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Mateusz Kaczmarek

A technology and finance expert writing for TS2.tech. He analyzes developments in satellites, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on their impact on global markets. Author of industry reports and market commentary, often cited in tech and business media. Passionate about innovation and the digital economy.

Space Race Heats Up: Satellite Launch Blitz, Bold Missions, and a Shuttle’s Surprise Move (Aug 6–7, 2025)

Space Race Heats Up: Satellite Launch Blitz, Bold Missions, and a Shuttle’s Surprise Move (Aug 6–7, 2025)

On Aug 7, SpaceX launched 24 Amazon Kuiper satellites on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral at 10:01 a.m. EDT, increasing the operational Kuiper fleet from 78 to 102 and with the first-stage booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas. Rocket Lab’s Aug 5 Electron launch deployed the QPS-SAR-12 “Kushinada-I” SAR satellite into a 575 km orbit from Launch Complex 1, marking Rocket Lab’s 69th Electron flight and the fifth dedicated iQPS mission. China’s Long March 12 from Wenchang on Aug 4 launched 18 low-orbit internet satellites for GalaxySpace, the seventh batch in eight days, bringing GalaxySpace
7 August 2025
Apple’s $100B Surprise, Space Startup Soars, and Tech Glitches Galore – Tech News Roundup (Aug 6–7, 2025)

Apple’s $100B Surprise, Space Startup Soars, and Tech Glitches Galore – Tech News Roundup (Aug 6–7, 2025)

Apple commits $100 billion to US manufacturing as part of the American Manufacturing Program, expands Corning to 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky, and partners with Samsung at its Texas chip fab on a “never-before-used” chipmaking technology. Sony raises its annual profit forecast to ¥1.33 trillion (about $9 billion) and reduces expected tariff impact to ¥70 billion from ¥100 billion, with PlayStation network services driving growth; shares jump 5%. At Black Hat, Cyata reveals 14 critical CVEs in CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault that could enable complete compromise of vaults, including Vault’s first remote code
7 August 2025
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AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)

AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)

MIT and Duke researchers used AI to design polymers with iron-based ferrocenes that absorb stress, dramatically speeding up additive discovery from weeks per candidate, with findings published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used a protein language model trained on 500 million sequences to invent OpenCRISPR-1, the first CRISPR enzyme designed entirely by AI, which edited human genome cells with high precision and was published in Nature, with OpenCRISPR-1 open-sourced. OpenAI released two open-weight large language models with 120 billion and 20 billion parameters, optimized to run on a single GPU or a laptop, with the weights openly accessible for
7 August 2025
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Drone Laws in Budapest: What You MUST Know Before You Fly

Drone Laws in Budapest: What You MUST Know Before You Fly

Hungary follows EU Regulations 2019/945 and 2019/947, applying the Open, Specific, and Certified categories, with Open flights limited to 120 m altitude, Visual Line of Sight, and no flights over large assemblies. Hungary requires national registration for virtually all drones above toy criteria, insurance is mandatory, and any flight within Budapest’s built-up area requires a special permit obtained well in advance. As of January 1, 2024, Remote ID is mandatory for most drones, with Specific-category drones and class-marked Open-category drones broadcasting the operator’s registration number. Drone registration is required for drones heavier than 120 g or with cameras or capable
7 August 2025
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Inside Rwanda’s Internet Revolution: How the Nation Is Connecting Remote Villages and Launching Satellites

Inside Rwanda’s Internet Revolution: How the Nation Is Connecting Remote Villages and Launching Satellites

Rwanda’s first internet access occurred around 1996, and by 2000 there were about 5,000 users (less than 0.1% of the population). In 2004 Rwanda privatized Rwandatel and sold it to Terracom, opening the ISP market to competition. Between 2008 and 2010, Rwanda laid over 3,000 km of national fiber backbone across all 30 districts, linking to SEACOM, EASSy and TEAMS in 2009, driving international bandwidth costs from about $3,000 per Mbps in 2006 to roughly $25 per Mbps. In 2013, Korea Telecom Rwanda Networks (KTRN) built a nationwide 4G network on a wholesale-only basis, achieving over 95% population coverage by
6 August 2025
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Drone Laws in Prague 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Safe & Legal Flying

Drone Laws in Prague 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Safe & Legal Flying

The EU drone rules classify operations into Open, Specific, and Certified, with Open further divided into A1, A2, and A3 subcategories. In Prague, almost all areas lie within restricted airspace LKR9, requiring Specific category authorization for most flights. Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, and the downtown area fall under the no-fly LKP1 zone, with no drones allowed there unless extreme government clearance. Prague Airport’s CTR prohibits flights within 5.5 km of LKPR without ATC coordination and constrains flights inside CTR to 100 m AGL or below. The standard maximum altitude is 120 m AGL in the Czech Republic, with lower limits
6 August 2025
Cosmic Triple-Feature: Meteor Shower, Double Planet Show & Aurora Hopes on Aug 6–7, 2025

Cosmic Triple-Feature: Meteor Shower, Double Planet Show & Aurora Hopes on Aug 6–7, 2025

The Perseid meteor shower ramps up on August 6–7, 2025, with about 10–20 meteors per hour after local midnight under dark skies despite a bright Moon at roughly 95–99% full. The August full Moon on August 9, 2025 is called the Sturgeon Moon, and its brightness washes out faint meteors during early Perseid activity. The Eta Eridanids are expected to peak on the night of August 7–8, 2025, adding about 3 meteors per hour at best. Venus and Jupiter dominate the dawn sky on August 6–7, 2025, with Venus at magnitude −4.0 and Jupiter at −1.9, about 6° apart. Around
6 August 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Satellite Launch Blitz, Lunar Power Plays & Billion-Dollar Space Deals (Aug 5–6, 2025 Roundup)

Space Race Heats Up: Satellite Launch Blitz, Lunar Power Plays & Billion-Dollar Space Deals (Aug 5–6, 2025 Roundup)

SpaceX Sets Launch Records, Amazon’s Kuiper Mission Up Next Rocket Lab Delivers Japanese Radar Satellite China Launches Internet Satellites, Sparks Debris Concerns NASA Mission Updates: Small-Sat Setbacks & Mars Rover Milestone ISS Crew Rotation and U.S.-Russia Cooperation Europe Preps Ariane 6 Debut and Future Missions Big Commercial Deals: Smartphone Constellations & Moon Ventures Space Policy Highlights: Nuclear Power in the Moon Race Sources: Space.com; SpaceNews; NASA Press Releases and Blogs; Reuters; Associated Press; ESA; TS2 Space Roundup; SatNews; Advanced Television; Qazinform space.com news.satnews.com ts2.tech abcnews.go.com ts2.tech nasa.gov science.nasa.gov ts2.tech cfpublic.org ts2.tech esa.int electronicspecifier.com ts2.tech advanced-television.com ts2.tech spacepolicyonline.com spacepolicyonline.com.
6 August 2025
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Musk’s $29 B Windfall, Satellite Wars & a Mind-Controlled iPad – Tech News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

Musk’s $29 B Windfall, Satellite Wars & a Mind-Controlled iPad – Tech News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

From streaming shake-ups to space races and breakthrough gadgets, here are the biggest tech stories and expert insights from August 5–6, 2025 (excluding AI). Consumer Tech & Media: Price Hikes and Podcast Pivots Gaming & Entertainment: Nintendo’s Next-Gen Moves Big Tech & Market Moves: IPO Surges and Stock Milestones Electric Vehicles & Transportation: Bumpy Roads and Big Bets Semiconductors & Hardware: Bright Spots and Red Flags Telecom & Space: Satellite Internet Shakeups and Record Launches Cybersecurity: Ransomware, Backdoors and Breaches Biotech & Health Tech: Cyber Sins and Mind-Controlled Gadgets Sources: Key information in this report is drawn from reputable outlets
6 August 2025
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AI’s Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – Global AI News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

AI’s Frenzy: Billion-Dollar Bets, Breakthroughs & Backlash – Global AI News Roundup (Aug 5–6, 2025)

MIT and Duke University researchers used AI to design tougher plastics, identifying iron-based ferrocene additives and mechanophores that make polymer networks absorb stress, with results published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used generative AI to create OpenCRISPR-1, the first AI-designed CRISPR enzyme, which edited human genome cells and was trained on 500 million sequences, with the work published in Nature and open-sourced. OpenAI unveiled two open-weight LLMs with 120 billion and 20 billion parameters that can run on a single GPU or a laptop, with open weights for fine-tuning and availability on AWS Bedrock. Thomson Reuters launched CoCounsel Legal,
6 August 2025
Myanmar’s Internet Dilemma: From Blackouts to Starlink Dreams

Myanmar’s Internet Dilemma: From Blackouts to Starlink Dreams

In 2021, more than 400 cell towers were destroyed amid fighting, crippling parts of Myanmar’s mobile network. MPT’s FTTH network expanded to 154 of 330 townships by early 2024, up from 27 townships in 2019. As of early 2024, Myanmar had about 64.3 million mobile connections (roughly 117% SIM penetration), with 4G coverage around 90% of the population and 5G footprint below 1%. By late 2024, well over 3,000 Starlink dishes were reportedly active in Myanmar, with more than 80 units confiscated in 2022. In December 2021 the MoTC ordered mobile operators to double data prices, and by 2023 the
5 August 2025
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Quantum Computing’s Explosive 48 Hours – Breakthroughs, Big Bets & Bold Moves (Aug 4–5, 2025)

Quantum Computing’s Explosive 48 Hours – Breakthroughs, Big Bets & Bold Moves (Aug 4–5, 2025)

Fujitsu announced R&D on a superconducting quantum computer with over 10,000 physical qubits, targeting completion in fiscal 2030, using its STAR fault-tolerant architecture to reach 250 logical qubits by 2030 and 1,000 logical qubits by 2035 as part of a Japan-backed industrialization effort. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a quantum-enhanced power-grid optimization using IonQ’s 36-qubit Forte system to schedule 26 generators over 24 periods, as part of the DOE GRID-Q program. Rigetti Computing announced 99.5% median two-qubit gate fidelity on its 36-qubit modular processor (four 9-qubit chiplets), plans to launch the system on August 15 and to scale
5 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Lucid stock jumps 14% as Dow tops 50,000 — what LCID investors watch next week

Lucid stock jumps 14% as Dow tops 50,000 — what LCID investors watch next week

7 February 2026
Lucid Group shares jumped 14% to $10.86 at Friday’s close, recovering from an 8% drop the previous day. The move followed a broad Wall Street rally that lifted high-volatility stocks. Lucid reported fourth-quarter deliveries of 5,345 vehicles and full-year deliveries of 15,841. Investors await Lucid’s Feb. 24 results for updates on cash and demand.
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