to get targeted ads.

And online payments giant Stripe is building a crypto team despite having pulled support

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