Astronaut Homecoming & ISS Updates Rocket Launch Drama & Satellite Missions Moon Exploration & Global Programs Science & New Discoveries Commercial & Industry Developments Sources: This report compiles information from official agency releases, trusted news outlets, and expert commentary. Key sources include NASA press releases nasa.gov spacepolicyonline.com, Spaceflight Now spaceflightnow.com spaceflightnow.com, Space.com space.com space.com, SpaceNews…
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AOL will discontinue its Dial-up Internet service on September 30, 2025 after a 34-year run. AOL will retire the AOL Dialer software and the AOL Shield browser, both optimized for older operating systems, alongside the dial-up shutdown. Marks & Spencer relaunched its online click-and-collect service on August 11, 2025 after a 15-week ransomware outage that…
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OpenAI launched GPT-5, touted as a significant step toward artificial general intelligence and now accessible to free ChatGPT users with usage limits, while being integrated into Microsoft Copilot. OpenAI released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b (117-billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b (21B parameters), which can run on a single high-end GPU (~80 GB VRAM) or a laptop (~16…
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The Perseids peak on August 12–13, 2025, as Earth passes through the densest part of Swift-Tuttle’s debris, with the official peak around 02:30–03:00 UTC on August 13. The Moon will be a bright waning gibbous at about 83–84% illumination during peak, severely reducing counts from the typical 50–100 meteors per hour to about 10–20 per…
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The Perseid meteor shower peaks on the night of August 12 into the early hours of August 13, 2025. The peak occurs three days after a full moon, so bright moonlight reduces fainter meteors and you may see about 10–20 meteors per hour under moonlit skies. In North America and Europe, the peak is the…
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iPhone OS 1 launched June 29, 2007 on the original iPhone, introducing a capacitive multi‑touch UI but offering no native third‑party apps. iPhone OS 2 released July 11, 2008, introducing the App Store with 500 apps at launch and 10 million app downloads in the first three days. iPhone OS 3 (June 17, 2009) added…
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Android 1.0 debuted publicly on September 23, 2008 on the T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), launching Google’s first public Android release. Android 1.5 Cupcake, released in April 2009, introduced the first on-screen keyboard and home-screen widgets and began the dessert-naming tradition. Android 1.6 Donut, released in September 2009, added support for multiple screen sizes and CDMA…
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Windows 1.0 debuted in November 1985 as Microsoft’s first graphical user interface on PCs, running on top of MS-DOS as an “operating environment” with tiled windows due to an Apple licensing agreement. Windows 2.0, released in December 1987, introduced overlapping windows, desktop icons, keyboard shortcuts, expanded memory and 16-color VGA graphics, and bundled early Word…
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The original Macintosh debuted in January 1984 with System 1, introducing windows, icons, menus, and mouse-based interaction. System 7, released in 1991, added virtual memory and 32-bit addressing, along with built-in networking features like AppleTalk. In 1997 Apple acquired NeXT, giving Mac OS X a Unix-based core (Darwin/BSD) with the Mach kernel, leading to Mac…
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In 2019, the World Bank–funded CARCIP project installed a subsea fiber-optic cable linking St. Vincent to the Grenadines, with over 150 miles laid by late 2019 and open access for both Digicel and Flow. Flow’s Bequia upgrade in 2021 migrated services from copper DSL and microwave backhaul to hybrid fiber-coax, delivering minimum speeds of 50…
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