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Namibia’s Digital Frontier: How Internet Access and Starlink Are Rewiring the Nation’s Future

Namibia’s Digital Frontier: How Internet Access and Starlink Are Rewiring the Nation’s Future

Namibia had about 1.6 million internet users by early 2024, up from 53% to 62% of the population in a year. The Equiano cable, landed in 2022–2023, increased international bandwidth twentyfold. Mobile subscriptions reached 2.9 million, far exceeding the population, but only 5.1% of rural households had fixed home internet. Starlink remains unlicensed as of early 2025 after a government crackdown on unauthorized terminals.
8 July 2025
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FoodTech Mid-2025 Report: Alternative Proteins and Cellular Agriculture Breakthroughs

FoodTech Mid-2025 Report: Alternative Proteins and Cellular Agriculture Breakthroughs

In June 2025, the FDA approved Wildtype’s cell-cultured salmon, served as ceviche in Portland, marking the first cultivated seafood clearance in the U.S. Australia’s FSANZ approved Vow’s cultivated quail for sale, the first such approval in Oceania. U.S. states split on cultivated meat regulation, while the EU pledged €350 million for alt-protein development. Q1 2025 alt-protein funding reached $235 million.
8 July 2025
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Global Data Center Infrastructure & Colocation Industry Update (June–July 2025)

Global Data Center Infrastructure & Colocation Industry Update (June–July 2025)

Amazon Web Services announced a $10 billion AI data center campus in North Carolina, creating 500 jobs. Alibaba Cloud pledged $52.7 billion for global expansion, opening a second South Korea facility and adding sites in Mexico and Thailand. Equinix acquired three Manila data centers on June 4. TikTok plans a €1 billion data center in Finland for EU user data.
8 July 2025
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June–July 2025 Update: Workflow Automation & RPA Industry Report

June–July 2025 Update: Workflow Automation & RPA Industry Report

Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for RPA again named Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism, and UiPath as Leaders for the seventh year. UiPath launched its Agentic Automation Platform in Australia and reported over 75,000 agent executions. Automation Anywhere released pre-built Agentic Solutions for finance and healthcare. Market forecasts set 2024 RPA software revenue at $3.8 billion, up 18% year-over-year.
8 July 2025
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AI Today: Breakthroughs, Bias, Regulation & the Road Ahead – July 8, 2025 Update

AI Today: Breakthroughs, Bias, Regulation & the Road Ahead – July 8, 2025 Update

The EU’s AI Act will take full effect by mid-2026, imposing strict rules on high-risk AI across Europe. Capgemini will acquire WNS Holdings for $3.3 billion to advance enterprise AI. UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for global AI governance at the BRICS summit. Only 20% of German workers have received AI training, a Bitkom survey found.
8 July 2025
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Tech News Deep Dive: Windows 11 Takes Over, iPhone 17 Rumors & AI Surge – Updated July 8, 2025

Tech News Deep Dive: Windows 11 Takes Over, iPhone 17 Rumors & AI Surge – Updated July 8, 2025

Windows 11 surpassed Windows 10, reaching 50.88% of Windows devices by July 2025, StatCounter reports. Nvidia’s market value climbed to $3.92 trillion, overtaking Apple as AI chip demand surged. OpenAI plans to launch GPT-5 this summer, targeting AGI. The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, described as the largest and brightest yet, enters the solar system in July 2025.
8 July 2025
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China’s Bold Advances: Space-Based AI, Deep Space Ambitions, and Satellite Networks – Space News Roundup (Updated July 8, 2025 0:00 CET)

China’s Bold Advances: Space-Based AI, Deep Space Ambitions, and Satellite Networks – Space News Roundup (Updated July 8, 2025 0:00 CET)

China launched the Three-Body Computing Constellation, aiming for exascale in-orbit AI and real-time data processing. BeiDou-3 now operates 30 satellites for global geolocation. The US Space Force awarded Boeing a $2.8 billion contract for up to four Evolved Strategic SATCOM satellites. Europe’s IRIS² constellation will deploy 290 secure communications satellites by 2030 with a €10.6 billion budget.
8 July 2025
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Vertical Farming and CEA Global Developments – June–July 2025 News Roundup

Vertical Farming and CEA Global Developments – June–July 2025 News Roundup

Eeki, the Indian agtech startup, secured $7 million in funding led by Sixth Sense Ventures to expand its IoT-powered aeroponic network across India. The investment supports scaling after Eeki already built 100 acres of climate‑controlled farms in arid Rajasthan and rolling out third-generation growing chambers and R&D. Planet Farms (Italy) is investing £25+ million to construct a 20,000 m² vertical farm in the UK with production planned by 2027, mirroring its Milan flagship of 10,000+ m² that supplies over 25% of Italian retail leafy greens. Plenty Unlimited emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late May 2025, refocusing on its Los
7 July 2025
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Leonardo AI Unleashed: The Generative Art Powerhouse Rivaling Midjourney and DALL·E

Leonardo AI Unleashed: The Generative Art Powerhouse Rivaling Midjourney and DALL·E

Canva acquired Sydney-based Leonardo.ai in 2024, bringing its 120-person team onboard. By mid-2024, Leonardo had over 19 million users who generated more than a billion images. The platform offers real-time sketch-guided image generation, AI video creation, 3D texture tools, and custom model training. Pricing ranges from a free plan to $60/month with commercial rights and advanced features.
7 July 2025
DevOps, DevSecOps & Developer Tooling – Notable News (June–July 2025)

DevOps, DevSecOps & Developer Tooling – Notable News (June–July 2025)

On June 6, 2025, the US President signed a cybersecurity Executive Order mandating Secure Software Development Attestation by August 1 and dropping the SBOM requirement. GitLab released version 18 with AI-native features, while Atlassian launched “Rovo” AI agents for Jira and Bitbucket. Snyk acquired Invariant Labs on June 24 to expand AI-threat research. Cloudflare, ActiveState, Payara, and Harness also announced new developer tools.
7 July 2025
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Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI launched its search engine in December 2022, using retrieval+generation tech and models like Sonar and GPT-4. By May 2025, it handled 780 million queries monthly, up from 3,000 on its first day. The company reached a $9 billion valuation after a $500 million round in December 2024. Perplexity offers a freemium model, publisher revenue sharing, and new products including a mobile assistant and AI-powered phone.
7 July 2025
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AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

ChatGPT, Bard, Soul Machines, Replika, Synthesia, IBM Watson Assistant, and Grammarly offer AI tools with features such as avatars, voice, and image support, with pricing ranging from free to $70 per year. By mid-2025, these platforms demonstrate multimodal capabilities and emotion detection. The EU AI Act and several US states require disclosure of AI interactions. A 2025 study found AI mental-health bots rated as more compassionate than some humans.
7 July 2025
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Global Wearable Health Tech News – June and July 2025

Global Wearable Health Tech News – June and July 2025

Biobeat’s cuffless vital-sign patch received FDA clearance and CE marking for remote hospital monitoring. PharmaSens and SiBionics unveiled the niia™ signature patch, combining a continuous glucose monitor and insulin pump, at ADA 2025. Fasikl’s Felix NeuroAI Wristband became the first FDA-cleared neuromodulation wearable for essential tremor. U.S. HHS Secretary RFK Jr. launched the MAHA initiative for nationwide wearable adoption.
7 July 2025
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Green Energy Goldmine: How to Profit from the Renewable Revolution

Green Energy Goldmine: How to Profit from the Renewable Revolution

Global clean energy investment in 2024 is projected to hit $2 trillion, nearly double fossil fuel spending. Solar investment is expected to exceed $500 billion, outpacing all other power sources. Renewable energy jobs rose to 16.2 million in 2023, up 18% from the previous year. Hydropower remains the largest renewable, supplying about 16% of global electricity.
7 July 2025
Blockchain Revolution: How the ‘Trust Machine’ Is Transforming Business by 2025

Blockchain Revolution: How the ‘Trust Machine’ Is Transforming Business by 2025

Blockchain is a distributed, append-only ledger where each transaction is grouped into a block cryptographically linked to the previous one, making the system tamper-resistant. Smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum are self-executing code that enforces agreements when conditions are met, operating with no downtime, censorship, or fraud. Walmart and IBM demonstrated a blockchain-based food-traceability system in which tracing a batch of mangoes took 6 days 18 hours with traditional methods but 2.2 seconds on the blockchain. In 2023, JPMorgan, HSBC, and BlackRock announced deepened involvement in blockchain projects, signaling major financial institutions’ adoption. Forecasts suggest that by 2027 as much
7 July 2025
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Internet Access in Qatar: A Comprehensive Report

Internet Access in Qatar: A Comprehensive Report

Qatar’s fiber-optic network covers over 95% of the country, with DSL nearly phased out. Both Ooredoo and Vodafone provide nationwide 5G, and mobile broadband penetration stands at 150%. As of April 2025, median mobile download speed reached 521.52 Mbps, while fixed broadband approached 190 Mbps. Starlink operates for enterprise use, and Qatar Airways began offering Starlink Wi-Fi on flights in 2023–2024.
7 July 2025
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Drone Laws in Abu Dhabi: What You Must Know in 2025

Drone Laws in Abu Dhabi: What You Must Know in 2025

The UAE launched the drones.gov.ae platform in late 2024 to centralize drone registration, flight approvals, and incident reporting, with full rollout by mid-2025. Abu Dhabi lifted its recreational drone ban on Jan. 7, 2025, allowing hobbyists to fly with permits and training, while Dubai kept restrictions. Remote ID became mandatory in 2024. Fines for violations can reach AED 100,000, with possible jail time for safety breaches.
7 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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