Bezos rockets to space, Tesla launches self-driving subscription plan

Speaker 1: This is CNET. And here are the stories that matter right now. As of early Tuesday morning, former Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos is strapping himself into a rocket built by his space flight company. Blue origin to blast off into space alongside him will be his brother along with the youngest astronaut ever 18 year old Oliver, Amy and the oldest astronaut ever 82 year old aeronautics pioneer Wally funk. Blue origin has completed 15 test flights. And [00:00:30] this rocket named new shepherd is its first reusable rocket to carry humans to space and return back to earth. The rocket has enough room for six astronauts, but none are piloting the ship. All the flying work is done by onboard computers, but for those that can't travel in self-driving rockets, Tesla has rolled out a new option for trying out self-driving cars for a $200 a month. Subscription. Tesla owners can activate a full self-driving [00:01:00] beta to get option that normally costs 10 grand to activate on a new Tesla, but any Tesla purchase between late 2016 and 2019, we'll need a hardware update to do this. And are you ready for another streaming subscription cable news service CNN said it will launch a digital video subscription called CNN plus some time in early 2022. It will have its own selection of programming, but it will not unlock access to any of CNN's traditional channels. Parent [00:01:30] company Warner media did not confirm the price, or if there would be any bundle with HBO, max, its other service stay up to date with the latest by is seen it.