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🇧🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪🇵🇹 Missão oficial à Europa: Lula embarca na quinta-feira (16) para visitas de Estado à Espanha, Alemanha e Portugal. Presidente e delegação terão agenda intensa de compromissos políticos, econômicos e empresariais, voltada ao fortalecimento das relações internacionais do Brasil e Europa.

Gold’s role as a strategic asset for Australian investors remains highly relevant, more so now than ever. Find out why...

Day 2 at the International Aerospace Innovation Forum in Montréal, hosted by @AeroMontreal and Espace Aéro! Our team is engaging in meaningful conversations with some of Canada's leading industry players, and our CEO, Brandon Robinson, participated as a panelist to discuss how new aircraft architectures and propulsion technologies are transforming the future of flight. Come visit us to learn about our progress on our full-scale hybrid eVTOL aircraft and to exchange ideas and explore what’s next for regional air mobility. #Aerospace #Innovation #AAM #eVTOL #FutureOfFlight

Amazon is officially acquiring Globalstar satellites for $11.57 billion. "Globalstar satellites, radio frequency spectrum, and operational expertise will enable Amazon Leo to add Direct-to-Device services to future generations of its low Earth orbit satellite network. New Amazon Leo D2D system will help mobile network operators extend voice, text, and data services to customers beyond the reach of terrestrial cellular networks. Amazon and Apple enter agreement for Amazon Leo to power satellite services for supported iPhone and Apple Watch models, allowing users to text emergency services, message friends and family, request roadside assistance, and more." I guess Amazon feels this will help them compete with Starlink Mobile, but $11.5B is a steep price for what I think Globalstar offers. We'll see how it pans out. Starlink Mobile is already adding many thousands of new users per day.

📢We're expanding our logistics footprint in Brazil with two new depots in Rio Grande & Paranaguá, near key export ports, supporting agribusiness, refrigerated, and industrial cargo while reducing dwell times & improving reliability📦. Read press release: go.maersk.com/c74te2

BREAKING: Amazon is acquiring @Globalstar to bring direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity to @Amazonleo, and has signed an agreement with @Apple to power satellite services for iPhone and Apple Watch. We’ll begin launching Leo D2D services in 2028, ensuring your phone will stay connected even when you're outside of cellular range. The next-gen system will also mean faster speeds, better performance, and seamless integration with our Leo broadband constellation, and will power satellite services for supported iPhone and Apple Watch models, allowing users to text emergency services, message friends and family, request roadside assistance, and more. Keeping customers connected no matter where in the world they are. ⬇️

Amazon is acquiring @Globalstar to support our long-term vision for Amazon Leo. The agreement will allow us to build a next-generation direct-to-device constellation that connects to Leo first- and second-generation systems, forming a unified network to connect hundreds of millions of customer endpoints globally.

Meet Gauss: Our new in-house designed and built electric propulsion system. Electric propulsion satellite thrusters have historically proven extremely difficult to produce in high volumes, causing supply chain fragility for national security and commercial constellation operators alike. We’ve already established the Gauss production line, designed to produce more than 200 thrusters per year, ensuring we can supply thrusters on demand in large quantities.

Tatuzão batizado de "Hebe Camargo" chega a Penha e fará escavação até Guarulhos na linha 2 verde, com 5 novas estações do metrô de São Paulo.

The Space Symposium, hosted by @SpaceFoundation is officially underway! From April 13–16, the Virgin Galactic team is on the ground in Colorado Springs, sharing the future of commercial spaceflight and suborbital research. #41Space

Not every breakthrough looks flashy. Some quietly restore independence. @airaio shows how visual interpreting using @RayBan and @Meta smart glasses, powered by @Snapdragon, can help blind or visually impaired people recognize objects, navigate safer and manage everyday tasks with more confidence. That’s meaningful progress.

Finalmente chegou o modelo do F-39E Gripen para ficar na mesa do meu escritório — além da relevância estratégica para o Brasil, é uma beleza mesmo. A produção local coloca o Brasil no grupo seleto de países capazes de fabricar caças supersônicos.🇧🇷❤️🛫

Today I’m incredibly excited to announce Wendy. Wendy is an operating system and developer platform for Physical AI — built to make it dramatically easier to build and deploy on NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi, and other edge devices. We think robotics, edge AI, industrial systems, autonomous machines, and smart cameras should be far simpler to create. Less setup. Less infrastructure pain. Faster time to first demo. This is the start of something big. Get started at wendy.sh

ITC is at the heart of EU trade policy! 🇪🇺 Our new Brussels office helps us foster the cooperation needed to support small businesses worldwide. Director-General @KoenDoens of the @EU_Commission highlighted our unique role in bridging trade policy with practical technical aid. ℹ️ bit.ly/4cI4o24

Professor Andrew Forbes, a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, leads South Africa’s efforts in quantum photonics and structured light. He directs the Structured Light Laboratory and serves as a key figure in the South African Quantum Technology Initiative (SA QuTI). His team is developing advanced laser-based systems that use the principles of quantum mechanics — particularly high-dimensional quantum states and photon entanglement — to transmit data at potentially thousands or even millions of times the speed of current classical internet infrastructure. Traditional fiber-optic internet encodes information in classical light pulses (ones and zeros). Forbes’ approach leverages structured light and quantum states of photons. By manipulating the spatial modes, orbital angular momentum, or other properties of light, a single photon can carry far more information than a classical bit. When combined with quantum entanglement and quantum key distribution (QKD), the system promises not only dramatically higher bandwidth but also unbreakable security — any attempt to intercept the data would disturb the quantum state and be immediately detectable. Forbes has described a future where data transmission could scale to extremely high capacities by using many light patterns simultaneously, effectively expanding the “alphabet” of information carried by light. While the technology is still in the research and prototype phase, Forbes and his team are moving toward practical demonstrations, such as secure quantum links between major South African cities. South Africa is currently the only African nation with a formal national quantum technology strategy.

3 Locus Array bots. Thousands of units already picked live. Thousands more to come. See it for yourself at #MODEX2026, booth #B10704. #R2G

🚨𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: @PayPal brings Pix to SMB checkout in Brazil 🇧🇷 And this is bigger than it looks. As PayPal celebrates 15 years of operations in Brazil in 2026, the Pix launch marks the latest step in a broader strategy to support SMBs with local payment methods, new partnerships and high-conversion commerce solutions. Launched in Brazil in 2025, PayPal Complete Payments (PPCP) is an all-in-one platform that combines cards, local payment methods, and business tools in a single integration. The addition of Pix allows SMBs to deliver a locally preferred payment experience while benefiting from PayPal’s global reach, fraud protection, and cross-border capabilities—all within one platform. 💬 “Pix is how Brazil pays today, with more than 170 million people already using it,” said Brunno Saura, General Manager of PayPal Brazil. “By bringing Pix into PayPal Complete Payments, we’re giving entrepreneurs a high-conversion way to get paid that combines a payment method Brazilians know with the trust, security, and global reach that PayPal is known for.” Pix already accounts for ~⅓ of Brazil’s e-commerce volume → expected to reach ~40% by 2026 So this move isn’t about adding “another payment method”. It’s about meeting customers exactly where they already pay. Here’s what’s really happening: • PayPal is localizing aggressively in high-growth markets • SMBs get access to Pix + global payments in one integration • Conversion rates go up by reducing checkout friction • PayPal strengthens its position in Latin America’s ~$944B e-commerce market Source/more info: lnkd.in/djJxgcZF Latin America continues to be one of the most important battlegrounds in payments right now. Who’s next to double down on local rails?

Amazon Leo + @Apple In parallel, we have also signed a long-term agreement with Apple for Amazon Leo to power satellite services for supported iPhone and Apple Watch models, allowing users to text emergency services, message friends and family, request roadside assistance, and more.

💡 What’s the secret to 98.8% SLA compliance? Not AI. It’s getting the basics right first. "If your data isn't right, your AI won't be either." 🗨️ Our own Bradley Mead was interviewed by @FuturenetW: m.eric.sn/fbKp50YIG1o #ANOps #ManagedServices #AN #telecoms