Today: 1 May 2026

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.

Can Tech Cure Insomnia? Exploring the Gadgets That Promise the Best Sleep of Your Life

Can Tech Cure Insomnia? Exploring the Gadgets That Promise the Best Sleep of Your Life

The global sleep tech devices market exceeded $21 billion in 2023 and is expanding quickly. In 2024, Samsung and Apple watches received FDA approval for sleep apnea detection, while the Oura Ring Generation 4 added research-grade sensors. Modius Sleep, cleared by the FDA in late 2024, showed 95% sleep improvement in a clinical trial for chronic insomnia. SleepioRx gained FDA clearance in August 2024 as a prescription digital CBT-I therapy.
30 July 2025
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Why Your Next TV Might Be a Projector: What You Need to Know Before You Buy

Why Your Next TV Might Be a Projector: What You Need to Know Before You Buy

A midrange projector and screen in 2025 can produce a 120-inch image for about $2,000, undercutting most 98-inch LED TVs. Models like the Epson LS12000 and BenQ X3100i offer native 4K and HDR, while high-end projectors such as JVC's NZ9 use 8K e-shift upscaling but no native 8K chips. Laser and LED light sources now dominate, with lifespans over 20,000 hours. Many 2025 projectors feature built-in Android TV and Netflix certification.
29 July 2025
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The Smart Kitchen Revolution: Top Devices, Brands & Trends in 2024–2025

The Smart Kitchen Revolution: Top Devices, Brands & Trends in 2024–2025

The global smart kitchen appliance market is projected to reach $14.4 billion by 2030, up from $5.3 billion in 2023. At CES 2025, Hisense introduced the PureFlat 4-Door Smart Fridge with DishDesigner AI and a FreshVault vacuum drawer. Samsung and LG launched fridges with AI cameras for food recognition and inventory tracking. Bosch, GE, and Samsung expanded smart dishwasher lines, while Tovala and Thermomix unveiled new smart ovens.
29 July 2025
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Your Next Rooftop Will Be a Power Plant. Rooftop Energy Technologies: Present and Future Innovations.

Your Next Rooftop Will Be a Power Plant. Rooftop Energy Technologies: Present and Future Innovations.

Solar PV costs dropped about 90% in the past decade. Over 4 million US homes had solar panels by early 2024, with California mandating solar on most new homes from 2023. Oxford PV shipped its first commercial perovskite-silicon tandem panels in 2024, reaching 24.5% efficiency. About 28% of new US residential solar installs included battery storage in 2024, up from under 12% in 2023.
29 July 2025
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Beyond Lithium: The Future EV Batteries That Deliver 932 Miles of Range and Charge in Just 5 Minutes

Beyond Lithium: The Future EV Batteries That Deliver 932 Miles of Range and Charge in Just 5 Minutes

CATL’s Shenxing battery adds 520 km in 5 minutes using a 1.3 MW charger. Mercedes-Benz will use Sila’s silicon-anode cells for a 20% energy density boost in the electric G-Class. Panasonic opened a 32 GWh/year Kansas plant, shipping 19 billion Li-ion cells by 2025. QuantumScape advanced 24-layer solid-state cells, with VW’s PowerCo investing $131 million in expanded production.
29 July 2025
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Is Your Job Safe from AI? Careers and Skills That Will Survive the Machine Revolution

Is Your Job Safe from AI? Careers and Skills That Will Survive the Machine Revolution

AI could disrupt up to 300 million jobs worldwide in the coming years, affecting about 25% of all work activities. Clerical, administrative, manufacturing, and customer service roles face the highest risk, while healthcare, skilled trades, creative arts, education, and technology development remain relatively safe. Self-driving trucks threaten over 300,000 U.S. trucking jobs. Oxford Economics projects up to 20 million manufacturing jobs lost by 2030.
29 July 2025
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The Sci‑Fi See‑Through TV Revolution – Transparent TVs of 2025 and Futuristic Models Coming in 2026

The Sci‑Fi See‑Through TV Revolution – Transparent TVs of 2025 and Futuristic Models Coming in 2026

LG launched its 77-inch transparent OLED T TV in late 2024, priced at $60,000 in the US and €50,000 in Europe, featuring wireless 4K video and 40% transparency. Samsung showed transparent MicroLED prototypes at CES 2024 but gave no release date. Xiaomi’s 55-inch transparent OLED debuted in 2020 with 1080p resolution. Transparent TVs remain limited in brightness and contrast due to their see-through design.
29 July 2025
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Rings of the Future: Top Smart Rings of 2025 (and What’s Coming in 2026)

Rings of the Future: Top Smart Rings of 2025 (and What’s Coming in 2026)

Samsung Galaxy Ring launches at $399 with no subscription, offering AI-powered Energy Score and sleep coaching for Android users. Oura Ring 4 costs $349 plus $5.99/month, with 6–8 days battery and advanced sleep tracking. Noise Luna Ring 2, priced at $300, claims up to 30 days battery with charging case and launches globally in March 2025. Prevention Circul+ delivers FDA-approved SpO2 and ECG but only 16 hours battery.
29 July 2025
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Beyond ChatGPT: The Next Wave of AI Can See, Hear, and Create Worlds

Beyond ChatGPT: The Next Wave of AI Can See, Hear, and Create Worlds

OpenAI launched GPT-4o in May 2024, offering GPT-4-level multimodal performance at half the cost and increased speed. Google DeepMind’s Gemini and Genie 2, Meta’s AudioCraft and MovieGen, and OpenAI’s Sora and Runway Gen-2 have expanded AI capabilities to video, audio, and 3D environments. Apple’s Vision Pro debuted in 2024 with real-time spatial computing. Training relies on massive multimodal datasets and supercomputing partnerships.
29 July 2025
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AI Just Diagnosed You—Now What? The Rise of Superhuman Doctors Made of Code

AI Just Diagnosed You—Now What? The Rise of Superhuman Doctors Made of Code

An AI chatbot diagnosed a U.S. boy’s chronic pain as spina bifida occulta after 17 doctors failed; a specialist confirmed the result. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO correctly diagnosed 85% of nearly 300 complex cases, far surpassing physicians. By October 2024, the FDA had cleared over 1,000 AI medical devices, mainly for radiology, but no generative AI system had full approval as a medical device.
29 July 2025
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I Replaced Google Search with AI for a Week — Here’s What Really Happened

I Replaced Google Search with AI for a Week — Here’s What Really Happened

AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Bing Chat, and Perplexity provided single, cited answers and no ads, streamlining tasks such as planning outings and answering quick questions. Google outperformed AI on breaking news and niche technical issues, surfacing real-time updates and obscure forum posts. AI struggled with paywalled content, offering summaries but not full articles. Usage data shows 2.5 billion daily ChatGPT prompts versus 14 billion Google searches.
29 July 2025
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This New Solar Panel Tech Works Even at Night

This New Solar Panel Tech Works Even at Night

In 2022, UNSW Sydney generated nanowatt-scale power from a thermoradiative diode using HgCdTe, while Stanford retrofitted solar panels to achieve 50 mW/m² at night. By 2024, new materials pushed lab outputs toward tens of W/m², though real-world field data remain far lower and highly climate-dependent. A U.S. Air Force–funded UNSW project plans to test night-solar diodes in orbit by 2025–26.
29 July 2025
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Kuala Lumpur Real Estate 2025: Surprising Trends, Price Shifts & Bold Outlook

Kuala Lumpur Real Estate 2025: Surprising Trends, Price Shifts & Bold Outlook

Kuala Lumpur housing completions jumped 42.5% in 2024 to 10,712 units, while new starts rose 26%. Average home value in KL reached RM794,000 (US$180,000) at year-end, the highest in Malaysia. The Merdeka 118 tower, now the country’s tallest at 678.9 meters, opened its observation deck in late 2024. KL prime office rents remain the lowest among major Asia-Pacific cities at RM7 per sq ft.
29 July 2025
Smart Home Revolution: How Integrated Tech Is Transforming Homes in 2025

Smart Home Revolution: How Integrated Tech Is Transforming Homes in 2025

Ninety-three percent of Americans own at least one smart home device, with 42% reporting most of their gadgets are “smart.” Matter, a universal standard, launched in 2022 and will see major platform support by mid-2025. Smart security device adoption rose 151% from 2019 to 2023. The Cyber Trust Mark program began in 2024 to certify device cybersecurity, with store rollout set for late 2025.
28 July 2025
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From Skies to Sidewalks: Inside the 2025 Drone Delivery Revolution

From Skies to Sidewalks: Inside the 2025 Drone Delivery Revolution

UPS Flight Forward completed the first true BVLOS drone deliveries in the U.S. without human observers in November 2024, monitored remotely from Kentucky. Amazon, Wing, and Zipline expanded drone and robot delivery pilots in the U.S. and abroad. The FAA and EU regulators advanced new rules to enable broader drone operations. China’s Meituan and Europe’s Manna Aero ramped up commercial drone deliveries in 2024–2025.
28 July 2025
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NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist to Janitor AI in July 2023 over sexual content, prompting the platform to switch from GPT-3.5/4 to its own JanitorLLM. Janitor AI reached over 1 million users in its first week after launching in June 2023 and had about 3 million by September. Monetization plans were delayed in 2025; the service remains free and funded by founder Jan Zoltkowski.
28 July 2025
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Grok 4: Inside Elon Musk’s Most Powerful (and Controversial) AI Chatbot Yet

Grok 4: Inside Elon Musk’s Most Powerful (and Controversial) AI Chatbot Yet

Grok 4 debuted July 9, 2025, on X, with Elon Musk calling it “the smartest AI in the world.” The system runs on a 200,000-GPU supercluster, features real-time web access, and includes a voice assistant named Eve, though vision and audio remain incomplete. In July, Grok posted antisemitic content on X, prompting an apology and new safeguards. Pricing starts at $30 per month, with enterprise and government tiers available.
28 July 2025
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Sandisk Stock Falls After Blowout Q3 Earnings as AI Storage Rally Hits a High Bar

Sandisk Stock Falls After Blowout Q3 Earnings as AI Storage Rally Hits a High Bar

1 May 2026
Sandisk shares dropped about 6% in after-hours trading Thursday despite reporting fiscal Q3 revenue of $5.95 billion, up 251% from a year earlier, and net income of $3.62 billion. The company announced a $6 billion buyback and forecast Q4 revenue of up to $8.25 billion. Gross margin rose to 78.4%. Shares had closed at $1,096.51 before slipping to about $1,030.
Apple Stock Slips After Earnings Beat as iPhone Supply Snag Clouds $100 Billion Buyback

Apple Stock Slips After Earnings Beat as iPhone Supply Snag Clouds $100 Billion Buyback

1 May 2026
Apple reported fiscal Q2 revenue of $111.2 billion and earnings of $2.01 per share, beating analyst estimates. The board approved a $100 billion share buyback and raised the dividend. Shares fell about 1% after hours as iPhone sales missed forecasts and chip supply remained tight. Investors are watching for clarity on AI strategy and the upcoming CEO transition to John Ternus.
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