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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.

Framework Desktop vs Mac Studio vs Intel NUC 13 Extreme. You Won’t Believe Which Tiny PC Wins in 2025

Framework Desktop vs Mac Studio vs Intel NUC 13 Extreme. You Won’t Believe Which Tiny PC Wins in 2025

Framework Desktop (2025) is a 4.5-liter modular PC built around an AMD Ryzen AI Max CPU (8-core/16-thread Ryzen AI Max 385 or 16-core/32-thread Ryzen AI Max+ 395) with boost clocks around 5.0–5.1 GHz and a sustained 120W TDP. The Framework uses the Radeon 8060S iGPU with 40 RDNA3 compute units, up to 2.9 GHz, and up to 96 GB of shared memory for AI and compute tasks. RAM and storage: Framework soldered LPDDR5x-8000 RAM up to 128 GB (with up to 96 GB usable as VRAM) and two M.2 NVMe slots up to 8 TB each (total up to 16
8 August 2025
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iPhone 17 Leaks Reveal Ultra‑Thin ‘Air’ Model, Big Upgrades & Everything We Know (Mid‑2025)

Battle of 2025’s Best Phones – iPhone 17 Pro Max vs Galaxy S25 Ultra vs Pixel 10 Pro

The Galaxy S25 Ultra features a 6.9-inch 3120×1440 OLED, a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate, and up to 3000 nits peak brightness. The iPhone 17 Pro Max is expected to keep a 6.7-inch OLED display with ProMotion 120Hz and may introduce a rumored anti-reflective nano-texture coating. The Google Pixel 10 Pro is anticipated to land around 6.7 inches with 120Hz, and brightness in the 3000-nit range, with a Pixel 10 Pro XL rumored at 3200 nits. The iPhone 17 Pro Max will be powered by Apple’s A19 Pro on a 3nm process and reportedly upgrade to 12GB of RAM. The Galaxy
8 August 2025
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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: In-Depth Comparison and Review 2025

VR Headset Showdown 2025: Meta Quest 3 & Quest Pro vs Apple Vision Pro vs HTC Vive XR Elite – Which XR Device Reigns Supreme?

Vision Pro uses dual micro-OLED displays totaling 23 million pixels, roughly near-4K per eye. Quest 3 resolves 2064×2208 per eye (about 9.3 million pixels combined), Quest Pro 1800×1920 per eye (≈6.9M), and XR Elite 1920×1920 per eye (≈7.4M), while Vision Pro emphasizes high pixel density with a ~90–100° horizontal field of view. Processing power varies across the line: Quest 3 runs Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 (4nm), Quest Pro uses XR2+ Gen1, XR Elite uses XR2 Gen1, and Vision Pro uses Apple M2 with an R1 sensor processor. Weight and ergonomics differ: Quest 3 is about 515 g, Quest Pro
8 August 2025
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GT3 Supercar Showdown: Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo vs Ferrari 296 GT3 vs Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2

GT3 Supercar Showdown: Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo vs Ferrari 296 GT3 vs Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2

Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo (992) features a 4.2-liter naturally aspirated flat-six, up to 557 hp, revs past 9,000 rpm, a 6-speed sequential gearbox, and a weight around 1,250–1,300 kg, with a 5.5-degree engine tilt to improve the rear diffuser. Ferrari 296 GT3 uses a 2.992-liter twin-turbo V6 mid-ship delivering about 600 hp at 7,250 rpm and 712 Nm of torque at 5,500 rpm, runs without the hybrid system under GT3 rules, via a 6-speed transverse sequential gearbox, with a dry weight around 1,250 kg. Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO2 runs a 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 producing roughly 580–585 hp under
8 August 2025
Google Pixel Watch 4: Big Battery Boost, New Features & All the Latest Rumors

2025 Smartwatch Showdown: Google Pixel Watch 4 vs Galaxy Watch 7 vs Apple Watch Series 10 – Which Reigns Supreme?

Pixel Watch 4 will be offered in 41mm and 45mm cases, features an Actua 360 OLED display peaking at 3,000 nits, and is roughly 50% brighter than Pixel Watch 3’s 2,000 nits. The 41mm Pixel Watch 4 is expected to last around 30 hours with Always-On Display, while the 45mm version reaches about 40 hours, with a 459 mAh battery in the 45mm and a claimed 25% faster charging via a new Quick Charge dock. Galaxy Watch 7 comes in 40mm and 44mm with Sapphire Crystal display glass and IP68 plus 5 ATM rating, using a 300 mAh (40mm) /
8 August 2025
The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

March 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-Neo at 2.7 billion parameters, the first free open alternative to GPT-3, under the MIT license. June 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-J at 6 billion parameters under the Apache 2.0 license, boosting startups in open GPT development. July 2022: The BigScience project released BLOOM at 176 billion parameters, covering 46 languages and released under the Responsible AI License. May 2022: Meta AI released OPT at 175 billion parameters under a non-commercial research license, including a logbook documenting the training process. February 2023: Meta AI unveiled LLaMA with 7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B models, and the weights leaked
8 August 2025
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Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Genie 3, announced by Google DeepMind in August 2025, is the first real-time, interactive world model that can generate dynamic 3D environments from text prompts and let users explore them. Genie 1 (early 2024) produced 256×256 2D scenes with glitches, Genie 2 (late 2024) moved to 3D with 360p at 15 FPS for about 10–20 seconds, and Genie 3 (August 2025) delivers 720p at 24 FPS with multiple minutes of interactive play and about 1 minute of full consistency. Genie 3 uses an auto-regressive, memory-enabled video generator that remembers past frames to maintain coherence, built on Genie 2’s diffusion-based latent-transformer
8 August 2025
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GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and is the default model in ChatGPT for all users, both free and paid. GPT-5 is a unified model with an internal router that automatically balances speed and thorough reasoning, and it supports a 400,000-token context window. GPT-5 is multimodal (text and vision) and includes a built-in voice mode for natural spoken conversations, with image interpretation and real-time translation capabilities. GPT-5 demonstrates agentic capabilities by reliably chaining dozens of API calls and tools, achieving a 97% score on OpenAI’s Tau² tool-use benchmark. GPT-5 introduces variants GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, GPT-5-nano, and GPT-5-Pro, with pay-as-you-go API pricing
8 August 2025
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Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

AI Chatbot Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity – Who Reigns Supreme?

In August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in May 2025 and Claude 4.1 in August 2025, delivering extremely large context windows (hundreds of thousands of tokens) and adding Claude Code for live coding tasks and advanced document analysis. Perplexity launched Perplexity Max in July 2025, introducing the Comet autonomous agent, and by May 2025 it processed about 780 million queries per month, up 20% month over month. By 2025 each service offers premium plans around $20
8 August 2025
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GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and was rolled out to all ChatGPT users, including the free tier. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described GPT-5 as “clearly generally intelligent” and a “PhD-level” expert, a step toward AGI but not AGI yet. GPT-5 features “Think Harder” mode with test-time compute that automatically allocates more processing power for hard questions. GPT-5 provides a 400,000-token context window, vastly larger than GPT-4’s 32,000 tokens, enabling long documents and conversations. GPT-5 is billed as OpenAI’s strongest coding model, capable of generating working software end-to-end from a single prompt and even building a fully functional web app
8 August 2025
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Hailuo AI vs Pollo AI vs Runway: The Ultimate AI Showdown in 2025

Hailuo AI vs Pollo AI vs Runway: The Ultimate AI Showdown in 2025

In late 2024, MiniMax released Hailuo’s first text-to-video model “Video-01,” and its current Hailuo-02 can generate 6‑second 720p videos at ~25 fps from text prompts and images. As of January 2025, Hailuo added a multi-shot “Director Mode” for controlled shot composition and an audio-generation feature to add sound or speech to videos. December 2024 saw Pollo launch as an all-in-one multimodal platform integrating 12+ models (including Kling, Runway Gen, and Hailuo) with its native Pollo v1.5 for text-to-video, image-to-video, and some video-to-video tasks up to 60 seconds on select modes and up to 1080p/4K outputs on certain models. Pollo differentiates
8 August 2025
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Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship raster editor, available on Windows, macOS, and iPad, with Creative Cloud integration and AI features like Neural Filters and Generative Fill. Lightroom Classic offers end-to-end photography workflow with a library, Develop module, non-destructive edits, batch processing, presets, and seamless round-trips to Photoshop. GIMP is free and open source, cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux), and GIMP 3.0 (March 2025) introduces a GTK3 UI overhaul plus live layer effects. GIMP runs natively on Linux, the only one of the three to do so. Photoshop uses Camera Raw for RAW processing, Lightroom has built-in RAW processing via the ACR engine,
8 August 2025
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Grok 4: Elon Musk’s “PhD-Level” AI Outshines OpenAI & Google on Major Benchmarks

The AI Chatbot Showdown of 2025: Grok vs DeepSeek vs Perplexity

Grok is Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot built on the Grok LLM family, with Grok-4 released in July 2025 and Grok-3 trained in a 200,000-GPU data center codenamed Colossus, plus built-in web search by late 2024 and multimodal image generation via Aurora. Grok-4 is integrated into Tesla vehicles as an onboard voice assistant as of July 2025, and the platform introduced Companions avatars and a Reasoning/Think mode during 2025. Grok-1 weights were open-sourced in early 2024, but Grok-4 remains proprietary, with consumer access initially via X Premium+ and later broadened to a trial for all X users in February 2025. In
7 August 2025
Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Canva serves 180+ million users, is used by about 95% of Fortune 500 companies, and acquired Leonardo in 2024. Leonardo AI has 19 million+ users, features a Phoenix model for photorealism, and includes a Real-time Canvas for sketch-to-image editing and AI-assisted refinements. Simplified claims over 15 million creators and positions itself as an all-in-one marketing platform combining design, AI writing, video editing, and social scheduling with Multi-Agent Workflows. Canva incorporated Leonardo’s technology behind the scenes after the 2024 acquisition, including use of the Phoenix image model in its Magic Studio. Leonardo’s collaboration features include Leonardo for Teams and private cloud
7 August 2025
AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

Humanize AI is marketed as an “AI to Human Text Converter” that can rewrite input from ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing, Jasper, Grammarly, or QuillBot into “100% human-like” content, with no sign-up required for basic use and paid tiers for higher volumes. It offers multiple tones and modes—Standard, Formal, Informal, Simple, Flowing—and two rewrite depths called Basic and Ultra. It advertises AI detection shielding, claiming to bypass detectors such as Originality.ai, GPTZero, and Turnitin, while preserving SEO-critical keywords. It supports multilingual output (English, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, and more) and bundles a grammar checker, plagiarism checker, and its own AI content
7 August 2025
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Midjourney vs DALL·E vs Stable Diffusion: 2025 AI Art Generator Showdown 🚀

Midjourney vs DALL·E vs Stable Diffusion: 2025 AI Art Generator Showdown 🚀

Midjourney released v6 in 2024 and v7 in early 2025, delivering improved prompt accuracy, higher photorealism, and new text-to-video and 3D capabilities. DALL·E 3 is integrated with ChatGPT (via GPT-4) to expand and optimize prompts, and offers a vivid vs natural style toggle plus an HD mode via API. Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) released in 2023 as Stability AI’s photorealism flagship, with ~3.5 billion parameters and broad open-source flexibility. SDXL can generate legible text within images much more reliably than Midjourney or DALL·E. Prompt fidelity varies: DALL·E 3 shows the strongest fidelity to instructions, Midjourney tends to interpret creatively, and
7 August 2025
AI Detector Showdown: GPTZero vs Originality.AI vs Winston AI – Which One Wins in 2025?

AI Detector Showdown: GPTZero vs Originality.AI vs Winston AI – Which One Wins in 2025?

GPTZero was created for academia by Princeton student Edward Tian and now offers an AI vs Human probability score, an AI Vocabulary flag, a ‘Compare with AI Text’ mode, an AI-written explanation, plus a plagiarism checker, citation checker, grammar checker, and an AI Grader with LMS integrations and a Chrome extension. Originality.AI markets an all-in-one content integrity suite with AI detection in 30+ languages (advertised 97.8% multilingual accuracy) and a plagiarism checker, plus a readability scorer, grammar checker, factual accuracy checker, a Chrome extension, a WordPress plugin, and team collaboration. Winston AI positions itself as a multi-modal detector with a
7 August 2025
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AI Titans Clash: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google DeepMind – Who Will Dominate the Future of AI?

AI Titans Clash: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google DeepMind – Who Will Dominate the Future of AI?

OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, restructured in 2019 into a capped-profit model, and by late 2024 was valued at about $150 billion after ChatGPT’s rapid adoption. GPT-4, released in March 2023, is OpenAI’s multimodal model that accepts text and images, with a context window up to 32K tokens and top performance on benchmarks such as the Bar Exam. Anthropic, founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei, emphasizes safety with Constitutional AI and released Claude 2 in July 2023 featuring a 100,000-token context, with Claude 4 announced in May 2025 adding web browsing
7 August 2025
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Blackbox vs Amazon CodeWhisperer vs Tabnine – The Ultimate 2025 AI Coding Assistant Comparison

Blackbox vs Amazon CodeWhisperer vs Tabnine – The Ultimate 2025 AI Coding Assistant Comparison

Blackbox AI, a Canadian startup, claims 15+ million users in 2025 and runs a multi-LLM stack including a GPT-4 variant, Claude 3.5 “Sonnet”, Google Gemini Pro, and LLaMA 3.1. Blackbox is completely free for individual developers as of August 2025, with API access being the only paid component. Blackbox offers a VS Code extension, a web interface, a Chrome browser extension, and an Android mobile app, but as of early 2025 it had no native JetBrains IDE integrations. Core Blackbox capabilities include real-time code generation and autocomplete across 20+ languages, an in-IDE code chat with domain-specific agents, AI README and
7 August 2025
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WIZ.AI vs Cognigy vs Kore.ai – The Ultimate 2025 Conversational AI Platform Showdown

WIZ.AI vs Cognigy vs Kore.ai – The Ultimate 2025 Conversational AI Platform Showdown

WIZ.AI is a Singapore-based voice-centric conversational AI provider that launched TalkGPT in 2023 as the region’s first ChatGPT-powered customer engagement solution. WIZ.AI claims 98% of users cannot tell they are speaking with a bot due to hyper-localized vocabularies and the ability to mimic local accents. By 2024, WIZ.AI had 300 clients across 17 countries, expanding from Asia into the U.S., the Middle East and Latin America. WIZ.AI operates a 13-billion-parameter LLM powering dialogue management and has domain-specific models, including a Bahasa Indonesia foundation model. In June 2025, WIZ.AI announced a partnership with Agora to enable low-latency real-time voice calls and
7 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Thermo Fisher stock holds near $543 after Thursday slide as traders size up layoffs notice, data week ahead

Thermo Fisher stock holds near $543 after Thursday slide as traders size up layoffs notice, data week ahead

8 February 2026
cNew York, Feb 7, 2026, 17:29 EST — Market closed. Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO.N) shares ended Friday, Feb. 6, at $542.83, steady on the day after a roughly 4% drop in the prior session. With U.S. markets shut on Saturday, traders head into Monday looking for signs the selloff has run its course. (Thermo Fisher Scientific) The stock has been jumpy because the company sits at the intersection of two messy lines: research spending that can disappear fast, and drugmakers’ demand for tools and services that tends to hold up. That split matters now because the next leg, up or
Disney stock ends week higher after Friday bounce — what to watch for DIS next week

Disney stock ends week higher after Friday bounce — what to watch for DIS next week

7 February 2026
Disney shares closed up 3.6% at $108.70 Friday, recovering from earlier losses as U.S. stocks rallied and the Dow topped 50,000. Investors are watching Super Bowl streaming economics and Disney’s CEO transition, with Josh D’Amaro set to take over at the March 18 meeting. Disney reported quarterly revenue of $25.98 billion and adjusted EPS of $1.63, while segment operating income fell 9% to $4.6 billion.
Novo Nordisk stock: Class B shares face Monday test after FDA squeeze forces Hims to pull $49 Wegovy copycat

Novo Nordisk stock: Class B shares face Monday test after FDA squeeze forces Hims to pull $49 Wegovy copycat

7 February 2026
Novo Nordisk Class B shares closed up 5.3% at 295.50 Danish crowns in Copenhagen after Hims & Hers said it would stop offering a compounded pill version of Wegovy following U.S. regulatory warnings. The move came after Novo called the Hims product “illegal mass compounding” and threatened legal action. Shares had fallen nearly 8% Thursday after Hims launched the pill. Trading resumes Monday.
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