🌍 Starlink, in collaboration with Brazilian non-profit Redes do Futuro, is connecting 140 schools across Brazil’s remote Amazon region to reliable high-speed internet.

More than 14,000 students now have access to online learning tools, unlocking a world of possibility and potential 👏

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🤖 Audi enthusiast upgrades 2001 A4 gear shift with old smartwatch in 3D-printed housing

The project started as just a bit of digital bling for the gear stick, but inspired by fellow Redditor comments, Desmontei vibe coded a WearOS app to add gear indicator and media control gestures to the repurposed digital dial. The watch face was secured to the gear stick very carefully, using a 3D-printed mount with tight tolerances.

The video shows how the smartwatch display is changing to match the current gear stick selection. Desmontei’s repurposed TicWatch Pro 3 also doubles as an intuitive media controller. It can change tracks in Spotify with back, forward, and pause swipes on the screen.

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🇪🇺 ECB rebuffs proposals to boost euro stablecoins as too risky

The European Central Bank warned European Union finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make ​controlling interest rates harder.

📑 Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel prepared a paper for the EU's top financial policymakers that ‌called for easing liquidity requirements for crypto issuers and potentially giving them access to ECB funding. The aim would be for Europe to grow a stablecoin market now dominated by dollar‑based tokens.

❗️The Bruegel economists warned that more stringent EU regulation on stablecoins compared to the U.S. risked pushing activity ​outside the bloc and increasing "digital dollarisation".

The pushback lands as the European Commission reviews its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), in force since 2024, which requires stablecoin issuers to hold a large share of reserves in bank deposits and other liquid assets.

➡️ By contrast, the U.S. GENIUS Act, adopted in 2025, imposes lighter requirements, designed to support the global role of the dollar by ​promoting regulated dollar‑backed tokens.

The debate comes amid a broader ​push to strengthen Europe’s payments autonomy, including plans for a digital euro later this decade — an initiative that has itself faced resistance from banks worried it could shift deposits away from them.

EU ​finance ministers said at the meeting they would continue their work on the digital euro, which the ECB aims to launch in 2029.

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🤖 Micron's Virginia fab begins producing America's most advanced DRAM memory

Micron announced this week that it has begun manufacturing 1α (1-alpha) DRAM at its Manassas, Virginia, facility. This action brings the company's most advanced DDR4-compatible process technology to U.S. soil for the first time. The expansion, which Micron says will quadruple DDR4 wafer output at the site, represents a $2 billion-plus investment supported by $275 million in finalized CHIPS and Science Act funding, and production is expected by the end of the year.

The company is the only manufacturer of memory in the United States, and the Manassas fab specifically serves long-lifecycle customers in the automotive, defense, aerospace, industrial, networking, and medical device sectors.

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🤑🤑 A United Nations Capital Development Fund webinar has outlined a vision for a new international payments system, and Ripple and Stellar sit at its core.

In this video both networks are “directly mentioned and clearly shown in the international payments diagram as central parts of the global payments network.”

📑 The presentation describes an open, regulated payment inter-network designed to connect every major financial network on the planet. It places XRP alongside SWIFT, Visa, and Mastercard as equal participants in this global infrastructure.

“It’s not a new system, but it connects existing systems,” — the speaker said.

➡️ The goal is to build a system in which a payment initiated on any network should reach any other network, regardless of which platform processes it.

Ripple and Stellar were named directly alongside traditional financial giants. It’s not as alternatives, but as equal participants in the same infrastructure.

❗️The webinar describes payments “to anyone, anywhere, on any network.” Ripple and Stellar are already in the roadmaps for the next phase of global finance.

#Stellar

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🇦🇲🇪🇺 Armenia, EU to introduce visa-free regime within two years

“The issue of visa liberalization between Armenia and the EU will be resolved in no more than two years...” — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said.

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🇮🇳🇺🇸 India Calls US ‘Reliable’ Energy Partner as It Seeks More Fuel

India sees the US as a “significant and reliable” energy partner, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said after meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called ties between the two nations as “one of the most important” globally.

Both nations are “strategically aligned on energy,” Rubio told reporters in New Delhi during a joint press briefing with Jaishankar on Sunday. The two sides want “a world that can not just produce, but deliver the energy resources that are necessary to power a modern economy.”

#BRICS

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🇧🇾🇫🇷 Lukashenko and Macron Hold Rare Phone Call

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko held a rare phone call on Sunday. The leaders discussed relations between Belarus and the European Union as well as regional issues during the call, which was initiated by France.

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🇨🇳 China launches Shenzhou-23 spaceflight mission to Tiangong space station, from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

China has launched its Shenzhou-23 mission in which an astronaut will spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing’s ambition to send humans to the и by 2030.

#BRICS

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🤖 Nvidia says its forecast for $200 billion CPU market includes China

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said ​on Saturday that his forecast of a $200 billion market for CPUs includes China, signalling Nvidia still sees significant long-term demand ‌in the market amid ongoing U.S.-China technology tensions.

Central processing units have taken centre stage as companies and businesses gravitate towards agentic AI — systems that perform autonomous functions — broadening demand beyond graphics processing units, or GPUs, that are used to train large models.

#BRICS

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🇪🇬 Egypt Eyes First Aerial Survey in 40 Years to Map Mineral Riches

Egypt will carry out its first comprehensive aerial mining survey in more than four decades, part of efforts to unlock mineral discoveries and attract foreign investment. Xcalibur Smart Mapping will work with Egypt’s Nuclear Materials Authority and local company Drone Tech, using advanced aircraft and geophysical technologies to map the North African country’s mineral wealth.

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🤖 Chinese humanoid robot stuns with ballet performance alongside human dancers

Chinese robotics company UBTECH unveiled its Walker C1 by making it perform ballet movements from Swan Lake alongside human dancers. The full-size humanoid demonstrated advanced balance, precise motion control, and coordinated body movement during the live presentation.

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