The Black Knight legend links Nikola Tesla’s 1899 reports of periodic radio signals from Colorado Springs to the idea of an ancient satellite in Earth orbit. In 1927 Jørgen Hals observed long-delayed echoes, and in 1973 Duncan Lunan claimed a star map pointing to Epsilon Boötes suggesting a 13,000-year-old alien probe, later retracting parts of…
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Over 32,000 debris objects are regularly tracked, with an estimated 130+ million fragments too small to track, and a 1-centimeter piece can disable a satellite. The International Space Station has performed nearly 40 evasive maneuvers to dodge debris. Kessler Syndrome describes a self-sustaining cascade of collisions that could render portions of orbit unusable. In 2007,…
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Einstein GPT, launched in 2023, is the world’s first generative AI for CRM, integrating Salesforce’s proprietary models with OpenAI’s GPT on real-time Customer 360 data. It provides role-based capabilities across Clouds: Sales GPT drafts emails and call summaries, Service GPT writes AI-recommended replies and turns resolved cases into knowledge articles, and Marketing GPT creates personalized…
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Google Cloud Speech AI provides Text-to-Speech with 380+ voices across 50+ languages using WaveNet/Neural2, Speech-to-Text in 125+ languages, and Custom Voice generally available in 2024. Azure Speech Service offers Neural Text-to-Speech with 446 voices in 144 languages (as of mid-2024), Speech-to-Text in 75+ languages, and Custom Neural Voice with cloud or on-prem deployment. Amazon Polly…
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ChatGPT (OpenAI) launched in November 2022, added GPT-4 in 2023, reached about 122 million daily active users by early 2025, and offers a free GPT-3.5 tier plus ChatGPT Plus at $20 per month and an Enterprise tier introduced in 2023. Google Bard launched in 2023, evolved from LaMDA to PaLM 2 and Gemini by 2025,…
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Telkom/Openserve is phasing out copper as fixed broadband shifts to fiber, with end-2024 ADSL subscribers under 36,000, down from a peak of over 1 million in 2015. FTTH subscriptions rose from 1.49 million in 2023 to 2.47 million in 2024, driven by aggressive rollouts from Telkom/Openserve, Vumatel, and other operators. Over 69% of internet users…
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Perseids peak on August 12–13, 2025 with 50–100 meteors per hour in the Northern Hemisphere, best after midnight as the Moon wanes. Geminids peak on December 13–14, 2025 with 100+ meteors per hour and the first-quarter Moon sets early. Quadrantids peak on January 3–4, 2026 with about 120 meteors per hour over roughly a four-hour…
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OpenAI ChatGPT, built on GPT-4 and now multimodal with text, image, and voice inputs, reached over 100 million weekly users by 2024 and offers a free tier plus the $20/month ChatGPT Plus plan with plugins and web browsing. Google Gemini (formerly Bard) integrates with Google Workspace, offers Gemini Advanced in Google One AI Premium at…
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OpenAI DALL-E 3 is OpenAI’s chat-integrated text-to-image model, available with ChatGPT Plus for $20/month or free (limited) via Bing. Midjourney Version 7, released in April 2025, provides four variations per prompt with upscaling; Basic $10/month, Standard $30/month, and Pro $60/month. Adobe Firefly integrates with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express, offers 25 free credits per month, and…
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Suno AI generates complete songs with vocals and lyrics from a short text prompt in seconds, using its v4.5 model and offering multi-language vocals plus a Personas feature to remember your preferred style. Udio creates full songs with AI-sung vocals from natural-language prompts in about 30–60 seconds, with editing (extend, remix, inpaint) and stem separation,…
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