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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.

Smartphones vs. Satellite Phones: Are Off-Grid Cell Phones Killing the Satellite Phone?

Smartphones vs. Satellite Phones: Are Off-Grid Cell Phones Killing the Satellite Phone?

Apple launched Emergency SOS via satellite on the iPhone 14 series in late 2022 using Globalstar’s LEO network. Samsung Galaxy S25, launched in 2025, is the first commercially available phone to include Snapdragon Satellite for two-way messaging via Iridium’s LEO constellation, with Android 15 native support. Bullitt Group’s Bullitt Satellite Messenger rolled out in Q1 2023, enabling two-way SMS on the Motorola Defy 2 and CAT S75 via Skylo GEO satellites. Huawei Mate 60 Pro (2023) added two-way satellite texting and satellite voice calling via BeiDou’s Tiantong GEO network, requiring careful skyward pointing and delivering low bandwidth. By the end
22 July 2025
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War of the Drones: How Jammers, Lasers, and Nets Are Taking Down Rogue UAVs

War of the Drones: How Jammers, Lasers, and Nets Are Taking Down Rogue UAVs

NFL drone incursions rose from about a dozen in 2017 to 2,845 in 2023. The global anti-drone market quadrupled from 2018 to 2024 to about $2.4 billion and is projected to exceed $10 billion by 2030. Israel’s Rafael Drone Dome radar detects drone-sized targets out to about 3.5 km. RF jammers are a non-lethal countermeasure that typically work within a few hundred meters to 1–2 km, as seen with DroneShield’s DroneGun Tactical and Russia’s Stupor jammer in 2022. The Iran–U.S. GPS spoofing incident of 2011 involved spoofing a U.S. spy drone’s navigation signals. In 2023–2024, the U.S. Navy began deploying
22 July 2025
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AI Revolution in Your Pocket: The 2024–2025 Smartphone AI Showdown

AI Revolution in Your Pocket: The 2024–2025 Smartphone AI Showdown

At WWDC 2024, Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, embedding AI across iOS with on-device processing via the Neural Engine and a Private Cloud Compute option for encrypted server-based tasks. Apple’s Siri gained context awareness, hundreds of new actions across apps, and on-screen context integration. Apple integrated OpenAI’s ChatGPT into iOS 18, enabling Siri to route complex queries to ChatGPT with user permission. Pages’ Writing Tools can generate text and images using ChatGPT-powered features, including a Compose tool to create content. Image Playground enables on-device image generation in Messages, Notes, and other apps, with all images created on-device. Genmoji allows generating custom
22 July 2025
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Beyond Smartphones: AR Glasses, Brain Chips & the Race to Replace Your Phone

Beyond Smartphones: AR Glasses, Brain Chips & the Race to Replace Your Phone

In 2023 global smartphone shipments were about 1.17 billion units, with average replacement cycles exceeding 3 years. AR glasses, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), smart wearables, and ambient computing are identified as the leading contenders to replace or augment smartphones. Apple launched Vision Pro in early 2024 as a $3,499 mixed-reality headset, though its weight, battery life, and lack of apps limited mass-market appeal. IDC projects AR glasses shipments to surpass 5 million by 2027, up from under 1 million in 2023. Meta’s Reality Labs spent more than $10 billion in 2024 pursuing wearable AR glasses. On January 28, 2024, Neuralink implanted
22 July 2025
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Massive Microsoft Hack, Space Surprises & EV Shakeups – Non‑AI Tech Roundup (July 21–22, 2025)

Massive Microsoft Hack, Space Surprises & EV Shakeups – Non‑AI Tech Roundup (July 21–22, 2025)

Cybersecurity & Network Infrastructure Tech Policy & Legal Affairs Biotechnology & Health Tech Space & Aerospace Green Energy & Climate Tech Automotive & Transport Tech Finance & Cryptocurrency This comprehensive news roundup highlights the major technology developments (outside of AI) from July 21–22, 2025. From cybersecurity crises and regulatory battles to breakthroughs in biotech, space, green energy, and crypto finance, these two days saw rapid progress across the tech world. Each story shows how technology continues to reshape industries and societies worldwide.
22 July 2025
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AI Revolution Unfolds: Big Tech Bets, Breakthroughs & Bold Policies (July 21–22, 2025)

AI Revolution Unfolds: Big Tech Bets, Breakthroughs & Bold Policies (July 21–22, 2025)

Google will invest over $25 billion in U.S. AI-related data centers and infrastructure over the next two years, plus $3 billion to modernize two Pennsylvania hydropower plants to power AI data centers, under the AI Works for America initiative. Project Stargate, originally pitched as a $500 billion effort with $100 billion upfront, is being scaled back to building a small data center by year-end (likely in Ohio) after term disputes between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. Moonvalley raised an $84 million funding round led by General Catalyst, bringing total funding to $154 million to develop licensed-content based, ethical AI video tools
22 July 2025
2025 CPU Wars: Intel vs AMD vs Apple M‑Series – The Ultimate Processor Showdown

2025 CPU Wars: Intel vs AMD vs Apple M‑Series – The Ultimate Processor Showdown

Intel’s 14th-Gen Core Ultra Arrow Lake desktop flagship Core Ultra 9 285K features a chiplet-based hybrid design with 8 Performance cores and 16 Efficient cores, clocks up to 5.7 GHz on P-cores, and includes an on‑chip NPU AI accelerator. AMD’s Ryzen 9 9800X3D (Zen 5 + 3D) is an 8-core/16-thread CPU with 96 MB of L3 cache, introduced in early 2025 as the fastest gaming CPU, reportedly beating Intel Core i9-14900K by about 30% and the Core Ultra 9 285K by about 35% in games. AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X3D (Zen 4 + 3D) is a 16-core/32-thread desktop CPU, 5.7 GHz,
22 July 2025
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GPU Wars 2025: NVIDIA vs AMD vs Intel – The Ultimate Graphics Showdown

GPU Wars 2025: NVIDIA vs AMD vs Intel – The Ultimate Graphics Showdown

The GeForce RTX 4090 is the fastest gaming GPU in mid-2025, featuring 24 GB of GDDR6X, 3rd-gen RT cores, 4th-gen Tensor cores, and launched at $1,599 in 2022–2023. NVIDIA released the RTX 5090 in early 2025 as a halo card, but its supply is so limited that the RTX 4090 remains the practical top-end for most buyers. AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX uses a chiplet RDNA3 design, includes 24 GB of GDDR6 memory, carries about 355 W board power, and is priced at $999. The RX 7900 XTX often trades blows with the RTX 4080, sometimes outperforming the 4080 in
21 July 2025
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AI Accelerator Chip Gold Rush: Inside the Global Race for a $300B Market by 2030

AI Accelerator Chip Gold Rush: Inside the Global Race for a $300B Market by 2030

The AI accelerator chips market is projected to exceed $360 billion by 2032, up from $28.5 billion in 2024, with about 37.4% CAGR. In 2024, GPUs accounted for about 35% of AI accelerator revenue, while custom AI ASICs were the fastest-growing segment at 43%+ CAGR. Cloud data centers dominate AI chip demand at roughly 75%, while edge AI chips are growing at more than 40% annually. North America held about 44% of the AI accelerators market in 2024, and NVIDIA commanded over 80% of data-center AI accelerator hardware. Hyperscalers like Google with TPU and AWS with Inferentia/Trainium have built in-house
21 July 2025
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Google AI Studio Unleashed: Inside Google’s Gemini-Powered AI Playground Taking on ChatGPT

Google AI Studio Unleashed: Inside Google’s Gemini-Powered AI Playground Taking on ChatGPT

Google AI Studio is a browser-based cloud platform that gives developers direct access to Google DeepMind’s Gemini multimodal models for prototyping and building AI-powered applications. Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Pro were in public preview on AI Studio by late 2024, offering up to a 1,000,000-token context window, the largest context length among commercial AI at the time. At Google I/O 2024, Gemini 1.5 Pro extended context to 2,000,000 tokens via a waitlist, doubling single-prompt capacity. In early 2025, Gemini 2.0 was released with Flash and Flash-Lite variants for low-latency production use and a 2.0 Pro Experimental focused on
21 July 2025
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Major AI Conferences, Exhibitions, and Awards in 2025–2026

Major AI Conferences, Exhibitions, and Awards in 2025–2026

AAAI 2025 was held February 27–March 2, 2025 in Philadelphia, USA, and AAAI 2026 is scheduled for January 20–27, 2026 in Singapore. NeurIPS 2025 will be held December 10–15, 2025 in San Diego, USA, attracting over 13,000 participants. ICML 2025 takes place July 13–19, 2025 in Vancouver, Canada, with around 6,000 participants. ICLR 2025 is scheduled for April 24–28, 2025 in Singapore, marking the conference’s first return to Asia post-pandemic. IJCAI 2025 runs August 16–22, 2025 in Montréal, Canada, and IJCAI-ECAI 2026 will be a joint conference in Bremen, Germany, August 8–14, 2026, with about 2,500 attendees. CVPR 2025 takes
21 July 2025
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Popcorn-Serving Robots, Brain Chips & Billions in AI: Inside Elon Musk’s July 2025 Robotics Revolution

Popcorn-Serving Robots, Brain Chips & Billions in AI: Inside Elon Musk’s July 2025 Robotics Revolution

In June, Milan Kovac, the senior VP heading Tesla’s Optimus program, left the company, leaving the project reportedly “in disarray”. Tesla paused parts orders for about two months to implement a major redesign after finding the current Optimus prototype isn’t very useful in factory tasks. Elon Musk had initially targeted 5,000–10,000 Optimus robots in 2025, but that goal is now delayed. Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Autopilot chief, was appointed to take over the Optimus robot program. Key hardware issues include overheating actuators in joint motors, weak payload in the robot’s dexterous hands, premature wear in transmission components, and limited battery life.
21 July 2025
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Apple’s July 2025 Bombshells: Foldable iPhone, AI Secrets, Encryption Showdown & More

Apple’s July 2025 Bombshells: Foldable iPhone, AI Secrets, Encryption Showdown & More

A foldable iPhone is expected in late 2026 alongside iOS 27, with a 7.8-inch inner display, a 5.5-inch outer screen, a titanium-steel hinge from Samsung Display, a price around $2,000, and Touch ID on the side button replacing Face ID. The iPad Pro expected in late 2025 will use the M5 chip and add dual front-facing cameras—one on the landscape edge and one on the portrait edge—to enable FaceTime in any orientation. In the UK encryption showdown, Apple withdrew its Advanced Data Protection from the UK and challenged the government over a backdoor mandate, with late-July signals that officials are
21 July 2025
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Meta’s AI Revolution Unleashed: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

Meta’s AI Revolution Unleashed: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

In July 2025, Meta AI expanded to include generative video editing powered by the MovieGen model, with one-click effects to change outfits, backgrounds, and lighting. WhatsApp introduced an AI concierge for business chats that handles customer inquiries and post-purchase recommendations, announced at Conversations on July 1, with testing in select markets including Mexico and plans for cloud-based voice and video calling. The Ray-Ban smart glasses’ companion app was rebranded as the Meta AI app, enabling hands-free AI queries and moment recording, following the June debut of Oakley Meta Glasses with built-in AI. In mid-July 2025, Meta and AWS announced a
21 July 2025
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2025 Console & Handheld Gaming Showdown: PS5 vs Xbox vs Switch 2 vs Steam Deck & More

2025 Console & Handheld Gaming Showdown: PS5 vs Xbox vs Switch 2 vs Steam Deck & More

The PlayStation 5 Pro released on November 7, 2024, featuring a 16.7 TFLOP GPU, a 2 TB SSD, all-digital design, Wi-Fi 7, and a target of 60+ FPS at 4K with PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution. <li/Nintendo Switch 2 launched on June 5, 2025, with a 7.9-inch 1080p LCD, 12 GB RAM, 256 GB base storage, 1440p/120Hz docked output with HDR and DLSS-like 4K upscaling, Joy-Con 2 with a built-in camera for GameChat, backward compatibility with Switch 1, and base price of $449.99 (bundle $499). Metroid Prime 4: Beyond was re-revealed as a Switch 2 exclusive, launching in 2025. The Valve
21 July 2025
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Everything We Know About the PlayStation 6: Leaks, Specs, Release Date & Expert Predictions

Everything We Know About the PlayStation 6: Leaks, Specs, Release Date & Expert Predictions

Sony confirmed PS6 development is underway, with CEO Hideaki Nishino saying in mid-2025 that the ‘next generation console strategy’ is top of mind and PS6 is ‘one of their main priorities’. Analysts and regulators peg a PS6 release around 2027–2028, with Microsoft also expecting a 2028 window. Sony filed trademarks for PS6 through PS10 as early as 2019, signaling intent to extend the PlayStation line for multiple generations. The PS6 is expected to use a custom AMD Zen CPU (likely Zen 5 or Zen 6) with 8 or more cores on a 3nm or 2nm process. The GPU is anticipated
21 July 2025
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2025–2026 Camera Wars: Mirrorless Titans, Action Heroes & 360° Innovations Unveiled

2025–2026 Camera Wars: Mirrorless Titans, Action Heroes & 360° Innovations Unveiled

Sony Alpha 1 II uses a 50 MP stacked CMOS sensor, offers 30 fps bursts, features AI-driven autofocus with pose estimation and enhanced eye detection, includes a dedicated AI processing unit, and records 8K video, with a late-2024 launch price of $6,500. Sony Alpha 9 III is the world’s first full-frame camera with a global shutter, a 24.6 MP stacked sensor, 120 fps bursts, 1/80,000 s flash sync, oversampled 4K/60 and 4K/120 video, and is priced around $5,999. Canon EOS R1 is expected in 2025 to feature a stacked sensor in the 45–60 MP range, 8K video, and burst rates
21 July 2025
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Sky-High Tech Showdown: The Top Drones of 2025–2026 Unveiled

Sky-High Tech Showdown: The Top Drones of 2025–2026 Unveiled

The DJI Mavic 4 Pro (2025) uses a Hasselblad-branded 100 MP main camera with 28 mm, 70 mm and 168 mm focal lengths, a 6K/60fps HDR video capability, and six fisheye cameras plus a front LiDAR for obstacle avoidance with an Infinity 360° rotating gimbal. It offers 51 minutes of flight time and up to 30 km FCC range, with Europe pricing around €2,099 (~$2,250) and a US launch delay due to tariffs. The WingtraOne GEN II is a hybrid VTOL mapping drone able to fly up to 59 minutes per mission and map up to 13 square kilometers per
21 July 2025
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China Tech’s July 2025 Shockwave: AI Triumphs, Chip War Truce, and EV Frenzy

China Tech’s July 2025 Shockwave: AI Triumphs, Chip War Truce, and EV Frenzy

Huawei regained the top spot in China’s smartphone market in Q2 2025 with 12.5 million units shipped, the first time it led for more than four years. China saw the launch of more than 100 AI-native devices across smartphones, PCs, and AR glasses in 2025. JD.com reported a 7x year-over-year jump in AR glasses sales during the 618 shopping festival. Xiaomi unveiled the YU7 SUV, a second EV model with a claimed range of up to 835 km and a price premium of 60,000–70,000 yuan over the Tesla Model Y. June NEV sales reached 1.33 million nationwide, with BYD selling
21 July 2025
You Won’t Believe What Google Did This Month: July 2025’s Biggest Stories

You Won’t Believe What Google Did This Month: July 2025’s Biggest Stories

In July 2025, Google rolled out Gemini Code Assist with an “agent mode” that can analyze an entire codebase and autonomously implement multi-file changes from a single prompt, with IDE context-control enhancements. Google DeepMind published mid-July 2025 a Mixture-of-Recursions (MoR) architecture that doubles inference speed and reduces memory by about 50% by looping over a compact set of layers to handle the toughest tokens. Google globally launched the Veo 3 video-generation model in 159+ countries, enabling AI-generated videos up to 8 seconds from text prompts and capping free use to three videos per day for AI Pro subscribers. Pixel 9
21 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
U.S. financial stocks rose Friday, with the XLF fund up 1.8% and the Dow closing above 50,000 for the first time, gaining 2.47%. Goldman Sachs jumped 4.3%, JPMorgan 3.9%, and Citigroup 6.0%. The Federal Reserve held rates steady, and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly signaled possible cuts this year. Investors await January jobs and inflation data next week.
Data Center Stocks Surge Into the Weekend: Digital Realty, Equinix and Vertiv Set Up a Big Week Ahead

Data Center Stocks Surge Into the Weekend: Digital Realty, Equinix and Vertiv Set Up a Big Week Ahead

7 February 2026
Digital Realty, Equinix, and Vertiv shares surged Friday, with Vertiv up 10% and Digital Realty rising 4.1%, as investors rotated back into AI-linked data center stocks. The move followed Amazon’s $200 billion and Alphabet’s $175–185 billion 2026 capex targets. Digital Realty set 2026 core FFO guidance at $7.90 to $8.00 per share. Wall Street ended the week broadly higher, led by chipmakers.
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