Jeff Bezos’ phone hacked by Saudi crown prince

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There are 11 companies in the inaugural cohort, ranging from a healthcare provider for mariners to a whitefish jerky maker — [read more about the startups here](. A 44-million-pound remodel marvel: We went inside Key Arena, where engineering and construction workers are making their way through a massive excavation project just down the street from Amazon HQ in Seattle. [Check out the photos and video](. Microsoft to test ‘Total Recall’ body scanner: FCC filings reveal that [Microsoft plans to test an advanced body scanner]( that uses millimeter-wave radiation and machine learning algorithms to detect weapons, currency and possibly even objects as small as a SIM card. This comes as Microsoft expands its overall offerings for high-security military and government cloud installations, including its work on the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud contract. 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