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Vivo announced this Thursday, the 2nd, the arrival of new streaming TV packages for Fiber customers, an audience that starting this week will have options sold through Vivo Play, a platform that brings together movies, series and other works available. by the operator, including rental of works recently released in theaters.

As the company explains, those interested in purchasing any of the packages can do so through the company’s official channels, whether in physical stores, customer service or on the website. Among the available contents are ESPN, CNN Brasil and Bandnews, in addition to Discovery Home & Health, TNT, Sony Channel, AXN, MTV, Cartoon Network, Discovery Kids from R$ 39.90.

Service compatibility extends not only to Android and iOS smartphones, but also Smart TVs, Chromecast, Amazon Fire Stick and Apple TV. On the platform, users can also discover content from on-demand partners such as Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Star+, HBO Max and Paramount Plus.

The most basic package offers access to 42 channels for R$39.90, while the extended option offers 87 channels at a monthly cost of R$59.90. The subscription is carried out on a recurring basis and there is no loyalty to the contract, that is, the consumer can interrupt the contract at any time without paying a fine.

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O Twitter will no longer provide free access to its APIsApplication programming interfaceor application programming interface.”>¹ (both v2 and v1.1) from February 9thas announced by the official developer-focused account of the social network.

Twitter did not provide any pricing information, but said it will provide a “basic paid plan” and that more details will be released next week.

The Twitter API allows third parties to retrieve and analyze public network data — which can be used to create bots programmable and independent applications that connect to the platform.

Currently, Twitter offers limited free access to the API, with premium tiers for developers who need to unlock additional corporate restrictions and features — the amounts of which are not publicly disclosed, although fees are reported to start at $99 per month and increase depending on the user. required access level.

Many small developers use free access to the Twitter API to create tools and bots useful features such as weather trackers, reminders and video downloads — which are not intended to generate income or make a profit.

As a result, it is likely that many bots and tools will charge a fee or even be disabled once billing begins. The change might also affect students and scientists who use the platform to study online behavior and gather information for research work.

The removal of free access to the Twitter API follows a platform change that updates its rules to ban third-party clients, causing popular apps such as Twitterrific and Tweetbot to abandon development for the network.

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Scientists reported that the newly discovered and very rare binary star system is behaving very strangely, according to Russia Today.

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This system is so unusual that it is believed that there are only regarding 10 of them throughout our vast Milky Way galaxy.

This system has all the conditions to go on and unleash a macronova (also called a kilonova or a macronova), an explosion that occurs when two neutron stars collide, resulting in an explosion so powerful it can be detected across the universe.

NOIRLab astronomer and co-author of the new study, Andre-Nicolas Cheney, said: “We know that the Milky Way contains at least 100 billion stars and possibly hundreds of billions more. This wonderful binary system is basically one in ten billion.” In our study, the estimate was that only one or two systems should exist in a spiral galaxy such as the Milky Way.”

The astronomers who found it say the binary star system is bright in X-rays and has a high mass, but it is particularly unusual because the two stars orbit each other in what is said to be a “strange circular” path.

It appears to have formed when an exploding star or supernova died down, rather than the usual dramatic explosion.

Its strange orbit helped scientists discover that one of the two stars is an “exhausted” supernova, meaning that when the star used up its fuel, and its core collapsed, it exploded with a relatively weak explosion.

Normally, this explosion pushes stars into a long elliptical orbit, but there wasn’t enough energy left in the star to create such an explosion, so the two stars remained closely interconnected in a circular orbit.

Over time, they will merge, sending powerful gravitational waves through the universe and leaving behind heavy elements like silver and gold.

Although this star pair is strange in itself, scientists hope that finding systems like these better in the presence of kilonovas will help them better understand the dramatic explanations for what is believed to be the source of gold in the universe.

The system is known as CPD-29 2176, and it is located regarding 11,400 light-years from Earth. It was first spotted by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and subsequent observations using the 1.5-meter SMARTS telescope in Chile confirmed its unusual nature.

The findings are described in a new research paper, published in the journal Nature.