Spotify raised its Premium Individual plan price to €11.99 from €10.99 across Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, effective September, and shares jumped almost 8% on the news. Nintendo offered a late-July Switch 2 showcase, signaling more simultaneous third-party launches and no official release date yet. Figma debuted on July 31 with…
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OpenAI raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a funding round led by Dragoneer with a $2.8 billion check, as SoftBank commits up to $40 billion in total (with $10 billion already in April and $30 billion more by year-end) and new backers include Blackstone, TPG, and Sequoia. AI-driven M&A surged to $2.6…
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Stockholm follows the EU Open, Specific and Certified drone categories, adopted by Sweden on January 1, 2021. Open Category Subcategory A1 (C0/C1) drones are typically under 900 g, or under 250 g for C0, and may fly in populated areas but must avoid flying directly over uninvolved people, with crowds strictly prohibited. Open Category Subcategory…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT runs on GPT-4o (GPT-4 Omni), introduced in early 2025 as a multimodal model that handles text, images, and voice. GPT-4.5, code-named Orion, was rolled out to ChatGPT Pro in February 2025 to boost performance ahead of GPT-5, which is under development for late-summer 2025. Anthropic released Claude 4 in May 2025, with two…
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HarmonyOS Next, released in late 2024, runs on a fully self-developed system base with no Android dependencies. At launch, HarmonyOS Next offered over 15,000 apps and meta-services, and Huawei reported more than 6.75 million HarmonyOS developers by late 2024. Huawei claimed HarmonyOS powers over 1 billion devices as of 2024. Global smartphone OS market shares…
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Drone use in the Maldives is allowed only on a case-by-case basis under strict regulations, with no casual recreational flights. The maximum permitted altitude is 120 meters (about 400 feet) and drones must yield to manned aircraft, with night flying prohibited. There is no mandatory local drone pilot license for hobbyists, and no mandatory insurance,…
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Roomba Combo J9+ uses a single mop pad on an auto-retract arm with Dry Rug Intelligence that lifts the pad completely off carpet to keep rugs dry, and its Clean Base dock empties into a disposable bag for about 60 days and refills the 210 ml water tank, but it does not auto-wash the mop…
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TP-Link Deco BE95 is a quad-band Wi‑Fi 7 system with BE33000 up to 33 Gbps theoretical throughput across four bands, two 6 GHz radios, a 16‑stream (4×4) setup, 12 internal antennas, plus a SFP+ option and a USB 3.0 port. The Eero Max 7 is a tri‑band Wi‑Fi 7 router with about 20.8 Gbps combined…
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The Asus ROG Strix XG17AHP is a 17.3-inch 1080p IPS portable monitor with 1920×1080 resolution, ~127 PPI, 240 Hz refresh, ~3 ms response, Adaptive-Sync, and a built-in 7800 mAh battery for roughly 3–4 hours of wireless use. The LG Gram +View 17 uses a 17-inch WQXGA 2560×1600 IPS panel in a 16:10 aspect, ~350 nits…
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As of January 2024, Western Sahara had about 398,000 internet users, roughly 67.1% of the population, up by 65,000 users (a 19% increase) from 2023. By early 2024 about 87% of the population lived in urban areas (Laayoune, Dakhla, Smara, Boujdour), while about 32.9% remained offline, concentrated in rural or nomadic communities. The median fixed…
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