Oslo – October 13, 2026 -- Nordic Semiconductor (OSE: NOD) is marking 10 years of its ultra-low-power wireless technology inside the BBC micro:bit, a board that has helped an estimated 73.5 million young people in more than 85 countries learn coding, according to the Micro:bit Educational Foundation.

Foundation targets 100 million young people by 2028

The Foundation is calling on industry and education to work together so children can understand, question and create with technology. Its goal is to reach 100 million young people by 2028.

The program began in 2016, when up to one million micro:bit boards with Nordic wireless technology were distributed to school-children across the UK through the BBC Make it Digital campaign. Foundation CEO Gareth Stockdale said Nordic supplied a million components for the original board, which went to every Year 7 student in the UK.

Paris – October 13, 2026 -- Orange has launched "Reconnexion Flash" in France, a service that moves a household's entire connection to the customer's smartphone hotspot when the fiber line fails. It runs on SoftAtHome's Always'ON software and needs no extra hardware.

Orange activated the service remotely for customers with the latest Wi-Fi 7 gateways, the Livebox 7 Wi-Fi 7 and the Livebox S. No hardware is shipped. Dedicated backup kit such as a 4G dongle or mobile router has been the usual fallback during fiber cuts or maintenance, and Always'ON removes that step.

Livebox detects outages and switches to the smartphone hotspot automatically

The Livebox detects the outage, connects to the smartphone's hotspot and keeps serving the home network. Laptops, tablets, smart TVs and connected devices stay online over Wi-Fi or Ethernet without reconfiguration.

Johannesburg – October 13, 2026 -- Kholo Capital Mezzanine Debt Fund I has provided R275 million (US$17 million) in mezzanine debt to DCC Holdings Proprietary Limited, a South African information and communications technology (ICT) distributor. The funding will refinance DCC's existing debt and support its long-term growth strategy.

Kholo Capital enters DCC's capital structure alongside Kleoss Capital

DCC's shareholders are senior management and private equity investor Kleoss Capital. DCC CEO Carlos Ferreira said the shareholders are introducing Kholo Capital into the group's capital structure. He said DCC has grown steadily by adding key brands and expanding its footprint within established vendor relationships.

Kleoss Managing Partner Hale Matsipa described the deal as a collaboration with a fellow private markets investor and evidence of positive momentum in South Africa's private markets.

Copenhagen – October 13, 2026 -- Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has acquired a 25% stake in the up to 1,080MW Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm through its fifth flagship fund, Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V). The stake was previously held by a Macquarie-led consortium. The announcement did not state the transaction value.

CIP joins three existing partners in the project's reshaped ownership

CIP now sits alongside EDF power solutions (33.33%), ESB (20.83%) and Sumitomo Corporation (20.83%). CIP will act as a long-term investor and work with all partners on delivery.

Kunal Patel, Partner at CIP, described offshore wind as a "golden opportunity" for the UK to deploy home-grown clean energy at scale. Matthieu Hue, CEO of EDF power solutions UK and Ireland, said the project complements the company's existing UK and Ireland portfolio.

Montreal – October 13, 2026 -- BroadForward's 4G routing (DRA/DEA) and Diameter Firewall are now live in the network of Terrestar Solutions Inc., Canada's only domestically headquartered and controlled mobile satellite operator, enabling mobile and IoT traffic to be routed between terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.

The deployment extends BroadForward's presence in satellite communications. It supports signaling interoperability between Terrestar's Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) infrastructure and national mobile networks.

Terrestar targets the 75% of Canadian landmass without terrestrial coverage

More than 75% of Canada's landmass lacks terrestrial coverage. By routing signaling between satellite and cellular domains, BroadForward's platform lets Terrestar extend coverage in both directions, supporting its aim to bring mobile connectivity to rural and remote communities.

Vienna – October 13, 2026 -- TCL showed its 5G AI CPE X5 at Network X 2026, a home broadband device with a theoretical peak downlink of 7.01 Gbps under 3GPP Release 18 and an agentic AI layer meant to cut operators' operations and maintenance workload.

8Rx antenna design lifts lab downlink throughput by up to 51%

The X5 combines four directional C-band antennas with up to 13 dBi gain and four omnidirectional C-band antennas. In lab testing, this 8Rx architecture delivered up to 51% higher downlink throughput than a 4Rx design. AI analyzes signal quality to help select the antenna configuration for better reception. For indoor Wi-Fi, AI-assisted signal-path selection, congestion detection and channel adjustment aim to keep connections stable.

Chengdu – October 13, 2026 -- Chengdu Plus screened two documentaries with a combined runtime of about 70 minutes at a cross-cultural filmmaking exchange in New York on August 26. Approximately 50 academic experts, cultural institution representatives, film and television professionals and local audience members attended.

Loeffke film runs 30 minutes and covers decades of China contact

"Hope for the Future: Bernard Loeffke" was produced by a Chinese creative team. It profiles Loeffke, a 92-year-old retired U.S. Army major general, through interviews, historical materials and archival footage.

The film traces his encounters with Chinese society at different life stages, including learning Chinese, experiencing traditional Chinese medicine and skydiving with Chinese people. The team organized related figures, events and historical materials around those experiences to present a journey spanning decades.

Stockholm – October 13, 2026 -- Sinch AB has added Rich Communication Services (RCS) to its native integration with SAP Engagement Cloud, giving businesses on the platform a seventh messaging channel alongside SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, LINE, Viber and KakaoTalk.

Marketers can send RCS messages directly from SAP Engagement Cloud

Businesses using SAP Engagement Cloud can now create and send RCS messages to customers globally, where supported, without leaving their existing marketing environment. RCS supports branded and verified senders, rich media and interactive buttons inside the native messaging app on the customer's phone, which SMS cannot offer.

The integration is available only in markets where RCS Business Messaging is supported.

Uppsala – October 13, 2026 -- Akiram Therapeutics reported no dose-limiting toxicities among the eight patients treated so far with its lead radiopharmaceutical candidate 177Lu-AKIR001 in a Phase I trial, with treatment-related adverse events limited to grade 1-2.

The Swedish clinical-stage biotech will present the first clinical data at the EANM 2026 Congress in Vienna, October 17-21. The abstract was selected as a Top Rated Oral Presentation (TROP).

Sustained tumor retention supports continued dose escalation

The first-in-human study is evaluating 177Lu-AKIR001 in patients with irresectable or metastatic CD44v6-positive solid tumors who have no remaining standard treatment options. At data cut-off, eight patients had been treated, and four of them received repeat treatment after the first administration.

Oslo – October 13, 2026 -- TGS and joint venture partner SLB have announced Pelotas Sul Phase 2, a multi-client 3D survey covering approximately 11,200 square kilometers offshore southern Brazil, with a Ramform Titan-class vessel due to begin acquisition in October 2026.

Ramform Titan-class vessel to finish acquisition in Q2/Q3 2027

Data acquisition is scheduled to run from October 2026 to Q2/Q3 2027. The survey follows Pelotas Sul Phase 1, which was acquired earlier this year, and adds to TGS' 3D seismic coverage in the Pelotas Basin.

Namibia discoveries de-risk the frontier Pelotas Basin

TGS describes the Pelotas Basin as a frontier area that continues to attract industry interest. The basin is supported by geological analogs along the conjugate margin and de-risked by discoveries in Namibia.