On January 22, 2026, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, showing it in near-perfect alignment with the Sun-Earth axis. This observation unveiled an unprecedented jet structure and an elongated tail.
This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by Hubble’s WFC3 instrument on January 22, 2026, at 13:10 UTC. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Man Tu Hui, Shanghai Observatory.
According to researchers Professor Abraham Loeb from Harvard University and Dr. Mauro Barbieri from the INAF Padua Observatory, interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS provide a rare opportunity to study materials from distant star systems. They detailed their findings in recent papers published in American Astronomical Society Research Notes.
Previous interstellar visitors such as 1I/Oumuamua lacked evidence of gas or dust, while 2I/Borisov was only observed at angles greater than 16 degrees from the Sun-Earth alignment, missing the chance for detailed study.
On January 22, 2026, comet 3I/ATLAS was positioned at an astonishingly small angle of just 0.69 degrees relative to the Earth-Sun axis, allowing for an optimal view as our planet passed nearly directly between the Sun and the comet.
This rare alignment caused a significant brightness spike, influenced by the composition and structure of the particles emitted from the 3I/ATLAS jet, as noted by Professor Loeb in the statement.
This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was taken by Hubble’s WFC3 instrument on January 22, 2026, at 13:40 UTC. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Man Tu Hui, Shanghai Observatory.
Astrophysicist Mang To Hui from the Shanghai Observatory utilized Hubble’s capabilities to observe 3I/ATLAS during conditions that may not occur again for decades.
The interstellar object images were gathered using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument, providing valuable data for ongoing research.
Professor Loeb elaborated on the findings, stating, “When the Hubble images from the January 22, 2026, alignment were processed by my collaborator Toni Scarmato, they revealed a system of four jets, including a prominent tail directed toward the Sun and Earth, along with three smaller ‘minijets.’”
“These minijets are spaced evenly apart at 120-degree angles, with one possibly hidden from view due to its unfavorable orientation relative to Earth, rendering it dark.”
On Thursday, Apple unveiled its quarterly results following the introduction of its new iPhone models, surpassing analysts’ forecasts on Wall Street. The company demonstrated solid financial growth and robust profits, even amidst a sluggish progression in artificial intelligence. This report comes shortly after Apple achieved a market capitalization of $4 trillion for the first time.
“We are thrilled to announce a record revenue of $102.5 billion for the September quarter, featuring unprecedented revenue from both the iPhone and our services division,” stated Apple CEO Tim Cook. Despite the encouraging overall iPhone sales, the revenue generated from smartphone sales in China did not meet Wall Street’s expectations.
Cook also anticipates a revenue growth of 10% to 12% for the quarter ending in December, which is typically Apple’s peak growth period.
The launch of new iPhones, particularly the iPhone 17 and 17 Pro, has rekindled demand for Apple products, notably in China, where sales have been underwhelming. There is ongoing speculation regarding the demand for the ultra-slim iPhone Air, with analysts divided on whether production has been decreased.
“Although the market is predominantly focused on AI adoption and monetization, Apple has demonstrated that its traditional strategy continues to yield results this quarter, fueled by substantial sales growth in core products and services, alongside a stronger global economy than anticipated,” commented Thomas Monteiro, senior analyst at Investing.com.
Apple recorded a revenue of $102.47 billion, reflecting an 8% year-on-year increase, surpassing the analyst expectation of $102.24 billion. Additionally, the company exceeded expectations for revenue from “other products” and services. However, iPhone sales amounted to $49.03 billion, slightly under the estimated $50.19 billion. Apple’s shares saw a modest rise in after-hours trading.
John Belton, a portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds, attributed the optimistic forecast to climbing iPhone sales and increased prices for the latest models. “The standout data point from Apple’s last earnings report was iPhone sales,” noted Belton. “Double-digit growth signifies the strongest iPhone growth in three years.
Despite this robust revenue, Apple trails behind other tech firms in rolling out AI products. The company has yet to launch any AI offerings to rival those by Meta, Google, and Microsoft. Furthermore, Apple faces challenges due to the varying tariffs imposed by former President Donald Trump on China and India, where a large portion of its manufacturing occurs.
Nonetheless, Apple’s stock price has increased over recent weeks, consequently boosting its market cap and placing it among only three companies globally valued at over $4 trillion, alongside Nvidia and Microsoft.
Apple’s stock has surged more than 50% since its lows in April, with analysts attributing the rise to the introduction of the company’s new products. Alongside the iPhone 17, Apple also unveiled new AirPod earbuds featuring live translation capabilities and upgrades to its Apple Watch lineup.
This week, Apple will be joined by other leading tech giants—Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet—as they report their earnings while the overall U.S. stock market reaches unprecedented highs. While Microsoft and Alphabet showcased strong results on Wednesday, Meta Inc. reported more mixed outcomes, resulting in a dip in stock prices.
The Pixel 10 Pro stands out as Google’s premier smartphone, compact yet powerful, enhancing the capabilities of the already impressive Pixel 10 and raising the bar in the camera category.
This model competes closely with Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro, delivering the finest Google hardware without the bulk of a large display. It’s also the most affordable among the trio of Pixel 10 phones, starting at £999 (€1,099/$999/$1,699), with the larger XL and tablet variants hybridizing 10 folds.
The 10 Pro bears a familiar resemblance to its predecessor, featuring a 6.3-inch OLED display that matches the Pixel 10 in size but is notably brighter, smoother, and sharper. As one of the top displays in the mobile realm, its refined aluminum edges and matte glass back exude a premium feel, though the color options are somewhat conservative compared to its less expensive counterparts.
With Qi2 support, magnetic chargers and accessories, such as the sleek Anker 5K Maggo, can effortlessly attach to the device’s back. Photo: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian
The 10 Pro is among the first devices to incorporate Qi2 wireless charging, allowing compatibility with a variety of magnetic accessories, including those designed for Apple’s MagSafe.
Under the hood lies Google’s latest Tensor G5 chip, offering approximately 35% improved speed over last year’s iteration, though it does not quite match the performance of Qualcomm’s top Android chips found in competing devices. The 10 Pro delivers a smooth user experience and performs well for gaming, although those seeking top-tier graphics may want to explore other options.
Boasting solid battery life, the Pixel enables a mix of 5G and WiFi usage lasting up to two days, with around 7 hours of active screen time. Most users will find they need to charge it every other day, but I managed to get through a heavy usage day in London, ending with approximately 25% battery remaining by midnight.
The Pixel 10 Pro fully charges in about 90 minutes with a compatible power adapter of 30W or more (not included), achieving 52% charge in just over 30 minutes. Photo: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian
Google’s version of Android is vibrant, user-friendly, and customizable within reasonable limits. Photo: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian
Running on Android 16, your phone will receive security and software updates until August 2032, keeping your device current over its lifespan. The software mirrors that of the regular Pixel 10, featuring a bold and colorful aesthetic.
Google has infused AI into various aspects of the phone’s operation, with many features powered by the recent Gemini Nano models. This ensures privacy since processing can occur directly on-device without needing to transmit data.
With Gemini Chat Bot, you can engage with apps, view visuals on-screen, capture content through the camera, or have live interactions through audio.
Magic Cue enhances numerous Google and third-party apps by offering quick access to contextual information derived from data stored on your phone. Composite: Samuel Gibbs/Guardian
A standout feature is Magic Cue, which operates in the background by merging data from your Google account with your mobile data to provide assistance or quick recommendations in various Google applications. For instance, when you call a business, Magic Cue displays your card directly in the phone app, and order confirmations are readily accessible with a single tap when needed.
Magic Cue operates locally using around 10 days of data, helping to streamline operations without requiring extensive logs of your activities. It’s exclusive to Google and select third-party apps like eBay, limiting its functionality for users not utilizing compatible applications, such as WhatsApp.
The 10 Pro also includes a one-year subscription to Google AI Pro, which typically costs £19 per month, granting access to more advanced Gemini Pro models for image and video generation, along with 2TB of cloud storage across Google Drive, Photos, and Gmail.
Camera
The Camera app is user-friendly and versatile, offering various modes to enhance your photography experience, including manual controls. Photo: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian
The 10 Pro features an exceptional camera setup with a 42MP front-facing camera, a 50MP primary camera, a 48MP ultrawide, and a 48MP 5x telephoto lens, delivering up to 10x optical zoom quality. Notably, it debuts direct AI image processing in its camera, which raises intriguing questions about the nature of photography itself.
The primary camera is one of the industry’s finest, capturing a remarkable array of detailed images across varying lighting conditions. The ultrawide camera excels in landscapes and group shots, producing excellent macro photography results for engaging close-ups. The 5x telephoto lens is a highlight, providing exceptional performance even at 10x magnification, especially in good lighting.
Google’s smartphone excels in challenging lighting scenarios, handling bright or high-contrast scenes adeptly. In darker settings, Night Sight provides more accurate color representations compared to its competitors. Additionally, this year sees enhancements to the pixel portrait mode.
Zooming past 30x employs locally generated AI models to restore lost details during digital zooming, allowing users to choose between preprocessed and post-processed images. Composite: Samuel Gibbs/Guardian
Zoom capabilities extend from 30x to 100x, utilizing a local generative AI model to recover lost details and sharpness during digital zooming. It generally performs well, although not flawlessly. AI-generated images may sometimes display inconsistencies in perspective or details. However, capturing predictable subjects like buildings, vehicles, and trees leads to solid results, making the 100x zoom surprisingly user-friendly.
When capturing people, the camera avoids using the Genai model, which might be the most suitable option. Yet, like all generative AI systems, it can occasionally struggle to produce coherent outputs, mirroring what often appears as alien-like scripts.
The camera application has integrated C2PA Content Credentials, documenting not only how images were taken but also whether generative AI was involved in their creation. Best Take functionality captures multiple images with a single press of the shutter button.
The 10 Pro also features AI camera coaching capabilities seen in the standard 10, providing users with guidance on scene composition and optimal shooting angles.
The camera comes loaded with entertaining photography and videography modes, solidifying the 10 Pro’s status as a leading contender in the market.
Sustainability
The front and back of the Pixel feature scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass Victus 2. Photo: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian
The battery is designed to last through at least 1,000 full charge cycles, maintaining a minimum of 80% of its original capacity. The phone is repairable by Google, third-party shops, or through DIY methods. A repair manual and accessible parts are available.
The Pixel 10 Pro comprises 30% recycled materials by weight, including aluminum, cobalt, copper, glass, gold, plastic, rare earth elements, tungsten, and tin. The company is transparent about the environmental impact of its phones and offers a program to recycle old devices free of charge.
Price
The Google Pixel 10 Pro is priced at £999 (€1,099/$999/$1,699), offering four color options.
In comparison, the Pixel 10 starts at £799, the Pixel 10 Pro XL is available at £1,199, while the Pixel 9a can be found at £399. The Samsung Galaxy S25 retails for £799, the Galaxy S25 Ultra is priced at £1,249, and the iPhone 16 Pro costs £999.
Verdict
The Pixel 10 Pro does not radically reinvent the smartphone with its enhancements but builds upon the successes of the Pixel 10, itself a strong contender this year. Yet it still elevates market-leading camera capabilities alongside advanced AI integration.
It offers reliable performance, solid battery life, and an attractive design, though avid gamers may prefer options with superior graphics. Google’s version of Android remains among the best, offering years of support for longevity.
Several new features in Gemini provide enhanced convenience with fewer gimmicks. Magic Cue is a valuable tool that saves time without being intrusive, though it could benefit from broader app integration.
The incorporation of generative AI into the camera app refines the zoom experience, albeit it does blur the distinction of traditional photography. Debates about authenticity in photography will undoubtedly arise as usefulness and novelty intersect.
The Pixel 10 Pro is among the finest compact smartphones available, showcasing just how sophisticated Google’s AI tools have become, surpassing both Apple and its other competitors.
Pros: Seven years of software updates, 5x optical zoom, 10x AI zoom, Magic Queue, impressive local AI features, Qi2 wireless charging with magnetic accessory support, solid battery life, excellent display, ergonomic size, quick fingerprint and face recognition, and a year of Google AI Pro subscription.
Cons: Relatively high price, does not match facial recognition safety, lacks best-in-class raw performance, and the absence of a physical SIM card slot in the US, with no major improvements over the standard Pixel 10.
In two photos taken for fashion retailer H&M, model Mathilda Gvarliani can be seen posing in a white tank top and jeans. The images look like they were taken from the same shoot, but one of the photos shows Gvarliani the real Ms. Gvarliani, and the other is an artificially manipulated image of her.
Published this week Fashion businessOne image, an industry news outlet, shows Gvarliani holding the waistband of her jeans, while the other shows a “digital twin” with her arms crossed and staring at the camera.
The two images feature a quote from Gvarliani. “She’s like me. Gvarliani reported that this year is one of more than 20 models that H&M has partnered up to create digital replicas for use in its social media platforms and marketing campaigns, the publication reported.
Swedish retailer H&M is the latest company to pursue trends that have destabilized some fashion industry insiders. Using images that spreads artificial intelligence, critics have expressed concern about the impact on models and other independent contractors, including hair stylists and makeup artists, who are part of the photo shoot workforce.
According to H&M spokesman Hacan Andersson, the company is in the exploration stage of the project.
“We are simply exploring what is possible, and we work closely with other creatives in the industry, institutions and models themselves. We have full control over when the “digital twin” is used, and of course we are paid when it is used.”
Jorgen Andersson, chief creative officer at H&M, said the company will retain a “human-centric approach” in its use of technology.
H&M “was interested in exploring ways to showcase our fashion in new and creative ways, while still remaining true to our commitment to personal style,” he issued a statement in an email Thursday.
Fashion Worker LawNew York’s new law, which will come into effect in June, is expected to address some of the concerns about the use of AI by providing protection to the model, including requiring wage transparency and control over digital replicas.
State Sen. Brad Hoyleman Cigar, sponsor of the bill, said the labor law “protects fashion models from being financially abused and using images without their consent.”
Other states and Some European countries There is a law regarding individual rights via digital replicas, but New York law specifically covers the model.
Some models have complained that they have found unknown faces taking photos on their bodies and that they have no control over their finances.
“I think part of the impressive thing about the H&M Digital-Twin campaign is that the digital representation of the model is indistinguishable,” said Sara Ziff, former model and founder of the Model Alliance, on Friday. “It could really raise doubts about consent and compensation and replace many fashion workers.”
The alliance that provided input to the law in New York said models may use generated AI images without knowledge or consent, and without compensation. The new law states that modeling agencies cannot empower lawyers through digital replicas and must obtain written consent from the model for how they are used and compensation.
Models generated in AI are generally either human models or fictional representations of digital replicas, which are images of real people reused by technologies such as H&M “digital twins.”
The use of these digital forms in the lucrative fashion industry has been developing for many years as global retailers try to balance brand appeal with transparency and cost.
In 2011, H&M layered the heads of the actual models onto computer-generated mannequins for their online swimsuit campaign. 2023 denim brand Levi Strauss He said he plans to use AI technology. He added that the use of live models will not be reduced to reveal more images of different body types.
Last year, fashion brands Mangoes have been announced The campaign for the teenage line of clothing, using AI technology announced by Chief Information Technology Officer Jordia Rex, who said, “to make us more human or not.”
In this week’s newsletter, the Model Alliance said it is evaluating the H&M plan, which includes examples of other models next to the digital clone.
“Finally, how I’m in New York and Tokyo on the same day,” model Yar Aguer was quoted as saying he was paired with her digital twin.
Asked on Friday if the models really said those words, a spokesman for H&M said, “You can see that it’s a real quote from the model.”
Sui Basecamp, co-organizer of the inaugural global Sui conference, today announced the first batch of confirmed speakers for the Paris event, to be held on April 10 and 11, 2024. Sui Basecamp is a celebration of the developers and entrepreneurs building on Sui, enabling innovative layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platforms, and featuring speakers and thinkers from around the world and across the greater Web3 ecosystem. Leaders participate.
Sui Basecamp's first speakers include:
Arianna Simpson, a16z General Partner
Balaji S. Srinivasan, angel investor, technology founder, author of The Network State
Meltem Demiraz, passionate cult leader
Evan Cheng, CEO of Mysten Labs and former Sui contributor
Nikola Plecas, Global Head of Product GTM and Product Commercialization, Visa Crypto
Rachel Conran, Binance Chief Marketing Officer
Sam Blackshear, Chief Technology Officer at Mysten Labs and Creator of Move
Vincent Chok, Chief Executive Officer, First Digital Trust
Logan Jastremski, Managing Partner, Frictionless Capital
Benoit Pellevoizin, Head of Marketing and Communications, CoinShares France
Robert Knight, Cointelegraph Feature Writer
Greg Ciolounis, Managing Director, Sui Foundation
Sponsored by Misten Lab and the Sui Foundation, Sui Basecamp will be held at two selected venues. The first day and opening night of his party, Suissoirée, will be held at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines, the former headquarters of Credit Foncied de France, after which participants will move to the Pavillon. The festival on the second day was Vendôme. Both locations are adjacent to the main event of Paris Blockchain Week.
Early bird tickets are available at a discounted price of $99 from now until March 1st. Ticket prices will remain at the discounted price of US$149 from March 2nd to 31st, but will increase to the full price of US$299 from April 1st until the event.
Sui is a first-of-its-kind Layer 1 blockchain and smart contract platform designed from the bottom up to make digital asset ownership fast, private, secure, and accessible to everyone. An object-centric model based on the Move programming language enables parallel execution, sub-second finality, and rich on-chain assets. With horizontally scalable processing and storage, Sui supports a wide range of applications at low cost and unmatched speed. Sui is a step-function advancement in blockchain and a platform that allows creators and developers to build amazing user-friendly experiences. learn more: https://sui.io
About Misten Lab
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