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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.

Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown

Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown

In June 2025 Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand as CEO and announced a 60-day action plan to improve memory, relax the safety filter, and add creator tools, while Google licensed Character.AI’s LLM and took a stake, valuing the company at about $2.5–$3 billion. Character.AI launched official iOS and Android apps in 2023, logged 1.7 million installs in its first week, and by late 2023 had over 4.2 million monthly active users in the U.S., with more than 18 million custom characters by 2025. Character.AI introduced Group conversations and Scenes between 2023 and 2025, and AvatarFX adds short animated avatar reactions to
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AI Video Generator Showdown 2025: PixVerse AI vs Runway ML vs Pika Labs

AI Video Generator Showdown 2025: PixVerse AI vs Runway ML vs Pika Labs

PixVerse AI released the v4.5 model in August 2025, adding more than 20 features including cinematic camera moves and multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 launched on March 31, 2025, delivering higher-fidelity video with temporal consistency and support for visual reference inputs. Pika Labs released version 2.2 in March 2025, enabling 1080p output up to 10 seconds and introducing the Picaframes system for smoother keyframe transitions. PixVerse’s tech stack combines Stable Diffusion for images, AnimateDiff for motion, and AudioCraft for audio, with v4.5 adding multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 can anchor outputs around a reference image to maintain style and character consistency across
7 August 2025
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DNA Drives, Glass Discs & 5D Crystals: The Race to Store Data Forever

DNA Drives, Glass Discs & 5D Crystals: The Race to Store Data Forever

DNA data storage can reach about 215 petabytes per gram, with estimates of nearly 1 zettabyte per gram under optimal conditions, and a grain of salt could hold 10 full-length movies. DNA storage could last millennia if properly stored, and dried DNA encapsulated in glass survived neutron radiation without data loss. Writing DNA is slow and expensive today, taking hours or days to write even a few MB, but in 2025 an AI-driven decoder called DNAformer cut retrieval time for 100 MB from days to about 10 minutes. In March 2024 the DNA Data Storage Alliance published the Sector 0/1
7 August 2025
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Google Gemini Live vs Amazon Alexa+ vs Siri’s Apple Intelligence: The Ultimate AI Assistant Showdown 2025

Google Gemini Live vs Amazon Alexa+ vs Siri’s Apple Intelligence: The Ultimate AI Assistant Showdown 2025

Gemini Live debuted in late 2024 as Google’s replacement for Google Assistant and is built on the Gemini LLM, enabling real-time screen and camera analysis. Alexa+ was announced in early 2025 and rolled out as a free Prime upgrade (or $19.99/month) with a model-agnostic mix (Nova and Anthropic Claude 2) to handle calendars, reservations, rides, and multi-step actions across apps. Siri with Apple Intelligence runs on-device in iOS 18, supports Type to Siri and follow-ups without repeating “Hey Siri,” and can tap into OpenAI’s ChatGPT for complex queries with user permission. Gemini Live’s Project Astra enables multi-modal vision, letting it
7 August 2025
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Self-Driving Supercomputer Showdown: NVIDIA Drive Thor vs Tesla FSD Hardware 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Flex

Self-Driving Supercomputer Showdown: NVIDIA Drive Thor vs Tesla FSD Hardware 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Flex

NVIDIA Drive Thor delivers up to 1,000 TOPS (INT8 sparse) on a single chip and can be paired via NVLink-C2C to about 2,000 TOPS for high-end Level 4–5 autonomy. Thor combines a Blackwell GPU with 2560 CUDA cores and 96 Tensor Cores, a 14-core Arm Neoverse V3 CPU complex, on a 4nm TSMC process, and supports up to 128 GB LPDDR5X memory. Thor is designed as a centralized automotive computer unifying autonomous driving, ADAS, digital cockpit and infotainment on one platform. Production of Drive Thor is slated to begin in 2025, with design wins at Li Auto, ZEEKR, BYD, Hyper
7 August 2025
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Presence Tech Showdown: Wi‑Fi Sensing vs. UWB vs. Soli Radar – Who Will Own the Future?

Presence Tech Showdown: Wi‑Fi Sensing vs. UWB vs. Soli Radar – Who Will Own the Future?

Wi‑Fi Sensing (IEEE 802.11bf) repurposes 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz Wi‑Fi signals to detect movement across a typical home, offering tens of meters of range, millisecond‑level latency, and energy‑efficient operation by piggybacking on existing routers. Ultra‑Wideband (UWB; IEEE 802.15.4z) uses ultra‑wide pulses around 6–8 GHz to measure time‑of‑flight with centimeter‑level accuracy, typically 10–15 meters of range, and newer Apple U2 chips extend reliable range toward 60 meters. 60 GHz mmWave radar like Google Soli provides high spatial resolution, detects sub‑millimeter motions within about 5–10 meters, and can distinguish fine gestures with a 120° field of view. IEEE 802.11bf
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Lenovo Yoga 9i vs HP Spectre x360 vs Surface Laptop 7 – 2025’s Ultimate Laptop Showdown

Lenovo Yoga 9i vs HP Spectre x360 vs Surface Laptop 7 – 2025’s Ultimate Laptop Showdown

Lenovo Yoga 9i Aura Edition (14″, 2025) uses Intel Core Ultra 7 258V (Lunar Lake) up to ~3.7 GHz with 16 cores/20 threads, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and a 14″ OLED 2880×1800 touchscreen at 120 Hz. HP Spectre x360 14 (2025) runs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake) up to 4.8 GHz with 16 cores/22 threads, 16 GB RAM (upgradable to 32), 1 TB SSD, and a 14″ OLED 2880×1800 120 Hz display with integrated Intel Arc graphics. HP Spectre x360 16 (2025) also uses the Core Ultra 7 155H, but pairs a larger 16″
6 August 2025
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Watch Earth Live from Space – Your Ultimate Guide to Real-Time Satellite Imagery

Watch Earth Live from Space – Your Ultimate Guide to Real-Time Satellite Imagery

Near-real-time satellite imagery is common: Landsat 8 images can appear within seconds of downlink, NASA Worldview layers update within about 3 hours, and geostationary weather satellites refresh every 5–15 minutes. The ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment streams live video of Earth from about 400 km up with roughly 1-second latency, and the view shifts as the station orbits about 16 times per day. NOAA’s Earth in Real-Time weather map updates GOES-East and GOES-West every 5 minutes for cloud imagery, with full-hemisphere views about every 15 minutes and resolutions around 0.5–2 km. NASA Worldview offers more than 1,000 imagery layers updated
6 August 2025
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Apple visionOS 2 vs Meta Horizon OS vs Windows MR Link: The Ultimate XR Showdown

Apple visionOS 2 vs Meta Horizon OS vs Windows MR Link: The Ultimate XR Showdown

Apple Vision Pro debuted in 2024 at $3,499 and runs visionOS 2 on an M2 processor with a dedicated R1 sensor chip. VisionOS 2 introduces a 3D Home View, an infinite canvas with resizable windows, and eye-hand-voice input for navigation. Vision Pro uses 5,000+ nits micro-OLED displays and remains exclusive to Apple’s Vision Pro hardware. Meta Horizon OS opened to third-party manufacturers in April 2024, powering Quest 3 and offering backward compatibility with Quest 2 and Quest Pro, marketed as the “Android of VR.” Horizon OS is expanding hardware with Asus ROG high-end headset and Lenovo enterprise MR headset, while
6 August 2025
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Battle of the Buds: Sennheiser Momentum TW4 vs Pixel Buds Pro 2 vs Technics AZ100 – 2025 Flagship Earbuds Showdown

Battle of the Buds: Sennheiser Momentum TW4 vs Pixel Buds Pro 2 vs Technics AZ100 – 2025 Flagship Earbuds Showdown

Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 delivers up to 8 hours on a single charge with ANC off and about 28 hours total with the charging case, with around 7 hours of use when ANC is on. Pixel Buds Pro 2 provide roughly 8 hours of listening with ANC on (about 7 hours with ANC off) and over 30 hours in total with the case, plus a 5‑minute quick charge for about an hour of use. Technics EAH‑AZ100 offers up to 10 hours of playback with ANC on and roughly 28 hours with the case, with LDAC mode reducing to about
6 August 2025
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RISC-V vs ARM vs x86: The 2025 Silicon Architecture Showdown

RISC-V vs ARM vs x86: The 2025 Silicon Architecture Showdown

In mid-2025, x86 remains the top performer for legacy software and high-end workloads, with 64-core or 96-core Xeon/EPYC-class servers still setting the benchmark. Apple’s M-series SoCs, built on 8–10 core ARM64 designs and led by the M1 (2020) and M2 generations, demonstrate high performance-per-watt that rivals many x86 laptops. RISC-V’s open, modular ISA uses a small base with optional extensions (M, A, F/D, V) and allows custom instructions, with Ventana’s Veyron V2 offering up to 192 cores and RVA23 profiles improving cross-implementation compatibility. RISC-V is royalty-free and open by design, ARM licenses involve upfront fees and per-chip royalties (Qualcomm reportedly
5 August 2025
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DJI Matrice 4E vs 4T vs Mavic 3T vs 3E: Ultimate Enterprise Drone Showdown (Thermal Tech, RTK & More Revealed)

DJI Matrice 4E vs 4T vs Mavic 3T vs 3E: Ultimate Enterprise Drone Showdown (Thermal Tech, RTK & More Revealed)

The Matrice 4E and Matrice 4T were released in January 2025, introducing triple-sensor payloads and advanced AI features for enterprise use. The Matrice 4E uses a 20 MP 4/3″ wide camera with a mechanical shutter. The Matrice 4T uses a 48 MP 1/1.3″ wide camera with no mechanical shutter. The Mavic 3E uses a 20 MP Four-Thirds wide camera with a mechanical shutter, while the Mavic 3T uses a 48 MP 1/2″ wide camera with an electronic shutter. The Matrice 4E and 4T offer built-in RTK, while the Mavic 3E and 3T rely on optional RTK modules. The Matrice 4E/4T
5 August 2025
Quantum Showdown: Superconducting vs Trapped Ion vs Photonic – Who Will Rule Quantum Computing?

Quantum Showdown: Superconducting vs Trapped Ion vs Photonic – Who Will Rule Quantum Computing?

IBM unveiled Condor in 2023 as the first quantum processor with 1,121 superconducting qubits, with a roadmap to over 4,000 qubits by 2025. Google released the Willow superconducting chip with 105 qubits in 2024, where adding qubits produced an exponential reduction in the error rate and crossed the fault-tolerance threshold for quantum error correction. IonQ’s Harmony, Aria, and Forte devices offer up to 29–36 algorithmic qubits on 20+ Ba+ ions, with Forte reaching 35 effective qubits in 2024 and a 64-physical-qubit target by 2025. Quantinuum demonstrated 12 fully error-corrected logical qubits in 2024 in partnership with Microsoft, and by mid-2025
5 August 2025
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Solar Tech Showdown 2025: N-Type TOPCon vs HJT vs Perovskite Tandem – Which Will Power the Future?

Solar Tech Showdown 2025: N-Type TOPCon vs HJT vs Perovskite Tandem – Which Will Power the Future?

As of mid-2025, commercial N-type TOPCon cells reach about 23–24% efficiency, with best mass-produced TOPCon modules at 23.8% and JinkoSolar reporting 26.4% cell efficiency in tests. Heterojunction (HJT) solar cells regularly reach 25%+ efficiency in production, with Longi reporting a 27.3% lab cell efficiency. Perovskite–silicon tandem cells have surpassed 33% efficiency in labs (Longi 33.9%, KAUST 33.7%), and Oxford PV has a 72-cell tandem module at 24.5%. TOPCon modules typically retain about 87–90% of their power after 25–30 years, with a 3-year desert test showing just 0.14% degradation. HJT modules are generally stable, but a desert field study found HJT
5 August 2025
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AI Titans Clash: Snapdragon X Elite vs Apple M4 vs Exynos 2500 – Which Chip Leads the AI Revolution?

AI Titans Clash: Snapdragon X Elite vs Apple M4 vs Exynos 2500 – Which Chip Leads the AI Revolution?

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (Oryon) is built on a 4 nm process, houses 12 high‑performance Oryon cores up to 4.3 GHz, an Adreno GPU around 4.6 TFLOPs, and a Hexagon NPU up to 45 TOPS with dual micro NPUs in an always‑on sensing hub. The X Elite includes dual micro NPUs in an always‑on Sensing Hub to handle ambient AI tasks alongside the main NPU. Apple M4 uses a 3 nm (second‑gen TSMC N3E) process, with 10 CPU cores (4 performance + 6 efficiency) up to about 4.4 GHz and a 10‑core GPU featuring hardware ray tracing and mesh shading.
5 August 2025
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Fitbit Charge 6 vs Garmin Vivoactive 6 vs Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro – 2025’s Ultimate Fitness Wearable Showdown

Fitbit Charge 6 vs Garmin Vivoactive 6 vs Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro – 2025’s Ultimate Fitness Wearable Showdown

The Fitbit Charge 6 includes on-wrist ECG and EDA sensors for stress, plus SpO₂ sleep tracking and a 50m water resistance aluminum body. The Garmin Vivoactive 6 is a round 42mm smartwatch with an aluminum bezel, 10.9mm thickness, two side buttons, 5 ATM water resistance, and 80+ sports modes. The Xiaomi Smart Band 10 Pro weighs about 22–30 g and uses a large 1.74-inch AMOLED screen with a 60 Hz refresh rate and up to 1500 nits peak brightness for the display. Display specs include the Charge 6’s 1.04-inch AMOLED, the Vivoactive 6’s 1.2-inch round AMOLED, and the Band 10
5 August 2025
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Fastest Portable SSD Showdown 2025: Samsung T9 vs SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4 vs Crucial X10 Pro

Fastest Portable SSD Showdown 2025: Samsung T9 vs SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4 vs Crucial X10 Pro

The three drives in the showdown are Samsung Portable SSD T9, SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4, and Crucial X10 Pro. Samsung T9 uses USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) with up to 2000 MB/s read and 1950 MB/s write on 1TB/2TB, and 2000 MB/s read/write on the 4TB model. SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4 uses USB4 (40 Gbps) with up to 3800 MB/s read and 3700 MB/s write, available in 2TB and 4TB capacities (no 1TB). Crucial X10 Pro uses USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) with up to 2100 MB/s read and 2000 MB/s write, available in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB.
5 August 2025
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Bluetooth Speaker Showdown 2025: JBL Charge 6 vs UE Epicboom vs Sony XG500 – Which Portable Powerhouse Rules?

Bluetooth Speaker Showdown 2025: JBL Charge 6 vs UE Epicboom vs Sony XG500 – Which Portable Powerhouse Rules?

JBL Charge 6 launched in April 2025 at $199, with IP68 durability, USB-C powerbank-out, Bluetooth 5.4 with Auracast, multipoint pairing, and a 7-band EQ accessible in the JBL Portable app. Ultimate Ears Epicboom debuted in 2023, is priced around $299, has IP67 rating and floats, delivers 360° sound with Outdoor Boost, supports NFC, and can link with up to 150 UE speakers via PartyUp, though it lacks an aux input. Sony SRS-XG500 released in 2021, originally priced at $449.99, offers IP66 protection, a 9800 mAh (79 Wh) battery up to 30 hours, AC and USB-C charging, two USB-A ports for
5 August 2025
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Battle of the Smart Home Titans: Matter 1.3 vs Zigbee 3.0 vs Thread 1.3 (2025 Ultimate Showdown)

Battle of the Smart Home Titans: Matter 1.3 vs Zigbee 3.0 vs Thread 1.3 (2025 Ultimate Showdown)

Matter 1.3, released in mid-2024, expanded support to kitchen appliances, EV chargers, and water leak sensors, and added energy usage reporting plus a universal casting feature. Matter is an application-layer protocol that runs over IP on Wi‑Fi or Thread, requires a CSA-issued secure element and a unique X.509 certificate, and uses AES-128-CHACHA-Poly1305 with SPAKE2+ (CASE) for commissioning. Zigbee 3.0, introduced in 2016 and widely deployed by 2025, uses IEEE 802.15.4 at 2.4 GHz, AES-128-CCM encryption, a self-healing mesh with a single Coordinator, and has shipped over a billion Zigbee chips. Thread 1.3 standardizes Border Router interoperability, gives Thread devices IPv6
5 August 2025
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2025 Ultimate Security Camera Showdown: Arlo Pro 6 vs Google Nest Cam vs EufyCam 3

2025 Ultimate Security Camera Showdown: Arlo Pro 6 vs Google Nest Cam vs EufyCam 3

As of August 2025, Arlo has not officially released a Pro 6, with coverage basing expectations on the Pro 5S 2K and the Secure 6 platform. Arlo Pro 5S 2K records up to 2K HDR video at 24 fps (dropping to 15 fps at night) with a wide 160° field of view and a built-in 100+ dB siren. Google Nest Cam (Battery, 2nd gen) records 1080p HDR video at up to 30 fps with about a 130° diagonal field of view and infrared night vision. EufyCam 3 delivers 4K Ultra HD video (3840×2160) at 15 fps, a 135° field of
5 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Tower Semiconductor stock jumps again on Nvidia optics tie-up as earnings near

Tower Semiconductor stock jumps again on Nvidia optics tie-up as earnings near

8 February 2026
Tower Semiconductor shares rose 7.7% to $139.04 Friday after announcing a collaboration with Nvidia on AI data-center networking. The stock touched $141 intraday and gained another 1% after hours. Investors await Tower’s Feb. 11 earnings for details on its silicon photonics work. No financial terms or shipment timeline were disclosed.
Longsys Electronics stock heads into Monday after new guarantees; what 301308 investors watch next

Longsys Electronics stock heads into Monday after new guarantees; what 301308 investors watch next

8 February 2026
Longsys disclosed new guarantees for a 100 million yuan Hong Kong loan and a $9 million Brazil credit line, bringing its total approved guarantee quota to 11 billion yuan and outstanding guarantees to 5.81 billion yuan. The company said all guarantees are for consolidated subsidiaries and within approved limits. Shares closed at 288 yuan Friday, down 1.6%. China inflation and credit data are due this week.
MACOM stock price steadies near highs into Monday after earnings pop and fresh filings

MACOM stock price steadies near highs into Monday after earnings pop and fresh filings

8 February 2026
MACOM shares rose 3.5% to $235.87 Friday after the company reported fiscal Q1 revenue of $271.6 million and raised its full-year data center growth outlook to 35–40%. Fidelity’s FMR LLC disclosed a 10.7% stake, while shareholder Susan Ocampo filed to potentially sell up to 100,000 shares. Stifel raised its price target to $255. MACOM expects to repay $161 million in convertible notes in March.
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