Marcin Frąckiewicz

Marcin Frąckiewicz is the founder and CEO of TS2 Space, a satellite communications company serving customers around the world. A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), he has more than two decades of experience in telecommunications, satellite services and technology ventures. He writes about satellite communications, space technology, artificial intelligence and the stock market, with a particular focus on technology companies, semiconductors, emerging industries and the trends shaping global innovation. Follow Marcin Frąckiewicz on Google News, Facebook. or Linkedin.

From Legacy to AI Leviathan: Inside Oracle’s Unlikely Run

From Legacy to AI Leviathan: Inside Oracle’s Unlikely Run

Oracle’s transformation from enterprise software stalwart to cloud contender began to show tangible results in fiscal Q1 2025. In that quarter, Oracle reported $13.3 billion in revenue, up 7% year-on-year, fueled by strong cloud uptake stocktitan.net. Cloud services revenue grew 21% to $5.6 billion stocktitan.net, with Oracle’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service business up 45% and its Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications each growing ~16–20% stocktitan.net. Perhaps most telling, Oracle’s remaining performance obligations – essentially its contracted backlog – reached $99 billion, up 53% from the prior year stocktitan.net. This was a then-record backlog for Oracle, signaling robust demand in the pipeline.
14 September 2025
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The Solid-State Audio Revolution: How xMEMS Silicon Drivers Could Upend Headphones

The Solid-State Audio Revolution: How xMEMS Silicon Drivers Could Upend Headphones

In summary, xMEMS solid-state drivers marry the silicon chip revolution with high-fidelity sound. They work on a microscopic scale but promise a macro impact on how we experience audio. With key industry players already onboard and technical challenges rapidly being overcome, MEMS speakers are poised to fundamentally disrupt personal audio – potentially becoming as ubiquitous in future headphones as MEMS microphones are now in our phones Audioxpress Eejournal. For tech-savvy listeners, it’s a development to watch closely. As xMEMS’ marketing VP Mike Housholder put it: “Unlike conventional coil speakers, our speakers are monolithic… offering far better material stiffness and exponentially faster impulse response… resulting in superior sound performance” Audioxpress. In other words, welcome to the solid-state sound era – your ears may never want to go back.
14 September 2025
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Nikon ZR: Can a $2,199 6K RAW Cam Shake Up Indie Film?

Nikon ZR: Can a $2,199 6K RAW Cam Shake Up Indie Film?

Sensor and Video Quality: The ZR’s 24.5-megapixel sensor is a “partially stacked” design shared with Nikon’s Z6III, optimized for speed to minimize rolling shutter – crucial for video petapixel.com petapixel.com. In practice, it can capture 6K up to 60p in 12-bit RAW, with a switch to a Super35/DX crop for 4K 120p slow-motion petapixel.com. Full HD 1080 can go up to 240p for very slow motion bhphotovideo.com. Nikon rates dynamic range above 15 stops in RAW mode, which is on par with high-end digital cinema cameras nikon.com. Dual base ISO of 800 and 6400 in RAW helps maintain dynamic range in low-light or bright conditions nikon.com. Notably, internal fanless cooling allows extended takes – Nikon claims about 125 minutes at 6K/60 with external USB-PD power in moderate ambient temps nikon.com. Early tests by reviewers have indeed shown robust performance with no overheating in 6K RAW recording, even in summer conditions dpreview.com dpreview.com.
14 September 2025
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Arm’s $65 Billion Nasdaq Debut: SoftBank’s Chip Champion Reignites Tech IPO Mania

Arm’s $65 Billion Nasdaq Debut: SoftBank’s Chip Champion Reignites Tech IPO Mania

Arm Holdings is a Cambridge, England-based semiconductor and software design company that has quietly become the backbone of the mobile computing world. Founded in 1990 as “Advanced RISC Machines,” Arm began as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology investopedia.com. Unlike traditional chipmakers, Arm doesn’t build chips itself. Instead, it licenses its processor designs and instruction set architectures to other companies, who then incorporate Arm’s intellectual property into their own chips. This model turned Arm into a ubiquitous force in tech: its designs are found in virtually all smartphones, tablets, and many other devices globally, thanks to their power-efficient performance reuters.com. Major firms like Apple have built their flagship chips on Arm’s architecture, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon system-on-chips that run most Android phones are also Arm-based.
14 September 2025
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Beyond the iPhone 17: Apple’s Next Big Things – M5 Macs, AI Siri, New iPads and More

Beyond the iPhone 17: Apple’s Next Big Things – M5 Macs, AI Siri, New iPads and More

In the sections below, we break down what’s known so far about Apple’s post-iPhone 17 product roadmap – spanning Macs, iPads, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, AirPods, home devices, and Apple’s evolving services – all in clear language for the general tech enthusiast. We’ll compare Apple’s rumored moves with competitor trends and include insights from analysts and tech experts along the way. Let’s dive into Apple’s next big things.
14 September 2025
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DJI Air 3S vs Air 3: Mid-Tier Drone Showdown – Is the Upgrade Worth It?

DJI Air 3S vs Air 3: Mid-Tier Drone Showdown – Is the Upgrade Worth It?

Dual-Camera Setup: The DJI Air 3 series pioneered a dual-camera system in a mid-tier drone. Both the Air 3 and Air 3S house a wide-angle primary camera and a 3× medium telephoto camera. The crucial difference is the sensor size of the main camera. The Air 3S bumps the wide camera up to a 1-inch CMOS sensor, whereas the original Air 3’s wide camera uses a smaller 1/1.3-inch sensor store.dji.com thedronegirl.com. In practice, a 1-inch sensor can capture more light and detail, especially in challenging lighting. DJI explicitly tuned the Air 3S for better dynamic range and low-light performance – it can retain more detail in shadows and highlights and handles dim scenes with less noise maisondudrone.com maisondudrone.com.
11 September 2025
DJI’s Auto-Follow Drone Showdown: Do These “Follow Me” Drones Really Have Your Back?

DJI’s Auto-Follow Drone Showdown: Do These “Follow Me” Drones Really Have Your Back?

DJI has incorporated its ActiveTrack autonomous follow technology into almost all of its recent consumer drones streamlife.live. ActiveTrack combines vision recognition and GPS to lock onto a subject, keep it framed, and navigate around obstacles – essentially letting the drone be your aerial cameraman streamlife.live. Here are DJI’s notable “follow-me” drone offerings and what they bring to the table:
11 September 2025
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DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro vs. Action 4 vs. Action 3 – Ultimate 2025 Action Cam Showdown

DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro vs. Action 4 vs. Action 3 – Ultimate 2025 Action Cam Showdown

Bottom Line: As of September 2025, DJI’s Osmo Action series offers three tiers of an excellent action camera. The Osmo Action 5 Pro is the no-compromise choice – it delivers class-leading image quality with its next-gen sensor, has the longest battery life, the best screens, and pro-oriented extras like built-in storage and wireless mic support. It’s geared toward enthusiasts and professionals who want the latest and greatest features to “be all in,” as DJI’s tagline suggests store.dji.com. The Osmo Action 4, meanwhile, remains a formidable option: it has essentially the same video capabilities and the same rugged build as the 5 Pro, minus a few new tricks. If you don’t need 40 MP stills or OLED screens, the Action 4 still offers best-in-class quality and may be found at a sweeter price point dji.com. Finally, the Osmo Action 3 stands as a durable, budget-friendly adventurer. It introduced many of the features that make these cameras great – dual touch screens, magnetic mount, long-life battery – and it can capture 4K/120 footage that will satisfy most casual users. It doesn’t perform as well in low-light and lacks the 10-bit color and expanded dynamic range of the newer models, but for everyday
11 September 2025
AirPods Pro 3 vs Nothing vs Soundcore – 2025’s Ultimate Wireless Earbud Showdown

AirPods Pro 3 vs Nothing vs Soundcore – 2025’s Ultimate Wireless Earbud Showdown

Apple has refined the AirPods Pro 3 design subtly but meaningfully. The earbuds are slightly smaller and lighter than the previous generation, with a new ergonomic shape informed by 10,000+ ear scans to better sit in the ear canal apple.com. Each earbud now comes with five sizes of silicone ear tips for an optimal seal apple.com. Notably, the tips are foam-infused silicone, which helps fill gaps and improve passive noise isolation tomsguide.com tomsguide.com. Combined with the reduced size, this gives the AirPods Pro 3 a more secure fit – addressing complaints that some users had with AirPods Pro 2 falling out during movement tomsguide.com tomsguide.com. Build quality remains high; while AirPods still use hard glossy plastic, they’re now rated IP57 water-resistant, meaning they can survive sweat, rain, and even brief submersion, a step up from the IP54 of Gen 2 macrumors.com. The iconic white stemmed design persists, seamless with the Apple aesthetic, and the case now features Apple’s U2 ultrawideband chip for more precise tracking if you misplace it macrumors.com. Overall, AirPods Pro 3 look nearly identical to their predecessors at a glance, but the tweaks yield better comfort and durability.
11 September 2025
Inside OpenAI: Secrets Behind GPT-4, GPT-5 and the $300 Billion AI Revolution

Inside OpenAI: Secrets Behind GPT-4, GPT-5 and the $300 Billion AI Revolution

OpenAI’s AI engines are built on the transformer architecture, a breakthrough design first introduced by Google researchers in 2017. At its core, a transformer model processes text by considering the relationships between all words in a sentence, allowing it to understand context far more effectively than prior neural networks. OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer models leverage this architecture at tremendous scale: they are trained on billions of sentences from the internet, books, and other sources, so they learn the statistical patterns of language. As the name suggests, a GPT model is pre-trained generically on text and can then be fine-tuned for specific tasks or behaviors.
11 September 2025
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AirPods Pro 3’s Jaw-Dropping Live Translation – The Ultimate Earbud Upgrade?

AirPods Pro 3’s Jaw-Dropping Live Translation – The Ultimate Earbud Upgrade?

Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 are not just an incremental upgrade – they represent a bold step toward a future where your earbuds double as a universal translator. Announced in September 2025 alongside the iPhone 17, the third-generation AirPods Pro come loaded with new features that push the boundaries of personal audio. Apple touts these as its most advanced earbuds yet, delivering “unbelievable sound quality” with the “world’s best in-ear Active Noise Cancellation”, a revamped design for a better fit, heart-rate sensing, and extended battery life apple.com macrumors.com. But stealing the spotlight is a breakthrough capability: Live Translation powered by on-device AI, which aims to make face-to-face conversations easier even if participants don’t speak the same language apple.com apple.com.
11 September 2025
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Smartphones Reach for the Skies: How Satellite Connectivity Is Revolutionizing Phones & Wearables

Smartphones Reach for the Skies: How Satellite Connectivity Is Revolutionizing Phones & Wearables

Not long ago, the idea of texting from a smartphone to a satellite sounded like science fiction or at least something reserved for clunky satellite phones. But as of 2025, this has become reality for millions of consumers. Mainstream smartphones and even smartwatches can now connect directly to satellites orbiting Earth, allowing basic communication where traditional cell networks fail. This development marks a convergence of the mobile tech industry and the satellite industry, unlocking capabilities that were previously limited to specialized devices.
11 September 2025
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Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s ‘Truly Awesome’ AI Cloud Quarter Sends Stock Soaring 36%, Making Ellison World’s Richest

Oracle’s latest earnings quarter shocked Wall Street and sent its stock soaring on an AI-fueled wave of optimism. Shares of Oracle jumped as much as 35–40% intraday and closed up about 36% on Wednesday, marking the company’s largest one-day gain in over three decades startupnews.fyi. This remarkable rally added roughly $250 billion to Oracle’s market capitalization and briefly vaulted Larry Ellison – who owns about 40% of Oracle – to the top of global wealth rankings startupnews.fyi. Ellison’s net worth climbed by nearly $100 billion in a day to around $393 billion, putting him neck-and-neck with Tesla’s Elon Musk in some real-time wealth estimates reuters.com calcalistech.com.
11 September 2025
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The Great AI Content Heist: How Bots Are Devouring the Internet – and How We Can Fight Back

The Great AI Content Heist: How Bots Are Devouring the Internet – and How We Can Fight Back

The rise of generative AI has kicked off an arms race for data, as AI companies seek to ingest as much online content as possible to train their models. Text from websites, images, code repositories, music – and now video – are all being vacuumed up. A bombshell report from The Atlantic in September 2025 revealed the sheer scale of this activity on YouTube: more than 15.8 million videos were quietly scraped and downloaded without permission as training data for AI theatlantic.com. These weren’t obscure clips either – nearly 1 million were how-to videos, and countless others came from popular creators and even major organizations like the BBC and TED theatlantic.com theatlantic.com. In many cases the videos were stripped of titles or creator names in the datasets to obscure their origin theatlantic.com, but investigators traced the data back to real YouTube channels.
11 September 2025
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‘Closest to War Since WWII’: NATO Jets Down 19 Russian Drones Over Poland in Unprecedented Airspace Breach

‘Closest to War Since WWII’: NATO Jets Down 19 Russian Drones Over Poland in Unprecedented Airspace Breach

In the pre-dawn hours of September 11, 2025, Poland faced the most serious airspace violation in its modern history. Wave after wave of drones penetrated Polish territory from the east over a span of about seven hours. In total, Polish authorities logged 19 separate airspace violations by unmanned aircraft during what was a massive Russian aerial attack on neighboring Ukraine. This was far from a stray drone or wayward missile – it was a coordinated swarm incursion on a scale NATO countries had never before seen in this war. Polish officials quickly labeled it an “act of aggression” and a deliberate provocation by Russia, coming as it did amid a broader barrage against Ukraine.
11 September 2025
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Stealth Jets, Standoff Missiles & Cyber Warfare: Inside Israel’s High-Tech Doha Strike.

Stealth Jets, Standoff Missiles & Cyber Warfare: Inside Israel’s High-Tech Doha Strike.

Fighter jets – stealth and range: Israel’s attack showcased its most advanced combat aircraft. Military experts believe the strike force centered on the F-35I “Adir” stealth fightergulfnews.com, Israel’s custom-enhanced variant of Lockheed Martin’s F-35. The Adir’s radar-evading design and Israeli-tailored electronic warfare suites allow it to slip through air defensesdefencesecurityasia.com. With an unrefueled range around 2,200 kmabc.net.au, F-35Is flying from Israel’s Nevatim Air Base could approach the Gulf, launch weapons, and turn back without being seen. “Maybe the Saudis couldn’t pick it up… they struck from a distance with precision,” Prof. Hashim noted, saying the Israeli jets likely never needed to enter Doha’s airspaceabc.net.au. To provide cover, Israel likely also deployed twin-engine F-15I “Ra’am” fighters in supportgulfnews.com. The F-15I carries heavy payloads and advanced sensors; analysts suggest Ra’ams accompanied the Adirs as airborne escorts to deter any interceptorsgulfnews.com. Both the F-35I and F-15I cost on the order of tens of millions of dollars each, underscoring the high-end hardware Israel committed to the mission.
11 September 2025
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