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

Key take‑aways (one‑paragraph executive summary) In early July 2025 astronomers using the NASA‑funded ATLAS telescope in Chile discovered a hyper‑fast object now designated 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)—only the third confirmed interstellar body to enter our Solar System after ’Oumuamua (2017) and Borisov (2019). Follow‑up astrometry shows an inbound velocity of ≈58 km s⁻¹ and an orbital eccentricity of ≈6.1, values far in…
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Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Inside Perplexity AI: The Search Engine That’s Disrupting Google with Conversational Intelligence Perplexity AI is a new breed of AI-powered search and answer engine that uses large language models (LLMs) to deliver direct answers to user questions instead of just links observer.com. In essence, it’s a “conversational search engine” where you ask a natural language…
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Smart Homes Just Got Smarter: New Gadgets, Big Trends & Surprising Challenges in Summer 2025

The past two months have been buzzing with smart-home breakthroughs. From next-gen thermostats and AI-powered appliances to tighter security and evolving ecosystems, June and July 2025 saw a flurry of smart-home product launches, strategic moves, and debates. Industry giants and startups alike made headlines with new devices and features, analysts painted an upbeat market outlook,…
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Google Gemini’s 2025 Takeover: How Google’s AI Powerhouse Stacks Up Against GPT-4, Claude & More

2025 Highlights: Gemini’s Breakthrough and Latest Developments Google’s Gemini AI emerged in 2024 as a next-gen model and has rapidly advanced through 2025, with Google integrating it across products and releasing new versions and tools. Gemini 2.5 and Ultra: By early 2025, Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most powerful AI model to date techcrunch.com.…
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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

The U.S. Space Force has tapped SpaceX for a $81.6 million National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 task order to loft the Weather System Follow-on–Microwave 2 (WSF-M2) satellite and a rideshare stack of small DoD spacecraft (the BLAZE-2 mission) in the first half of fiscal 2027. The award—designated mission USSF-178—marks SpaceX’s third…
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Google Fiber Will Light Up Tempe in 2026: Everything Residents & Businesses Should Know

Tempe has officially joined the short but fast‑growing list of U‑S cities getting symmetrical multi‑gigabit internet from Google Fiber (GFiber). Construction began this month in the Warner Ranch neighborhood and the first customer activations are slated for 2026. City leaders say the project closes a long‑running campaign to improve local connectivity, while GFiber executives frame Tempe…
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SpaceX’s ‘Grace’ Roars to Orbit: Axiom Mission 4 Sends India, Poland & Hungary Back to Space — and Signals the Dawn of a Truly Global Commercial ISS Era

A pre‑dawn launch from Kennedy Space Center on 25 June 2025 vaulted four astronauts from four nations into orbit aboard a brand‑new Dragon capsule they christened Grace. The two‑week private mission, arranged by Houston‑based Axiom Space and flown by SpaceX, is more than a spectacular rocket ride: it is a stress‑test of the business case for commercial research in…
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Missiles, Markets, and Regime-Change Rumors: 11 Jaw-Dropping Revelations From the Israel-Iran Showdown (LIVE UPDATE)

A dramatic 24-hour burst of missile fire, bunker-buster strikes, and dizzying political messaging has pushed the Iran-Israel war to its most perilous point yet. Iran’s “symbolic” barrage on America’s Al Udeid air base in Qatar came only a day after U.S. B-2 bombers flattened three Iranian nuclear sites, while Israel kept pounding targets in Tehran.…
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Bunker‑Buster Earthquake: New Satellite Images Expose Fordow’s Ruin—What the Bombs Hit, What Survived, and Why It Matters

Recent commercial satellite photographs released by Maxar Technologies, Planet Labs and multiple newsrooms confirm that the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP) outside Qom—the deepest, most heavily‑fortified node in Iran’s nuclear network—absorbed direct hits from U.S. Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs during the 22 June allied air‑raid. High‑resolution before‑and‑after imagery shows at least six fresh penetrator holes in the limestone ridge above the…
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Shock From Space: Commercial Satellite Photos Reveal How U.S. Bunker‑Busters Crushed Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Mountain

SummaryNewly released high‑resolution pictures from Maxar and Planet Labs show the once‑impenetrable Fordow uranium‑enrichment plant gashed open after the 22 June U.S. air‑strike, with blast‑sealed tunnel mouths, greyed mountain rock and lingering smoke plumes. Image‑forensics, expert interviews and open‑source intelligence indicate that successive GBU‑57 “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” (MOP) bombs pulverised access shafts, cut external power and…
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