Exoplanet Research Breakthroughs Webb Directly Images a Saturn-Mass Exoplanet: For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered an exoplanet previously unknown – a young gas giant roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting the star TWA 7 science.nasa.gov reuters.com. This object, dubbed TWA 7 b, is about 50 AU from its star and…
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MrBeast Scraps AI Thumbnail Generator After Creator Backlash The world’s biggest YouTuber retreats from AI tool after criticism. YouTube star MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) has removed a generative AI thumbnail maker from his creator platform Viewstats just days after launch, following intense backlash from fellow creators ndtv.com pcgamer.com. The $80/month tool promised to “generate viral thumbnails,”…
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Latest News and Developments (Mid-2025) Business & Financial Updates Tesla’s recent financial performance has been mixed. In the first quarter of 2025, the company reported a 71% year-over-year decline in net profit, with net income plunging to about $0.4 billion (from nearly $1.4 billion a year prior). This sharp drop was driven by lower vehicle deliveries and aggressive price…
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June 2025 was a landmark month for artificial intelligence, with major advances and unexpected events across generative AI, robotics, healthcare, defense, regulation, and business. From next-generation AI models and robots entering factories to new healthcare AI tools and calls for oversight, the AI landscape saw rapid evolution. Below is a comprehensive news-style report summarizing the…
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Introduction Green technology is experiencing rapid growth in 2025, driven by record investments, technological breakthroughs, and supportive (if sometimes turbulent) policy landscapes. As of June 2025, clean energy sectors like solar, wind, and hydrogen are breaking installation records, while electric vehicle (EV) adoption accelerates worldwide. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the latest trends…
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Overview: A New Milestone for Plan-S and Satellite IoT Plan-S, a Turkish satellite technology firm founded in 2021, has reached a major milestone in industrial IoT connectivity. The company launched four new satellites in June 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 (Transporter-14) mission, expanding its Connecta IoT Network to a total of 17 satellites in…
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Overview: Xona Space Systems and the Pulsar Constellation Project Xona Space Systems is a Silicon Valley startup aiming to build a next-generation satellite navigation network as an alternative and complement to GPS. Founded in 2019 by a team of Stanford-educated engineers (including alumni of SpaceX and Stanford’s GPS Lab), Xona’s mission is to “rebuild satellite…
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A Partnership to Eliminate Dead Zones In August 2022, T-Mobile and SpaceX announced an ambitious partnership called “Coverage Above and Beyond,” aiming to end mobile dead zones by connecting standard smartphones to SpaceX’s Starlink satellitest-mobile.comt-mobile.com. Under this vision, Starlink’s low-Earth-orbit satellites would broadcast using T-Mobile’s cellular spectrum, essentially acting as space-based cell towers. The goal:…
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This Week in Space: New Frontiers, Private Astronauts, and the Next Era of Observation Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Space Launches and Satellite Milestones China’s Zhongxing-9C: Full Localization of Broadcast Satellites SpaceX Starlink Launches and Global Connectivity Rocket Lab and HawkEye 360: Expanding RF Intelligence EarthDaily and Next-Gen Earth Observation ESA and Biomass: Unveiling…
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Introduction Robotics and automation are entering the latter half of 2025 with unprecedented momentum. Global industrial robot adoption hit record levels – the value of new installations reached $16.5 billion in 2024 ifr.org – and over 4.28 million robots are now operating in factories worldwide ifr.org. This surge is powered by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) integration, a post-pandemic…
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