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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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Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary talks crypto and why he’s pro stablecoins

TechCrunch

It’s a little less than two weeks since Crypto Bahamas began, but we’re still bringing out content from the conference, because, seriously, there was so much good alpha we couldn’t not share it. dollar the digital currency globally. None of them own any stablecoins.

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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

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At the time, the operation was both smaller and under siege by Hurricane Dorian, which wiped out the team’s coral farm in the Bahamas — and then, of course, the pandemic arrived just in time to spoil the team’s 2020 plans along with everyone else’s. In the Accelerator over the Sea. Image Credits: Coral Vita.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

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A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2022

TechCrunch

Then came the rise and fall of the SPAC wave and global supply issues. By December 12, Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas. Subsequently, however, the company updated its website with a statement that blamed the sudden liquidation on pandemic and supply chain problems. Now it’s the economy, stupid. So what went wrong?

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