Liverpool icon Ian Rush has expressed his deep sorrow following the tragic passing of Diogo Jota and his brother, André Silva. The pair were killed in a car accident in the early hours of Thursday morning, leaving the football world in mourning. Rush, Liverpool’s all-time leading goalscorer, spoke emotionally about the loss, comparing the grief to past tragedies that have tested the unity of the club.
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Despite being invited to Jota’s funeral in Gondomar, Portugal, Rush was unable to attend due to the passing of his own brother, Gerald. He admitted that juggling his own family loss while processing the death of Jota had been overwhelming. “It hasn’t really hit home yet,” he said. “Diogo was a great player—probably the best finisher at the club—and more importantly, a wonderful person.”
Mourning a Team-Mate and Friend
The Liverpool squad flew to Portugal to pay their respects in person, with players and staff attending Jota’s funeral. The sight of so many current and former Reds gathered in Gondomar captured the strength of Liverpool’s sense of family—an ethos long spoken about by players past and present.
Rush, reflecting on the emotional toll, added: “At Liverpool, we’ve always seen ourselves as one big family. When one of us goes, we rally around. That’s what we’ve always done, and that’s what we’ll do now.”
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He drew parallels with the unity shown in the aftermath of Hillsborough—an enduring moment in the club’s history—and highlighted how the Liverpool community instinctively comes together in the face of grief. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re a player or a supporter—we all stick together,” he said.
Jota’s Legacy Beyond the Pitch
Jota’s impact at Liverpool was clear, not just in his goals and performances but in the way he carried himself. Rush was unequivocal in his praise: “He always gave 100 percent. He could change a game whether he started or came off the bench. He never craved headlines, and that was just as true off the pitch.”
Described as a “real gent” by those who knew him, Jota was someone who earned respect quietly. His work ethic, humility, and professionalism left a mark on the dressing room, making his death all the more difficult for those preparing to return for pre-season.
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“It’s hard to just get back to training and act like everything is normal,” Rush said. “Footballers are human too. For some, it’ll take time for the full weight of this tragedy to be felt.”
Pain Shared Across the Liverpool Family
As the days go on, the Liverpool squad—alongside staff, fans, and club legends—will try to process the loss of a team-mate, a brother, and a friend. Rush believes that while grief often comes in waves, the bond between those in the Liverpool family will be the difference in helping people heal.
“You try to move on, but it’s not easy,” he concluded. “Diogo will never be forgotten. He truly embodied everything Liverpool stands for.”
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This tragedy has shaken Liverpool to its core, but in the spirit of solidarity that defines the club, the memory of Diogo Jota will continue to inspire those who wear the shirt he once wore with pride.
Written by Jez Butterworth, Peter Straughan and Jack Thorne, the films will explore many elements of each Beatles member’s personal lives, including the relationship between Starr and his first wife, Maureen Starkey Tigrett.
Harris Dickinson, Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan and Joseph Quinn. Sony
On that relationship, Starr claimed he asked for certain elements of the story to be changed so that they better reflected reality.
“He had a writer — very good writer, great reputation, and he wrote it great, but it had nothing to do with Maureen and I,” Starr told The New York Times.
“That’s not how we were. I’d say, ‘We would never do that.’”
After some tweaks, Starr admits he is now happy with the script, which will see Irish actor Barry Keoghan portray the Liverpudlian.
While some have argued that the roles could have gone to lesser-known actors – particularly those with strong links to the city of Liverpool – Starr has started working closely with Keoghan to help his portrayal of the drummer.
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Keoghan revealed: “I met Ringo the other day, in his house. I didn’t just meet him at his house, had to go up, and he let me in.
“I met him at his house and he played the drums for me. He asked me to play, but I wasn’t playing the drums for Ringo.
“It was sort of just one of those moments where you’re just in awe and you’re just frozen.”
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Playing the other Beatles will be Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.
Mendes has confirmed that the four separate biopics will all be released in April 2028.
The Beatles films will be released in April 2028.
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Microsoft has laid off about 9,000 workers in the midst of a newly-announced $80 billion AI investment — and apparently, those who just lost their jobs should be talking to ChatGPT about it.
As Aftermath reports, an executive producer at Microsoft-owned Xbox ended up with egg on his face after suggesting that laid off workers pour their hearts out to AI.
“These are really challenging times, and if you’re navigating a layoff or even quietly preparing for one, you’re not alone and you don’t have to go it alone,” that producer, Matt Turnbull, said in a since-deleted LinkedIn post that Aftermath thankfully screenshotted for posterity. “No AI tool is a replacement for your voice or your lived experience. But at a time when mental energy is scarce, these tools can help get you unstuck faster, calmer, and with more clarity.”
“I know these types of tools engender strong feelings in people, but l’d be remiss in not trying to offer the best advice I can under the circumstances,” he continued. “I’ve been experimenting with ways to use [large language model] Al tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot) to help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss.”
Yes, you read that right: a Microsoft boss was telling those just laid off by the tech giant that they should use chatbots — run or funded by the company that just fired them — to avoid crying on a company shoulder.
Following that phoned-in introduction, Turnbull offered a few potential prompts for AI as a job loss grief counselor, including those that help with career planning, resume-building, networking, and, our personal favorite, “emotional clarity [and] confidence.”
“I’m struggling with imposter syndrome after being laid off,” Turnbull’s “clarity” prompt reads. “Can you help me reframe this experience in a way that reminds me what I’m good at?”
It comes as little surprise, given how absolutely tone-deaf those suggestions are, that folks on social media had quite a lot to say to the Xbox executive.
“The new Severance season is insanely good,” joked one commentator on X-formerly-Twitter.
As another irked observer wrote on the r/gaming subreddit, “anyone that tells people who were fired to talk to a computer chat algorithm for therapy is insane.”
Indeed, gamers seem to be the most affronted by Turnbull’s attempt at sensitivity and advice, with another X commentator remarking that his response to those layoffs was one of “the most tone-deaf and cruelest things” they’d ever seen.
“I hope this finally shatters the illusion for some people that Xbox is not your good buddy,” that same user quipped.
Though it’s hard to say whether the Xbox producer’s sentiments were sincere or not, it’s clear from the subsequent deletion of the post that he was made to feel some type of way about it after putting it out into the world — and honestly, that potential embarrassment is the most we can hope for with these sorts of tech bros.
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It’s only stage two but I fear the fever dream I had shall not come to pass: Visma using Vingegaard as a stalking horse against Pogacar as Yates sits quietly a minute or so behind in the GC ranking before getting a stomp on up the mountains to win it all. After his thrilling heroics in Italy, he deserves a second grand tour win.
However, this year looks set to be an absolute corker, with Visma redefining super domestique riders to topple Pogacar’s crown.
My apologies to John Westwell, who was the author that email. I do have an email from William Preston that I will be sharing shortly.
John Westwell has emailed in with a couple of points on today’s stage:
Firstly, I wasn’t surprised to see Simon Yates lose time yesterday. Well, maybe seeing him lose time on the first stage, but not in general. After the massive high of winning the Giro – especially the way he did it by laying to rest the ghosts of the Colle delle Finestre from 2018 – he was always going to struggle to be competitive for the Tour. Physiologically, he isn’t the sort of rider who can be competitive in two stage races barely a month apart. With the exception of Pogacar, no rider is these days, but a climber who only weighs 58kg is always going to struggle to come back to form so quickly. I won’t be surprised if Simon isn’t particularly visible in the high mountains in the later parts of the stage. I think it will be largely up to Kuss and Jorgenson to accompany Vingegaard when the action hots up.
Secondly, Ned Boulting flagged up that he was going to read a passage from Les Miserables a few weeks ago on his podcast. He had identified the route on this stage as linking the two towns which he mentioned as being on today’s stage.
There’s a ‘demob happy’ atmosphere about the ITV crew this year, not least now that Boulting and Millar – accompanied by Lizzie Deignan – will be on the Tour next year reporting from the roadside independently of ITV. I’d expect a few more odd interludes in the next three weeks.
Ned Boulting is a fantastic broadcaster, I hope he can find a way back on to our screens when the Tour goes behind a paywall on TNT next year. I had a lovely chat with him before a tour several years ago for a preview piece that never got published, a thoroughly charming man. Here’s a question for the readers, what are your favourite cycling podcasts during the Tour? There’s a fair few to choose from these days.
154km to go. Tim Wellens has a issue with his bike and the camera captures him having a comfort break before eventually figuring out what’s going on and pans over to the mechanic who’s working on the bike.
158km to go. There is an absolutely huge bull being tugged around a field on the back of a tractor by a smiley farmer. Great stuff. The breakaway group has reformed and is now 2mins 33secs ahead of the peloton.
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164km to go. We have a crash in the breakaway! Fedorov and Andreas Leknessund hit the deck on a slippery bend. It looks like both riders just lost their back wheels underneath them. Fortunately they are both back up and look fine. They’ve lost about 20 seconds but are working together to get back up to Armirail and Van Moer.
172km to go. You know it’s early on a long stage because now Ned Boulting is reading passages from Les Miserables. The breakaway is now 2mins 42secs ahead of the main bunch.
Nick Wayne has emailed in:
Simon Yates, What happened? Six minutes in arrears means relegation to super domestique. Was that the plan? No competition to Pog I suppose.
After his dramatic win at the Giro, I think Simon Yates was always going to be delegated the task of support rider to Jonas Vingegaard at the Tour. With that kind of time gap he’ll also now have more of a chance of going for the odd stage win when the race reaches the mountains.
182km to go. The weather is grey but the vibes are high on the roadside, there’s a brass band playing as the peloton passes through another commune.
190km to go. The peloton is cruising along at around 50km/h, not top speed but a fair lick. On ITV the action is so hot that the broadcast is just playing the Carpenters’ ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’ over the top of the live pictures, quite why isn’t clear. On the road, Movistar’s Nelson Oliveira has come off the back for a backwheel tyre change and is now trying to work his way back into the peloton.
199km to go. The four-man breakaway has settled in and pulled out a lead which is now more than two minutes. Yevgeni Fedorov (XDS-Astana), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale), Brent Van Moer (Lotto) and Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Mobility) are the brave men who will try to take this lead to finish.
206km to go. We have racing, in what looks like truly awful conditions. There are four brave souls who are making an early bid to form the break. Once I’ve figured out who they are I will let you know.
It’s not pleasant out there. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images
The ceremonial rollout is winding its way out of Lauwin-Planque and we are aproaching the flag drop in about 1km. Some of the riders were a bit late arriving at the start line due to traffic on the narrow streets of the commune that is home to just 1,600 people so we’re a bit behind schedule. A lot of the riders are in their rain gear, which provides a bit more protection for them but makes my job a little harder as they’re all in black jackets tough over their typical jerseys. Kilometre zero incoming.
Preamble
Settle in folks, this is going to be a long one. The total length of the stage is a mammoth 209.1km, with a few categorised climbs that will probably weed out the pure sprinters but nothing too punishing. The good news is the finale will be worth the wait. The read on the stage profile is that the stage will explode in the final 35km, where there are a couple steep lumps and a bit of an incline towards a finish line, which runs along the banks of the river Liane in the streets of Boulogne. This will be one for the puncheurs and an early opportunity for the likes of Mathieu van der Poel or Wout van Aert to bag a stage and the yellow jersey. Just to cover my own back, I should point out that Tadej Pogacar is as capable of winning this stage as any other but will he want to show his hand this early? Frankly, trying to predict what the Slovenian will do is a fool’s game, so I will refrain from doing that.
What is easier to predict is that the weather will definitely be a factor. In typical northern French fashion, rain and crosswinds are going to batter a peloton that will be full of riders wary of being on the wrong side of any split. Tension can lead to mistakes and hopefully we won’t see a repeat of the crashes that marred stage one.
Grab your snacks, get yourself a drink and follow along. I will have you covered through to the end of the stage. If you have any thoughts you’d like to share, do send them in via the link at the top of the page.
View larger. | Artist’s illustration of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The Mars orbiter is using a new rolling maneuver – turning it essentially upside down – to help it search for ice and liquid water beneath Mars’ surface. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been observing Mars since 2005. It has helped revolutionize our knowledge about the red planet.
The spacecraft sometimes “rolls over” in its orbit by varying degrees so it can point its different instruments at the Martian surface.
The orbiter has now rolled over by a whopping 120 degrees in its latest maneuver. This will help its onboard radar to peer deeper into the subsurface to look for water ice or even liquid water.
Mars orbiter rolls around to look for water
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been studying the red planet since late 2005. And now, it is trying something new. Researchers from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and other institutions said on June 26, 2025, that the orbiter is performing a new roll maneuver – up to 120 degrees – so the spacecraft is essentially upside down. Why is it doing this? The rolling maneuver will help the orbiter look deeper beneath the surface with its SHARAD radar instrument for water ice or perhaps even liquid water.
MRO can peer into the shallow subsurface of Mars, up to about a mile deep. With the new rolling maneuver, it will be able to look a bit deeper and obtain clearer radar images.
The researchers published their peer-reviewed findings in The Planetary Science Journal on June 11, 2025.
Teaching an old spacecraft new tricks
In the new maneuver, MRO rolls over so it’s basically upside down. The process involved three rolls, which the spacecraft performed between 2023 and 2024. Gareth Morgan at the Planetary Science Institute is an author on the new paper and said:
Not only can you teach an old spacecraft new tricks, you can open up entirely new regions of the subsurface to explore by doing so.
Reid Thomas, MRO’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, added:
We’re unique in that the entire spacecraft and its software are designed to let us roll all the time.
MRO was designed with being able to do such maneuvers in mind. It can roll up to 30 degrees in any direction. This helps it point its cameras and other instruments at features of interest, such as craters, potential landing sites for other spacecraft and more. And it uses its radar to search for subsurface ice and liquid water.
This animation depicts how Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter performs its 120-degree roll maneuvers. Video via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.
A complicated process
Rolling the spacecraft might sound simple, but it isn’t. There are multiple operating science instruments on MRO. They all have different requirements in terms of how they are pointed at Mars’ surface. When one instrument is pointed for observations, that means the other instruments are not as ideally suited for their own observations. MRO can roll to use any of the instruments but not all the instruments at the same time.
With this in mind, NASA plans each roll weeks in advance. An algorithm commands the spacecraft to roll for a particular instrument, as needed. It also commands the spacecraft’s solar arrays to rotate and track the sun and its high-gain antenna to track Earth. This enables MRO to maintain power and communications.
Sometimes, MRO has to perform even larger rolls, up to 120 degrees. This requires even more planning ahead of time.
This diagram depicts some of the instruments on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the roll and flight directions of the spacecraft. Image via Putzig et al./ The Planetary Science Journal (CC BY 4.0).
Peering deep underground with Mars orbiter
MRO uses its Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument to peer deep underground on Mars, from about 1/2 mile to just over a mile (.8 to 1.6 km). It is designed to be able to search for ice, or even liquid water, and distinguish it from rock and sand. But SHARAD isn’t perfect. SHARAD uses two antennas that are mounted on the back of the orbiter. This allows the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera as clear a view as possible on the front of MRO.
The only problem is that other parts of the orbiter can interfere with the radio signals that SHARAD sends to the Martian surface. This can result in less clear radar images. Also, sometimes the mission team wants to look at targets with SHARAD that are a bit too deep below the surface. Morgan said:
The SHARAD instrument was designed for the near-subsurface, and there are select regions of Mars that are just out of reach for us. There is a lot to be gained by taking a closer look at those regions.
Radargram from SHARAD on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter taken before the 120-degree roll. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ ASI/ University of Rome/ PSI/ Smithsonian Institution.Radargram from SHARAD on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, taken after the 120-degree roll. The stronger signal helps provide a brighter, clearer picture of the Martian subsurface. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ ASI/ University of Rome/ PSI/ Smithsonian Institution.
Clearer radar images
This is where the rolling comes in. By rolling MRO up to 120 degrees, the radio waves can more easily reach the surface. This makes the signal about 10 times stronger, meaning clearer radar images and being able to see a little deeper.
The rolls have their own drawbacks, too, though. During the rolls, the communications antenna is not pointed toward Earth. And the solar arrays can’t track the sun. With this in mind, and the planning needed, the spacecraft only performs these large rolls a couple of times per year. They also require a lot of battery power. Thomas said:
The very large rolls require a special analysis to make sure we’ll have enough power in our batteries to safely do the roll.
Gareth Morgan at the Planetary Science Institute is one of the lead authors of the new paper about Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s rolling maneuvers. Image via Planetary Science Institute.
Mars Climate Sounder
SHARAD isn’t the only instrument to benefit from MRO’s rolling capability. In addition, the Mars Climate Sounder instrument does as well. It is a radiometer that studies Mars’ atmosphere, weather and climate.
The instrument pivots on a gimbal. This way, it can obtain views of the Martian horizon, surface and space. But in 2024, it became unreliable with old age (20 years now in Mars orbit!). So now it uses MRO’s standard rolling maneuvers to compensate for that in its observations. As Mars Climate Sounder’s interim principal investigator, Armin Kleinboehl at JPL, noted:
Rolling used to restrict our science, but we’ve incorporated it into our routine planning, both for surface views and calibration.
Bottom line: A NASA Mars orbiter – Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – is trying out a new maneuver to help it find ice and liquid water beneath Mars’ surface.
Source: SHARAD Illuminates Deeper Martian Subsurface Structures with a Boost from Very Large Rolls of the MRO Spacecraft
Via Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Via Planetary Science Institute
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When Glyndebourne opened its doors in 1934, it did so with The Marriage of Figaro, the first in a fabled line of productions of Mozart’s comic masterpiece to grace its stages over the last 90 years. If the director Mariame Clément felt any pressure, it didn’t show. Hers is a nuanced staging that manages to be astute, funny and moving all at once. It’s also extremely well sung.
The opera is about many things, but a great deal hinges on the ancient concept of droit de seigneur, a barbaric medieval custom whereby a feudal lord was entitled to have sex with a female servant on her wedding night. Mozart’s Count, we learn, has made a show of ending the tradition, though he still hopes to bed the feisty Susanna, maidservant to his estranged Countess. Clément sets the show in its original period, allowing its parallels to resonate across the centuries with today’s audiences, and so they do.
Sparky … Johanna Wallroth as Susanna, with Charvet’s Cherubino. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
There is a powerful interrogation of character here: the determination and resourcefulness of Susanna, the aching loneliness of the Countess, and the testosterone-fuelled antagonism that develops between the Count and his increasingly implacable manservant, Figaro. Revolutionary feelings erupt at several points. Whether or not he prevails in his immediate sexual depredations, the Count’s days are plainly numbered. He might join in the final outburst of bonhomie, but as a predator his career is in tatters.
Clément is clearly blessed with funny bones, as are most of her singers. At the opening of Act III, we hear the Count’s voice, seemingly from off stage. Moments later, as a wriggling foot emerges over its rim, we realise he was submerged in the bathtub all along. The fistfuls of documents concealed under Marcelina’s voluminous skirts, the rogue’s gallery of doddery old men, and a hastily improvised game of rock paper scissors all receive well-earned laughs.
Elisabeth Boudreault as Barbarina, Alessandro Corbelli as Dr Bartolo and Ru Charlesworth as Don Basilio. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
Julia Hansen’s rotating sets are a marvel, presenting a labyrinthine succession of pastel-painted rooms, corridors and gardens. Equally eye-catching are her vibrant costumes and Paule Constable’s atmospheric lighting, which never fails to pick out a face. Riccardo Minasi drives the score hard, though his flexible beat is always alert to the drama. The playing of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is exhilarating, though balance is sometimes an issue.
The cast is led by Johanna Wallroth’s sparky Susanna and Louise Alder’s radiant Countess. The latter delivers an immaculate account of Porgi amor and a poignantly staged Dove sono. Michael Nagl is an appealingly bumptious Figaro, Huw Montague Rendall a preening, raptor-like Count, and Adèle Charvet engaging and entirely convincing as the reluctantly cross-dressed Cherubino. As Bartolo and Marcelina, Alessandro Corbelli and Madeleine Shaw are surprisingly tender in the paternity scene, another of Clément’s many thoughtful touches.
Mari Boya earned his first Feature Race victory in FIA Formula 3, keeping control of things at the front through a torrential downpour that resulted in the race being shortened by a Red Flag.
The Campos Racing driver finished ahead of Théophile Nael, who wound up second for Van Amersfoort Racing and Noel Léon for PREMA Racing in third.
AS IT HAPPENED
Pre-race rain split strategies on the grid with some taking Wet Pirelli tyres and others fitted with Hard slick tyres and as the formation lap started, the rain intensified.
Those on the wets got the best start but Nikola Tsolov, Ugo Ugochukwu and Rafael Câmara each tumbled down the order with the track too wet for their slick tyres.
It left Boya to take the lead ahead of Nael and Léon in the top three, with Sprint winner Tasanapol Inthraphuvasak and Laurens van Hoepen following in fourth and fifth.
Despite a spin on the opening lap, Alessandro Giusti proved how much of an advantage those on Wets had, as he moved back up to P16 with a pass on Ugochukwu and Tsolov on Lap 2.
Laptimes were 10 seconds slower for those on Hards versus those on the Wets.
Van Hoepen moved up to fourth with a dive to the inside at Vale, while Boya began to stretch his advantage to beyond two seconds by the start of Lap 5.
Christian Ho and James Wharton moved themselves up to seventh with moves on Inthraphuvasak, dropping the Campos driver down to eighth.
Boya surged into the lead on the Wet tyres while those on Hards fell back down the order
Charlie Wurz was the first of those to have started on dries to bail on their Hard tyres, and he pitted on Lap 7 to fit the Wets. Martinius Stenshorne followed suit a lap later, as the laptime deficit between Wets and Hards remained at seven-seconds per lap.
Tsolov and Câmara remained on track and with a dive to the inside entering Vale, the Championship leader passed the Campos driver for P17 on Lap 9.
Câmara, Tsolov and Ugochukwu were into the pitlane on Lap 10 to finally fit the Wet tyres with the rain intensifying.
Louis Sharp spun off the road at the final corner despite running on Wets, and the Rodin Motorsport driver’s stoppage brought out the Safety Car on Lap 11 as rain continued to hit harder.
While the Safety Car remained on the track, van Hoepen was handed a five-second time penalty for a false start. The Dutch driver was running in fifth.
With the rain remaining heavy, the Red Flag was out on Lap 14, and the race was not resumed.
It meant Boya was a Feature Race winner for the first time ahead of Nael and Léon, with Roman Bilinski finished fourth for Rodin. Van Hoepen was P5 on the road but once his penalty was applied, he dropped down to P7.
This promoted Ho up to P5 and Wharton to sixth, with Santiago Ramos, Bruno del Pino and Inthraphuvasak completing the top 10.
The race was eventually Red Flagged after torrential rain began to fall
KEY QUOTE – Mari Boya, Campos Racing
“What a weekend! Super happy, happy to maximise all the potential we have had. We’ve had really good races in the last few races. They’ve been really good for us. Also really proud to join the Aston Martin family. All the races with them have been really good, so I’m really excited to keep working. It’s still really open in the Championship, so let’s go for everything and gracias to Campos Racing!”
THE CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
Rafael Câmara retains his lead in the Drivers’ Championship with 120 points ahead of Tim Tramnitz in second on 93. Nikola Tsolov is third on 91, while Mari Boya’s win moves him up to fourth in the Standings on 85. Martinius Stenshorne completes the top five on 76.
In the Teams’ Standings Campos Racing have taken the lead on 210 points, with TRIDENT dropping to second on 207. MP Motorsport are third with 160 points, while Van Amersfoort Racing are fourth with 124 and ART Grand Prix complete the top five on 118 points.
UP NEXT
There’s a short break before the FIA Formula 3 paddock reconvenes in Spa-Francorchamps for Round 8 of the 2025 campaign, from July 25-27.
The latest iPhone software update, iOS 18.5, brought with it a surprise new feature for iPhone 13 users: access to a particular kind of satellite connectivity. The service that will first connect to it, T-Satellite from T-Mobile, goes live on Wednesday, July 23. Here’s all you need to know.
Apple iPhone 13 Pro
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Who’s It For?
First off, this service is available to most Android phones and all iPhones from the iPhone 13 onwards. It’s not the same as the satellite connectivity on the iPhone 14 and later, which uses Globalstar — that depends on hardware the iPhone 13 doesn’t have.
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This service is what’s called carrier-supported satellite connectivity, and the only carrier supporting this right now is T-Mobile (though other networks will follow). It uses Starlink satellites, though, unlike many reports earlier in the year, it emphatically does not install Starlink on your phone.
What It Does
It means that if you are outside the regular cellular network, your phone can stay connected via satellite, for text messages on iPhones. More services will be added and when the service goes live, other features will be available to Android users, including multimedia messaging, picture messaging, and short audio clips.
This kind of satellite connection has been called a “game-changer” because you don’t have to point the phone at the sky for the satellite to see the phone. It can stay in your pocket, even.
When It’s Live
The T-Satellite service is in beta testing but from July 23 will be accessible to any mobile phone user with a suitable device, including AT&T and Verizon subscribers.
“T-Mobile will also provide Starlink subscribers with 911 texting via satellite. Later in the year, that capability will expand to any mobile user with a compatible device, even customers on other carriers and those who don’t subscribe to Starlink,” as ZDNET explained.
The beta service has seen more than 1.8 million users, with “tens of thousands of customers from Verizon and AT&T,” T-Mobile said.
How Much It Costs
If you’re a T-Mobile Experience Beyond subscriber, there’s no extra cost above your regular subscription. Others, including AT&T and Verizon customers can access the service for $10 per month.
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