Eight satellites have been added to Italy’s IRIDE Earth observation programme, following launch on board a Falcon-9 rocket. The successful launch brings the total number of satellites in orbit for the Italian programme to 24.

Dry, warm, and windy conditions across the U.S. Great Plains led to extreme fire activity in March 2026.

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Posted by Andrew Lewis, Software Engineer Media3 1.10 is out!Media3 1.10 includes new features, bug fixes and feature improvements, including Material3-based playback widgets, expanded format support in ExoPlayer and improved speed adjustment when exporting media with Transformer. Read on to find out more, and check out the full release notes for a comprehensive list of

Posted by Ben Weiss, Senior Developer Relations Engineer Monzo is a UK digital bank with 15 million customers and growing. As the app scaled, the engineering team identified app startup time as a critical area for improvement but worried it would require significant changes to their codebase. By fully enabling R8 optimizations, Monzo achieved a

This place matters, and our goal is to keep Tumblr thriving for a long time. That means Tumblr has to keep evolving. There are things we know could be better. You probably have a list too. Some of it will be easy to fix. Some won’t. That’s exactly why we want to work with you.

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We recently announced a change to the ownership model of secondary calendars to improve data governance. As part of this, we emailed impacted customers to let them know that orphan secondary calendars would be deleted starting on April 27, 2026. Since that announcement, we’ve received valuable feedback that to properly manage this new lifecycle, customers