Roman’s antenna, sunshade and visor are deployed. Here is why the telescope’s three-month commissioning journey matters before its first images arrive.
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Assinantes do Apple TV já podem conferir o primeiro episódio da aguardada sexta temporada de “Slow Horses”, série de espionagem estrelada por Gary Oldman, que retorna hoje.
Aos que nunca deram uma chance para a série, “Slow Horses” acompanha uma equipe de agentes da inteligência britânica, os quais servem em um departamento do MI5 conhecido como Slough House. Oldman assume o papel de Lamb, o brilhante (mas rabugento) líder dos espiões, que acabam indo para a Slough House devido a erros que acabaram com suas carreiras.
Reveja o trailer da sexta temporada a seguir:
A nova parte da produção acompanhará a fuga dessa equipe, enquanto Diana Taverner (interpretada por Kristin Scott Thomas) os envolve em um jogo de retaliação e vingança com riscos e consequências fatais.
Mesmo que a sexta temporada só esteja chegando agora ao Apple TV, já sabemos que “Slow Horses” terá pelo menos mais duas temporadas, já que a Maçã anunciou mais uma renovação adiantada da produção — que tem sido, há anos, uma das mais premiadas do serviço. Nesta semana, inclusive, a série faturou o prêmio de Melhor Direção de Série de Drama (recebido por Saul Metzstein) nos Primetime Emmy Awards 2026.
Além de Scott Thomas e Oldman, o elenco inclui Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Christopher Chung, Rosalind Eleazar, Joanna Scanlan, Samuel West, Ruth Bradley, Hugo Weaving, Lenny Rush, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, James Callis, Tom Brooke, Jonathan Pryce e Olivia Cooke. Oldman também assina a produção executiva, ao lado de Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Julian Stevens, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gail Mutrux, Douglas Urbanski, Gaby Chiappe e Adam Randall, que retorna também à direção.
Alguns desses nomes, vale notar, marcaram presença na première da sexta temporada, organizada pelo Apple TV na última sexta-feira (11/9) no TIFF Lightbox Theater, em Toronto (Canadá):
Como dito, apenas o primeiro dos seis episódios da sexta temporada foi liberado hoje. Os capítulos remanescentes serão disponibilizados semanalmente, às quartas-feiras, até 21 de outubro.
O Apple TV está disponível no aplicativo Apple TV em mais de 100 países e regiões, seja em iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, dispositivos Android, smart TVs ou online — além de estar em aparelhos como Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast com Google TV, consoles PlayStation e Xbox. O serviço custa R$34,90 por mês, com um período de teste gratuito de 7 dias. Por tempo limitado, quem comprar e ativar um novo iPhone, iPad, Apple TV ou Mac ganha 3 meses do Apple TV. Ele também faz parte do pacote de assinaturas da empresa, o Apple One.
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European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen (pictured) outlined plans to restrict children’s access to social media under the watchdog’s proposed EU Kids Act, as concerns mount over the impact of addictive online services and increasingly capable AI systems.
In her annual State of the Union address, von der Leyen told the European Parliament: “What we are witnessing is a great capture of our children. A capture of their attention, their focus, their minds.” She explained the proposed EU Kids Act would ban children under 13 from social media and bar under 15 users from having personal accounts.
Meanwhile, 13 to 15-year-olds would only be able to use “mini accounts” set up and supervised by parents, with limited features and time restrictions. Platforms would also be required to implement additional safety features for users aged 15 to 18.
“We are reversing the burden of proof,” she said, adding, “platforms will have to prove that they are safe”.
Von der Leyen noted young Europeans now spend four to six hours a day on screens, pointing to concerns around addictive features, harmful content, online bullying and growing rates of sleep issues, anxiety and suicide.
“We do not have to accept addictive features. We do not have to accept children being drawn into ever more extreme content. We do not have to accept that girls have their photos used for AI-generated sexualised images,” she argued.
The measures form part of the EU Kids Act, which the EC is due to propose tomorrow (17 September). The proposal would introduce age checks across social media, video sharing platforms, app stores, online games and AI services.
The EC is also preparing a broader Digital Fairness Act aimed at addressing addictive design features beyond services used by children.
AI tipping point
AI was also a focus of the address, with von der Leyen describing it as “the second tipping point of our times”.
She warned that increasingly capable models could create new security risks, including more powerful hacking capabilities and the potential for self-improving systems to cause mass harm.
She revealed the EC plans to work with partners including the UK and Canada on “model evaluation, verification, early warning, AI security and much more”, while also seeking greater European computing capacity and investment in local AI companies.
Von der Leyen called on the region to use AI to support sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, transport and agriculture, while retaining human oversight. “Our approach is clear. We want AI… But above all, we want AI with human agency.”
Global concerns have been mounting over the pace of AI development this week, as Anthropic and OpenAI chiefs called for a slowdown in frontier AI development after researchers warned of existential risks from increasingly capable systems.
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NASA’s Pandora satellite has started science observations of at least 20 exoplanets, measuring their host stars so Webb’s atmospheric results can be read more reliably.
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A person sits on a leopard in a sculpture found inside a small stone building. What did this unusual pairing mean to the people of Karahantepe?
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft's fuel load will last twice as long as their initial expectations, the space agency confirmed Monday.
The $4.3 billion observatory's designers originally planned to load enough propellant into Roman's four fuel tanks for a minimum lifetime of five years, plus a potential five-year mission extension. That was a conservative estimate. NASA officials knew an on-target launch and perfect execution of the observatory's first post-launch course correction maneuver would leave Roman with a hearty fuel reserve.
"As a result of exquisite planning by our orbital dynamics team, brilliant execution by the operations team, and a precise launch from SpaceX, Roman has fuel for at least 22 years of potential science operations," Jamie Dunn, center director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a press release.
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gliding toward its distant observation post on a pinpoint trajectory so precise that engineers estimate the spacecraft's fuel load will last twice as long as their initial expectations, the space agency confirmed Monday.
The $4.3 billion observatory's designers originally planned to load enough propellant into Roman's four fuel tanks for a minimum lifetime of five years, plus a potential five-year mission extension. That was a conservative estimate. NASA officials knew an on-target launch and perfect execution of the observatory's first post-launch course correction maneuver would leave Roman with a hearty fuel reserve.
"As a result of exquisite planning by our orbital dynamics team, brilliant execution by the operations team, and a precise launch from SpaceX, Roman has fuel for at least 22 years of potential science operations," Jamie Dunn, center director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a press release.
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Europe’s biggest operators urged European Union (EU) policymakers to rethink regulation they argue is restricting investment in connectivity, with spectrum, fibre and cybersecurity rules amongst their top concerns.
In a joint statement, 17 European telecoms chiefs including Telefonica chairman and CEO Marc Murtra, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges, Orange CEO Christel Heydemann and Telenor Group president and CEO Benedicte Fasmer called on the EU to “correct the course” of the proposed Digital Networks Act (DNA) and Cybersecurity Act (CSA).
The executives argued that “incoherent policy reforms” risk weakening the region’s position. They noted the mobile sector requires €475 billion to establish world-class mobile networks, “requiring a step change in investment”.
The DNA, unveiled by the European Commission (EC) in January to modernise and simplify connectivity rules, aims to harmonise regulation, facilitate cross-border operations and promote investment in fibre and mobile networks. However, the operators argued the framework fails to improve the investment and innovation environment for European connectivity.
The CEOs called for spectrum licences to be granted indefinitely by default, with terms of at least 40 years in exceptional cases. They explained a move away from frequent auctions would free up capital for 5G, fibre and future 6G deployment, adding European operators spent €110 billion on spectrum licences alone over the past 12 years.
The group also pushed back against mandated copper shutdowns, stating operators should decide when to retire legacy networks based on customer demand and market conditions. European operators invest more than €30 billion annually in fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks.
Safety net
More broadly, the telcos called for a shift away from rules designed for legacy networks, arguing “regulation should remain a safety net” in “today’s increasingly competitive fibre market”. It also urged policymakers to allow greater scope for innovation with advanced 5G and 6G services, including network slicing and quality differentiation.
On cybersecurity, the operators warned CSA rules mandating the removal of equipment from high-risk third-country suppliers including Huawei could result in up to €40 billion in replacement costs for the sector. They called for a “proportionate, risk-based approach” that considers alternative measures, adding blanket replacement requirements could divert capital away from fibre, 5G and 6G investment.
Ultimately, the group argued stronger connectivity would support growth across AI, sovereign cloud and defence technology. “As CEOs of Europe’s leading telecom companies, we are ready to play our part in delivering European tech leadership,” the executives stated.
Other signatories included executives from TIM, KPN, Proximus, Swisscom and Liberty Global.
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A giant 10-sided wave is emerging around Saturn’s south pole, giving scientists a rare chance to watch a planetary weather pattern take shape. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a huge, evolving atmospheric wave with 10 sides wrapped around Saturn’s south pole. It is the first time scientists have seen a large, regular-sided jet pattern [...]Tele2 sought out an experienced telecoms executive to become its next EVP and CCO in an appointment due to happen no later than 1 June 2027.
Vahdat Zehtab brings 18-years of experience in the telecoms sector and is set to join from the post of CEO with Valdyr, creator of an AI-native network operating system.
Tele2 is filling a role opened when it promoted Nicholas Hogberg to be president and CEO in July after Jean Marc Harion stood down for personal reasons.
Zehtab spent five-years heading Telia’s B2C Mobile unit covering its Swedish operation. Tele2 also highlighted broad international experience in commercial director roles “across several European and Asian markets”.
There was further B2C experience gained with Ncell in Nepal.
Valdyr appeared to cash in on news of the appointment by choosing today (15 September) to reveal the moniker as its new brand, replacing its previous Telness Tech name.
Executives said the rebrand better reflects “what remains once the old” telecom stack is removed.
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El Soplao, a fossil site tucked into the hills of Cantabria in northern Spain, stands out for yielding amber pieces with a blue-violet hue and abundant bioinclusions, according to a new review paper.
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Paleontologists from Fundación Dinópolis have identified the first confirmed fossils of the genus Diplodocus found outside North America.
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BYD unveiled its most complete electric commercial vehicle lineup yet at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover, headlined by the ETT 44, a heavy-duty tractor with up to 600 km of range and 1.5-megawatt charging.
It’s BYD’s clearest shot yet at Europe’s heavy-truck market, and it brings the “Flash Charging” pitch the company built around its cars straight to the freight business.
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The Hubble and James Webb space telescopes have teamed up to target some of the smallest, most distant objects in the solar system, discovering that the history of these tiny objects is more puzzling than we'd realized.
The two orbiting observatories collectively discovered 27 new Trans-Neptunian Objects, or TNOs, all less than 25 miles (40 kilometers) across, with the smallest being only 6 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter. As their name suggests, TNOs orbit the sun from far beyond Neptune. Some of them were born out there, at the dawn of the solar system, as small planetesimals unable to take the extra step to form planets.
Models of how these TNOs formed predicted that they should have been peppered with impacts that mixed up their surface material so that their composition, and therefore color, would be different than larger TNOs. Yet new observations, led by two PhD candidates, Anastasia Morgan of Northern Arizona University and Marielle Eduardo of the University of Victoria found the opposite – the little TNOs still look as pristine as the day they formed.
"You could imagine a scenario where getting knocked around and fragmented would change the surface composition, and then you would see a different surface color for tiny TNOs compared to their larger siblings," said Morgan, who led the color and composition analysis, in a statement. "So it's really fascinating to see that the smallest objects are somehow 'remembering' and preserving the history of how they were made."
TNOs native to the Kuiper Belt move in near-circular orbits around the sun and are level with the ecliptic plane, the imaginary flat 'disc' on which the planets and other objects orbit our star. They are said to be dynamically 'cold' because they haven't really budged since they formed.
Other TNOs, however, formed between the seventh and eighth planets, Uranus and Neptune, but before they could be assimilated into those worlds while those planets were growing, they were ejected by gravitational resonances into the region far beyond Neptune, collectively forming a 'Scattered Disk' of objects on highly elongated orbits significantly inclined to the plane of the solar system. Such TNOs are referred to as being dynamically 'hot'.
Yet even the 'hot' TNOs seem to have resisted any changes to their surface composition.
"These dynamically hot TNOs retain a signature of where they were born, even though they've been orbitally scrambled since then," said David Trilling of Northern Arizona University.
This leads to one of two surprising possibilities. Either there are far fewer impacts taking place far from the sun than astronomers thought, which doesn't match with what we think we know about the population density of objects out there, or the impacts and collisions do take place but for some reason do not tear up the surface of the small TNOs as much as we might expect.
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST's) infrared vision, Marielle Eduardo was able to figure out the size distribution of the TNOs. When we look in visible light, how bright a TNO appears depends in part on how reflective its surface is, a property referred to as albedo. A larger body with a composition that isn't very reflective might appear fainter at the same distance as a smaller object covered in shiny ice.
However, at infrared wavelengths the brightness of an object is dependent mostly on its size, allowing accurate determinations of the diameters of the 27 TNOs. Surprisingly, there seem to be fewer of the very small TNOs than what models of their formation predict.
"It's very interesting that the process of planetesimal formation ends up producing the same distribution of sizes for both cold and hot populations, despite forming in different regions of the early solar system," said Eduardo. "The process seems to be insensitive to [planet-forming] disk conditions, producing similar planetesimal sizes whether the disk is hot or cold, and dense or fluffy."
These observations push Hubble's and JWST's abilities to the limit. The TNOs are incredibly faint, shining between magnitudes 24.1 and 29.3, described as being equivalent to seeing a swarm of fireflies on the moon from Earth. As such, it is the deepest survey yet into the relatively unknown realm beyond Neptune, just as you'd expect from these two powerful space telescopes getting together.
The research was published in The Astronomical Journal as two separate papers on Sept. 8, one on color and composition, the other on the size distribution of the TNOs.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that the ring system of a tiny solar system body is even more interesting than they knew.
The object in question is Chariklo, which orbits the sun between Saturn and Uranus, at around 17 times the distance between Earth and the sun. Despite only being around 155 miles (250 kilometers) wide, Chariklo, part of the Centaur family of asteroids, possesses two thick rings.
Though Saturn is the solar system body most famous for its rings, other planets also have ring systems, albeit less prominent. That includes Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter. However, Chariklo and the even smaller body Chiron, show that even the most diminutive bodies can develop rings. Now, thanks to the incredible sensitivity of the JWST, scientists know that the rings of Chariklo are even stranger than their initial discovery in 2013 suggested.
The team, led by researchers from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), began observing Chariklo with the JWST in Oct. 2022. They used a technique called stellar occultation, which measures the decrease in light from a star when an object passes in front of it.
"By comparing JWST observations with those obtained during other stellar occultations over the last decade, we discovered opposite changes in the two rings: while the inner ring shows significantly higher opacity, the outer ring shows lower opacity," team leader Pablo Santos-Sanz of the IAA-CSIC said in a statement.
The changing rings of the asteroid suggest that it experiences more complex physics than previously thought. This is important because scientists had previously believed that small bodies had relatively stable rings.
"Our results force us to rethink how they form, how they evolve, and what mechanisms maintain their stability," Santos-Sanz said. "The ability to detect these changes opens a new window for understanding the evolution of these systems and, possibly, that of other ring systems in the solar system."
The cause of these changes remains a mystery.
The research doesn't just represent an important step in our understanding of asteroids and solar system rings, but it is also an important milestone for the JWST.
"Achieving this required knowing with extraordinary precision the orbit of Chariklo, the position of the star, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, and the trajectory of JWST itself around the L2 Lagrange point, a region of space located about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) beyond Earth, away from the sun," team member Yücel Kilic of the IAA-CSIC said. "The JWST follows an orbit around this region that requires periodic corrections through station-keeping maneuvers."
During the occultation the team used in their research, Chariklo was traveling at around 5,600 miles per hour (2.5 kilometers per second) relative to the JWST.
This is incredibly fast by Earth standards, but relatively slow for objects racing through the solar system. This low speed allowed the rings of Chariklo to be resolved in unprecedented detail. Astronomers currently rely on occultation to study Chariklo and its rings, as even the JWST isn't powerful enough to directly image this small and distant asteroid.
The team's research was published on Tuesday (Sept. 9) in the journal Science Advances.
Tesla revealed the European specs for its Semi electric truck, and they don’t match the version already in production in the US. The truck will offer up to 550 km (342 miles) of range at 40 tonnes fully loaded.
Tesla Europe posted the numbers today, days before the company plans to formally launch the Semi in Europe at the IAA Transportation show in Hannover.
more…Indian smartphone manufacturer Lava International made its debut in the UK at the end of August with a mid-tier offering. To coincide with the launch MD Sunil Raina caught up with Mobile World Live to discuss how he hopes it can stand out in its first market in the West.
Lava is positioning the AGNI 4N smartphone as having the highest build and component quality available in the mid-range, with the added benefit of no so-called “bloatware”. It is priced around the £500 mark.
The company’s foray into the UK comes after 17 years of supplying feature phones and then smartphones in its home market, where it also manufacturers the handsets.
It has a presence in over 20 countries, but Raina noted the UK would be its first “Western” venture.
The executive highlighted the business has “continuously grown in smartphones over the last 5 years,” though from a relatively small base, in an era of flat conditions for the overall market.
This factor “typically means that you are able to take share” from larger rivals; something the company aims to do in its new mature market.
Raina believes there is an opportunity in the UK’s Android segment given the high market penetration of Samsung and few alternatives in the mid-tier gaining significant traction.
He noted there was a relatively low penetration rate of Chinese brands in some Western markets, including the UK, companies which are stronger in this mid-range elsewhere in the world.
Lava’s origins, he hopes, will provide an advantage given India’s trustworthy status in the UK and the fact “there’s also a huge diaspora” who “I think would perhaps like to carry one of our products”.
Its debut device in the country is being sold initially through online channels. Subsequent releases are likely to be at the same or lower tier than the AGNI 4N.
“Because this is our first foray into a Western market we would like to gauge how it goes, take the first few steps wisely and cautiously,” Raina said, noting over the years it has learnt how to survive in a challenging and always shifting industry, building a brand for the long term.
“Very few companies who started around the same time we started could manage to survive in this industry,” he added, pointing to former big names who have come and gone include BlackBerry and HTC.
Youthful outlook
Lava intends to position its debut UK release at the “mid belly” of the market primarily to an audience of young people.
Promoted points include a lack of already installed apps and other “bloatware” on the device when people buy it and use of high-quality components for its price.
Raina noted there was a trend for some makers of Android-based phones to install “dozens of applications” before sale, which consume valuable memory and potentially raise security issues, as well as being a general inconvenience for the consumer.
Lava promotes supplying a “very clean” version of the operating system.
The executive noted it delivers a high build quality and performance levels at the upper end of the mid-range.
Its AGNI 4N has an aluminium alloy metal frame, glass back and uses a MediaTek Dimensity 8350 chipset, alongside AI and camera features similar to those frequently promoted in the mid-tier.
“Below a certain price point there are a lot of compromises that brands make in terms of the build quality of the phone,” he asserted, stating many around the mid-price were “more plasticy” than its offering.
Below a certain price point there are a lot of compromises that brands make in terms of the build quality of the phone
Sunil Raina, MD Lava International
Raina argues some brands which also sell at higher tiers have a vested interest in making their top products “more aspirational and therefore compromise at the lower level”.
In terms of its audience, the device is aimed primarily at a younger demographic who want high performance to suit popular applications such as gaming, but may not have a premium budget.
“It’s in a sweet spot where young people will be able to do high performance tasks, but at a price point which is good for their pockets as well”.
“We believe this device will be able to do a lot more things that other devices cannot at this price segment,” he concluded.
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