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NASA shows off the best images of Earth taken from the ISS this year

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Chosen by the people at the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the images include Cuba and the Bahamas, the fall colors of Ottawa, and moonrise over the southern Atlantic Ocean. You can see more photos taken from the ISS here.

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Daily Crunch: US law enforcement charges SBF with fraud as he awaits extradition after Bahamas arrest

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Trading suits for stripes : After much fodder all over the place of why Sam Bankman-Fried was not behind bars sooner for his involvement in the collapse of FTX, Darrell reports that SBF was arrested in the Bahamas amid fraud charges brought by several U.S. Image Credits: Charles Taylor / EyeEm (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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That Fyre Fest tweet with the sad sandwich will be auctioned as an NFT for medical expenses

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The organizers of Fyre Fest billed it as an exclusive, luxury music festival in the Bahamas, which would include top-notch catering, big-name performers, and transportation via Jet Ski and yacht. Kendall Jenner was among the celebrities paid $250,000 to promote the event , which guests paid up to $12,000 to attend.

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Sam Bankman-Fried launches Substack: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’

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judge released Bankman-Fried on a $250 million bail bond after he was extradited to America from the Bahamas. Image Credits: SBF SubstackHe went on to say: If FTX had been given a few weeks to raise the necessary liquidity, I believe it would have been able to make customers substantially whole. Last month, a U.S.

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

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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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Who’s profiting from the Bored Ape digital land sale?

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The Yuga Labs digital land sale this weekend , a mass-mint of new NFTs that temporarily clogged the Ethereum blockchain, is not just making money for the company behind the new set of images that may figure in a future digital service. Crypto Bahamas signals stronger ties between old and new worlds of finance.

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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. Image Credits: Coral Vita. Image Credits: Coral Vita.

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