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Ultimate DJI Enterprise Drone Comparison (2025): Matrice vs Mavic 3 Enterprise & Thermal Models

The Matrice 350 RTK leads with up to 55 minutes of flight and 20 km range, while the Matrice 30T offers built-in thermal and optical sensors with 41-minute endurance. The new Matrice 4 Series adds AI features, triple-camera gimbals, and up to 20 km range. Mavic 3 Enterprise drones remain compact, with up to 45 minutes of flight, multi-sensor options, and no IP rating.
9 July 2025
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Microservices and Serverless Roundup: Key Developments in June–July 2025

Microservices and Serverless Roundup: Key Developments in June–July 2025

AWS Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, became generally available in late May 2025. AWS open-sourced the AWS Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an AI-powered assistant to guide architects in building serverless apps. AWS API Gateway added support for dynamic routing rules on June 3, 2025, enabling more flexible versioning and traffic management for microservice APIs. AWS Lambda expanded SnapStart to more global regions and gained native Avro/Protobuf support in Kafka event triggers. Amazon Redshift Serverless introduced a new lower 4 RPU minimum to optimize costs for smaller workloads. At re:Inforce in late June,
9 July 2025
Did a Space Rock Just Slam Into Saturn? Inside the Global Race to Confirm the 5 July 2025 Flash

Did a Space Rock Just Slam Into Saturn? Inside the Global Race to Confirm the 5 July 2025 Flash

On 5 July 2025 at 09:07 UT, amateur Mario Rana from Hampton, Virginia recorded a two-frame white flare on Saturn’s western limb lasting under 1 second, with PVOL releasing a frame showing a stellate spot just inside the edge. PVOL issued an international all-points bulletin within hours, asking observers to upload raw video stacks for independent processing; as of this report, no second detection had surfaced. The verification drive includes data mining and crowd-sourcing, with PVOL providing a template FITS header to standardize submissions. Amateur networks such as Cloudy Nights and regional Facebook groups are screening terabytes of July 5
9 July 2025
Tech News Today: The Biggest Stories in Technology, Science, and Innovation (July 9, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

Tech News Today: The Biggest Stories in Technology, Science, and Innovation (July 9, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

A new axion Dark Energy (aDE) model from Cornell and Shanghai Jiao Tong University predicts the universe will start contracting in about 7 billion years and collapse in roughly 33–34 billion years. Amazon Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11, 2025, with US online sales forecast at $23.8 billion and record discounts on Apple, Samsung, Google, Lenovo, and OnePlus. OnePlus Nord 5 and Nord CE5 smartphones launch with the Nord 5 featuring Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, a 6.83-inch 144Hz OLED display, up to 12GB RAM, and a 5200mAh battery; the Nord CE5 uses the MediaTek Dimensity 8350. NVIDIA’s AI hardware leadership
9 July 2025
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Space in July 2025: Budget Battles, Scientific Breakthroughs, and the New Space Race / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

Space in July 2025: Budget Battles, Scientific Breakthroughs, and the New Space Race / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

The FY2026 NASA budget proposal would cut overall funding by 24.3%, with science funding slashed by nearly 47%. Congress moved to restore nearly $10 billion for NASA’s human spaceflight programs including Artemis, SLS, Orion, and the Gateway lunar station, while transferring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston and upgrading the Stennis Space Center. SpaceX accounted for 83% of U.S. launches in 2024 and marked its 500th Falcon 9 launch, while Starlink now operates more than 7,900 active satellites. The TraCSS space traffic coordination system faces an 84% budget cut, with hundreds of companies urging Congress to restore funding. <li NASA's Perseverance
9 July 2025
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AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent wars where engineers command salaries in the tens of millions per year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns millions of jobs—especially entry-level roles—could be automated within five years, as UK entry-level postings drop 32% since late 2022. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated indie band, amassed over
9 July 2025
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The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series (GPT-3, 2020). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020, and the ChatGPT prototype launched in November 2022, reaching 100 million users in two months. Voice assistants emerged with Siri (2011), Alexa (2014), Cortana (2014), and Google Assistant (2016). Google’s Bard evolved into Gemini in 2024, with Gemini Ultra as the top model, offering multimodal input, 40+ languages, and real-time
8 July 2025
June–July 2025 Blockchain & DLT Developments: Major News, Trends, Regulation, and Adoption

June–July 2025 Blockchain & DLT Developments: Major News, Trends, Regulation, and Adoption

Circle Internet Financial’s NYSE IPO on June 5 priced at $31 per share, opened at $69, surged about 800% to over $270 within two weeks, pushing Circle’s market cap above $60 billion and the deal was oversubscribed roughly 25×. Coinbase and Kraken secured MiCA licenses to operate across all 27 EU member states (Luxembourg for Coinbase, Ireland for Kraken), and Kraken launched the Krak mobile app enabling transfers across 110 countries in 300+ assets. Mastercard announced partnerships to integrate stablecoins—USDC, Paxos USDP, PayPal PYUSD, and FIUSD—across its payments network, while Fiserv launched FIUSD for institutional use and partnered with PayPal
8 July 2025
How to Build Your Own AI: The Complete 2025 Guide to Costs, Tools, and Making Money

How to Build Your Own AI: The Complete 2025 Guide to Costs, Tools, and Making Money

OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Meta’s LLaMA 2 both launched in 2023, with LLaMA 2 weights available for commercial use. Anthropic’s Claude 2 offers a 100,000-token context window at about half the per-token cost of GPT-4. Midjourney reported $200 million in annual revenue and 21 million Discord members by 2023. ChatGPT reached 100 million users in two months after launch; Microsoft invested billions in OpenAI.
8 July 2025
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Flying a Drone in Vienna? 2025 Laws Reveal Strict Rules, No-Fly Zones & Big Penalties

Flying a Drone in Vienna? 2025 Laws Reveal Strict Rules, No-Fly Zones & Big Penalties

Drone operator registration in Austria is mandatory via Austro Control’s Dronespace, costing €30–32 for three years. Drones under 250 g without cameras are exempt from registration and licensing. Most flights in Vienna require Austro Control permission, which can take weeks and cost €500–€700. Penalties for violations reach up to €22,000 per incident, with possible drone confiscation and criminal charges.
8 July 2025
Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

iPhone 17 Shockers: Ultra‑Thin “Air,” 120 Hz for Everyone & 24 MP Selfies — Here’s the 2‑Minute Cheat Sheet

The iPhone 17 lineup is expected to launch around September 8–10, 2025, and will include four models: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, with the old Plus line removed. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be ultra-thin at 5–6 mm with a 6.6-inch OLED display. The base iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro are expected to have about 6.3-inch displays, while the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be about 6.9 inches. The 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are said to feature a new horizontal camera bar on the back, while the
8 July 2025
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Origin, Trajectory and Scientific Stakes In 2025’s Third‑Ever Extrasolar Visitor

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: Origin, Trajectory and Scientific Stakes In 2025’s Third‑Ever Extrasolar Visitor

Astronomers confirmed a third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1), after imaging by ATLAS on July 1, 2025. The comet, with a nucleus 9–20 km wide and a visible coma, travels at 58 km/s and will reach perihelion on October 30 at 1.4 AU. Models suggest a 66% chance it originated in the Milky Way’s thick disk. Closest approach to Earth will be 1.6 AU.
8 July 2025
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June–July 2025 Global Green-Building Tech & PropTech Roundup

June–July 2025 Global Green-Building Tech & PropTech Roundup

Rowan University opened the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park Museum in June 2025, a mass-timber, fossil-fuel-free building with geothermal heating and planned solar. Brooklyn College began drilling a 500-foot geothermal well to retrofit a campus building in a $10 million decarbonization project. USGBC launched a new sustainability framework for K–12 schools. Global PropTech investment reached $362 million in June.
8 July 2025
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Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

Apple iPhone 17 Lineup: Latest Rumors & Leaks (2025)

Apple will launch four iPhone 17 models in September 2025, introducing the ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air and dropping the Plus variant. The Air will feature a 6.5–6.6-inch OLED display, weigh about 145 g, and use Apple’s first in-house 5G modem. All models will have 120 Hz ProMotion displays and a 24 MP front camera. Pricing will start at $799 for the base model and reach $1,199 for the Pro Max.
8 July 2025
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Smart City Platforms & Urban Tech Update (June–July 2025)

Smart City Platforms & Urban Tech Update (June–July 2025)

Genoa was named host city for Project Hafnia, an AI traffic platform by Milestone and NVIDIA using a digital twin for real-time congestion control. Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority signed a 42-month SaaS contract with Iteris for citywide traffic monitoring. Mumbai launched 11 electric hydrofoil ferries to cut road congestion. Istres, France, deployed a private 5G network, reducing CCTV backhaul costs by 83%.
8 July 2025
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Space & Satellite Deep Dive – 8th July 2025: Starlink Expansion, Interstellar Visitor, AI in Orbit & Global Policy Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

Space & Satellite Deep Dive – 8th July 2025: Starlink Expansion, Interstellar Visitor, AI in Orbit & Global Policy Shifts / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

SpaceX’s Starlink 10-28 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 8, 2025, deploying 28 broadband Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and marking the Falcon 9 booster’s 22nd flight, with the booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes and 14 seconds after liftoff. The 500th Falcon 9 launch occurred with the Starlink 10-25 mission, deploying 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites and marking booster B1067’s 29th flight. 3I/ATLAS, discovered by NASA’s ATLAS survey in July 2025 in Chile, is about 20 km wide and travels up to 68 km/s, making it the third
8 July 2025
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The State of AI: Agentic Revolution, Healthcare Breakthroughs & Global Governance / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

The State of AI: Agentic Revolution, Healthcare Breakthroughs & Global Governance / Updated: 2025, July 8th, 12:00 CET

In the United States, more than 777 FDA-cleared AI devices are in clinical use for medical imaging, slashing scan times and flagging urgent cases. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieves up to 85.5% diagnostic accuracy, vastly outperforming doctors at about 20%. Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero announced a $1B+ collaboration to discover targets for age-related diseases using Gero’s AI platform. Meta Platforms recruited Apple’s Ruoming Pang, head of foundational models, in a multi‑million‑dollar deal, while Meta maintains over $55 billion in cash reserves for AI investments. Ford Chairman Jim Farley warned that AI could eliminate up to half of white-collar jobs, a
8 July 2025
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Tech News Roundup – July 8, 2025: iOS 26 Redesign, Prime Day Record Deals, Galaxy Unpacked, and AI’s Global Surge

Tech News Roundup – July 8, 2025: iOS 26 Redesign, Prime Day Record Deals, Galaxy Unpacked, and AI’s Global Surge

Apple scaled back the Liquid Glass UI in iOS 26 beta, significantly reducing transparency to improve readability ahead of the September 2025 final release. Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11 with record-low prices on AirPods Pro 2 (as low as $149 in the US and €199 in Spain) and other Apple gear, MacBook Air with M4, and iPad Air. Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9 will debut foldables Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 (with a possible Z Fold 7 Ultra), plus One UI 8 security upgrades and the KEEP per-app data encryption architecture. Microsoft Edge with
8 July 2025
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Global Green Data Center Efficiency Developments (June–July 2025)

Global Green Data Center Efficiency Developments (June–July 2025)

Deloitte projects global data center electricity use will nearly double to over 1,000 TWh by 2030. Germany passed a law mandating 100% renewable energy for all data centers by 2027. In May 2025, President Trump signed orders to speed up nuclear plant construction, with Three Mile Island Unit 1 aiming to restart in 2027 to supply Microsoft. Meta and Google announced major renewable energy projects for their data centers.
8 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Coca-Cola stock price near $79: options price a 3% swing ahead of Tuesday earnings

Coca-Cola stock price near $79: options price a 3% swing ahead of Tuesday earnings

8 February 2026
Coca-Cola shares closed at $79.03 Friday, up 0.66%, ahead of its earnings report due Tuesday morning. Options pricing signals traders expect a move of about 3% by week’s end. Analysts estimate quarterly revenue near $12 billion and adjusted EPS at $0.57. The S&P 500 rose 1.97% and the Dow gained 2.47% Friday, with PepsiCo and Keurig Dr Pepper outpacing Coca-Cola.
Netflix stock price in focus as DOJ digs into Warner deal ahead of Monday trade

Netflix stock price in focus as DOJ digs into Warner deal ahead of Monday trade

8 February 2026
Netflix shares closed up 1.6% at $82.20 Friday, then slipped to $82.06 after hours as the Justice Department examined possible anti-competitive conduct in its $82.7 billion Warner Bros Discovery bid. A civil subpoena sought information on exclusionary practices, but Netflix said it was unaware of any probe beyond standard merger review. Warner shareholders are set to vote on the deal in March.
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