Q1 2025 fintech funding jumped 18% quarter-over-quarter to over $10 billion, the highest level in two years. The U.S. FedNow real-time payment rails had onboarded more than 1,200 banks by early 2025 and processed 1.3 million transactions in Q1 2025, up 43% QoQ. In June 2025, the European Payments Initiative launched a cross-border collaboration to…
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Global semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, up 18.1% from 2023, with Gartner projecting about $705 billion in 2025. Data-center AI chip sales rose to $112 billion in 2024, up from $64.8 billion in 2023, making generative AI workloads the second-largest semiconductor market after smartphones. Memory revenue jumped about 72% in 2024 and accounted…
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From March 13–27, 2025, Google rolled out a broad Core Update focused on relevance, quality and user intent. In 2024 Google released four confirmed core updates (March, August, November, December), with the December update rolling out in six days—the fastest on record. Google’s 2024 spam updates targeted keyword spam, malicious content, and link schemes, with…
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Late 2024, the first FDA-approved CRISPR-based therapy exagamglogene autotemcel (Casgevy) reached patients, with Vertex reporting $2 million in revenue from this sickle-cell gene-editing therapy in Q3 2024. Prime Medicine’s PM359 autologous CRISPR prime-edited cell therapy for chronic granulomatous disease began a Phase I/II study in 2024, with initial first-in-human data expected in late 2025. Wave…
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Gartner projects worldwide generative AI spending will reach $644 billion in 2025, up 76% from 2024. By mid-2025, over 72% of companies have adopted some form of AI, with about 65% of firms using generative AI in 2024. Deloitte predicts 25% of AI-using companies will pilot autonomous “agentic AI” systems in 2025, rising to 50%…
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The national fiber-optic backbone, about 1,300 km long, was completed in 2018 by Huawei to connect major cities and border links in Malawi. In July 2023, ESCOM linked Malawi to Tanzania’s national broadband backbone, a move expected to lower international bandwidth costs and extend connectivity to rural areas. In 2023, Liquid Intelligent Technologies launched a…
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ESA’s Biomass satellite, the first with a P-band SAR, released its initial high-resolution images and enables 3D mapping of forest structure for carbon accounting. Rocket Lab’s 67th Electron launch deployed four satellites—three HawkEye 360 Cluster 12 microsatellites and the experimental Kestrel-0A—marking the ninth Electron mission in 2024. Amazon’s Project Kuiper added 27 satellites to reach…
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Generative AI integration is a unifying theme across wearables, smart home devices, AR/VR headsets, AI-powered assistants, personal audio, and home robotics in 2025. Apple’s Series 10 Watch (launched late 2024) features ECG-based atrial fibrillation detection and can turn AirPods Pro into hearing-assist devices via a software update. Circular Ring 2 from CES 2025 offers an…
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Meta’s Quest 3, released in late 2023, is a standalone VR headset with mixed reality capabilities that is roughly twice as powerful as its predecessor and features high-resolution pancake lenses plus full-color passthrough for MR. Apple’s Vision Pro, announced in mid-2023 and released in early 2024, costs about $3,500 and uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays…
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Huawei Pura 80 Ultra features a 1-inch main sensor with dual telephoto zooms (3.7× and 9.4×), a 120 Hz OLED display, a 5,700 mAh battery, 100 W wired and 80 W wireless charging on Pro/Ultra variants, priced at ¥10,999. OnePlus 13s (global/India) uses a 6.32″ LTPO AMOLED display at 1.5K resolution with 120 Hz, is…
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