Marcin Frąckiewicz, Author at TechStock²

Tech Today: July 9, 2025 – Samsung Unpacked, Apple Leadership, AI Talent Wars, Gmail’s Inbox Revolution, and More / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 12:00 CET

Samsung announced Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9, 2025, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8 with deeper Google Gemini AI integration. Apple disclosed COO Jeff Williams’s retirement after 27 years, appointing Sabih Khan as the new COO and moving the design group to report directly to Tim Cook. Gmail rolled out the Manage Subscriptions feature on the web, with Android support arriving on July 14 and iOS on July 21. OpenAI hired four top engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta to bolster its Stargate AI infrastructure. NVIDIA unveiled the DGX Spark mini supercomputer

9 July 2025

Apple·Artificial Intelligence·Samsung·Tech News

Ultimate DJI Enterprise Drone Comparison (2025): Matrice vs Mavic 3 Enterprise & Thermal Models

The Matrice 350 RTK (M350) is the flagship successor to the Matrice 300 RTK, offering up to 55 minutes of flight time with no payload, up to 20 km O3 Enterprise range, IP55 weather resistance, and a top speed around 23 m/s. The Matrice 30T blends portability with a built-in multi-sensor payload—12 MP wide, 48 MP tele with 5× optical and 200× digital zoom—and a radiometric thermal camera (640×512), enabling about 41 minutes of flight and IP55 protection with hot-swap TB30 batteries. The Matrice 4 Series comprises the M4E and M4T with a triple-camera gimbal (48 MP wide, 3× tele,

9 July 2025

Comparison·Drones·Technology

Did a Space Rock Just Slam Into Saturn? Inside the Global Race to Confirm the 5 July 2025 Flash

On 5 July 2025 at 09:07 UT, amateur Mario Rana from Hampton, Virginia recorded a two-frame white flare on Saturn’s western limb lasting under 1 second, with PVOL releasing a frame showing a stellate spot just inside the edge. PVOL issued an international all-points bulletin within hours, asking observers to upload raw video stacks for independent processing; as of this report, no second detection had surfaced. The verification drive includes data mining and crowd-sourcing, with PVOL providing a template FITS header to standardize submissions. Amateur networks such as Cloudy Nights and regional Facebook groups are screening terabytes of July 5

9 July 2025

Astronomy·News·Space

Tech News Today: The Biggest Stories in Technology, Science, and Innovation (July 9, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

A new axion Dark Energy (aDE) model from Cornell and Shanghai Jiao Tong University predicts the universe will start contracting in about 7 billion years and collapse in roughly 33–34 billion years. Amazon Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11, 2025, with US online sales forecast at $23.8 billion and record discounts on Apple, Samsung, Google, Lenovo, and OnePlus. OnePlus Nord 5 and Nord CE5 smartphones launch with the Nord 5 featuring Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, a 6.83-inch 144Hz OLED display, up to 12GB RAM, and a 5200mAh battery; the Nord CE5 uses the MediaTek Dimensity 8350. NVIDIA’s AI hardware leadership

9 July 2025

Industry News·Innovation·Technology·Trends

Space in July 2025: Budget Battles, Scientific Breakthroughs, and the New Space Race / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

The FY2026 NASA budget proposal would cut overall funding by 24.3%, with science funding slashed by nearly 47%. Congress moved to restore nearly $10 billion for NASA’s human spaceflight programs including Artemis, SLS, Orion, and the Gateway lunar station, while transferring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston and upgrading the Stennis Space Center. SpaceX accounted for 83% of U.S. launches in 2024 and marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch, while Starlink now operates more than 7,900 active satellites. The TraCSS space traffic coordination system faces an 84% budget cut, with hundreds of companies urging Congress to restore funding. <li NASA's Perseverance

9 July 2025

Innovation·Space

AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent wars where engineers command salaries in the tens of millions per year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns millions of jobs—especially entry-level roles—could be automated within five years, as UK entry-level postings drop 32% since late 2022. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated indie band, amassed over

9 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Global Trends·Technology

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series (GPT-3, 2020). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020, and the ChatGPT prototype launched in November 2022, reaching 100 million users in two months. Voice assistants emerged with Siri (2011), Alexa (2014), Cortana (2014), and Google Assistant (2016). Google’s Bard evolved into Gemini in 2024, with Gemini Ultra as the top model, offering multimodal input, 40+ languages, and real-time

8 July 2025

AI·Future Trends·Technology

How to Build Your Own AI: The Complete 2025 Guide to Costs, Tools, and Making Money

OpenAI’s GPT-4, released in 2023, is a proprietary multimodal model (text and images) available via API or Azure and handles a few thousand input tokens by default. Anthropic’s Claude 2 offers a 100,000-token context window and is accessible via API, with prompting costs roughly half of GPT-4 per token. Meta’s LLaMA 2, released in 2023, comes in 7B, 13B, and 70B parameter sizes; weights are downloadable and commercial use is allowed under a permissive license with minor restrictions. Mistral 7B, a 7.3B parameter model released in 2023, is Apache 2.0 licensed and can run on a single GPU, reportedly outperforming

8 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

iPhone 17 Shockers: Ultra‑Thin “Air,” 120 Hz for Everyone & 24 MP Selfies — Here’s the 2‑Minute Cheat Sheet

The iPhone 17 lineup is expected to launch around September 8–10, 2025, and will include four models: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, with the old Plus line removed. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be ultra-thin at 5–6 mm with a 6.6-inch OLED display. The base iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro are expected to have about 6.3-inch displays, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be about 6.9 inches. The 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are said to feature a new horizontal camera bar on the back, while the

8 July 2025

Gadgets·Tech Reviews

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Origin, Trajectory and Scientific Stakes In 2025’s Third‑Ever Extrasolar Visitor

<li ATLAS imaged the interstellar candidate on 1 July 2025, with precovery back to 14 June 2025, and it was designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and later 3I/ATLAS as the third confirmed interstellar object after Oumuamua and Borisov. <li A JPL orbital solution yields eccentricity e = 6.1 ± 0.1 and hyperbolic excess velocity V∞ ≈ 58 km/s, indicating an extrasolar origin from Galactic longitude about 5° toward the Galactic Center. <li The object’s nucleus is estimated at 9–20 km in diameter, with a developing coma and tail already visible, including a compact coma at about 4.5 AU from the Sun.

8 July 2025

Astronomy·Comets·Scientific Discoveries·Space Exploration

Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

Apple’s 2025 iPhone lineup will include four models — iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air (Slim), iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max — replacing the previous Plus variant. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be an ultra-thin 5–6 mm device with a ~6.5–6.6-inch OLED display and an estimated weight of about 145 g. All iPhone 17 models are expected to use a 120 Hz ProMotion LTPO OLED display, with sizes around 6.3 inches for the base, ~6.6 inches for the Air, and ~6.9 inches for the Pro Max. The iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Air will use the

8 July 2025

Apple

Space & Satellite Deep Dive – 8th July 2025: Starlink Expansion, Interstellar Visitor, AI in Orbit & Global Policy Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

SpaceX’s Starlink 10-28 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 8, 2025, deploying 28 broadband Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and marking the Falcon 9 booster’s 22nd flight, with the booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes and 14 seconds after liftoff. The 500th Falcon 9 launch occurred with the Starlink 10-25 mission, deploying 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites and marking booster B1067’s 29th flight. 3I/ATLAS, discovered by NASA’s ATLAS survey in July 2025 in Chile, is about 20 km wide and travels up to 68 km/s, making it the third

8 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Satellites·Space·Space Technology·Starlink

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Vodafone shares steady up after Q3 wobble — Germany, buyback and next results now set the tone

7 February 2026

Vodafone shares rose 1.47% to 110.60p Friday, recovering part of Thursday’s 4.68% drop after a Q3 update. Group revenue climbed 6.5% to €10.5 billion, but Germany’s 0.7% service revenue growth missed some forecasts. Vodafone launched a new €500 million buyback tranche, bringing total buybacks since May to €3.5 billion. Investors remain focused on Germany’s pace and cash flow execution.

NatWest Group stock: buyback filing and Rightmove mortgage deal set up a busy week

7 February 2026

NatWest shares closed up 1.45% at 659.4 pence Friday, buoyed by a buyback of 797,428 shares and a new digital mortgage deal with Rightmove. The Bank of England held rates at 3.75% but signaled possible cuts, with markets pricing in two reductions for 2026. NatWest plans to expand its Accelerator community to 50,000 members by 2026. Annual results are due Feb. 13.

Unilever share price holds at 5,250p as results week looms — what investors watch next

7 February 2026

Unilever shares closed flat at 5,250p in London Friday, underperforming the FTSE 100’s 0.6% gain. The company issued 4.2 million new shares for employee plans, bringing total shares to over 2.18 billion. Investors await Q4 and full-year results on Feb. 12, with analyst consensus pointing to 3.9% Q4 sales growth. Unilever’s U.S. ADR rose 0.8% to $72.12.

BP share price near 52-week high ahead of Feb 10 earnings as buyback runs on

7 February 2026

BP shares closed up 1.9% at 478 pence Friday, just below a 52-week high, as the company continued buybacks ahead of next week’s results. BP repurchased 2.789 million shares on February 6. Oil prices firmed on geopolitical risk, with Brent at $68.05 a barrel, but sector outlook remains uncertain. Investors await BP’s earnings and dividend decision due Tuesday.

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