Destiny 2’s Edge of Fate expansion introduces a new form of loot grinding and seasonal bonuses that require Guardians to re-grind power and gear more often, with temporary upgrade materials that expire each season. Resident Evil: Requiem (Resident Evil 9) is set 30 years in the future in a reimagined Raccoon City and introduces Grace…
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The James Webb Space Telescope directly imaged a Saturn-mass exoplanet, TWA 7 b, about 0.3 Jupiter masses at 50 AU from its star, marking Webb’s first direct exoplanet discovery. The missing baryon problem was resolved using 69 fast radio bursts, showing about 76% of ordinary matter lies in hot intergalactic gas, ~15% in halos around…
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MrBeast removed the $80/month AI thumbnail generator on Viewstats after backlash and replaced it with a directory of real thumbnail artists, while he has 385+ million subscribers. Denmark unveiled legislation to grant individuals copyright over their face and voice, with about 90% of MPs backing the bill and it heading to Parliament in autumn. AI-focused…
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In Q1 2025, Tesla posted net income of about $0.4 billion, produced roughly 362,600 vehicles and delivered about 336,700, with volume weakness tied to a refreshed Model Y rollout across four plants. For full-year 2024, Tesla reported revenue of $97.7 billion and net income of $7.1 billion, with automotive gross margins falling to around 15%…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPT-5 is expected to launch in summer 2025 and is reportedly materially better than GPT-4. Midjourney unveiled its first text-to-video system, Model V1, producing 16-second videos with advanced motion and style control in June 2025. China’s MiniMax released the M1 large model as an open-source Apache 2.0-licensed challenger claiming cutting-edge…
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In the first five months of 2025, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, including a May surge of 93 GW solar and 26 GW wind, lifting total solar capacity to 1,080 GW. A June 2025 federal court overturned the freeze on the NEVI program, unfrozing about $1 billion in charging…
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The four new Connecta satellites named Connecta IoT-9, IoT-10, IoT-11, and IoT-12 were launched in June 2025 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the Transporter-14 rideshare. The launch brings Plan-S’s Connecta constellation to 17 satellites in orbit, with 12 commercially active satellites and the remainder as test/demo units. The new satellites enable gigabit-level data access across…
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Xona’s Pulsar constellation plans to deploy 250–300 small LEO satellites at about 326 miles (525 km) altitude to deliver centimeter-level PNT. Pulsar signals are encrypted and authenticated, with satellites orbiting ~40× closer to Earth than GPS to produce about 100× stronger received signals. A ‘cloud architecture for atomic clocks’ coordinates timing from ground stations instead…
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In August 2022, T-Mobile and SpaceX announced the Coverage Above and Beyond partnership to end mobile dead zones by connecting standard smartphones to Starlink satellites, branded as T-Satellite with Starlink, aiming to cover roughly 500,000 square miles of the U.S. Starlink Gen2 satellites feature Direct to Cell antenna arrays that enable direct-to-device connectivity with unmodified…
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China’s Zhongxing-9C satellite was launched on June 20, 2025, atop a Long March 3B from Xichang, marking the full localization of Chinese broadcast satellites in the 582nd Long March flight. SpaceX launched the Starlink 10-34 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, deploying 27 Starlink satellites and bringing the active constellation to nearly 8,000, with…
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