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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Rwanda’s first internet access occurred around 1996, and by 2000 there were about 5,000 users (less than 0.1% of the population). In 2004 Rwanda privatized Rwandatel and sold it to Terracom, opening the ISP market to competition. Between 2008 and 2010, Rwanda laid over 3,000 km of national fiber backbone across all 30 districts, linking…
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Lenovo Yoga 9i Aura Edition (14″, 2025) uses Intel Core Ultra 7 258V (Lunar Lake) up to ~3.7 GHz with 16 cores/20 threads, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD, and a 14″ OLED 2880×1800 touchscreen at 120 Hz. HP Spectre x360 14 (2025) runs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake) up to…
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Near-real-time satellite imagery is common: Landsat 8 images can appear within seconds of downlink, NASA Worldview layers update within about 3 hours, and geostationary weather satellites refresh every 5–15 minutes. The ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment streams live video of Earth from about 400 km up with roughly 1-second latency, and the view shifts as…
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The EU drone rules classify operations into Open, Specific, and Certified, with Open further divided into A1, A2, and A3 subcategories. In Prague, almost all areas lie within restricted airspace LKR9, requiring Specific category authorization for most flights. Prague Castle, Charles Bridge, and the downtown area fall under the no-fly LKP1 zone, with no drones…
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The Perseid meteor shower ramps up on August 6–7, 2025, with about 10–20 meteors per hour after local midnight under dark skies despite a bright Moon at roughly 95–99% full. The August full Moon on August 9, 2025 is called the Sturgeon Moon, and its brightness washes out faint meteors during early Perseid activity. The…
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SpaceX Sets Launch Records, Amazon’s Kuiper Mission Up Next Rocket Lab Delivers Japanese Radar Satellite China Launches Internet Satellites, Sparks Debris Concerns NASA Mission Updates: Small-Sat Setbacks & Mars Rover Milestone ISS Crew Rotation and U.S.-Russia Cooperation Europe Preps Ariane 6 Debut and Future Missions Big Commercial Deals: Smartphone Constellations & Moon Ventures Space Policy Highlights:…
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From streaming shake-ups to space races and breakthrough gadgets, here are the biggest tech stories and expert insights from August 5–6, 2025 (excluding AI). Consumer Tech & Media: Price Hikes and Podcast Pivots Gaming & Entertainment: Nintendo’s Next-Gen Moves Big Tech & Market Moves: IPO Surges and Stock Milestones Electric Vehicles & Transportation: Bumpy Roads…
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