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Bidding for the first journey on Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship exceeds $2 million

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million mark with more than three weeks to go in the online auction. Blue Origin says the auction has drawn out more than 5,200 bidders from 136 countries — including yours truly, who most definitely does not have the high bid. Bidding started on May 5 and will conclude with a live auction on June 12.

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Paul Allen’s private art collection fetches more than $1.5B in record-setting auction

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The Paul Allen-owned painting “Les Poseuses, Ensemble (Petite version),” by Georges Seurat, which sold for $149 million at auction on Wednesday. The sale of the private art collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen shattered auction records on Wednesday night, as Christie’s New York reeled in more than $1.5

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Blue Origin’s suborbital space ticket sales are nearing $100M, Jeff Bezos says

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The first big step in Blue Origin’s sales effort was last month’s auction for an open seat on today’s flight. After the auction, Blue Origin executives contacted some of the bidders who lost out in the auction to offer seats on follow-up flights. That’s how 18-year-old Oliver Daemen wound up flying today.

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Microsoft vet lands $10M for new startup that watermarks documents to identify leakers

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EchoMark adds visible watermarks in the style of personalized tags to emails and documents, and inserts hidden markers or subtle text alterations for tracking. EchoMark has three customers, including auction house Christie’s and Craft Ventures. Batterberry began his career at the U.S.

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Beam me up? TMZ says William Shatner will take Blue Origin suborbital space trip

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In advance of July’s crewed flight, the price tag rose as high as $28 million during an auction. It’s not clear whether Shatner would be flown at Bezos’ invitation, as Wally Funk was, or whether a fare is being paid for the flight.

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Twitch offers a Gold Pixel Heart badge for those who join Together for Good campaign

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Whether it’s auctioning away retro games, dancing for twelve hours straight, or just staring at a wall, when it comes to charity our community always shows up.” To increase visibility and community engagement, Twitch advises participants to include hashtags #TogetherForGood or #Charity in their stream tags or titles.

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Inside the IRL Clubhouse dinner party

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Instead of name tags, guests write their after-school snack of choice down on a sticker. Guests sing, thanks to the presence of the Lullaby Club, and Hsu auctions off a coffee date with the Knicks’ physical therapist, who is at the party, as well as the founder of the period activist group Period.org. It’s not going anywhere for them.

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