PixVerse AI released the v4.5 model in August 2025, adding more than 20 features including cinematic camera moves and multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 launched on March 31, 2025, delivering higher-fidelity video with temporal consistency and support for visual reference inputs. Pika Labs released version 2.2 in March 2025, enabling 1080p output up to 10 seconds…
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The Perseids, active in early August and building toward their mid-August peak, can reach about 100 meteors per hour at maximum under dark skies, with bright blue fireballs from debris of Comet Swift–Tuttle. The 2025 Perseids peak will be hampered by moonlight: the Sturgeon Moon will be full on Aug 9, and the Moon will…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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DNA data storage can reach about 215 petabytes per gram, with estimates of nearly 1 zettabyte per gram under optimal conditions, and a grain of salt could hold 10 full-length movies. DNA storage could last millennia if properly stored, and dried DNA encapsulated in glass survived neutron radiation without data loss. Writing DNA is slow…
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Gemini Live debuted in late 2024 as Google’s replacement for Google Assistant and is built on the Gemini LLM, enabling real-time screen and camera analysis. Alexa+ was announced in early 2025 and rolled out as a free Prime upgrade (or $19.99/month) with a model-agnostic mix (Nova and Anthropic Claude 2) to handle calendars, reservations, rides,…
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NVIDIA Drive Thor delivers up to 1,000 TOPS (INT8 sparse) on a single chip and can be paired via NVLink-C2C to about 2,000 TOPS for high-end Level 4–5 autonomy. Thor combines a Blackwell GPU with 2560 CUDA cores and 96 Tensor Cores, a 14-core Arm Neoverse V3 CPU complex, on a 4nm TSMC process, and…
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Wi‑Fi Sensing (IEEE 802.11bf) repurposes 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz Wi‑Fi signals to detect movement across a typical home, offering tens of meters of range, millisecond‑level latency, and energy‑efficient operation by piggybacking on existing routers. Ultra‑Wideband (UWB; IEEE 802.15.4z) uses ultra‑wide pulses around 6–8 GHz to measure time‑of‑flight with centimeter‑level accuracy, typically 10–15…
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