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Exynos 2600 vs Snapdragon vs Apple A17 Pro: Samsung’s 2nm Comeback Chip Shocks the Smartphone World

Exynos 2600 vs Snapdragon vs Apple A17 Pro: Samsung’s 2nm Comeback Chip Shocks the Smartphone World

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29 August 2025
OnePlus Buds 4 – The $130 Earbuds Taking on AirPods, Galaxy Buds, and More

OnePlus Buds 4 – The $130 Earbuds Taking on AirPods, Galaxy Buds, and More

The OnePlus Buds 4 were unveiled on June 16, 2025 and released on July 8, 2025, priced at $129.99. Each earbud uses a dual-driver system with an 11 mm woofer and a 6 mm tweeter, each fed by its own DAC. They support LHDC 5.0 hi-res audio (24-bit/192 kHz) on OnePlus devices, alongside AAC and SBC codecs. Adaptive ANC can reduce noise by up to 55 dB, with lab tests showing around 84% average ambient-noise reduction. Battery life is up to 11 hours per charge (ANC off) or around 6 hours with ANC on, totaling about 45 hours with the
29 August 2025
Reolink Altas Series Unleashed: Battery Cameras That Record 24/7 Without Wires

Reolink Altas Series Unleashed: Battery Cameras That Record 24/7 Without Wires

Key Facts Overview of the Reolink Altas Series Reolink’s Altas series represents a major leap in battery-powered camera tech. First unveiled at IFA 2024, the Altas line was designed to overcome a key limitation of typical wireless cams: most battery cameras only record short clips when motion is detected, to conserve power. The Altas PT Ultra changed that paradigm – it debuted as a continuous-recording battery camera with a colossal battery to back it up reolink.com reolink.com. In early 2025, Reolink expanded the lineup with two additional models, aiming to bring 24/7 capable surveillance to more scenarios reolink.com reolink.com. Current
29 August 2025
Marsquake Data Uncovers “Lumpy” Martian Interior Shaped by Ancient Impacts

Marsquake Data Uncovers “Lumpy” Martian Interior Shaped by Ancient Impacts

Key Facts Artist’s cutaway illustration of Mars showing debris from ancient impacts (bright fragments) scattered through the mantle. Seismic waves from a meteoroid impact (left) travel through this lumpy interior before being detected by NASA’s InSight lander (right) on the surface watchers.news watchers.news. Probing Mars’ Interior: InSight Mission Background NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) mission was the first to directly measure the Red Planet’s “vital signs” – its seismic activity, internal structure, and heat flow. Landing in 2018, InSight deployed the first seismometer on Mars, and over four years it detected 1,319 marsquakes before
29 August 2025
Phuket Drone Laws 2025: How to Fly Your Drone Legally in Paradise

Phuket Drone Laws 2025: How to Fly Your Drone Legally in Paradise

Overview of Drone Regulations in Thailand (Phuket) Thailand enforces strict national drone laws that fully apply in Phuket, a popular destination for aerial photography. Since 2017, authorities have mandated registration of all drones or faced severe penalties thaiembassy.se. The goal is to ensure public safety, privacy, and aviation security even as tourists and filmmakers capture Phuket’s stunning beaches and landscapes from above. Two agencies share oversight: In Phuket, you must comply with Thailand’s national drone law. This means obtaining the required permits and following all operational restrictions—there are no special exemptions for the island’s tourists. Flying a drone without adhering
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Huawei’s Tri‑Fold Comeback: Mate XTs Rocks Foldable World with Game‑Changing Design and Rivalry

Huawei’s Tri‑Fold Comeback: Mate XTs Rocks Foldable World with Game‑Changing Design and Rivalry

Overview: A Bold New Tri‑Fold Phone Huawei’s second-generation tri-fold phone, the Mate XTs Ultimate Design, shown in a teaser with its sleek white-and-gold finish and octagonal quad-camera module. techadvisor.com 9to5google.com Huawei has pulled back the curtain on the Mate XTs, its latest tri-folding flagship smartphone. Announced via an official Weibo teaser on August 27, 2025, the Mate XTs is Huawei’s second-generation tri-fold device, arriving roughly one year after the original Mate XT shook up the foldable market news.ssbcrack.com. The Mate XTs isn’t a radical redesign of its predecessor – Huawei has deliberately kept the successful formula: an inward-and-outward dual-hinge that
29 August 2025
Northern Ireland’s Internet Access Revolution: Gigabit Broadband, 5G, and Starlink in 2025

Northern Ireland’s Internet Access Revolution: Gigabit Broadband, 5G, and Starlink in 2025

Key Facts at a Glance 1. Overview of Internet Infrastructure in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland’s internet infrastructure has undergone a rapid transformation, emerging as a standout success story in the UK. In 2025, NI boasts the most extensive high-speed broadband coverage of any UK nation, alongside near-ubiquitous mobile connectivity. This small region (population ~1.9 million) has leveraged aggressive fiber deployments, cable network upgrades, and mobile network expansion to ensure that almost every home and business can get online with fast speeds. Fixed Broadband: The backbone of NI’s internet is a highly developed fixed broadband network. The vast majority of connections
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Quantum Tech Frenzy: Breakthroughs, Bold Alliances & Crypto Panic Rock Late August 2025

Quantum Tech Frenzy: Breakthroughs, Bold Alliances & Crypto Panic Rock Late August 2025

Key Facts IBM & AMD Forge Quantum‑Centric Supercomputing Alliance IBM and AMD announced a landmark partnership to co-develop “quantum-centric” supercomputing architectures that tightly integrate quantum processors with classical high-performance computers newsroom.ibm.com newsroom.ibm.com. Revealed on August 26 and drawing buzz through the week, the collaboration seeks to merge IBM’s cutting-edge quantum computing technology with AMD’s CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators newsroom.ibm.com. The goal is a new class of hybrid systems where quantum co-processors tackle parts of problems (like molecular simulations) that classical systems struggle with, while classical exascale machines handle complementary tasks such as large-scale data analysis newsroom.ibm.com newsroom.ibm.com. IBM CEO
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COVID Booster Shocker, Pharma Mega-Deals & Alzheimer’s Breakthroughs – Global Health Roundup (Aug 28–29, 2025)

COVID Booster Shocker, Pharma Mega-Deals & Alzheimer’s Breakthroughs – Global Health Roundup (Aug 28–29, 2025)

Drug Approvals & Clinical Trial Results Updated COVID Boosters Get Narrow Nod: The U.S. FDA approved new fall COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna on August 27 – but with strict eligibility limits. Only adults 65+ and younger people with certain medical conditions are cleared for the updated vaccines, and emergency use authorizations for routine use in healthy children were removed realeconomy.rsmus.com. Health experts immediately sounded alarms: the Infectious Diseases Society of America blasted the “narrowed” booster rollout as contrary to scientific guidance and a risk to lives cidrap.umn.edu. They warn these restrictions could hinder access, especially for children,
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Bitcoin Blazes Past $113K, Ethereum’s Record Run and Trump’s $6B Crypto Gambit – Aug 28–29, 2025 Roundup

Bitcoin Blazes Past $113K, Ethereum’s Record Run and Trump’s $6B Crypto Gambit – Aug 28–29, 2025 Roundup

Market Highlights: Bitcoin & Ether on the Rise, With Caution Bitcoin (BTC) spent the week on a roller coaster but showed resilience by Aug. 28. After dipping below $110,000 amid a mid-week risk-off pullback, BTC rebounded above $111K–$113K ts2.tech, buoyed by broader market strength – the S&P 500 hit fresh highs and chipmaker Nvidia’s stellar earnings bolstered risk sentiment coindesk.com. By Wednesday, Bitcoin hovered near $112K, though it remained close to seven-week lows ts2.tech, prompting debate over whether the dip was a buying opportunity or a warning sign. On-chain metrics suggest Bitcoin faces headwinds approaching the mid-$110Ks. Blockchain analytics firm
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AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s Record Rally, Surprise Surges & Setbacks Rock Markets (Aug 28–29, 2025)

AI Stock Frenzy: Nvidia’s Record Rally, Surprise Surges & Setbacks Rock Markets (Aug 28–29, 2025)

Key Facts August 28, 2025 – AI Hype Hits New Heights Nvidia’s Big Beat and Market Rally: Thursday brought a euphoria of AI-driven gains on Wall Street. Nvidia’s blowout earnings (revenue up 56% year-on-year) confirmed that “demand related to AI technology remains strong,” even though Nvidia’s forecast excluded China due to export uncertainties reuters.com reuters.com. The chip leader’s shares dipped just 0.8% on those cautious forecasts reuters.com, but investors seized on the bigger picture: AI spending is still surging. The S&P 500 jumped 0.3% to a record high (Nasdaq +0.5%), extending a rally that has repeatedly driven indexes to new
29 August 2025
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From Space Triumphs to Medical Milestones: Biggest Science News (Aug 28–29, 2025)

From Space Triumphs to Medical Milestones: Biggest Science News (Aug 28–29, 2025)

Key Facts Space and Astronomy A Planet Is Born: In a feat long thought nearly impossible, astronomers have directly imaged a planet in the act of forming. Using the ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team snapped a clear picture of WISPIT 2b, a gas giant about five times Jupiter’s mass, carving out a gap in the multi-ringed disk of a young Sun-like star ts2.tech ts2.tech. The baby planet glows red-hot as it accumulates gas. “Discovering this planet… was an amazing experience — we were incredibly lucky,” said Dr. Richelle van Capelleveen of Leiden Observatory, a co-leader of the discovery
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Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Cosmic Light Show: Meteors, Auroras & 5-Planet Parade on Aug 29–30, 2025

Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Cosmic Light Show: Meteors, Auroras & 5-Planet Parade on Aug 29–30, 2025

Dark Skies & Meteor Showers: Perseid Fade, Aurigid Fireballs? Late August 2025 offers wonderfully dark skies thanks to the timing of the Moon. August 23 marked a rare third new moon in a season (sometimes called a “Black Moon”), leaving nights around Aug 27–30 exceptionally dark ts2.tech. By Aug 29–30 the Moon is only 6–7 days old – a slim waxing crescent that sets relatively early in the evening. In fact, on Aug 29 the Moon will be roughly first-quarter phase and set around local midnight (give or take), meaning minimal moonlight interference for most of the night. This creates
29 August 2025
Moonshots, Starlinks & Cosmic Secrets: 48 Hours of Epic Space News (Aug 28–29, 2025)

Moonshots, Starlinks & Cosmic Secrets: 48 Hours of Epic Space News (Aug 28–29, 2025)

Key Facts Launches & Spaceflight SpaceX’s Record-Breakers: SpaceX achieved back-to-back milestones with its Starlink launches. In the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 28, a Falcon 9 rocket (booster B1067) blasted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying 28 Starlink satellites – notably the booster’s 30th launch and landing, a new reuse record space.com mynews13.com. “Falcon 9’s first stage… [is] the first orbital-class rocket to successfully launch and land 30 times,” SpaceX declared after the booster touched down on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship mynews13.com. Just a day earlier, another Falcon 9 flight (Starlink 10-56) from Cape Canaveral notched SpaceX’s 400th droneship
29 August 2025
Chips, Space & Cyber Scares: Inside August 28–29, 2025’s Biggest Tech Bombshells

Chips, Space & Cyber Scares: Inside August 28–29, 2025’s Biggest Tech Bombshells

Key Facts Hardware Developments (Chips & Devices) U.S. Bets Big on Intel’s Chips: In a dramatic government intervention, Intel confirmed it received $5.7 billion in cash on Aug. 27 as part of a U.S.-negotiated deal for a 10% stake in the company reuters.com. The investment – orchestrated by President Donald Trump – is meant to ensure Intel retains control of its contract chip manufacturing (foundry) business on American soil reuters.com. Intel CFO David Zinsner said the government also secured warrants for an extra 5% stake if Intel ever spun off its foundry, but he downplayed that scenario: “I don’t think there’s a
29 August 2025
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AI’s Two-Day Tech Storm: Global Breakthroughs, Big Bets & Bold Moves (Aug 28–29, 2025)

AI’s Two-Day Tech Storm: Global Breakthroughs, Big Bets & Bold Moves (Aug 28–29, 2025)

Expert Commentary & In-Depth Analysis Silicon Stakes: Chips, Cloud, and an AI Gold Rush It was a whirlwind 48 hours for the AI hardware and infrastructure arena. Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings call became a rallying cry for continued AI investment, even as some analysts warned of an overheating market. CEO Jensen Huang, the figurative general of the GPU juggernaut, emphatically rejected the notion of an AI slowdown reuters.com. “A new industrial revolution has started. The AI race is on,” Huang declared, projecting $3–4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending by 2030 reuters.com. This bullish forecast, he explained, stems from surging orders for Nvidia’s
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HBM Memory Gold Rush: Why High-Bandwidth Memory Prices Are Soaring in the AI Era

HBM Memory Gold Rush: Why High-Bandwidth Memory Prices Are Soaring in the AI Era

Key Facts HBM Node Transition: From HBM3 to HBM4 High-Bandwidth Memory has evolved rapidly to keep pace with AI needs. HBM3 – introduced around 2022 – brought huge leaps in bandwidth and capacity per stack, and became the workhorse memory for top-tier AI accelerators like NVIDIA’s A100/H100 and Google TPUs. By 2023, attention shifted to HBM3E, an enhanced generation offering even higher performance. In early 2024, SK hynix became the first to mass-produce HBM3E (sometimes dubbed the 5th-generation HBM) trendforce.com, supplying 12-Hi 36GB stacks to NVIDIA and others. This HBM3E delivers ~1.2 TB/s per stack (versus ~0.8–1.0 TB/s for HBM3),
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Chiplets & Advanced Packaging Market Report 2025: AI Demand Fuels 2.5D/3D Integration Boom

Chiplets & Advanced Packaging Market Report 2025: AI Demand Fuels 2.5D/3D Integration Boom

Key Facts Introduction: Chiplets and 3D Integration Come of Age Semiconductor design is undergoing a paradigm shift from giant monolithic chips toward chiplet-based and multi-die architectures. In a chiplet approach, a processor is disaggregated into multiple smaller dies (chiplets) that are later integrated in a package, rather than one large die. This strategy improves manufacturing yield and cost – smaller dies are easier to produce without defects – and allows mixing different process nodes and functions in one package astutegroup.com astutegroup.com. As traditional 2D scaling hits physical and economic limits, chiplets offer a practical path to keep improving performance and
28 August 2025
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RISC-V vs ARM vs x86: The 2025 Silicon Architecture Showdown

RISC-V’s Edge & IoT Takeover: Billions of Open-Source Cores Drive 2025 Tech Revolution

RISC-V Shipments Soar in Edge & IoT Devices Once a niche academic project, RISC-V is now shipping in billions of devices, especially at the edge. RISC-V International reports the ISA is implemented in over 13 billion cores on the market as of end-2023 riscv.org – a stunning rise driven largely by IoT and embedded use cases. In fact, some estimates suggest over 10 billion of those cores were shipped by 2023 primarily for IoT sensors, microcontrollers, storage controllers, and wireless chips ts2.tech. The momentum is accelerating: according to the CEO of RISC-V International, “the ecosystem is expanding rapidly… over two
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LLMOps Boom: The 2025 AI Agent Platform Landscape Unveiled

LLMOps Boom: The 2025 AI Agent Platform Landscape Unveiled

Key Facts & Takeaways Market Spend by Stack Layer: From Data to Deployment The LLMOps ecosystem can be viewed in stack layers – from the infrastructure and data foundations up through model orchestration and finally evaluation/monitoring. Each layer is attracting significant investment as enterprises build out end-to-end GenAI capabilities: Enterprise Adoption Trends and Use Cases Across Industries Enterprise adoption of large language models and AI agents has accelerated dramatically in the past 18 months, cutting across virtually every sector. Where are companies actually deploying LLMs, and to what end? A few key trends and use cases stand out: Despite these
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Stock Market Today

Disney stock ends week higher after Friday bounce — what to watch for DIS next week

Disney stock ends week higher after Friday bounce — what to watch for DIS next week

7 February 2026
Disney shares closed up 3.6% at $108.70 Friday, recovering from earlier losses as U.S. stocks rallied and the Dow topped 50,000. Investors are watching Super Bowl streaming economics and Disney’s CEO transition, with Josh D’Amaro set to take over at the March 18 meeting. Disney reported quarterly revenue of $25.98 billion and adjusted EPS of $1.63, while segment operating income fell 9% to $4.6 billion.
Novo Nordisk stock: Class B shares face Monday test after FDA squeeze forces Hims to pull $49 Wegovy copycat

Novo Nordisk stock: Class B shares face Monday test after FDA squeeze forces Hims to pull $49 Wegovy copycat

7 February 2026
Novo Nordisk Class B shares closed up 5.3% at 295.50 Danish crowns in Copenhagen after Hims & Hers said it would stop offering a compounded pill version of Wegovy following U.S. regulatory warnings. The move came after Novo called the Hims product “illegal mass compounding” and threatened legal action. Shares had fallen nearly 8% Thursday after Hims launched the pill. Trading resumes Monday.
Linde stock price falls as LIN heads into weekend; JPMorgan downgrade and guidance in focus

Linde stock price falls as LIN heads into weekend; JPMorgan downgrade and guidance in focus

7 February 2026
Linde plc shares fell 2.5% to $448.24 Friday after reporting Q4 sales up 6% to $8.76 billion and adjusted EPS of $4.20. The company guided 2026 adjusted EPS to $17.40–$17.90, below analyst consensus. JPMorgan downgraded the stock, while Morgan Stanley and UBS raised price targets. Linde repurchased $1.4 billion in shares in Q4 and returned $7.4 billion to shareholders in 2025.
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