Virtual Reality (VR) has entered 2025 with significant momentum and some pivotal new entrants. After years of being driven largely by gaming and experimental uses, VR is now maturing into a broader platform spanning consumer entertainment, enterprise training, and social connectivity. The first half of 2025 saw major hardware launches and announcements – most notably Apple’s foray into “spatial…
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Introduction June 2025 has been a whirlwind month in the smartphone world, marked by major product launches and evolving technology trends. Top global brands rolled out new flagship phones, foldable devices, and feature-packed mid-range models, all while pushing the envelope in design and performance. Cutting-edge innovations in AI-powered features, mobile photography, display technology, battery charging,…
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Major Releases in June 2025 Nintendo Switch 2 Debut: June 2025 marked a huge milestone with the release of Nintendo’s next-generation Switch 2 console en.wikipedia.org. Nintendo launched the Switch 2 on June 5 alongside a wave of first-party titles. Notably, Mario Kart World – the ninth installment of the famed kart racer – arrived as…
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Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing at an unprecedented pace in mid-2025, reshaping industries, spurring massive investments, and raising important societal questions. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the latest AI developments as of June 2025 – from technical breakthroughs across key sectors, to emerging research and commercial trends, market dynamics, policy updates, and…
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Turkey has developed a comprehensive regulatory framework for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) to ensure safe and responsible integration of drones into its airspace. Drone usage – whether for recreation, commerce, or government purposes – is legal in Turkey but heavily regulated by the national civil aviation authority. The General Directorate of Civil Aviation…
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Major News and Breakthroughs in 2025 2025 has been a milestone year for quantum computing, marked by record-breaking experiments and technological firsts. Researchers unveiled the first topological quantum processor – an 8-qubit device using exotic Majorana particles for inherently stable qubits sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com. In another leap, D-Wave’s annealing computer solved a complex magnetic simulation in minutes –…
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Background: The Promise of Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) Space-based solar power (SBSP) is the ambitious concept of harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it down to Earth. The idea dates back to 1968, when engineer Peter Glaser first proposed placing giant satellites in orbit to collect sunlight and transmit power wirelessly to Earth space.com.…
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Background and Mission Objectives The European Space Agency’s Biomass mission is a groundbreaking Earth observation program focused on measuring the amount of carbon stored in the world’s forests. Selected in 2013 as ESA’s seventh Earth Explorer research mission, Biomass was conceived to address a critical gap in our understanding of the global carbon cycle en.wikipedia.org…
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Airbus’s Constellation Optique 3D (CO3D) is a cutting-edge Earth observation project poised to revolutionize how we map and monitor the planet. Set for launch in July 2025, CO3D is a constellation of four laser-linked, AI-enabled optical satellites that will deliver 50 cm resolution imagery and generate a global 3D map of Earth’s land surfaces airbus.com cnes.fr.…
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Introduction: The AI/ML Landscape in Mid‑2025 Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have surged into mainstream use by mid-2025, marking a pivotal year of both breakthrough innovation and intensified scrutiny. Generative AI applications like ChatGPT have reached massive global audiences – for example, OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is now one of the world’s top websites,…
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