2025 Ultrabook Showdown: MacBook Air M4 vs Dell XPS 13 vs Asus Zenbook S 14

2025 Ultrabook Showdown: MacBook Air M4 vs Dell XPS 13 vs Asus Zenbook S 14

The MacBook Air M4 measures 1.13 cm thick, weighs 2.7 lbs, is fanless, uses 100% recycled aluminum, and adds Sky Blue as a new color option. The Dell XPS 13 (9345) features an all-aluminum unibody with InfinityEdge bezels, two USB-C (Thunderbolt 4) ports, and a capacitive, tactile-free function key row. The Asus Zenbook S 14 (UX5406) is about 0.50 inches thick, weighs 2.65–2.7 lbs, passes MIL-STD-810H, and features a plasma-ceramic lid called ceraluminum with two finish options. The MacBook Air M4 uses a 13.6-inch Liquid Retina LCD with 2560×1664 resolution, 60 Hz, up to 500 nits brightness, True Tone, and
iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Galaxy S25 Ultra vs Pixel 10 Pro: Shocking Differences You Need to Know

iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Galaxy S25 Ultra vs Pixel 10 Pro: Shocking Differences You Need to Know

iPhone 16 Pro Max features a 6.9-inch LTPO Super Retina XDR OLED display with 120Hz adaptive refresh (1Hz–120Hz) and around 2,000 nits peak brightness, but no anti-glare coating. Galaxy S25 Ultra uses a 6.9-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display at Quad HD+ with LTPO 1–120Hz and an anti-reflective Gorilla Glass Victus 2 coating for improved outdoor readability. Pixel 10 Pro offers a 6.7–6.8-inch OLED display at 120Hz with high brightness and color accuracy, likely sourced from Samsung’s OLED panels. The iPhone 16 Pro Max camera setup includes a 48MP main sensor, a 48MP ultra-wide, and a 12MP 5× optical telephoto (periscope)
3 August 2025
AI Unmasked: How Artificial Intelligence Really Works and Is Changing Our World

AI Unmasked: How Artificial Intelligence Really Works and Is Changing Our World

OpenAI expects GPT-5 by summer 2025 with transformative improvements in understanding, memory, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities. The ImageNet dataset contains 14 million labeled images hand-tagged by thousands of workers, fueling modern vision AI. DeepMind’s AlphaFold solved a 50-year grand challenge by predicting protein three‑dimensional structures from genetic sequences. About 67% of firms report using AI in 2025, reflecting rapid adoption across industries. JPMorgan Chase reported a 20% reduction in certain fraud‑related losses and rejections after deploying AI for payment screening. In 2023, an AI‑generated song titled “Heart on My Sleeve” used vocals mimicking Drake and The Weeknd, prompting copyright concerns.
How Machine Learning Works and Why It’s Changing Everything in 2025

How Machine Learning Works and Why It’s Changing Everything in 2025

Supervised learning trains on labeled data to predict outputs, enabling tasks like spam detection, house-price prediction, and cat image recognition with labeled photos. Unsupervised learning finds structure without labels, enabling clustering of news articles by topic and customer segmentation into similar behavior groups. Reinforcement learning trains an agent by interacting with an environment to maximize rewards, powering autonomous decisions in self-driving cars and game AI. Neural networks, especially deep neural networks, consist of multiple layers of interconnected nodes that progressively extract higher-level features for image, speech, and language tasks. Overfitting occurs when a model memorizes training data and fails to
The Surprising Science Behind Neural Networks: How They Work and How to Build Your Own (Beginner’s Guide)

The Surprising Science Behind Neural Networks: How They Work and How to Build Your Own (Beginner’s Guide)

Neural networks are brain-inspired models that learn from data by adjusting weights and biases, not by hand-coding every rule. They consist of layers—input, one or more hidden layers, and an output layer—where each neuron connects to the next layer. Each connection has a weight and each neuron includes a bias, and these are the learnable parameters adjusted during training. Activation functions such as sigmoid, ReLU, and tanh introduce non-linearity enabling the network to model complex patterns. A forward pass moves data from the input layer through hidden layers to the output, computing weighted sums, adding biases, and applying activations. Training
3 August 2025
Quantum Computing Breakthroughs and Bombshells: Everything That Happened on August 2–3, 2025

Quantum Computing Breakthroughs and Bombshells: Everything That Happened on August 2–3, 2025

Fujitsu announced it has begun developing a superconducting quantum computer exceeding 10,000 qubits, targeted for completion in 2030, using a new STAR early fault-tolerant architecture with 250 logical qubits as part of a Japanese government-backed project to industrialize quantum technology. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a quantum-classical solution for power grid optimization by using IonQ’s 36-qubit Forte system to solve a Unit Commitment problem as part of the DOE GRID-Q program. Rigetti Computing reported 99.5% two-qubit gate fidelity on its 36-qubit superconducting processor built from four 9-qubit chiplets, announcing an August 15 launch and a plan to exceed
3 August 2025
Cosmic Light Show Alert: Meteors, Auroras & Planetary Surprises Dazzle Aug 3–4, 2025

Cosmic Light Show Alert: Meteors, Auroras & Planetary Surprises Dazzle Aug 3–4, 2025

On Aug 3–4, 2025, the Perseid meteor shower is active with after-midnight rates of about a dozen meteors per hour under dark skies, though the peak on Aug 12–13 could reach about 100 meteors per hour in ideal conditions. The Southern Delta Aquariids, peaked July 29–30 and active until Aug 12, produce about 25 meteors per hour at best, with observers in the Southern Hemisphere seeing them best. The Alpha Capricornids are active until Aug 12, typically yielding up to 5 meteors per hour but famed for slow, bright fireballs. NOAA forecasters expect quiet to unsettled geomagnetic conditions Aug 3,
3 August 2025
Rocket Launches, Ransomware, and a Solar-Powered Vatican: This Weekend’s Top Tech News (Aug 2–3, 2025)

Rocket Launches, Ransomware, and a Solar-Powered Vatican: This Weekend’s Top Tech News (Aug 2–3, 2025)

Apple forecast higher revenue for the upcoming quarter after a tariff-driven early surge in iPhone purchases aimed at beating U.S. import tariffs. Nintendo said its Switch 2 sold over 6 million units in the first seven weeks after the June debut and kept its full-year forecast at 15 million Switch 2 consoles through March 2026. TSMC reported a 60.7% year‑over‑year jump in Q2 net profit to NT$398.3 billion, a record, helped by demand for advanced chips across data centers and smartphones. AMD began shipping the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 series, featuring up to 96 cores on Zen 5, with rollout
3 August 2025
AI Revolution in Overdrive – Tech Titans’ Launches, Mega-Deals, New Rules & Warnings (Aug 2–3, 2025)

AI Revolution in Overdrive – Tech Titans’ Launches, Mega-Deals, New Rules & Warnings (Aug 2–3, 2025)

Major AI Company Announcements Business & Investment News Policy & Regulation Updates Research & Innovation Breakthroughs Expert Commentary & Analysis Sources: News and press releases from Aug 1–3, 2025, including Reuters, TechCrunch, ScienceDaily, and official statements reuters.com ts2.tech techcrunch.com ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.techsciencedaily.com ts2.tech ts2.tech ts2.tech, as well as academic publications (Nature, Cell Reports Physical Science) and expert interviews. All linked references provide access to the primary source material for each claim.
3 August 2025
Internet Access in the Micronesian Region: Status, Challenges, and Outlook (2025)

Internet Access in the Micronesian Region: Status, Challenges, and Outlook (2025)

The Micronesian region comprises the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Palau, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, and Kiribati. In 2010 the HANTRU-1 fiber cable reached Majuro and Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, branching from Pohnpei to FSM, marking the region’s first international fiber backbone. Palau connected to the SEA-US cable in 2017 and is slated to receive a second Echo cable spur by 2025 to boost redundancy. The East Micronesia Cable (EMC) project began in 2022 and is on track for completion by late 2025, linking Nauru, Tarawa, and Kosrae via FSM’s Pohnpei hub. SpaceX Starlink became available in 2022–23, with
2 August 2025
Apple’s July 2025 Bombshells: Foldable iPhone, AI Secrets, Encryption Showdown & More

Apple’s Big Week: Record Earnings, Huge iPhone 17 Leaks, and a Privacy Showdown (July 27–Aug 2, 2025)

On July 31, 2025, Apple reported a record June-quarter revenue of $94.0 billion, up 10% year over year, across all regions and product categories. During WWDC25 Apple announced a “beautiful new software design” and introduced Apple Intelligence features across platforms. Apple CFO Kevan Parekh said the active installed base of devices reached an all-time high. The board approved a quarterly dividend of $0.26 per share. On July 29, Apple released iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6 for eligible devices, along with watchOS 11.6 for Apple Watch Series 6 and later, featuring bug fixes and security improvements. No new hardware was launched
2 August 2025
SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

SpaceX’s Epic 48 Hours: Astronauts Blast Off, Starship Roars & Starlink Soars (Aug 1–2, 2025)

NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 with nine Merlin engines from Kennedy Space Center at 11:43 a.m. EDT on August 1, 2025, on the Crew Dragon Endeavour for NASA’s Crew-11 mission. The Crew-11 Dragon capsule separated from the Falcon 9’s second stage less than 10 minutes after liftoff. Endeavour docked with the ISS Harmony module around 3:00 a.m. EDT on August 2, 2025, after a roughly 16-hour transit. NASA indicated Crew-11 may stay on the ISS for eight months instead of the standard six months to better align with Russia’s
2 August 2025
3I/ATLAS: The Fastest Interstellar Comet Ever—Here’s What Scientists Are Saying

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – Third Cosmic Visitor Unveiled, Fast and Enormous

3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object ever recorded. It was first spotted on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. The designation 3I/ATLAS marks it as the third interstellar object in our solar system. Its orbit is hyperbolic with an eccentricity of about 6.2, meaning it is unbound and will exit the solar system. A faint coma was observed around 3I/ATLAS within days of discovery, confirming it is a comet. The object was traveling over 60 km/s at discovery and about 68 km/s at perihelion. Perihelion was predicted for October 29–30, 2025 at roughly 1.4
2 August 2025
You Won’t Believe Where the Next Total Solar Eclipse Will Happen – Upcoming Solar Eclipses from 2025 Onward

You Won’t Believe Where the Next Total Solar Eclipse Will Happen – Upcoming Solar Eclipses from 2025 Onward

September 21, 2025 – Partial Solar Eclipse visible mainly from the Southern Hemisphere, with up to 80% Sun obscured over the South Pacific, including Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, and parts of Antarctica. February 17, 2026 – Annular “ring of fire” over Antarctica, with annularity lasting about 2 minutes at maximum, while a partial eclipse will be visible across southern South America, southern Africa, and surrounding oceans. August 12, 2026 – Total Solar Eclipse crossing Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain (plus a small corner of Portugal) with totality up to about 2 minutes 18 seconds. February 6, 2027 – Annular Solar
2 August 2025
Blasting Off: The Ultimate Guide to Every Upcoming Rocket Launch Worldwide 🌎🚀

Blasting Off: The Ultimate Guide to Every Upcoming Rocket Launch Worldwide 🌎🚀

Aug 4, 2025: Blue Origin New Shepard NS-34 launches from Site One, West Texas, on a suborbital tourism flight carrying a private crew of six, Blue Origin’s 14th crewed mission. Aug 4, 2025: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink 10-30 from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, delivering a batch of 22 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, adding to SpaceX’s fleet of over 7,000 Starlinks in orbit. Aug 8, 2025: ULA Vulcan Centaur conducts USSF-106 from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral, marking its debut national security mission and replacing Atlas V with BE-4 engines to loft dozens of military satellites. Aug 12, 2025: Arianespace Ariane
2 August 2025
New Zealand Drone Laws 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Safe & Legal Flying

New Zealand Drone Laws 2025: The Ultimate Guide to Safe & Legal Flying

New Zealand regards drones as aircraft, requiring compliance with Civil Aviation Rules Part 101 (up to 25 kg) and Part 102 (advanced operations). The Civil Aviation Act 2023 came into force on 5 April 2025, reaffirming drone pilots’ duties and enabling new rules like registration and Remote ID. Part 101 requires drones to weigh 25 kg or less, with 15–25 kg models needing inspection and approval by an authorized organization before use. Daylight-only flying is required under Part 101, with night operations allowed only under Part 102 with a special permit. Visual line of sight must be maintained at all
2 August 2025
Quantum Race Heats Up: 10,000+ Qubit Leap, Grid Breakthrough & Big Tech Bets (Aug 1–2, 2025)

Quantum Race Heats Up: 10,000+ Qubit Leap, Grid Breakthrough & Big Tech Bets (Aug 1–2, 2025)

Fujitsu unveiled plans to build a superconducting quantum computer with over 10,000 qubits by fiscal 2030 in Japan, including a target of 250 logical qubits by 2030 and 1,000 logical qubits by 2035 under the STAR architecture. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical grid-optimization solution using IonQ’s 36-qubit Forte system to schedule 26 generators over 24 hours under the DOE GRID-Q program, with IonQ aiming for 100–200 high-fidelity qubits by 2026. Rigetti Computing announced 99.5% two-qubit gate fidelity on its 36-qubit superconducting processor made of four 9-qubit chiplets, with an August 15 launch and a plan
Eyes to the Skies August 2–3, 2025: Meteor Showers, Auroras, and Planets Put on a Show

Eyes to the Skies August 2–3, 2025: Meteor Showers, Auroras, and Planets Put on a Show

During the Aug 2–3 predawn hours under dark skies at mid-northern latitudes, observers could see about 20 meteors per hour as the Perseids rise. The Moon is in first-quarter and will set in the early morning, washing out fainter Perseids and potentially reducing observed rates by about 75% near the maximum. Delta Aquariids are tapering after their July 30 peak and may contribute only a few meteors per hour on Aug 2–3, while Alpha Capricornids are sparse but known for bright fireballs. Saturn and Neptune are in conjunction on Aug 6, and during Aug 2–3 they rise together; Saturn is
2 August 2025
Blastoff to Breakthroughs: Major Space Highlights (Aug 1–2, 2025)

Blastoff to Breakthroughs: Major Space Highlights (Aug 1–2, 2025)

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 launched from Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 1, 2025 at 11:43 a.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov to the International Space Station. Dragon Endeavour, on its record sixth flight, is set to dock at the ISS early Aug. 2 for a six‑month mission. NASA may extend ISS expeditions from 6 to 8 months, potentially keeping Crew-11 aboard until April 2026 if Dragon is certified for longer durations. NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy and Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Bakanov met at the Crew-11 launch, the first face-to-face
2 August 2025

Stock Market Today

Applied Digital stock jumps 25% as AI data-center names rebound — what’s next for APLD

Applied Digital stock jumps 25% as AI data-center names rebound — what’s next for APLD

7 February 2026
Applied Digital Corporation shares jumped 25.52% Friday to $34.95, then slipped to $34.60 after hours. The company reported fiscal Q2 revenue up 250% to $126.6 million and signed leases for 600 MW of data center capacity in North Dakota. Applied Digital broke ground on a new 430‑MW campus in the southern U.S. in January. Financing includes a $100 million promissory note with 8% interest, paid in kind.
Eli Lilly stock pops as FDA targets cheap weight-loss copycats — what to know before Monday

Eli Lilly stock pops as FDA targets cheap weight-loss copycats — what to know before Monday

7 February 2026
Eli Lilly shares rose 3.7% to $1,058.18 Friday after the FDA said it would act against telehealth firm Hims & Hers for marketing a $49 compounded weight-loss pill. The move followed a sharp selloff Thursday when Hims announced plans to sell a version of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. Investors remain uncertain how aggressively regulators will police copycat drugs and pricing in the obesity drug market.
Saudi Aramco share price set for Sunday test after Tadawul ends market-making deal

Saudi Aramco share price set for Sunday test after Tadawul ends market-making deal

7 February 2026
Saudi Exchange approved Merrill Lynch KSA’s exit as market maker for Saudi Aramco, effective Feb. 8. Aramco shares closed at 25.60 riyals Thursday, down 0.06, with 22.1 million traded. The Tadawul index fell 1.3% as Brent crude dropped to $67.93. Aramco set March official selling prices at $2.10 above Argus for North America and $0.65 above ICE Brent for Western Europe.
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