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Battle of the Titans: Microsoft Surface vs Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo & Samsung – The Ultimate 2025–2026 Laptop & Tablet Showdown

Apple’s M4-based MacBook Air Geekbench 6 score is 14,849, and the 16-inch MacBook Pro delivers desktop-class performance with 18–20 hours of battery life in light use. Surface Pro 11 uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite ARM chip, with reviewers saying

22 July 2025

Science Breakthroughs That Rocked July 21–22, 2025. News Roundup.

A Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research study estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastic particles are floating in the North Atlantic, solving the ‘missing plastic’ paradox. A July 21, 2025 Nature Reviews Biodiversity Perspective proposes using museum DNA and related

22 July 2025

Breakthroughs · Innovation · News · Research · Science

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

22 July 2025

Innovation · Mobile · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:ASTS · NASDAQ:IRDM · NASDAQ:QCOM · NASDAQ:TMUS · NYSE:GSAT · NYSE:T · NYSE:VZ · Off-Grid Tech · Satellite Phones · Smartphones

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

22 July 2025

Countermeasures · Drones · NYSE:GD · NYSE:RTX · NYSE:SYK · Security · Technology · Warfare

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

22 July 2025

2024 · AI · Mobile · Smartphones · Technology Trends

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

22 July 2025

AR Glasses · Brain Chips · Future Tech · Innovation · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:META · Smartphones

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)

22 July 2025

Cybersecurity · Electric Vehicles · Microsoft · NASDAQ:MSFT · Space · Tech News

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

22 July 2025

AI · Big Tech · Business · Innovation · Policy

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

22 July 2025

AMD · Apple · CPUs · Intel · NASDAQ:AAPL · NASDAQ:AMD · NASDAQ:INTC · Processors

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,

21 July 2025

AMD · GPUs · Graphics Technology · Intel · NASDAQ:AMD · NASDAQ:INTC · NASDAQ:NVDA · NVIDIA

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

21 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Chips · Hardware · Market Analysis · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:NVDA · Technology

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

21 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · ChatGPT · Google · NASDAQ:GOOGL · Technology · Tools