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Marcin Frąckiewicz

CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.

Intel vs TSMC: The High-Stakes Chip Stock Showdown of 2025 and Beyond

Intel vs TSMC: The High-Stakes Chip Stock Showdown of 2025 and Beyond

2025 Year-to-Date Stock Performance Both stocks have given investors a positive ride in 2025, but Intel’s run has been notably explosive. As of Q3 2025, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) shares have rallied roughly 45–50% since January tradingnews.com. Most of those gains came in a dramatic late-summer surge – in September 2025 Intel announced a landmark partnership with Nvidia, which sent the stock jumping over 30% in a single day ainvest.com ainvest.com. Intel hit a new 52-week high around $32 in mid-September, up about 83% from its 2025 low of ~$17 tradingnews.com. By contrast, TSMC (NYSE: TSM) has seen a steadier climb
23 September 2025
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BigBear.ai Stock Soars Amid AI Boom – What’s Behind BBAI’s Wild 2025 Ride?

BigBear.ai Stock Soars Amid AI Boom – What’s Behind BBAI’s Wild 2025 Ride?

BBAI Stock Performance (Late September 2025) BigBear.ai’s stock has experienced extreme volatility in 2025, rallying sharply in the fall after a rocky summer. On September 23, 2025, BBAI surged in early trading – up over 11–13% at one point – after announcing its role in a high-profile Navy exercise stocktwits.com. The stock had closed the prior session (Sept. 22) at $7.08 stockinvest.us, capping an 8-day run of gains. Over the preceding two weeks, BBAI share price leapt by ~45% stockinvest.us, an unusually rapid rise that technical analysts noted is rarely sustained without at least a brief pullback. Indeed, intraday swings
23 September 2025
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AST SpaceMobile Stock Skyrockets on Satellite Breakthroughs and Big-Name Backing

AST SpaceMobile Stock Skyrockets on Satellite Breakthroughs and Big-Name Backing

ASTS Stock Performance – Sky-High in 2025 AST SpaceMobile’s stock has been on a meteoric rise in 2025, turning heads on Wall Street. On September 23, 2025, ASTS jumped about 10% during the trading day, hovering in the mid-$50s per share investing.com. This spike brought the stock near its all-time highs (~$60) and represented a dramatic climb from roughly $18 a year ago. By comparison, the S&P 500’s performance over the same period has been far more subdued, underlining ASTS’s outsized gains. Year-to-date, ASTS has more than doubled in value (up ~100–150% YTD) amid a wave of optimistic news investing.com.
23 September 2025
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Rocket Lab Stock Skyrockets 700% – Is RKLB Ready for Its Next Giant Leap?

Rocket Lab Stock Skyrockets 700% – Is RKLB Ready for Its Next Giant Leap?

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launching a mission (illustrative). The company’s frequent small-satellite launches have powered its stock’s meteoric rise. Stock Performance in 2025 Rocket Lab’s stock has been on a tear in 2025, massively outperforming the market. As of late September 2025, RKLB shares hover near $50 – a price level roughly 730% higher than a year ago ainvest.com. This meteoric rise reflects surging investor enthusiasm around Rocket Lab’s growth in launch services and space systems. Year-to-date, the stock was up about 75% by Q2 ainvest.com, and at one point in mid-September it had gained over 550% in 12 months
23 September 2025
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Oppo Find X9 Series Breaks Boundaries: 7,500 mAh Battery, Hasselblad Cameras & AI Buttons – A Flagship to Rival iPhone 16 and Galaxy S24

Oppo Find X9 Series Breaks Boundaries: 7,500 mAh Battery, Hasselblad Cameras & AI Buttons – A Flagship to Rival iPhone 16 and Galaxy S24

The Oppo Find X9 Series at a Glance Oppo’s Find X9 series is shaping up to be one of 2025’s most formidable smartphone lineups. It represents a major leap for Oppo, packing innovations in almost every department – from an unprecedented battery size to a new chipset partnership and advanced camera tech. “Oppo is gearing up to introduce its first flagship phones powered by the Dimensity 9500,” notes Notebookcheck, highlighting that this chip will do battle with the latest from Qualcomm and Apple notebookcheck.net. The decision to use MediaTek’s flagship SoC indicates Oppo’s confidence in its performance parity with the
23 September 2025
Google Play Store’s AI-Powered Overhaul: Inside Google’s September 2025 Revamp of App Discovery and Gaming

Google Play Store’s AI-Powered Overhaul: Inside Google’s September 2025 Revamp of App Discovery and Gaming

Google’s Big Play Store Makeover – What’s New Google’s September 23, 2025 announcement (first reported by TechCrunch) details a host of new features designed to modernize the Play Store with artificial intelligence and a more engaging interface techcrunch.com. Below are the key new features and UX changes introduced: In summary, Google’s Play Store redesign introduces a rich mix of AI-driven personalization, integrated gaming services, and convenience features. From a more intuitive search experience to Netflix-like curated content feeds and an AI game assistant, the Play Store is evolving from a static app catalog into a dynamic platform tailored to each
23 September 2025
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These $1,500 Earbuds Make AirPods Look Cheap – Inside B&O’s Ultra-Luxe Beo Grace

These $1,500 Earbuds Make AirPods Look Cheap – Inside B&O’s Ultra-Luxe Beo Grace

Introduction Bang & Olufsen has entered the ultra-premium audio arena with a bang – or rather, a $1,500 price tag. The company’s new Beo Grace wireless earbuds cost more than many laptops and smartphones werindia.com, boldly positioning themselves at the very top of the consumer audio market. These earbuds were unveiled as B&O’s flagship to celebrate nearly 100 years of the brand’s design and acoustic heritage, promising the “best-sounding and most intelligent earbuds” the company has ever made whathifi.com. With “a flashy aluminum design” and advanced noise cancellation, the Beo Grace buds aim to distill a century of design into
23 September 2025
OnePlus 15 Leak Bombshell: Radical Design, Monster Battery & Next-Gen Power

OnePlus 15 Leak Bombshell: Radical Design, Monster Battery & Next-Gen Power

Leaked Design Reveals a Bold New Look The OnePlus 15 is generating buzz for its radical design departure from previous models. Leaked images circulating on Chinese social media (via reputable tipster Digital Chat Station) show a completely new camera layout: a square-edged camera module on the back with rounded corners, instead of the round camera hump OnePlus has used for the last few generations indiatoday.in phonearena.com. Within this module, there’s a pill-shaped cutout vertically housing two large camera lenses, and next to it are two smaller circular cut-outs – believed to be the third camera lens and the LED flash
23 September 2025
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Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Dimensity 9500 – Clash of 2025’s Mobile Chip Titans

Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 vs Dimensity 9500 – Clash of 2025’s Mobile Chip Titans

Now, let’s dive deeper into the detailed comparison of every aspect of Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and Dimensity 9500, and see how they stack up against each other and against other 2025 flagship processors like Apple’s A18 Pro, Samsung’s Exynos 2500, and Google’s Tensor G4. CPU Architecture & Performance Core Design: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and Dimensity 9500 introduce new CPU microarchitectures to the mobile space, but their approaches differ. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 uses its custom Oryon cores (born from the Nuvia acquisition) for all eight CPU cores, abandoning ARM’s off-the-shelf Cortex designs. It features 2 performance cores
23 September 2025
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Biting Back: How CRISPR-Edited Mice Could Stop the Lyme Disease Plague

Biting Back: How CRISPR-Edited Mice Could Stop the Lyme Disease Plague

Lyme Disease on the Rise – And Why Mice Matter Lyme disease is often called a “plague” on Nantucket. The tiny Massachusetts island, famed for its beaches, has one of the nation’s highest infection rates media.mit.edu. About 15% of Nantucket’s residents have contracted Lyme disease, which causes fevers, rashes, swollen joints, and even nerve damage cbsnews.com cbsnews.com. The culprit is a spiral-shaped bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) spread by black-legged ticks, commonly known as deer ticks. But while deer and ticks get most of the blame, scientists point to a different host at the heart of Lyme’s spread: the white-footed mouse cbsnews.com.
23 September 2025
Vivo X300’s ZEISS Lens Kit Shakes Up Smartphone Photography – A Phone That Thinks It’s a DSLR?

Vivo X300’s ZEISS Lens Kit Shakes Up Smartphone Photography – A Phone That Thinks It’s a DSLR?

Vivo X300 + ZEISS: A Smartphone Camera Dream Team Vivo’s upcoming X300 series is making waves in the mobile photography world, thanks to an unprecedented collaboration with ZEISS optics on an external lens kit. Vivo has partnered with the storied German lens manufacturer since the X60 series, co-engineering camera systems with ZEISS T✻ lens coatings and portrait modes inspired by classic ZEISS lenses. With the X300 line, this partnership goes beyond software tuning – Vivo is literally putting ZEISS glass on your phone. The entire X300 lineup (standard, Pro, and presumably Ultra) will support Vivo’s “vivo × ZEISS” 2.35× telephoto
23 September 2025
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DJI Osmo Nano: The Tiny 4K Action Cam That Records When You Nod

DJI Osmo Nano: The Tiny 4K Action Cam That Records When You Nod

Introduction: A New Era of Tiny Action Cameras DJI has officially announced the Osmo Nano, a groundbreaking entry into the action camera market that emphasizes ultra-portability and hands-free use. Unveiled on September 23, 2025, the Osmo Nano is DJI’s smallest action camera to date, yet it inherits the powerful imaging hardware from DJI’s larger models. As The Verge quipped, this miniature device essentially “squeezes the Action 5 Pro’s 1/1.3-inch 4K sensor into a much smaller and lighter camera” Theverge. The result is a 52-gram wearable cam that can literally go anywhere – clipped to your hat, strapped to a helmet,
23 September 2025
‘God of Chaos’ Asteroid Apophis to Skim Earth in 2029 – Inside the Historic Flyby and the 3 Probes Racing to Study It

Astronomers Propose Blowing Up a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

Key Facts and Summary The Asteroid 2024 YR4: From Earth Hazard to Lunar Threat 2024 YR4 is a recently discovered asteroid that has drawn intense attention from astronomers and space agencies. Detected on 27 December 2024 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, it initially appeared on a worrisome trajectory esa.int. In early 2025, automated orbit calculations raised the alarm that this ~60-meter “city-killer” asteroid had a roughly 3% chance of impacting Earth on December 22, 2032 esa.int universetoday.com. A few percent might sound small, but by asteroid risk standards it’s huge – for context, NASA’s risk list almost never
23 September 2025
NVIDIA 2025: Dominating the AI Boom – Company Overview, Key Segments, Competition, and Future Outlook

Nvidia’s $100 Billion OpenAI Power Play Sparks Antitrust Showdown

Illustration: Nvidia (left) and OpenAI (right) logos. Observers say the $100 billion Nvidia–OpenAI partnership pairs the world’s top AI chip supplier with the leading AI model developer, sparking concerns about competition. Nvidia and OpenAI’s $100B Alliance: A New AI Superpower Nvidia, the world’s leading AI chipmaker, and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, have formed an unprecedented alliance valued at up to $100 billion reuters.com. Announced on September 22, 2025, the partnership gives OpenAI massive computing resources to develop advanced AI models, while giving Nvidia a financial stake in a premier AI software company reuters.com. The deal is structured as two intertwined transactions:
23 September 2025
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Google Pixel 10a Leaks Reveal Surprising Downgrades – Specs, Price & Release Details

5 Premium Smartphones Under ₹40,000 Get Massive Price Cuts – Don’t Miss These Festive Deals

Amazon Great Indian Festival: Best Phones Under ₹40,000 Festive sales in India (like Amazon’s Great Indian Festival and Flipkart’s Big Billion Days) have become the prime time to score high-end smartphones at bargain prices. This year is especially competitive, with brands offering heavy discounts on older models and financing deals on new launches moneycontrol.com. If you’re looking to upgrade without splurging beyond ₹40,000, here are five standout deals you shouldn’t miss: Why are these deals so remarkable? In the ₹30-40K range, you’re getting devices that were recently near-flagship level. Many of them launched at much higher prices just a few
23 September 2025
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Apple’s First Foldable iPhone: Stunning $1,800 Price Leak, Ultra-Thin Design & Samsung’s Secret Tech

Apple’s Foldable iPhone: Rumored Features, Release Timeline, and Impact on the Foldable Phone Market

Apple’s Foldable iPhone – Rumors, Design and Features Apple’s long-rumored foldable iPhone is finally expected to become reality after years of development. Here’s what we know so far about its design and capabilities, based on credible leaks and analyst reports: In sum, Apple appears to be crafting its foldable iPhone as a no-compromise ultra-premium device, with cutting-edge display and hinge engineering, top-notch materials, and flagship camera and processor tech. It’s essentially two devices in one, so Apple is justifying a very high-end positioning. Next, we’ll look at when this long-awaited iPhone might finally land and why Apple has taken its
23 September 2025
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Hideo Kojima’s New Xbox Horror ‘OD’ Trailer Is Giving P.T. Vibes – Everything We Know

Hideo Kojima’s New Xbox Horror ‘OD’ Trailer Is Giving P.T. Vibes – Everything We Know

Kojima’s Return to Horror: From P.T. to OD Hideo Kojima’s foray back into horror with OD is a significant moment in gaming. Kojima, famous for the Metal Gear Solid series and the genre-defying Death Stranding, hasn’t released a horror game before – his last attempt, the much-hyped Silent Hills project with Konami (teased via the 2014 P.T. demo), was canceled amid Kojima’s split from Konami windowscentral.com. The eerie P.T. demo became legendary for its psychological terror, and its cancellation left horror fans lamenting what could have been windowscentral.com. Now, a decade later, Kojima is effectively reviving that horror ambition with
23 September 2025
NASA’s New Astronaut Class of 2025 Makes History with “All-American” Recruits Poised for Moon and Mars

NASA’s New Astronaut Class of 2025 Makes History with “All-American” Recruits Poised for Moon and Mars

Overview of the 2025 Astronaut Class Announcement NASA’s 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class – the ten selectees pose at Johnson Space Center in Houston after their introduction on September 22, 2025. NASA unveiled this “All-American” 2025 astronaut class during a live ceremony, marking the agency’s first new astronaut cohort since 2021. The announcement followed a highly competitive process: more than 8,000 Americans applied, hoping to earn a coveted spot in NASA’s astronaut corps. Ultimately, 10 candidates (6 women and 4 men) were chosen, all U.S. citizens hailing from “every corner of this nation,” as NASA’s Acting Administrator Sean Duffy noted in
23 September 2025
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Alphabet vs Meta 2025: AI Arms Race, Ad Revival, and Wall Street’s Verdict

Alphabet vs. Meta – 2025’s Ultimate Tech Stock Showdown: AI Gold Rush, Ad Revival & Future Outlook

2025 Year-to-Date Stock Performance 📈 After a volatile couple of years, 2025 has been a banner year for both tech giants’ stocks. Alphabet and Meta entered the year with modest momentum, but have since staged a record-setting rally. Meta’s stock price climbed roughly 30% year-to-date by late Q3, recently touching all-time highs interactivecrypto.com. Alphabet’s stock lagged early on – at one point in mid-2025 it was flat on the year – but a series of positive catalysts (strong earnings and a big legal victory) propelled it upward. As of September, Alphabet shares are up around 20–25% YTD reuters.com, recently hitting
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Stock Market Today

Semiconductor stocks surge as AI capex stays high; Nvidia and AMD lead into next week

Semiconductor stocks surge as AI capex stays high; Nvidia and AMD lead into next week

7 February 2026
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped 5.7% to 8,048.6 on Friday, with Nvidia up 7.87% and AMD rising 8.28%. The surge followed new forecasts showing global chip sales could hit $1 trillion in 2026. Amazon expects a 50% increase in capital spending this year, fueling demand for chips. The Dow Jones crossed 50,000, helped by gains in chipmakers.
Oil stocks jump on Iran risk lift for crude — what to watch before Monday

Oil stocks jump on Iran risk lift for crude — what to watch before Monday

7 February 2026
U.S. oil stocks surged Friday as crude prices rose on renewed Middle East tensions. Exxon Mobil gained 2.0%, ConocoPhillips 2.5%, and Occidental Petroleum 2.7%. Refiners rallied after a national union deal eased strike risk, though BP’s Whiting plant faces a local dispute. Brent settled at $68.05 a barrel, up 0.74%.
Silver price rebound masks fresh stress after CME lifts margins again

Silver price rebound masks fresh stress after CME lifts margins again

7 February 2026
Spot silver surged 8.6% to $77.33 an ounce Friday after dropping below $65, but still lost over 8.7% for the week. CME Group raised margin requirements for COMEX silver futures to 18% from 15%, effective after Feb. 6. China’s UBS SDIC Silver Futures Fund hit its 10% down limit for a fifth session. Traders await key U.S. jobs and inflation data next week.
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