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

TechSpot

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

The Verge

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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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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Flying taxi startup Lilium will build a hub for its electric aircraft in Florida

The Verge

Image: Lilium. Lilium says it will construct a $25 million “vertiport” in Lake Nona, a planned community of about 65,000 people within the Orlando city limits. It will work with the primary real estate developer in the area, Bahamas-based Tavistock Development Company, on the development and construction of the vertiport.

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The Fyre Festival settlement reveals the true cost of schadenfreude — $7,220 a pop

The Verge

Image: Fyre Festival LLC. Tickets for the 2017 “luxury” music festival on a remote island in the Bahamas that actually turned out to be a beach full of FEMA tents and some pathetic cheese sandwiches, cost anywhere from $1,000 to as much as $12,000 — more if you bought a package deal. hunger games, but for influencers.

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Twitter battles all things ElonJet, SBF gets arrested, and OpenAI tries to figure out watermarking

TechCrunch

WiR should leave you with a pretty good idea of what people were reading/talking/tweeting about. SBF arrested : Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange/Gordian knot that exploded oh-so-dramatically over the last few months, was arrested in the Bahamas this week. Image Credits: Instagram. audio roundup.

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Tech’s latest controversy? The return of the five-day, in-person work week

TechCrunch

In a lot of cases, the power is shifting back to employers once again — which means those who have wanted to bring people in the office since the moment lockdown first began may finally be empowered to do so. Image Credits: Lensa AI on Instagram (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch. A few notes.