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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.

Tech Turmoil: Crypto Hits $4 Trillion, SpaceX’s 8,000 Satellites & More Non-AI Bombshells (July 18–19, 2025)

Tech Turmoil: Crypto Hits $4 Trillion, SpaceX’s 8,000 Satellites & More Non-AI Bombshells (July 18–19, 2025)

In July 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Microsoft to halt China-based engineering on Pentagon cloud work, with Frank Shaw saying no China-based teams will provide technical assistance and the involvement ending immediately. Blackstone withdrew from the TikTok US sale bid led by Susquehanna and General Atlantic, a consortium that could have given US owners an 80% stake, as the forced divestment deadline was pushed to Sept. 17. On July 21, 2025, India’s Enforcement Directorate summoned Google and Meta executives for questioning in a probe into illicit online betting ads and whether the platforms accepted payments to promote them. Nvidia
19 July 2025
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AI Upheaval: 48 Hours of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Bets & Backlash (July 18–19, 2025)

AI Upheaval: 48 Hours of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Bets & Backlash (July 18–19, 2025)

OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Agent on July 18–19, 2025, a mode that lets the chatbot act on the user’s behalf using a virtual browser and plugins like Gmail and GitHub to perform multi-step tasks with user permission. AWS unveiled AgentCore at its NY Summit, a toolkit for enterprises to build and deploy custom AI agents at scale, featuring seven core agent services and an AI Agents Marketplace, plus a $100 million fund for agentic AI startups. Meta Platforms formed Superintelligence Labs and vowed to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in AI, while carrying out a mass talent recruitment including
19 July 2025
2025’s Top Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers – Latest Innovations and 2026 Trends

2025’s Top Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers – Latest Innovations and 2026 Trends

Apple Watch Series 10 (2024) features a 1.9-inch OLED display, ECG, SpO₂, skin-temperature sensing, and about 18 hours of battery life, with Series 11 rumored for fall 2025 to bring major innovations such as a possible Watch X design and micro‑LED display. Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 (2025) comes in 41mm and 45mm sizes, adds the Antioxidant Index and Bedtime Guidance, uses a faster 3nm Exynos W930 chip, and starts at $349 for the 41mm Bluetooth model. Samsung Galaxy Ring launched in 2025 as a titanium smart ring with heart-rate, motion, and skin-temperature sensors and up to seven days of battery
19 July 2025
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2025–2026 Hi-Fi & Home Audio Gear Showdown: Amplifiers, Speakers & Soundbars Unveiled

2025–2026 Hi-Fi & Home Audio Gear Showdown: Amplifiers, Speakers & Soundbars Unveiled

Denon’s AVR-A1H is a 15-channel flagship AV receiver weighing about 70 pounds, delivering 150 W per channel with four independent sub outputs and 9.4.6 Dolby Atmos support. Marantz launched the CINEMA Series AV receivers, including the 9×110 W Cinema 50 and 11-channel Cinema 40, with 8K HDMI 2.1, Dirac Live upgradeability, and HDAM amplification. Yamaha’s flagship Aventage RX-A8A is an 11.2-channel AV receiver. Sony’s STR-AZ7000ES is a 13.2-channel 8K-capable AV receiver, built on a rugged steel chassis and introducing 360 Spatial Sound Mapping in its ES lineup. KEF LS60 Wireless speakers combine four force-canceling Uni-Core woofers, a Uni-Q driver array,
19 July 2025
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Future-Proof Your Home Theater: 2025-2026 TVs & Streamers Showdown

Future-Proof Your Home Theater: 2025-2026 TVs & Streamers Showdown

LG G5 OLED (2025) is part of the OLED evo line, features a four-stack panel, up to 165Hz refresh, Alpha 9 Gen8 processor, HDMI 2.1, and comes in 55″–97″ sizes with the 55″ model launched around $2,499. Samsung S95F OLED (2025) delivers up to 2,000 nits peak brightness, a 165Hz panel, four HDMI 2.1 ports, a matte anti-glare screen, and uses the Neo Quantum processor (NQ4 AI Gen3) with Vision AI, with sizes 55″–83″ and no Dolby Vision. Sony Bravia 8 II (2025) is a flagship QD-OLED with ~25% higher peak brightness than the A95L, 55″–77″ sizes, Cognitive XR processor,
19 July 2025
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2025 Wireless Audio Showdown: Hottest New Earbuds & Headphones (and 2026’s Next Big Things)

2025 Wireless Audio Showdown: Hottest New Earbuds & Headphones (and 2026’s Next Big Things)

Sony WH-1000XM6 over-ear headphones, launched mid-2024 and priced around $449, feature a 12-microphone adaptive ANC system, about 30 hours of battery with ANC, a foldable design, a 30mm carbon-fiber Soft Edge driver, LDAC, Bluetooth LE Audio with Auracast, and Speak-To-Chat. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones introduce Bose Immersive Audio with head tracking, offer up to 24 hours of battery with Immersive Audio off (about 18 hours with it on), have a $429 MSRP, and provide customizable ANC with a microphone array. Apple AirPods Max remain a premium over-ear option at $549 and 385 g, featuring Spatial Audio with dynamic head tracking
19 July 2025
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XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

Apple Vision Pro, unveiled in 2023 and shipping in early 2024, uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays totaling 23 million pixels, is powered by an M2 chip plus a custom R1 processor, offers eye and hand tracking with about 12 ms passthrough latency, an external battery delivering around 2 hours, and starts at $3,499 in the US. Meta Quest 3, released in October 2023, is a standalone VR/MR headset priced at $499 for 128GB, with 2064×2208 per-eye LCD (~25 pixels per degree), ~110° field of view, 6DoF inside-out tracking, full-color passthrough, and pancake optics that are 40% thinner. Microsoft HoloLens 2,
19 July 2025
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2025’s Hottest Phones Face Off: Flagship vs. Budget (and Feature Phones) and What’s Coming in 2026

2025’s Hottest Phones Face Off: Flagship vs. Budget (and Feature Phones) and What’s Coming in 2026

In 2025 flagship smartphones use premium materials—Apple’s Pro iPhones with titanium alloy frames and Gorilla Glass Victus 2/3—while foldables such as Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 showcase improved Ultra-Thin Glass hinges. Displays in 2025 feature OLED panels with 120Hz LTPO refresh rates, QHD+ resolution on many flagships, and brightness over 1,500 nits, with foldables refining durability and crease handling. Performance centers on 3nm/4nm chips like Apple A18 Bionic (~3nm, 10+ billion transistors) and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with RAM up to 16GB on top models and 6–8GB on mid-rangers. Android and iOS remain dominant, with Android
19 July 2025
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Latest Laptops, Ultrabooks & 2-in-1s (2025–2026): In-Depth Comparison

Latest Laptops, Ultrabooks & 2-in-1s (2025–2026): In-Depth Comparison

The Apple MacBook Air 13″ (M4, 2025) delivers a fanless design with about 15 hours of battery life and starts at around $999. The Dell XPS 13 (2025) uses Intel 14th-gen Core Ultra (or ARM Snapdragon X Elite), features a 13.4″ 3K OLED display, and offers up to ~24 hours of battery life. The Microsoft Surface Laptop 13.8″ (7th Edition, 2025) runs on Snapdragon X Elite and achieves roughly 12–15 hours of all‑day battery life with a fanless design. The HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) uses an Intel Core i7-1360P with a 13.5″ OLED 3:2 display and around 10 hours
19 July 2025
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2025-2026 Tablet & E-Reader Showdown: iPads, Galaxy Tabs, Kindles & More Compared

2025-2026 Tablet & E-Reader Showdown: iPads, Galaxy Tabs, Kindles & More Compared

The 2025 iPad (11th Generation) was refreshed in March 2025 with a faster A16 Bionic chip, 128 GB base storage, USB-C, an 11″ Liquid Retina display, and a price around $349. The iPad Pro (11-inch and 13-inch, 2024) received a late-2024 update with an M3/M4 chip, an Ultra Retina OLED display, up to 16 GB RAM and 2 TB storage, and the Apple Pencil Pro with hover plus a redesigned Magic Keyboard with a larger trackpad; starting prices are $999 for the 11″ and $1299 for the 13″. The iPad Air (6th Gen, 2024) comes in 11″ and 13″ sizes
19 July 2025
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Ultimate 2025-2026 Desktop PC & All-in-One Showdown: Top Picks for Every User

Ultimate 2025-2026 Desktop PC & All-in-One Showdown: Top Picks for Every User

In 2025 Dell retired its XPS, Inspiron, and OptiPlex brands in favor of a three‑tier “good‑better‑best” lineup: Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max. HP unified its consumer PCs under the Omni branding in 2025, introducing OmniDesk desktops, OmniBook laptops, and OmniStudio all‑in‑ones. Apple’s Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 2023) is a compact 3.7L system with up to 128GB RAM and a 60‑core GPU, while the Mac Pro (2023) offers 7 PCIe slots but cannot upgrade its GPU. At CES 2025 NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 features 92 billion transistors and 32GB of GDDR7 memory with DLSS 4, while top gaming desktops
19 July 2025
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AI Revolution: 48 Hours of Breakthroughs, Battles, and Backlash (July 17–18, 2025)

AI Revolution: 48 Hours of Breakthroughs, Battles, and Backlash (July 17–18, 2025)

On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, introducing an agent mode that can take actions such as booking reservations, shopping, or drafting documents and can connect to apps like Gmail and GitHub, with safeguards that the system will always ask for user confirmation before major actions and can be interrupted. Starting immediately, subscribers to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Team plans can activate this agent mode. At the AWS Summit New York on July 17, Amazon announced Bedrock AgentCore, a platform with seven core services to enable autonomous AI agents, plus an AI Agents & Tools marketplace and a $100
18 July 2025
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Robotaxis, Rocket Launches, and Record Profits – Tech Highlights (July 17–18, 2025)

Robotaxis, Rocket Launches, and Record Profits – Tech Highlights (July 17–18, 2025)

Uber to deploy 20,000 robotaxis across the United States starting in 2026, with a $300 million investment in Lucid Motors and a partnership with Nuro to use Lucid Gravity SUVs with Nuro’s autonomous driving system. Fortinet FortiWeb faced a critical SQL injection flaw, CVE-2025-25257, compromising at least 49 instances as of July 17. Australian medical tech firm Compumedics disclosed a ransomware breach exposing more than 320,000 patient records across three countries. Google rushed out a patch for the fifth Chrome zero-day vulnerability of 2025. SpaceX launched 24 Amazon Kuiper satellites from Cape Canaveral on July 17, the third Kuiper deployment,
18 July 2025
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Battle of the Pro Tablets: Apple M2 iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 11 – Which Reigns Supreme?

Battle of the Pro Tablets: Apple M2 iPad Pro vs Microsoft Surface Pro 11 – Which Reigns Supreme?

The iPad Pro 12.9″ (M2, 2022) uses an 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. Its 12.9″ display uses mini-LED Liquid Retina XDR with 2732×2048 resolution, 120Hz ProMotion, and up to 1600 nits peak HDR brightness. The Surface Pro 11 (13″, 2024) is powered by Snapdragon X Plus (10-core) or X Elite (12-core) ARM chips, with a base 13″ PixelSense Flow LCD 2880×1920 at 120Hz and an OLED option on higher configurations. Base RAM/storage: iPad Pro starts with 8 GB RAM and 128 GB storage (16 GB RAM on 1 TB/2 TB models, up to 2 TB storage);
18 July 2025
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Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: In-Depth Comparison and Review 2025

Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: In-Depth Comparison and Review 2025

Apple Vision Pro was announced in mid-2023 and began shipping in early 2024 at $3,499 for 256GB (and $3,899 for 1TB). Meta Quest 3 launched in October 2023 worldwide, with a starting price of $499 for 128GB and $649 for 512GB. The Vision Pro headset weighs about 600–650 g and uses an external 353 g battery, while the Quest 3 headset weighs about 515 g. Vision Pro uses dual micro-OLED displays totaling about 23 million pixels (~4K per eye) with an approximate per-eye resolution of 3660×3200, whereas Quest 3 uses a 4K+-class LCD with 2064×2208 per eye. Vision Pro’s field
18 July 2025
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Apple AirPods Max vs Sony WH-1000XM6: Flagship Headphones Face-off (2025 Comparison)

Apple AirPods Max vs Sony WH-1000XM6: Flagship Headphones Face-off (2025 Comparison)

AirPods Max weighs about 385–386 grams with a stainless steel headband and anodized aluminum ear cups, while Sony WH-1000XM6 weighs about 250 grams with a plastic, memory-foam design. The Sony WH-1000XM6 adds a folding hinge for compact travel, whereas the AirPods Max has no hinge and uses a minimal Smart Case. AirPods Max uses 40 mm custom dynamic drivers, while Sony WH-1000XM6 uses 30 mm drivers. AirPods Max supports spatial audio with dynamic head tracking on Apple devices, while Sony WH-1000XM6 offers 360 Reality Audio with head tracking on supported services. AirPods Max uses AAC (plus SBC) with no LDAC
18 July 2025
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Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro vs. AirPods, Sony, Bose: Ultimate Earbud Showdown

True Wireless Earbuds in 2025: Comprehensive Comparison of Top Models, Trends & Features

– In 2024, over 455 million smart personal audio devices were shipped, including 331.6 million true wireless earbuds. – AI-enhanced adaptive ANC uses multimodal sensors to adjust noise cancellation and EQ in real time, including Conversation Detection (Google) and Speak-to-Chat (Sony) examples. – Lossless wireless audio is advancing via Qualcomm Snapdragon Sound with aptX Lossless, and Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 4 adds aptX Lossless for 16-bit/44.1kHz on compatible phones. – Spatial audio with head-tracking is now common across brands, including Sony, Bose, Samsung, Jabra, and Google Pixel Buds Pro 2. – 2025 earbuds increasingly include biometric sensors for metrics like
18 July 2025
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iPhone 17 Pro Max vs. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: Ultimate Flagship Showdown

iPhone 17 Pro Max vs. Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra: Ultimate Flagship Showdown

iPhone 17 Pro Max will use a 6.9-inch LTPO OLED with ProMotion 120Hz, a ~2796×1290 resolution, up to ~2000 nits brightness, and a horizontal camera bar across the back. Galaxy S26 Ultra will feature a 6.89-inch Dynamic AMOLED LTPO 120Hz display with ~3080×1440 (QHD+) resolution and 2200–2500 nits peak brightness, plus slim bezels and a punch-hole front camera. iPhone 17 Pro Max is rumored to use the A19 Pro (3nm) with about 12 GB of RAM and storage options from 256 GB to 1 TB, with no microSD expansion. Galaxy S26 Ultra is expected to run a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8
18 July 2025
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Understanding How AI Works in 2025: Core Concepts, Breakthroughs, and Societal Impact

Understanding How AI Works in 2025: Core Concepts, Breakthroughs, and Societal Impact

By 2023, the U.S. FDA had approved 223 AI-powered medical devices, up from 6 in 2015. GPT-4, released in 2023, is described as having over 100 trillion parameters and powers ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” enabling self-attention and the training of very large models. Diffusion models such as DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney, introduced in 2022–2023, revolutionized image generation. AlphaFold solved the protein folding problem in 2021, and by 2025 its database provides structures for nearly all catalogued proteins. By 2025, 78% of organizations report using AI
18 July 2025
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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on July 17, 2025, turning ChatGPT into a personal AI assistant capable of autonomously handling multi-step tasks. The agent uses a built-in “virtual computer” to browse the web, fill forms, run code, and produce Excel spreadsheets or PowerPoint presentations on the user’s behalf. It can manage schedules and plans by checking your calendar and finding free times to reserve tables via OpenTable. It can perform online research and compile concise reports or analyses, including trend summaries. It can shop online, compare options with criteria you specify, and place orders with your permission. It can generate editable
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Stock Market Today

Home Depot stock price: jobs, inflation and a Feb. 24 earnings test loom

Home Depot stock price: jobs, inflation and a Feb. 24 earnings test loom

7 February 2026
Home Depot shares rose 0.7% to $385.15 Friday, trading between $379.10 and $386.37. Investors await a delayed U.S. jobs report Wednesday and CPI data Friday, both postponed by a brief government shutdown. Home Depot reports fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 24. The Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time.
JPMorgan stock price jumps 4% into weekend as Wall Street braces for a busy data week

JPMorgan stock price jumps 4% into weekend as Wall Street braces for a busy data week

7 February 2026
JPMorgan shares rose 3.95% to $322.40 Friday, outpacing other major banks as U.S. stocks rallied and the Dow closed above 50,000 for the first time. The bank recently completed a $3 billion subordinated notes offering. Investors are watching for delayed U.S. jobs data and inflation figures next week, ahead of JPMorgan’s Feb. 23 company update.
AbbVie stock price: ABBV ends week near $223 after earnings swing — what to watch next

AbbVie stock price: ABBV ends week near $223 after earnings swing — what to watch next

7 February 2026
AbbVie shares rose 2% to $223.43 Friday, capping a volatile week marked by earnings and drug sales scrutiny. Moody’s upgraded AbbVie’s credit rating to A2, citing strong performance in immunology and neuroscience. Investors remain focused on Skyrizi and Rinvoq growth amid rising competition and recent regulatory filings. Trading volume stayed below average, with the stock still 9% off its 52-week high.
SK hynix stock price slips into Monday after S&P upgrade, tech selloff

SK hynix stock price slips into Monday after S&P upgrade, tech selloff

7 February 2026
SK hynix shares closed at 839,000 won, down 0.36% Friday and 8% for the week, as tech stocks retreated across Asia. S&P Global Ratings upgraded the chipmaker to “BBB+” with a positive outlook, citing strong HBM sales. The KOSPI fell 1.4% Friday, ending a six-week winning streak. Traders await Monday’s Seoul open for signs of further tech weakness.
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