At Bletchley Park in the 1940s, Alan Turing and colleagues decrypted Enigma messages, providing ULTRA intelligence that aided Allied victory. The United States began launching military communications satellites in the 1960s, and by 1982 the second- and third-generation DSCS satellites offered nuclear-hardened, anti-jamming, high-data-rate links worldwide. In 1976, Diffie–Hellman introduced public-key cryptography, and DES was…
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A leaked internal document claims the iPhone 17 lineup will offer 15 color options across four models (Standard, iPhone 17 Air, Pro, Pro Max), with an orange/copper finish exclusive to Pro and Pro Max, and the unveiling is expected in roughly two months. Apple plans to release the iOS 26 public beta in late July,…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 24 new Starlink satellites on July 18 from California, with the booster landing for the 14th time on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, expanding the constellation to nearly 8,000 active satellites. Raytheon delivered the OCX GPS control software to the U.S. Space Force, upgrading the Global Positioning System…
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Agent mode, allowing the chatbot to take actions on a user’s behalf using a built‑in browser and plugins, with access granted to paying subscribers. AWS announced AgentCore, a toolkit to build enterprise AI agents at scale, featuring seven agent services and an AI Agents Marketplace, plus a $100 million fund for…
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Nuance Communications, acquired by Microsoft in 2022 for about $19.7 billion, pioneered ambient clinical intelligence and Dragon Medical used by more than 550,000 physicians. In 2020 Nuance launched Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) to securely capture doctor‑patient conversations and automatically generate clinical documentation. In March 2023 Nuance announced DAX Express, the first fully AI‑automated clinical documentation…
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In August 2022, Xperi announced TiVo OS at IFA Berlin and named Vestel as the first OEM partner. By November 2023, TiVo OS had six OEM partners shipping TVs in 15 European countries under 17 brand names. In mid-2023, the first TiVo OS TVs began shipping in Europe, with Vestel-produced models including Bush, JVC, Telefunken,…
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Google started Project Glass at Google X around 2011, officially announced in April 2012, with a dramatic June 2012 I/O live demo. Time magazine named Google Glass its Invention of the Year in 2012. The first Explorer Edition shipments began in April 2013, priced at $1,500. Explorer Edition hardware included a 640×360 display (perceived as…
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NASA announced TRACERS, a pair of satellites to study Earth’s magnetosphere, slated to launch in late July 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from California, flying in tandem across the poles to observe magnetic reconnection, alongside three NASA tech demos including a “Polylingual” communications terminal and a smallsat radiation belt cleanup demonstrator. NASA announced SNIFS,…
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Pixel 10 is powered by Google’s Tensor G5 built on a 3 nm process from TSMC, with 12 GB of RAM on the standard model and a triple-camera setup led by a 50 MP GN8 main sensor and 5× telephoto, plus 4K60 HDR video support. Pixel 10 Pro and Pixel 10 Pro XL feature 16…
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The iPhone 17 family will comprise four models—iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max—with the Plus variant dropped and a September 2025 launch tied to iOS 19/26. The iPhone 17 Air is expected to be ultra-thin at about 5.5–6mm, feature a centered rectangular camera bar, use an eSIM-only design,…
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