Jeff Bezos successfully flies to space, Amazon to stop COVID testing employees

Speaker 1: This is CNET and here are the stories that matter right now. Jeff Bezos has successfully flown to the edge of space on board blue origins, new shepherd rocket. The billionaire founder of Amazon flew with his brother Mark Bezos, veteran aviator, Wally funk, and blue origins. First paying customer 18 year old Oliver. Amen. After a brief launch delay, new Sheard took off from west Texas shortly after 8:00 AM. Local time on Tuesday after separating from the rocket, the fully [00:00:30] autonomous crew capsule flew to 350,000 feet giving the passengers a few minutes of weightlessness before touching down in the west Texas desert, it was the first crude fly of new shepherd and came on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. Amazon is set to stop COVID testing workers in its warehouses. According to a report in the information, Amazon said it would stop onsite testing in warehouses from July 30th, notifying employees via notice on the company's [00:01:00] internal app. The news as the us faces a COVID resurgence with cases increasing by roughly 200% over the past 14 days. And finally apple has delayed its return to office. Amids the surge in COVID cases across the us Bloomberg reports. According to sources at the company, apple staff will not be required to return until a least October a month later than expected apple CEO. Tim cook originally said in June that staff should be prepared to return for [00:01:30] three days a week. Beginning, September, stay up to date with the latest by visiting CNET.