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Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

TechCrunch

The company just demonstrated a two-way data link this week and announced its first network partners in Africa and the Bahamas — if everything goes well it may not be long before you can get a signal anywhere in the world. To date, we’ve done this with hundreds of phones, and counting, in the UK, the Bahamas, and the US.

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Go read this Daily Beast story about Sergey Brin’s secret disaster relief team

The Verge

Photo by MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images. extreme Stefon voice ]: This story has everything: A high-speed super-yacht, a secret disaster strike force, a Google co-founder, and strawberry ice cream. The organization got its start in 2015 after Cyclone Pam pounded Vanuatu.