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End of the road for Cabana: Seattle travel startup shuts down camper van rental business

GeekWire

Cabana’s customized Ford Transit cargo vans included beds, storage, bathrooms, and internet. LinkedIn Photo) The startup let campers rent custom-built cargo vans designed for travel and Instagram-worthy photo ops for roughly $200 a night. The Ford Transit vans included beds, storage, bathrooms, and internet.

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Is AI technology the future of travel?

Dataconomy

Travel industry players are excited about predictions that AI could add around $1 trillion extra to the global tourism industry by 2025. Marketing companies are also babbling excitedly about AI’s ability to create hyper-personalized trips for travelers. But the travel industry is not new to AI. AI is (merely!)

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Seattle startup Cabana pitches vanlife vacations as travel alternative during pandemic

GeekWire

Communities across the country are beginning to re-open but air travel remains a risky prospect. Cabana’s custom-built Ford Transit vans include beds, storage, bathrooms, and internet. Meanwhile, companies that help travelers find campsites — like The Dyrt and Hipcamp — are seeing big spikes in demand. Cabana Photo).

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High-speed internet could be coming to Antarctica

The Verge

McMurdo Station in Antarctica | United States Antarctic Program. Run by the US National Science Foundation, the station sees up to 1,000 visitors in the Antarctic summer from October to February, who travel here to conduct research on topics ranging from climate to ocean science. United States Antarctic Program.

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SpaceX moves to beam Starlink internet into cars, boats, and aircraft

The Verge

SpaceX is asking the FCC for approval to beam Starlink internet into moving vehicles. SpaceX is seeking regulatory approval to connect its rapidly growing network of internet-beaming Starlink satellites to cars, trucks, shipping boats, and aircraft. A train of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit passes over Uruguay.

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Biden’s plan to make your internet cheaper and better is one step closer

Vox

And Biden nominated Gigi Sohn, a former FCC staffer and prominent advocate for an open and affordable internet, to fill the agency’s last spot. It’s best known as the rule that forces internet service providers, or ISPs (Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T, for instance), to treat all of the data that travels across their networks equally.

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Square Enix titles return to Nvidia’s GeForce Now service thanks to opt-in program

The Verge

Square Enix was one of the earliest game publishers to pull its library of games from GeForce Now when Nvidia launched its paid version back in February , and some previously supported games will still be missing, like the Batman: Arkham series, Nier: Automata , Final Fantasy XV, and Octopath Traveler.