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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.

Xbox Game Pass Just Changed Everything: 50% Price Hike, New Plans, and 75+ Day-One Games

Xbox Game Pass Just Changed Everything: 50% Price Hike, New Plans, and 75+ Day-One Games

Overhauled Tiers and Pricing On Oct. 1, 2025, Microsoft announced a major overhaul of Xbox Game Pass news.xbox.com. The old Core plan is now Game Pass Essential ($9.99/mo) and Standard becomes Game Pass Premium ($14.99/mo), while Game Pass Ultimate remains the top tier. In the U.S., Essential and Premium keep their prices; Ultimate is raised to $29.99/month news.xbox.com reuters.com. (Microsoft also quietly raised the PC Game Pass price to $16.49/month windowscentral.com.) Xbox says the hikes reflect a much larger game catalog and new benefits. As Xbox’s announcement put it, “Ultimate is now priced at $29.99/month, reflecting the expanded catalog, new
1 October 2025
BlackRock’s GIP Poised for $38B AES Power Grab – AI-Fuelled Demand Sparks Takeover Frenzy

BlackRock’s GIP Poised for $38B AES Power Grab – AI-Fuelled Demand Sparks Takeover Frenzy

Deal Details According to people briefed on the matter, BlackRock’s GIP is “nearing” a ~$38 billion takeover of AES investing.com marketscreener.com. This figure includes AES’s debt, reported to be about $29 billion gurufocus.com. In equity terms, AES’s market value was only around $9–10 billion before the news tokenist.com gurufocus.com. GIP – a specialist infrastructure fund now owned by BlackRock – has declined to comment, and AES has also refused to comment on the rumors investing.com marketscreener.com. Financial regulators have rules for such deals, but sources say the acquisition could close quickly under existing approvals, possibly within days marketscreener.com news.bloomberglaw.com. Bloomberg reported the talks
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Rezolve AI Stock Skyrockets on 426% Revenue Surge – Can $7+ Targets Hold?

Rezolve AI Stock Skyrockets on 426% Revenue Surge – Can $7+ Targets Hold?

Company Background Rezolve AI PLC (NASDAQ: RZLV) is a generative AI software company focused on the retail and e-commerce sector. Its flagship “Brain Suite” platform offers conversational search, product discovery and one-click checkout solutions for retailers – essentially enabling AI-driven shopping assistants across mobile and web channels globenewswire.com rezolve.com. Rezolve bills itself as the first AI platform built for “agentic commerce,” letting enterprises deploy autonomous AI agents that can search, transact, fulfill and personalize shopping in real time globenewswire.com globenewswire.com. The technology is built on Rezolve’s own large language models (“brainpowa”) optimized for retail data, which the company claims have
1 October 2025
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Reddit’s Stock Explodes! 78% Revenue Surge, Google AI Deal Talks & 70% Rally 🔥

Reddit’s Stock RDDT Rockets 600%: AI Deals, Big Earnings, and Wall Street Forecasts

Current Price and Recent Performance Reddit’s stock price has climbed dramatically since IPO, but it remains volatile. After hitting all-time highs (~$282.95) in mid-September finviz.com, the shares eased back into the low $230s by month-end. On September 30, 2025 RDDT closed at $229.99 (down ~4.95% that day) finviz.com. Trading volume was about 4.9 million shares on Sept 30 finviz.com, vs an average ~6.6M. In fact, MarketBeat noted unusually light volume on Sep 30 (only ~606K shares by mid-day, ~92% below normal) marketbeat.com. The pullback came after a strong rally: over the past 3 months RDDT is up about +51% finviz.com.
1 October 2025
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Amazon’s $100 Blink Arc Security Cam Glues Two Cameras Together for an Unbeatable 180° View

Amazon’s $100 Blink Arc Security Cam Glues Two Cameras Together for an Unbeatable 180° View

Blink Arc: How Dual Cameras Eliminate Blind Spots Amazon’s new Blink Arc is not a single fisheye camera – it literally “sticks two cameras into a single body” theverge.com. Each Blink Arc unit holds two Blink Mini 2K+ cameras in one angled, weatherproof bracket. The devices run off one power source and are mounted from a single point (on a wall, ceiling, or porch). In use, the Blink app links the two cameras as left and right, and software stitches their overlapping views into one live panorama. This gives you roughly a 180° horizontal view – ideal for covering a
1 October 2025
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Motorola’s Next Phone Will Blow Your Mind – It’s Crazy Thin! Motorola’s Ultra-Thin Edge 70 and X70 Air Signal a New Smartphone War

Motorola’s Next Phone Will Blow Your Mind – It’s Crazy Thin! Motorola’s Ultra-Thin Edge 70 and X70 Air Signal a New Smartphone War

Racing to the Slender Limit Motorola’s latest leaks confirm what insiders have long hinted: it’s jumping into the “ultra-thin” arms race. A promo teaser posted on Motorola’s Weibo (China) shows the X70 Air squeezed between fingertips to highlight its wafer-thin profile phonearena.com. Tech sites note the X70 Air appears to be essentially the Chinese version of the global Motorola Edge 70 phonearena.com phonearena.com. In leaked promo images (widely attributed to tipster Evan Blass), the Edge 70 sports a striking green-and-yellow rear, indicating Motorola’s continued Pantone partnership for eye-catching colors phonearena.com phonearena.com. Sources say the Edge 70 will target the mid-range segment. Despite its slim design,
1 October 2025
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Amazon’s Finance Teams Unleash AI for Complex Tasks – Transforming Corporate Finance

Amazon’s Fall Gadget Bonanza: Color Kindle Scribe, $40 4K Fire Stick, AI Ring Cams & More

All-New Kindle Scribe Lineup Amazon completely redesigned its Kindle Scribe e-reader/notetakers for the 2025 model year, focusing on productivity. The lineup now has three models (up from one): a base Scribe without a front light, a Scribe with a front light, and the new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. All share a new slim body (just 5.4 mm thick) and a larger 11″ E Ink display (previous Scribe was 10.2″). As Andrew Liszewski of The Verge reports, Amazon “got rid of the asymmetrical chin” and slimmed the device so it’s lighter – only 400 g (versus 433 g before) theverge.com. The bigger screen better matches a sheet of paper: users can view
1 October 2025
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Amazon’s AI-Powered Device Overhaul: Alexa+ Echoes, Color Kindle Scribbles & 4K Ring Cameras Unveiled

Amazon’s AI-Powered Device Overhaul: Alexa+ Echoes, Color Kindle Scribbles & 4K Ring Cameras Unveiled

Massive 2025 Hardware Launch Event On Sept. 30, 2025 in New York City, Amazon held its biggest hardware showcase in years – unveiling revamped gadgets across Echo speakers, Kindles, Fire TVs and security cameras. The headline was Alexa+, a generative-AI revamp of Alexa. Panos Panay (SVP of Devices & Services, formerly of Microsoft) led the presentations. He framed the event as the culmination of a multi-year “devices overhaul” aimed at making Amazon’s gadgets smarter and more polished aboutamazon.com. In his introduction to Alexa+, Panay wrote that with 600 million Alexa devices deployed, “advancements in generative AI have unlocked new possibilities”
1 October 2025
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Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 Go Next-Level: Surprise Update Brings Adaptive Audio, Gestures & Battery Wizardry

Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 Go Next-Level: Surprise Update Brings Adaptive Audio, Gestures & Battery Wizardry

Feature Drop Unlocks Adaptive Audio, Gestures & More This fall’s Pixel Buds Pro 2 update is the biggest in months. Google’s changelog reveals that firmware 4.467 introduces a host of new abilities. Most notably, Adaptive Audio automatically blends active noise cancellation with transparency: it “dynamically reduces the volume of unwanted noises and sounds” so you can stay aware without fiddling with modes androidcentral.com tomsguide.com. In practice, you no longer choose between full ANC or full transparency — the buds “automatically change what you hear based on the surrounding environment” tomsguide.com, just as Apple’s Adaptive Transparency does on AirPods Pro 3.
1 October 2025
Ghost of Yōtei Review Bombshell: Is PlayStation’s New Samurai Epic a Masterpiece—or Just More of the Same?

Ghost of Yōtei Release Date CONFIRMED – Atsu’s Revenge Lands in October 2025

Release Date & Global Launch Times Sony and developer Sucker Punch officially announced in April 2025 that Ghost of Yōtei hits PS5 on October 2, 2025 blog.playstation.com. As GamesHub notes, that means most players will see the game unlock at 12:00 AM on Oct. 2, but U.S. west-coast players get an earlier start. Specifically, the global launch schedule is: Sep 30, 2025 – 9:00 PM PDT (Oct. 1) for Pacific Time; 10:00 PM MT; 11:00 PM CT; and 12:00 AM EDT (Oct. 2) gameshub.com egamersworld.com. Meanwhile Europe, Japan, Australia and other regions all go live at midnight local time on Oct. 2 egamersworld.com khelnow.com. In
1 October 2025
Shocking Alert: Winter Heating Bills Could SOAR 10% — Top Tips to Save Your Wallet

Shocking Alert: Winter Heating Bills Could SOAR 10% — Top Tips to Save Your Wallet

Why Winter Bills Are Climbing Energy bills have already been rising faster than inflation, and last winter’s hikes are carrying into this one. A recent National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA) report finds the average household heating bill will jump ~7.6% over last winter kioncentralcoast.com. That reflects both higher fuel prices and increased demand – this winter is forecast to be slightly colder than last year. Electricity costs in particular have soared: U.S. grid prices jumped 6.2% year-over-year in August, and could climb double digits in coming years cbsnews.com cbsnews.com. As NEADA’s Executive Director Mark Wolfe explained, “we had a period of relatively stable electric bills
1 October 2025
FirstEnergy’s Executive Payouts Overhauled as Big PA Power Auction Kicks Off

FirstEnergy’s Executive Payouts Overhauled as Big PA Power Auction Kicks Off

Executive Severance Plan Overhaul In late September 2025, FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) announced that its board has revamped the executive severance plan in.investing.com. Under the new Executive Severance Benefits Plan (effective Jan. 1, 2026), the company explicitly adds the CEO and other top officers and replaces most old service-based payouts with fixed multiples of salary in.investing.com stocktitan.net. For example, the CEO, other SEC-defined officers and Executive Council members will now receive 1.5× their base salary as severance if they are involuntarily terminated (e.g. in a facility closure or corporate restructuring) in.investing.com stocktitan.net. Previously the CEO was not in the plan at all – severance was paid by years of
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IRS tax refund delays? Watchdog flags staffing crunch as 2026 filing season ramps up

IRS tax refund delays? Watchdog flags staffing crunch as 2026 filing season ramps up

7 February 2026
WASHINGTON, Feb 7, 2026, 06:23 (EST) A Treasury watchdog warned the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has entered the 2026 tax filing season short-staffed, raising the risk of delays for some refunds and longer waits for help. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/05/tax-refund-status-irs-delays-staffing The timing matters because the IRS is now accepting 2025 income-tax returns and expects about 164 million individual filings ahead of the April 15 deadline. Refunds are a big piece of household cash flow for many filers, and the IRS is also pushing taxpayers more firmly toward electronic payments this year. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-opens-2026-filing-season In a memo dated Jan. 26, the Treasury Inspector General for
Plug Power stock jumps 12% after vote setback, with Feb 17 share decision in focus

Plug Power stock jumps 12% after vote setback, with Feb 17 share decision in focus

7 February 2026
Plug Power shares rose 11.6% Friday to $2.08 after a sharp drop the previous day, as attention shifted to a Feb. 17 shareholder vote on expanding authorized shares. The company failed to secure enough votes earlier this week and is urging overseas holders to participate. CEO Andy Marsh cited difficulties for European investors in casting ballots. A reverse stock split remains possible if the proposal fails.
AT&T stock price: T slips after $6.5B bond sale as payrolls, CPI loom next week

AT&T stock price: T slips after $6.5B bond sale as payrolls, CPI loom next week

7 February 2026
AT&T shares closed down 0.7% at $27.13 on Friday, underperforming the S&P 500’s 1.97% gain. The company completed a $6.5 billion global notes sale this week, with maturities from 2031 to 2056 and coupons between 4.4% and 6%. Investors await delayed U.S. jobs and inflation data, along with T-Mobile’s upcoming earnings update.
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