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Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship raster editor, available on Windows, macOS, and iPad, with Creative Cloud integration and AI features like Neural Filters and Generative Fill. Lightroom Classic offers end-to-end photography workflow with a library, Develop module, non-destructive edits, batch processing, presets, and seamless round-trips to Photoshop. GIMP is free and open source, cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux), and GIMP 3.0 (March 2025) introduces a GTK3 UI overhaul plus live layer effects. GIMP runs natively on Linux, the only one of the three to do so. Photoshop uses Camera Raw for RAW processing, Lightroom has built-in RAW processing via the ACR engine,
8 August 2025
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Grok 4: Elon Musk’s “PhD-Level” AI Outshines OpenAI & Google on Major Benchmarks

The AI Chatbot Showdown of 2025: Grok vs DeepSeek vs Perplexity

Grok is Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot built on the Grok LLM family, with Grok-4 released in July 2025 and Grok-3 trained in a 200,000-GPU data center codenamed Colossus, plus built-in web search by late 2024 and multimodal image generation via Aurora. Grok-4 is integrated into Tesla vehicles as an onboard voice assistant as of July 2025, and the platform introduced Companions avatars and a Reasoning/Think mode during 2025. Grok-1 weights were open-sourced in early 2024, but Grok-4 remains proprietary, with consumer access initially via X Premium+ and later broadened to a trial for all X users in February 2025. In
7 August 2025
Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Canva serves 180+ million users, is used by about 95% of Fortune 500 companies, and acquired Leonardo in 2024. Leonardo AI has 19 million+ users, features a Phoenix model for photorealism, and includes a Real-time Canvas for sketch-to-image editing and AI-assisted refinements. Simplified claims over 15 million creators and positions itself as an all-in-one marketing platform combining design, AI writing, video editing, and social scheduling with Multi-Agent Workflows. Canva incorporated Leonardo’s technology behind the scenes after the 2024 acquisition, including use of the Phoenix image model in its Magic Studio. Leonardo’s collaboration features include Leonardo for Teams and private cloud
7 August 2025
AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

AI Humanizer Showdown: Humanize AI vs QuillBot vs Grammarly – Which Tool Makes AI Text Sound Human?

Humanize AI is marketed as an “AI to Human Text Converter” that can rewrite input from ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing, Jasper, Grammarly, or QuillBot into “100% human-like” content, with no sign-up required for basic use and paid tiers for higher volumes. It offers multiple tones and modes—Standard, Formal, Informal, Simple, Flowing—and two rewrite depths called Basic and Ultra. It advertises AI detection shielding, claiming to bypass detectors such as Originality.ai, GPTZero, and Turnitin, while preserving SEO-critical keywords. It supports multilingual output (English, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, and more) and bundles a grammar checker, plagiarism checker, and its own AI content
7 August 2025
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Lightning-Fast Liechtenstein: Inside Europe’s Most Connected Country in 2025

Lightning-Fast Liechtenstein: Inside Europe’s Most Connected Country in 2025

By the end of 2023 Liechtenstein completed a nationwide Fiber-to-the-Home rollout, connecting 99%+ of buildings to gigabit fiber and making LKW the passive network owner. As of early 2025, internet penetration is 97.3% with about 38.9k users out of 40k. The median fixed download speed is about 189 Mbps (Jan 2025), with fiber available to every home. Liechtenstein has three mobile operators—FL1, Swisscom Liechtenstein, and 7acht (Salt LI)—with 4G LTE coverage around 99% of the population, and 5G launched in 2023, reaching over 80–90% of residents by 2025. The open-access fiber network is owned by the state utility LKW, leased
7 August 2025
Midjourney vs DALL·E vs Stable Diffusion: 2025 AI Art Generator Showdown 🚀

Midjourney vs DALL·E vs Stable Diffusion: 2025 AI Art Generator Showdown 🚀

Midjourney released v6 in 2024 and v7 in early 2025, delivering improved prompt accuracy, higher photorealism, and new text-to-video and 3D capabilities. DALL·E 3 is integrated with ChatGPT (via GPT-4) to expand and optimize prompts, and offers a vivid vs natural style toggle plus an HD mode via API. Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) released in 2023 as Stability AI’s photorealism flagship, with ~3.5 billion parameters and broad open-source flexibility. SDXL can generate legible text within images much more reliably than Midjourney or DALL·E. Prompt fidelity varies: DALL·E 3 shows the strongest fidelity to instructions, Midjourney tends to interpret creatively, and
7 August 2025
AI Detector Showdown: GPTZero vs Originality.AI vs Winston AI – Which One Wins in 2025?

AI Detector Showdown: GPTZero vs Originality.AI vs Winston AI – Which One Wins in 2025?

GPTZero was created for academia by Princeton student Edward Tian and now offers an AI vs Human probability score, an AI Vocabulary flag, a ‘Compare with AI Text’ mode, an AI-written explanation, plus a plagiarism checker, citation checker, grammar checker, and an AI Grader with LMS integrations and a Chrome extension. Originality.AI markets an all-in-one content integrity suite with AI detection in 30+ languages (advertised 97.8% multilingual accuracy) and a plagiarism checker, plus a readability scorer, grammar checker, factual accuracy checker, a Chrome extension, a WordPress plugin, and team collaboration. Winston AI positions itself as a multi-modal detector with a
7 August 2025
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AI Titans Clash: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google DeepMind – Who Will Dominate the Future of AI?

AI Titans Clash: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google DeepMind – Who Will Dominate the Future of AI?

OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others, restructured in 2019 into a capped-profit model, and by late 2024 was valued at about $150 billion after ChatGPT’s rapid adoption. GPT-4, released in March 2023, is OpenAI’s multimodal model that accepts text and images, with a context window up to 32K tokens and top performance on benchmarks such as the Bar Exam. Anthropic, founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei, emphasizes safety with Constitutional AI and released Claude 2 in July 2023 featuring a 100,000-token context, with Claude 4 announced in May 2025 adding web browsing
7 August 2025
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Blackbox vs Amazon CodeWhisperer vs Tabnine – The Ultimate 2025 AI Coding Assistant Comparison

Blackbox vs Amazon CodeWhisperer vs Tabnine – The Ultimate 2025 AI Coding Assistant Comparison

Blackbox AI, a Canadian startup, claims 15+ million users in 2025 and runs a multi-LLM stack including a GPT-4 variant, Claude 3.5 “Sonnet”, Google Gemini Pro, and LLaMA 3.1. Blackbox is completely free for individual developers as of August 2025, with API access being the only paid component. Blackbox offers a VS Code extension, a web interface, a Chrome browser extension, and an Android mobile app, but as of early 2025 it had no native JetBrains IDE integrations. Core Blackbox capabilities include real-time code generation and autocomplete across 20+ languages, an in-IDE code chat with domain-specific agents, AI README and
7 August 2025
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WIZ.AI vs Cognigy vs Kore.ai – The Ultimate 2025 Conversational AI Platform Showdown

WIZ.AI vs Cognigy vs Kore.ai – The Ultimate 2025 Conversational AI Platform Showdown

WIZ.AI is a Singapore-based voice-centric conversational AI provider that launched TalkGPT in 2023 as the region’s first ChatGPT-powered customer engagement solution. WIZ.AI claims 98% of users cannot tell they are speaking with a bot due to hyper-localized vocabularies and the ability to mimic local accents. By 2024, WIZ.AI had 300 clients across 17 countries, expanding from Asia into the U.S., the Middle East and Latin America. WIZ.AI operates a 13-billion-parameter LLM powering dialogue management and has domain-specific models, including a Bahasa Indonesia foundation model. In June 2025, WIZ.AI announced a partnership with Agora to enable low-latency real-time voice calls and
7 August 2025
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Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown

Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown

In June 2025 Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand as CEO and announced a 60-day action plan to improve memory, relax the safety filter, and add creator tools, while Google licensed Character.AI’s LLM and took a stake, valuing the company at about $2.5–$3 billion. Character.AI launched official iOS and Android apps in 2023, logged 1.7 million installs in its first week, and by late 2023 had over 4.2 million monthly active users in the U.S., with more than 18 million custom characters by 2025. Character.AI introduced Group conversations and Scenes between 2023 and 2025, and AvatarFX adds short animated avatar reactions to
7 August 2025
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AI Video Generator Showdown 2025: PixVerse AI vs Runway ML vs Pika Labs

AI Video Generator Showdown 2025: PixVerse AI vs Runway ML vs Pika Labs

PixVerse AI released the v4.5 model in August 2025, adding more than 20 features including cinematic camera moves and multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 launched on March 31, 2025, delivering higher-fidelity video with temporal consistency and support for visual reference inputs. Pika Labs released version 2.2 in March 2025, enabling 1080p output up to 10 seconds and introducing the Picaframes system for smoother keyframe transitions. PixVerse’s tech stack combines Stable Diffusion for images, AnimateDiff for motion, and AudioCraft for audio, with v4.5 adding multi-image fusion. Runway Gen-4 can anchor outputs around a reference image to maintain style and character consistency across
7 August 2025
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Meteor Showers, Northern Lights & a Planet Parade – Aug 7–8 Night Sky Spectacle

Meteor Showers, Northern Lights & a Planet Parade – Aug 7–8 Night Sky Spectacle

The Perseids, active in early August and building toward their mid-August peak, can reach about 100 meteors per hour at maximum under dark skies, with bright blue fireballs from debris of Comet Swift–Tuttle. The 2025 Perseids peak will be hampered by moonlight: the Sturgeon Moon will be full on Aug 9, and the Moon will be 84–90% illuminated around Aug 11–13, washing out dim meteors and reducing the typical 50–75 meteors per hour to mostly bright fireballs. Eta Eridanids peak on the night of Aug 7–8, contributing about 3 meteors per hour at best. On Aug 7–8, Venus (mag −4.0)
7 August 2025
Space Race Heats Up: Satellite Launch Blitz, Bold Missions, and a Shuttle’s Surprise Move (Aug 6–7, 2025)

Space Race Heats Up: Satellite Launch Blitz, Bold Missions, and a Shuttle’s Surprise Move (Aug 6–7, 2025)

On Aug 7, SpaceX launched 24 Amazon Kuiper satellites on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral at 10:01 a.m. EDT, increasing the operational Kuiper fleet from 78 to 102 and with the first-stage booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas. Rocket Lab’s Aug 5 Electron launch deployed the QPS-SAR-12 “Kushinada-I” SAR satellite into a 575 km orbit from Launch Complex 1, marking Rocket Lab’s 69th Electron flight and the fifth dedicated iQPS mission. China’s Long March 12 from Wenchang on Aug 4 launched 18 low-orbit internet satellites for GalaxySpace, the seventh batch in eight days, bringing GalaxySpace
7 August 2025
Apple’s $100B Surprise, Space Startup Soars, and Tech Glitches Galore – Tech News Roundup (Aug 6–7, 2025)

Apple’s $100B Surprise, Space Startup Soars, and Tech Glitches Galore – Tech News Roundup (Aug 6–7, 2025)

Apple commits $100 billion to US manufacturing as part of the American Manufacturing Program, expands Corning to 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky, and partners with Samsung at its Texas chip fab on a “never-before-used” chipmaking technology. Sony raises its annual profit forecast to ¥1.33 trillion (about $9 billion) and reduces expected tariff impact to ¥70 billion from ¥100 billion, with PlayStation network services driving growth; shares jump 5%. At Black Hat, Cyata reveals 14 critical CVEs in CyberArk Conjur and HashiCorp Vault that could enable complete compromise of vaults, including Vault’s first remote code
7 August 2025
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AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)

AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)

MIT and Duke researchers used AI to design polymers with iron-based ferrocenes that absorb stress, dramatically speeding up additive discovery from weeks per candidate, with findings published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used a protein language model trained on 500 million sequences to invent OpenCRISPR-1, the first CRISPR enzyme designed entirely by AI, which edited human genome cells with high precision and was published in Nature, with OpenCRISPR-1 open-sourced. OpenAI released two open-weight large language models with 120 billion and 20 billion parameters, optimized to run on a single GPU or a laptop, with the weights openly accessible for
7 August 2025
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Drone Laws in Budapest: What You MUST Know Before You Fly

Drone Laws in Budapest: What You MUST Know Before You Fly

Hungary follows EU Regulations 2019/945 and 2019/947, applying the Open, Specific, and Certified categories, with Open flights limited to 120 m altitude, Visual Line of Sight, and no flights over large assemblies. Hungary requires national registration for virtually all drones above toy criteria, insurance is mandatory, and any flight within Budapest’s built-up area requires a special permit obtained well in advance. As of January 1, 2024, Remote ID is mandatory for most drones, with Specific-category drones and class-marked Open-category drones broadcasting the operator’s registration number. Drone registration is required for drones heavier than 120 g or with cameras or capable
7 August 2025
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DNA Drives, Glass Discs & 5D Crystals: The Race to Store Data Forever

DNA Drives, Glass Discs & 5D Crystals: The Race to Store Data Forever

DNA data storage can reach about 215 petabytes per gram, with estimates of nearly 1 zettabyte per gram under optimal conditions, and a grain of salt could hold 10 full-length movies. DNA storage could last millennia if properly stored, and dried DNA encapsulated in glass survived neutron radiation without data loss. Writing DNA is slow and expensive today, taking hours or days to write even a few MB, but in 2025 an AI-driven decoder called DNAformer cut retrieval time for 100 MB from days to about 10 minutes. In March 2024 the DNA Data Storage Alliance published the Sector 0/1
7 August 2025
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Google Gemini Live vs Amazon Alexa+ vs Siri’s Apple Intelligence: The Ultimate AI Assistant Showdown 2025

Google Gemini Live vs Amazon Alexa+ vs Siri’s Apple Intelligence: The Ultimate AI Assistant Showdown 2025

Gemini Live debuted in late 2024 as Google’s replacement for Google Assistant and is built on the Gemini LLM, enabling real-time screen and camera analysis. Alexa+ was announced in early 2025 and rolled out as a free Prime upgrade (or $19.99/month) with a model-agnostic mix (Nova and Anthropic Claude 2) to handle calendars, reservations, rides, and multi-step actions across apps. Siri with Apple Intelligence runs on-device in iOS 18, supports Type to Siri and follow-ups without repeating “Hey Siri,” and can tap into OpenAI’s ChatGPT for complex queries with user permission. Gemini Live’s Project Astra enables multi-modal vision, letting it
7 August 2025
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Self-Driving Supercomputer Showdown: NVIDIA Drive Thor vs Tesla FSD Hardware 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Flex

Self-Driving Supercomputer Showdown: NVIDIA Drive Thor vs Tesla FSD Hardware 4 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Flex

NVIDIA Drive Thor delivers up to 1,000 TOPS (INT8 sparse) on a single chip and can be paired via NVLink-C2C to about 2,000 TOPS for high-end Level 4–5 autonomy. Thor combines a Blackwell GPU with 2560 CUDA cores and 96 Tensor Cores, a 14-core Arm Neoverse V3 CPU complex, on a 4nm TSMC process, and supports up to 128 GB LPDDR5X memory. Thor is designed as a centralized automotive computer unifying autonomous driving, ADAS, digital cockpit and infotainment on one platform. Production of Drive Thor is slated to begin in 2025, with design wins at Li Auto, ZEEKR, BYD, Hyper
7 August 2025
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Stock Market Today

Semiconductor stocks surge as AI capex stays high; Nvidia and AMD lead into next week

Semiconductor stocks surge as AI capex stays high; Nvidia and AMD lead into next week

7 February 2026
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index jumped 5.7% to 8,048.6 on Friday, with Nvidia up 7.87% and AMD rising 8.28%. The surge followed new forecasts showing global chip sales could hit $1 trillion in 2026. Amazon expects a 50% increase in capital spending this year, fueling demand for chips. The Dow Jones crossed 50,000, helped by gains in chipmakers.
Oil stocks jump on Iran risk lift for crude — what to watch before Monday

Oil stocks jump on Iran risk lift for crude — what to watch before Monday

7 February 2026
U.S. oil stocks surged Friday as crude prices rose on renewed Middle East tensions. Exxon Mobil gained 2.0%, ConocoPhillips 2.5%, and Occidental Petroleum 2.7%. Refiners rallied after a national union deal eased strike risk, though BP’s Whiting plant faces a local dispute. Brent settled at $68.05 a barrel, up 0.74%.
Silver price rebound masks fresh stress after CME lifts margins again

Silver price rebound masks fresh stress after CME lifts margins again

7 February 2026
Spot silver surged 8.6% to $77.33 an ounce Friday after dropping below $65, but still lost over 8.7% for the week. CME Group raised margin requirements for COMEX silver futures to 18% from 15%, effective after Feb. 6. China’s UBS SDIC Silver Futures Fund hit its 10% down limit for a fifth session. Traders await key U.S. jobs and inflation data next week.
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