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• Chime ha riportato una crescita dei ricavi per il primo trimestre del 2026 del 25% su base annua, superando le previsioni e segnando il suo primo trimestre di redditività GAAP da quando è diventata una società pubblica. • Il forte slancio dei ricavi ha portato a un aumento delle previsioni per l'intero anno e a una nuova autorizzazione al riacquisto di azioni per 200 milioni di dollari annunciata il 6 maggio. • I risultati della società fintech con sede a San Francisco evidenziano l'accelerazione dell'adozione del digital banking in un competitivo mercato statunitense.

• Il Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) di Narendra Modi ha vinto nel West Bengal per la prima volta nei suoi 46 anni di storia, assicurandosi 207 dei 294 seggi nelle recenti elezioni statali dell'8 maggio 2026. • Il BJP ha mantenuto il controllo dell'Assam e, insieme ai partner di coalizione, del territorio federale di Puducherry, governando ora 21 dei 28 stati dell'India e il 72% della sua popolazione di 1,4 miliardi di persone. • Al Jazeera ha descritto la vittoria nel West Bengal come la conquista più significativa del partito nazionalista induista da quando Modi è salito al potere nel 2014, spinta dal sentimento anti-incumbent contro Mamata Banerjee e dalla retorica anti-musulmana.

• Krutrim ha completato con successo il passaggio ai servizi di cloud AI, raggiungendo la redditività e innescando un rally nel settore tecnologico dell'India al 5 maggio 2026. • Il cambiamento convalida lo sviluppo dell'infrastruttura AI domestica dell'India, influenzando positivamente titoli come TCS, Infosys e RIL. • Questo traguardo segnala una traiettoria di crescita per i giganti IT indiani, rimodellando la competizione contro i player globali.

• I Newsmakers Achievers Awards 2026 hanno celebrato i traguardi della vita di rinomati intrattenitori e figure pubbliche indiane, tra cui Usha Mangeshkar, Hariharan, Dilip Joshi e Sanjeev Kapoor. • Il Governatore ha presieduto la cerimonia, riconoscendo i contributi di personalità distinte tra cui Atul Tiwari, Pooja Bedi e figure culturali di molteplici settori. • La cerimonia di premiazione ha messo in luce il riconoscimento dell'India per l'eccellenza artistica e il servizio pubblico nei settori dell'intrattenimento, delle arti culinarie, del lavoro sociale e dell'istruzione.

• Il sequel di The Devil Wears Prada ha incassato 233 milioni di dollari a livello globale nel suo weekend di apertura, con 77 milioni di dollari dagli Stati Uniti e Canada e 156,6 milioni di dollari a livello internazionale. • Il biopic su Michael Jackson, Michael, si è classificato al secondo posto con 54 milioni di dollari nel suo secondo weekend in Nord America, portando il totale mondiale a 423,9 milioni di dollari su 3.955 schermi. • Il successo del film, trainato in larga misura dal pubblico femminile, segna il secondo weekend di apertura più grande di Hollywood per il 2026, superando Project Hail Mary con 141 milioni di dollari.

• Researchers introduced GAME, a suite of AI algorithms that improve accuracy in tracking cosmic changes by 95% for derivatives and 20% overall. • Published on arXiv in February, GAME enhances astrophysical modeling of the universe's dynamic behavior. • The technique sharpens AI's ability to reconstruct test functions, revealing potential flaws in current cosmological understanding.

• Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 4 on April 25, 2026, predicting protein structures with 98.5% accuracy, including dynamics for drug discovery. • Model simulates folding pathways in seconds for proteins up to 5,000 residues, licensed to 200 US biotech firms. • Advances could accelerate FDA approvals for 50+ new therapies, valued at $100 billion market impact.

• An international team including University of Oxford, University of Michigan, and others used the Gemini laser and plasma to compress light, creating the most powerful light ever in a lab. • The technique acts as a 'quantum magnifying glass' by focusing light waves, enabling direct study of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) interactions with the quantum vacuum. • Published in Nature on April 22, 2026, it bridges a 20-year gap between theory and observation, per Prof. Brendan Romey of Queen's University Belfast.

• Researchers have developed a compact CRISPR system capable of achieving up to 90% efficiency in targeted in-body gene editing applications. • The breakthrough addresses previous limitations of CRISPR technology, enabling more precise genetic modifications for therapeutic purposes. • This advancement could significantly improve treatment options for genetic disorders and certain cancers by allowing safer, more effective gene therapy interventions.

Experts say our preoccupation with net overseas migration figures has distracted from a more meaningful discussion on the ‘scale of temporariness’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia should set immigration targets to achieve a “stable temporary population” to address the ballooning number of nonpermanent residents that has stretched the country’s public services and housing, a new report argues.Temporary migrants as a share of the total population has more than doubled over the past 15 years, from 2.7% in 2010, to more than 6%. Continue reading...

• The Artemis II crew completes its historic lunar flyby mission, with crew members returning to Earth on April 10 after traveling farther from Earth than any humans in decades. • During the mission, the crew captured unprecedented photographs of Earth passing behind the Moon and observed portions of the lunar surface never previously seen by human eyes. • The mission marks a major milestone in NASA's Artemis program, re-inspiring public interest in space exploration through iconic imagery showing Earth's perspective from unprecedented distances.

Donald Trump’s threat to target Iran’s bridges and power plants follows a similar playbook to recent conflictsDuring Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli jets bombed the Jiyeh power station north of the coastal city of Sidon. The blaze could be seen for miles, a towering column of black smoke. Sand was turned to glass.The plant’s damaged storage tanks leaked an estimated 15,000 tonnes of oil into the eastern Mediterranean, the largest spill in that sea. Continue reading...

• A new study in Big Earth Data introduces CA-MTransUNet, a Cloud-Aware Mixture-of-Experts Linear Transformer U-Net for forest burned area (FBA) detection using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical data. • The model attains the highest mean Intersection-over-Union (mIoU) of 87.00% with an inference speed of 6.26 ms, outperforming benchmarks despite cloud contamination. • This breakthrough addresses computational complexity in segmentation models, enhancing post-fire environmental monitoring critical for climate studies.

• NASA's Artemis II mission surpassed the Apollo 13 record on April 6, 2026, at 1:57 p.m. EDT, reaching beyond 248,655 miles (400,171 km) from Earth as the Orion capsule 'Integrity' looped around the moon's far side. • The mission will peak at 252,760 miles (406,777 km), breaking the prior record by 4,100 miles (6,600 km) during its six-hour lunar flyby, marking the first crewed deep-space mission since Apollo. • This milestone validates life-support systems, navigation, and thermal protection for humans, paving the way for sustained lunar presence under the US Artemis program.

• Saudi Arabia, UAE, and other Gulf allies are privately urging President Trump to prosecute the U.S.-led war against Iran longer, arguing Tehran remains insufficiently weakened after a month of bombings. • Allies shifted from initial complaints over lack of notice to viewing the conflict as a historic chance to cripple Iran's clerical rule, per U.S., Gulf, and Israeli officials. • Secretary of State Marco Rubio affirmed alignment with Gulf partners, stating on 'Good Morning America' that Iran's 'religious zealots' must never possess nuclear weapons due to their apocalyptic vision.

• Researchers made a major breakthrough in solving the mystery of static electricity, explaining how it causes hair to stand on end and related phenomena. • The findings elucidate the physics behind volcanic lightning and other electrostatic events, providing new insights into charge separation mechanisms. • This peer-reviewed discovery advances fundamental physics knowledge with potential applications in materials science and atmospheric studies.

• The United States saw a record amount of new clean power capacity come online in 2025, according to a report released today by the Environmental Defense Fund. • Despite the record deployment, the renewable energy sector faced significant headwinds including project delays and cancellations that threatened to slow progress. • The achievement underscores continued momentum in U.S. transition toward clean electricity despite policy uncertainties and regulatory challenges.

• Researchers created pure hexagonal diamond (lonsdaleite) by compressing organized graphite at 20 gigapascals and 1,300-1,900°C for 10 hours, confirmed via structural analyses and simulations. • The material, rarer than cubic diamond, was identified in Arizona's Barringer Crater meteorite and offers superior hardness for tools and electronics. • Study provides definitive evidence of hexagonal diamond's existence, countering past skepticism about meteorite samples.

• Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston broke the longstanding record for high-temperature superconductivity, reaching a transition temperature of 151 Kelvin under ambient pressure. • The breakthrough by physicists Ching-Wu Chu and Liangzi Deng, published March 9 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, enables potential advances in efficient energy generation, transmission, and storage. • This record surpasses all prior ambient-pressure superconductors since 1911, bringing room-temperature superconductivity—a century-old holy grail—closer by narrowing the gap to about 140 degrees Celsius.