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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.

The Ultimate Flagship Showdown: iPhone 16 Pro Max vs iPhone 15 Pro Max vs iPhone 14 Pro Max vs Galaxy S25 Ultra

The Ultimate Flagship Showdown: iPhone 16 Pro Max vs iPhone 15 Pro Max vs iPhone 14 Pro Max vs Galaxy S25 Ultra

The iPhone 16 Pro Max uses a brushed Grade 5 titanium frame, weighs about 227g, and is Apple’s largest phone yet with a 6.9-inch display. It has a 6.9-inch 1320×2868 OLED (460 ppi) with 2,000-nit peak brightness and 1,600-nit HDR brightness, plus the Dynamic Island notch. The iPhone 16 Pro Max camera setup includes a 48MP main sensor (24mm f/1.78), a 48MP ultrawide (13mm f/2.2), and a 12MP 5× telephoto (120mm) with Camera Control hardware. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra uses a 200MP main camera and dual telephotos with 3× and 5× optical zoom, plus a 50MP sensor for the 5×
15 July 2025
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MacBook Air M4 (2025) vs the World: Does Apple’s Latest Air Outshine Dell, HP, Surface & Lenovo?

MacBook Air M4 (2025) vs the World: Does Apple’s Latest Air Outshine Dell, HP, Surface & Lenovo?

MacBook Air M4 (2025) uses a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU with a Geekbench 6 multi-core score of 14,849. Base RAM is 16GB, doubled from 8GB in the prior generation. It can drive up to two external 6K displays simultaneously, in addition to the built-in screen. Apple rates the Air M4 for up to 18 hours of battery life, with LaptopMag testing the 13-inch model at 15 hours 30 minutes. The display is a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina LCD at 2560×1664 resolution, 500 nits, 60 Hz, with no OLED option. The 13-inch model is 0.44 inches thick and about 2.7 pounds,
15 July 2025
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NVIDIA 2025: Dominating the AI Boom – Company Overview, Key Segments, Competition, and Future Outlook

Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Breakthrough: NVDA Surges on China Chip Deal – What Experts Are Saying

On July 11, 2025, Nvidia closed above a $4 trillion market cap, the first company ever to do so. On July 14, 2025, Nvidia closed at $164.07, down 0.5%, after trading between $162.02 and $165.49 intraday. Nvidia was up about 22% year-to-date and 27% year-over-year as of July 14–15, 2025. On July 15, 2025, Nvidia surged over 5% in pre-market trading to around $172 after news the U.S. would allow export licenses for its H20 AI GPUs to China. At a $4 trillion valuation, Nvidia accounts for roughly 7.5% of the entire S&P 500 by itself. Nvidia unveiled a China-tailored
15 July 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Secret Satellite Launches, Mega‑Mergers & Cosmic Breakthroughs (July 14–15, 2025 Roundup)

Space Race Heats Up: Secret Satellite Launches, Mega‑Mergers & Cosmic Breakthroughs (July 14–15, 2025 Roundup)

Commercial Space & Satellite Industry Updates Government & Space Agency Highlights Military & National Security Space Developments Space Science & Exploration Breakthroughs Space Policy & International Developments Sources: Spaceflight Now spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com nasaspaceflight.com nasaspaceflight.com nasaspaceflight.com; Reuters reuters.com reuters.com reuters.com; SpaceNews spacenews.com spacepolicyonline.com spacepolicyonline.com; NASASpaceflight nasaspaceflight.com nasaspaceflight.com; Reuters/AP reuters.com apnews.com; NASA/ESA releases science.nasa.govsciencedaily.com.
15 July 2025
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Tariffs, Tesla and a Twitter Hack: Top Tech News from July 14–15, 2025

Tariffs, Tesla and a Twitter Hack: Top Tech News from July 14–15, 2025

Broadcom scrapped plans to invest in a Spain microchip factory valued at up to $1 billion, derailing talks backed by €12 billion in EU recovery funds. Ericsson posted Q2 2025 adjusted operating profit of 7.0 billion kronor, beating a 6.1 billion forecast, but warned US tariffs could squeeze margins and may force production shifts. Tesla opened its first showroom in Mumbai, India, with the Model Y priced around ₹5.8 million ($70,000) due to a near-100% import duty, and a second showroom is planned for Delhi. Global EV sales rose 24% year-on-year in June, with China up 28% and Europe up
15 July 2025
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Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

Trump’s $70 B AI Bet, Zuckerberg’s Manhattan-Sized Superclusters & Musk’s Bot Blunder – AI News Roundup (July 14–15, 2025)

OpenAI paused the release of an upcoming open-source AI model indefinitely due to safety concerns, with Sam Altman warning that weights once released can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model launched on July 14, 2025, claimed to outperform GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Elon Musk’s xAI rolled out Grok 4, a multimodal chatbot touted as the world’s smartest AI that can browse the web and run code, with SpaceX investing $2 billion as part of a $5 billion round and Grok slated to power Starlink support and Tesla’s Optimus robots. Hugging Face released
15 July 2025
Samsung Galaxy S25 FE: Latest Leaks Reveal a Surprising Upgrade – All Specs, Rumors & Release Info

Samsung Galaxy S25 FE: Latest Leaks Reveal a Surprising Upgrade – All Specs, Rumors & Release Info

Launch is expected in fall 2025, with reports pointing to September or October 2025 and the phone hitting shelves by October or November. Its design is said to be nearly identical to the S24 FE and S25 base model, with dimensions 161.4 x 76.6 x 7.4 mm and a thickness of 7.4 mm. The S25 FE is expected to use a 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display at 1080×2400 resolution with 120 Hz adaptive refresh rate and HDR10+ support, and slimmer bezels from a flexible OLED panel. Most leaks point to the Exynos 2400e processor (4 nm, octa-core with Xclipse GPU)
15 July 2025
Cybersecurity Mayhem: Major Hacks, Data Breaches & Bold Defenses – Roundup (July 14, 2025)

Cybersecurity Mayhem: Major Hacks, Data Breaches & Bold Defenses – Roundup (July 14, 2025)

Security analysts reported a 133% rise in Iranian state-sponsored attacks through May–June 2025, with Nozomi Networks tracking 28 incidents across six APT groups (MuddyWater, APT33, OilRig, CyberAvengers, Fox Kitten, Homeland Justice), and MuddyWater alone carrying out five breaches targeting OT/ICS. A joint alert by CISA, the FBI, NSA and DoD warned Iranian hackers may target defense, water, and aviation firms amid rising Middle East tensions. In Europe, Chinese state-backed hackers exploited a zero-day in Ivanti VPN appliances to infiltrate French government networks, with ANSSI linking the operation to the UNC5174 group. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the takedown of
15 July 2025
AI Supremacy, Space Odyssey & Tech Shakeups: The Biggest Tech News of July 2025

AI Supremacy, Space Odyssey & Tech Shakeups: The Biggest Tech News of July 2025

In July 2025, Nvidia briefly surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the world’s first company to reach a $4T valuation. In July 2025, Google DeepMind signed a $2.4 billion deal to license Windsurf technology after OpenAI’s $3 billion Windsurf bid collapsed, an acqui-hire boosting Project Gemini. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that matches or outperforms top closed models on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Baidu open-sourced ERNIE 4.5, a model family up to 424 billion parameters, claiming it rivals top Western models at half the size. On July 2, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 achieved its 500th orbital
15 July 2025
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 – Samsung’s Ultra-Thin Foldable Redefines the Game

Samsung’s Jam-Packed July 2025: Foldable Frenzy, Chip Woes & Legal Showdowns

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold7, which is 10% lighter and 26% thinner than its predecessor, with a 7.6-inch main display, a 200MP main camera, and a Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset priced at $1,999. The Galaxy Z Flip7 features a 4.1-inch cover screen, a 6.9-inch internal display, a tougher hinge, and an Exynos 2500 processor, giving it a “more like a Galaxy S25 Ultra” feel. Samsung introduced the Galaxy Z Flip7 FE, the first Fan Edition foldable, with the same 6.7-inch internal and 3.4-inch cover displays, 4,000mAh battery, dual cameras, 8GB RAM, and an Exynos 2400, priced at $899. Samsung
15 July 2025
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Tech Titans Clash: AI Superclusters, $4 Trillion Milestone & Prime Day Records (July 14 2025)

Tech Titans Clash: AI Superclusters, $4 Trillion Milestone & Prime Day Records (July 14 2025)

Meta’s AI power play: the first mega-cluster, Prometheus, comes online in 2026, with a second (Hyperion) scaling to 5 gigawatts later, and Zuckerberg boasts that one cluster covers a significant part of Manhattan’s footprint. Zuckerberg personally leads a “talent raid” to hire top engineers after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, and in 2025 Meta raises capital expenditures to $64–72 billion. Meta’s crackdown on unoriginal content includes removing about 10 million imposter profiles and penalizing over 500,000 accounts, while testing a feature to link duplicates to the original creator. Meta faces an $8 billion shareholder lawsuit in Delaware Chancery
15 July 2025
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AI Tool Bonanza: 7 New AI Releases & Updates on July 14, 2025 You Need to Know

AI Tool Bonanza: 7 New AI Releases & Updates on July 14, 2025 You Need to Know

Perplexity’s Comet is a Chromium-based AI browser available today to Perplexity Max subscribers and waitlisted users, with Windows and macOS support and mobile versions in development. Comet’s AI automation sidebar can automatically compare shipping options across online stores to find the fastest shipping or best return policies. xAI’s Grok 4 is now accessible to individual SuperGrok and Premium+ subscribers and via the xAI API, with live web search and the ability to run code. Grok 4 features advanced multi-modal understanding and a powerful reinforcement-learning backbone on a 200,000-GPU supercomputer, plus a new “Grok 4 Heavy” top-tier setting. Hugging Face’s SmolLM3
15 July 2025
AI Stocks Soar as Nvidia Hits $4T, Apple Feels the Heat, and Musk Doubles Down – Daily Roundup

AI Stocks Soar as Nvidia Hits $4T, Apple Feels the Heat, and Musk Doubles Down – Daily Roundup

Nvidia briefly hit a $4 trillion market capitalization last week, with shares rising to an all-time high of $164.42. Nvidia’s value has roughly tripled in about a year after first crossing $1 trillion in mid-2023. Microsoft closed Monday at $503.51 as part of the AI rally lifting the Magnificent 7. Apple is down about 16% year-to-date, erasing more than $630 billion in market value and prompting talk of a bolder AI strategy, including rumors of Perplexity AI. Meta Platforms announced plans to spend hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure, with Prometheus online in 2026 and Hyperion scaling to 5 GW,
14 July 2025
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AI Shake-Up: Pentagon’s $200M Contracts, Meta’s Mega Investment, and an Open-Source AI Outsmarting GPT-4

AI Shake-Up: Pentagon’s $200M Contracts, Meta’s Mega Investment, and an Open-Source AI Outsmarting GPT-4

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded up to $200 million contracts to four AI firms: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI. The contracts fund development of agentic AI systems to tackle critical national security challenges, according to DoD official Doug Matty. Musk’s Grok chatbot will be adapted for government use as part of a new “Grok for Government” suite under the DoD deal. President Trump announced plans to invest $70 billion in AI and energy initiatives to be unveiled on July 14 at a Pittsburgh innovation summit. The plan includes funding for new data centers and power grid upgrades to support
14 July 2025
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Google Gemini AI: July 2025 Updates and Developments

Google Gemini AI: July 2025 Updates and Developments

In July 2025, Sameer Samat confirmed that ChromeOS and Android would merge into a single platform, with Android serving as the base for Gemini-powered AI across devices. By early 2025 Google had launched Gemini 2.5 Pro as its most powerful model at the time, with a larger Gemini Ultra planned for broader release later in 2025. The ChromeOS–Android unification is intended to let Gemini AI features run system-wide, enabling consistent AI experiences across phones, tablets, and laptops. Gemini Live on foldables debuted in July 2025, allowing continuous AI assistance on foldable phones and access from the Galaxy Z Flip external
14 July 2025
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Smartwatch Showdown 2025: Top Models Compared, New Features, and Surprising User Insights

Smartwatch Showdown 2025: Top Models Compared, New Features, and Surprising User Insights

In 2024, global smartwatch shipments fell about 7% year-over-year, the first decline for the category, with Apple down about 19% and China becoming the largest single market. The Apple Watch Series 9, released in September 2023, runs watchOS 10 on a new S9 SiP with on-device Siri and a brighter 2000-nit display, includes ECG, SpO2, skin temperature, but lasts about 18 hours per charge. The Apple Watch Ultra 2, launched in 2023, delivers about 36 hours of normal battery life (up to 72 hours in Low Power Mode) with a 3000-nit display and titanium case. Samsung Galaxy Watch6 (2023) uses
14 July 2025
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Nvidia’s Blockbuster July 2025: $4 Trillion Milestone, New Chips, and Global AI Power Plays

Nvidia’s Blockbuster July 2025: $4 Trillion Milestone, New Chips, and Global AI Power Plays

Nvidia briefly reached a $4 trillion market value in July 2025, with shares peaking at $164.42 on July 9 and closing that day at about a $3.97 trillion market cap. Nvidia guided about $45 billion in quarterly revenue for Q2 FY2026 (the quarter ending July). Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU with the Blackwell architecture, 2,560 CUDA cores and 8GB GDDR6, starting at $249 and delivering roughly 60% higher traditional graphics performance and up to 4× faster ray tracing with DLSS 4 AI upscaling. GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPUs began shipping in early July, with notebooks starting at
14 July 2025
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Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro & Pixel 10a – Rumors, Leaks and Everything We Know

Google Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro & Pixel 10a – Rumors, Leaks and Everything We Know

The Pixel 10 family will include four models: Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with codenames Frankel, Blazer, Mustang, and Rango. The launch is expected at a Made by Google event on August 20, 2025, with retail availability around August 28, 2025, marking the 10th Pixel anniversary. Tensor G5 is built on TSMC’s 3nm process (N3E) and is rumored to be Google’s first in-house design, featuring five Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, one Cortex-X4 core, a 1.1 GHz IMG GPU, and about 18 TOPS INT8 AI performance. The Pixel 10 base marks
14 July 2025
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Secret SpaceX Launch, Starlink Triumphs, and Solar Storm Warnings – Space News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

Secret SpaceX Launch, Starlink Triumphs, and Solar Storm Warnings – Space News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

SpaceX launched a secret Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral on July 13, 2025 at 1:04 a.m. EDT carrying Israel’s Dror-1 satellite, described as a $200 million “smartphone in space” and marking Falcon 9’s 500th flight with the booster’s 13th successful landing on a droneship. China prepared the Tianzhou-9 cargo mission to Tiangong by rolling out a Long March-7 Y10 on July 12, aiming to deliver about 6.5 tons of supplies, two new-generation spacesuits rated for 20 spacewalks each, and a backup Long March-7 rocket on standby. Rocket Lab conducted a suborbital HASTE mission from Wallops Island on July 12
14 July 2025
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OpenAI Hits Pause, Musk’s Bot Blunders, and 1 Million Robots – AI News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

OpenAI Hits Pause, Musk’s Bot Blunders, and 1 Million Robots – AI News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

On July 13, 2025, OpenAI indefinitely postponed the release of its open-weight model to conduct further safety tests, noting weights cannot be pulled back once released. On the same day, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks and is optimized for agentic tasks. Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok 4 and SpaceX committed $2 billion as part of a $5 billion financing round to xAI, with Grok touted as the world’s smartest AI and already powering Starlink support and planned to integrate with Tesla’s Optimus. Google’s DeepMind licensed Windsurf’s
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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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