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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.

Vanguard’s Crypto U-Turn: $10T Giant Opens Doors to Bitcoin ETFs

Vanguard’s Crypto U-Turn: $10T Giant Opens Doors to Bitcoin ETFs

Background: Vanguard’s Historic Crypto Caution For years Vanguard famously shunned cryptocurrencies. Its founder, John Bogle, viewed Bitcoin as “speculative” and not fitting Vanguard’s long-term, value-focused philosophy cryptoslate.com coinlaw.io. Even after the first US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in Jan 2024, Vanguard refused to list them on its brokerage platform coinlaw.io cryptoslate.com. By early 2024 it had removed even Bitcoin futures products from its offerings. In short, Vanguard had been a crypto outlier among big asset managers cryptoslate.com cryptoinamerica.com. That stance began to shift with the arrival of CEO Salim Ramji (formerly a top BlackRock ETF executive) in mid-2024. Ramji’s background
27 September 2025
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You Won’t Believe What Google Did This Month: July 2025’s Biggest Stories

Google Turns 27: The Shocking Rise of a Garage Project into a Tech Titan

Origins: Stanford Project to Garage Startup In the mid-1990s, PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University built a search engine called “BackRub” that ranked web pages by link analysis. In Sept. 1997 they registered the name google.com (a play on “googol,” meaning a huge number) to reflect their mission of organizing vast information youm7.com. In 1998 they received a $100,000 seed investment and formally incorporated Google on September 4, 1998 in a modest garage in Menlo Park, California youm7.com sawtksa.com. (Curiously, Google later chose Sept. 27 as its official birthday, coinciding with its first doodle logo celebration.)
27 September 2025
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Vietnam’s Crypto Gold Rush: Binance, Bybit & Korean Custodian BDACS Supercharge Da Nang’s Digital Finance Hub

Vietnam’s Crypto Gold Rush: Binance, Bybit & Korean Custodian BDACS Supercharge Da Nang’s Digital Finance Hub

With these bold moves, Vietnam is positioning itself as a regional crypto hub – but success will hinge on balancing innovation with investor safeguards. Vietnam’s Digital Asset Strategy and Financial Hub Ambitions Vietnam is aggressively pushing blockchain and crypto into its official financial system. In mid-2025 the government approved Resolution 5/2025 and new laws to pilot a domestic crypto market for five years vietnamnet.vn livebitcoinnews.com. This framework mandates that any traded “crypto assets” be backed by real underlying assets (no securities or fiat), issued by Vietnamese entities, and settled in Vietnamese dong theinvestor.vn vietnamnet.vn. It also sets a staggeringly high
27 September 2025
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OnePlus 15 vs iPhone 17: Next-Gen Flagship Showdown Reveals Shocking Leaks & Official Surprises

OnePlus 15 vs iPhone 17: Next-Gen Flagship Showdown Reveals Shocking Leaks & Official Surprises

Design & Build Quality OnePlus officially teased the OnePlus 15 in a black colorway, revealing its flat, boxy design and a bold new square camera module androidcentral.com. The OnePlus 15’s aesthetics represent a significant shift from its predecessor. Gone is the circular camera bump of the OnePlus 13; instead, OnePlus has adopted an iPhone-inspired square camera island at the top-left of the back androidcentral.com. In leaked photos and on-stage demos, the phone looks like a mashup of a Pixel and an iPhone – featuring flat aluminum sides and contoured edges reminiscent of Apple’s recent design language androidcentral.com androidcentral.com. Despite housing
27 September 2025
Xiaomi 17 vs iPhone 17: A Dual‑Screen, $630 Flagship Takes on Apple’s Latest

Xiaomi 17 vs iPhone 17: A Dual‑Screen, $630 Flagship Takes on Apple’s Latest

Xiaomi 17 Series: Built to Take on Apple Xiaomi’s latest flagships were conceived from the start as iPhone-killers. The company even skipped naming a “Mi 14/15/16” and jumped straight to Xiaomi 17 to align with Apple’s iPhone 17 generation wired.com. According to Xiaomi’s president Lu Weibing, this was a deliberate strategy to achieve parity with Apple’s numbering and avoid any perception of being behind ground.news. As tech writer Simon Hill notes, the new Xiaomi 17 Pro Max “sounds and looks very familiar to a certain iPhone, but with a twist” wired.com. That twist is immediately visible: a second screen on the back of
27 September 2025
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1-Million-Year-Old Skull Found in China Could Rewrite Human Evolution

1-Million-Year-Old Skull Found in China Could Rewrite Human Evolution

These key points set the stage for a detailed exploration of the new study and its implications. In the sections below we explain the discovery and reconstruction of the skull, compare it with other recent finds, and examine what experts are saying about how it might upend our understanding of human origins. The Yunxian 2 Skull: Discovery and Digital Reconstruction The fossil at the heart of this story is the Yunxian 2 cranium, unearthed in 1990 from a river terrace in Yunxian (Hubei). For decades the specimen sat in a museum, considered an indeterminate Homo erectus fossil because it was
27 September 2025
Fastest PC Chip Ever? Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon X2 Takes Aim at Apple and Intel

Fastest PC Chip Ever? Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon X2 Takes Aim at Apple and Intel

Qualcomm’s Bid to Redefine High-Performance PCs Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme at its annual Snapdragon Summit 2025 in Maui, marking a major push to challenge Apple and Intel in laptop processors Ieee. These new chips target “ultra-premium” Windows 11 notebooks – think high-end laptops and 2-in-1s – promising a combination of top-tier speed, on-device AI smarts, and long battery life Tistory. It’s a bold gambit by Qualcomm, which after “well over a decade” of effort finally gained traction in Windows PCs last year Theverge with the first-gen Snapdragon X Elite. That initial success (even powering some
27 September 2025
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse: The AI Morning Briefing That Could Replace Your News App

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pulse: The AI Morning Briefing That Could Replace Your News App

What Is ChatGPT Pulse? ChatGPT Pulse is a new feature in OpenAI’s ChatGPT that delivers a personalized daily briefing – essentially, your morning news and to-do update crafted by AI. Announced on September 25, 2025, Pulse flips the usual script of chatbot interactions. Instead of you opening ChatGPT and asking questions, ChatGPT now starts the conversation each day axios.com. OpenAI is rolling it out as an experiment in making ChatGPT more proactive: it sends users a set of tailored “updates” every morning based on what it knows about you, from your recent chats to your schedule bloomberg.com. In practical terms,
27 September 2025
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OnePlus 15 Leak Bombshell: Radical Design, Monster Battery & Next-Gen Power

OnePlus 15 Surprise: Early Launch, Beastly Specs & Why There’s No OnePlus 14

OnePlus 15 Revealed Early – A Break from Tradition OnePlus usually waits until the new year to unveil its mainline flagships globally, but the OnePlus 15 is breaking that tradition. The company offered an early sneak peek in late September 2025 at a Qualcomm event in China, confirming the phone’s name and key specs well ahead of a formal launch theverge.com. OnePlus itself has hinted that the device will debut ahead of schedule this cycle, with an official teaser promising more information “in the coming weeks” 9to5google.com. This suggests a launch event in October or November 2025, at least for
27 September 2025
Iran’s Rial Crisis Deepens: USD Soars Past 1.08 Million on Black Market Amid Sanctions Fears (قیمت دلار)

Iran’s Rial Crisis Deepens: USD Soars Past 1.08 Million on Black Market Amid Sanctions Fears (قیمت دلار)

Official vs. Black-Market Rates in Iran Iran’s currency regime is highly tiered. State-backed exchange systems (for imports of essentials) quoted about 561,700 rials per $1 on Sept 27 trend.az. In currency shops (the SANA system) and the NIMA forex platform, $1 was around 692,500–719,800 rials during Sep 25–27 trend.az trend.az. By contrast, the free (open) market rate was vastly weaker – ~1,050,000–1,085,000 rials per $1. Bonbast and alanchand trackers showed prices spiking to ~1,085,500 IRR (108,550 tomans) on Sept 26 intellinews.com criticalthreats.org and holding above 1.08 million on Sept 27 trend.az trend.az. In short, Iranians needed roughly twice as many
27 September 2025
PACS Group (NYSE:PACS) Pops After NYSE Reprieve—Is the Nursing‑Home Giant Finally Turning the Corner? [Sep 26, 2025]

PACS Group (NYSE:PACS) Pops After NYSE Reprieve—Is the Nursing‑Home Giant Finally Turning the Corner? [Sep 26, 2025]

Key facts (as of Sep 26, 2025) In‑depth report What moved the stock this week PACS rallied into the Sep 26 close with intraday gains reported by market trackers. The surge follows two mid‑September catalysts: (1) NYSE’s listing extension to Nov 19, 2025, giving the company runway to finish restatements and regain compliance; and (2) a series of governance actions, including a CFO change. MarketBeat+2MarketBeat+2 Management messaging turned incrementally constructive. CEO Jason Murray said PACS expects to report “record revenue and Adjusted EBITDA for the first six months of 2025” once filings are current. Interim Chief Compliance Officer Kathy Lauer added that PACS is “taking the right steps to best position the company” during
26 September 2025
Crinetics (CRNX) Stock Skyrockets on FDA Approval – Full 2025 Investor Update

Crinetics (CRNX) Stock Skyrockets on FDA Approval – Full 2025 Investor Update

Stock Price Performance (YTD & Recent) Crinetics stock has been volatile but trending upward in 2025, with the recent FDA catalyst propelling it sharply higher. On September 26, 2025, CRNX closed around $45–$46, up roughly +28% in a single day reuters.com. This spike followed the Palsonify approval news and likely a short squeeze, given the high short interest (~14 million shares short, ~15.5% of float) prior to the decision marketbeat.com marketbeat.com. The one-year trading range spans $24.10 – $62.53 marketbeat.com, meaning the stock is now nearly double its 52-week low and about 26% below its 2023 high. In other words,
26 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

Broadcom Stock Gets a Google AI Spend Lift as Jefferies Sees 60% Upside

Broadcom Stock Gets a Google AI Spend Lift as Jefferies Sees 60% Upside

7 February 2026
Google raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $175 billion–$185 billion, with most spending expected on data-center chips. Broadcom shares rose about 2% after the announcement, while Nvidia and AMD slipped. Jefferies reiterated a buy rating on Broadcom, maintaining a $500 price target, implying a 62% upside from Wednesday’s close.
No $2,000 IRS stimulus check is coming in February 2026 — but Trump’s tariff-check talk keeps the rumors alive

No $2,000 IRS stimulus check is coming in February 2026 — but Trump’s tariff-check talk keeps the rumors alive

7 February 2026
The IRS has not announced new federal stimulus payments for February 2026, and Congress has not approved fresh checks. Trump told NBC he is considering $2,000 tariff rebate checks but has not committed, saying any payout would likely come later in 2026. The IRS warns taxpayers to ignore texts and emails about “stimulus payments” and verify notices through official channels.
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