/ 20 December 2023

A $1.7 million gown, no room for zoom, tabby cat videos from space

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A new record has been set for one of Princess Diana’s famous dresses sold at auction… Her blue and black velvet Jacques Azagury gown, which she wore in 1985-86, sold for a cool $1,707,436 – 11 times the estimated price.

And in a new sign of the times, there’s no room for Zoom on the Nasdaq 100… The US tech company index has dropped the pandemic era’s favourite video conferencing business after its growth stalled and the share price plummeted in 2023.

And NASA scientists are stoked that an ultra-high-def video of Taters the tabby cat has been successfully sent back to Earth from more than 30 million kilometres away. The experiment is a win, with scientists hoping it’ll lead the way for better space comms on missions. Beam me up, Taters…

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