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GPT-5 vs Gemini: Inside 2025’s High-Stakes Frontier AI Showdown

Gemini Ultra achieved 90.0% on the MMLU benchmark, the first AI to exceed human expert performance. GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) was introduced by 2025, handling text, images, and audio with about 232 ms response times and powering the free ChatGPT tier in mid-2025. Claude Opus 4 is billed as the world’s best coding model, achieving 72–73%…
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AI Art Revolution: How Free AI Painting Generators Are Transforming Creativity in 2025

DALL·E 3, released in late 2023 and integrated into Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator, generated over 1 billion images in its first months. Craiyon (formerly DALL·E mini) launched in 2022 and has produced over 10 million images. StarryAI uses the backend Argo (powered by Stable Diffusion) and offers 1000+ stylistic presets, with a free plan of…
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Portugal’s Digital Revolution: Complete Guide to Internet Access and Satellite Services

By mid-2023, fixed fiber passed over 92% of Portuguese homes, with end-2023 FTTH/B connections totaling 3.24 million households versus about 1.3 million on cable. By June 2023, 5G coverage reached about 98.1% of households (low-band), and rural 5G coverage jumped to 87.5% by mid-2023 from 20% in 2022. As of June 2023, 97.6% of households…
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Venice Drone Laws Revealed: Shocking No-Fly Zones, Permit Rules & Sky-High Fines

Venice’s historic center is effectively a no-fly zone that requires explicit ENAC and local authorities’ authorization, with the D-Flight map marking Venice in red as prohibited. The EU/ENAC altitude limit is 120 m (400 ft) above ground level, but in Venice’s restricted zones the practical limit without a permit is 0 m. Drones must stay…
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Starlink Doubleheader, NASA Upheaval & Space Race Showdowns – Global Space News Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

SpaceX launched back-to-back Falcon 9 missions for Starlink within 24 hours: on July 26 at 5:01 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral with 28 Starlink satellites and on July 27 at 12:31 a.m. EDT from Vandenberg with 24 Starlinks, with first-stage boosters landing on droneships on their 22nd and 19th flights respectively and the company pushing…
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Space Triumphs, Gadget Shockers & Cyber Breaches – Tech Weekend Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7, unveiled July 9, 2025, reached general availability on July 25, 2025, and stands 8.9 mm thick when folded with a 200 MP camera. Sony revived its RX1R line with the RX1R III, launched nine years after the last model and featuring a 61 MP full-frame sensor. AMD rolled out the Ryzen…
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Weekend in AI: China’s Global Gambit, Tech Giants’ Moves & a “Godfather” Warning (July 26–27, 2025)

At WAIC 2025 in Shanghai, Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced plans to create a new international organization to jointly develop and govern AI, warned that AI could become an exclusive game for a few nations or companies without a global governance consensus, and unveiled a governance action plan inviting worldwide collaboration via open-source communities. UN…
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State of Internet Access in Lebanon: From Fiber Optics to Starlink Skies

Lebanon was the first Arab country to introduce the internet in the 1990s, and began offering DSL broadband in 2006. Ogero launched a 40-month national fiber rollout in mid-2018, with about 35% completion by the end of 2019 and a target to reach most households by 2022, slowed by the crisis. By 2025, Lebanon’s fixed…
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Bitcoin Whale Dumps $9B, Altcoins Whipsaw, NFTs Boom and Regulators Swoop – Crypto News Roundup (July 25–26, 2025)

Galaxy Digital completed the off-market sale of 80,000 BTC for about $9 billion for a Satoshi-era whale, prompting Bitcoin’s dip under $115,000 before rebounding above $117,000. Ethereum hovered near $3,704 after a July surge of nearly 50%, with US spot ETH ETFs attracting $4.6 billion of inflows in the past two weeks and BlackRock’s ETH…
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Starlink Outage, New Launches and Space Alliances – Major Space Developments (July 25–26, 2025)

On July 25, 2025, Russia’s Roscosmos launched a Soyuz-2.1b from Vostochny with two Ionosfera-M satellites into polar orbit as part of the Ionozond program, and deployed 18 secondary payloads (17 Russian CubeSats and Iran’s Nahid-2). Europe’s Vega-C rocket lifted off from Kourou on July 25, 2025, delivering MicroCarb and four CO3D satellites into orbit, with…
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