By 2023, the U.S. FDA had approved 223 AI-powered medical devices, up from 6 in 2015. GPT-4, released in 2023, is described as having over 100 trillion parameters and powers ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” enabling self-attention and the training of very large…
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The Nothing Phone 3 was officially unveiled on July 1, 2025, with pre-orders opening July 4 and a full market release on July 15, 2025. Prices start at $799 for 12GB RAM/256GB storage and $899 for 16GB RAM/512GB, with India pricing ₹79,999 and ₹89,999. The 6.67-inch flat AMOLED display offers 1260×2800 resolution (460 ppi), 20:9…
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Ammonite is the informal name for the trans-Neptunian object 2023 KQ14, discovered by the FOSSIL survey with Subaru’s 8.2-meter telescope in early 2023. Follow-up observations in July 2024 with the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope and archival data from 2005 extended its observational arc to 19 years. Ammonite is a sednoid, a distant trans-Neptunian object with a highly…
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Google scheduled its Made by Google event for August 20, 2025 in New York City, where four Pixel models—Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold—will debut alongside the Pixel Watch 4. The Pixel 10 family will run Android 16 with a redesigned UI and be powered by Google’s Tensor G5…
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Apple plans to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup in the week of September 8, 2025, with the event likely on September 9 or 10. There will be four models: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be about 6mm thick, very lightweight,…
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TSMC posted a 60% year-on-year jump in quarterly profit, its highest ever, as AI chip demand surged, with Nvidia allowed to resume selling H20 AI chips to China and up to 40% sales growth forecast next quarter. Nvidia’s market value recently touched $4 trillion, making it the world’s most valuable semiconductor firm. Google is adding…
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The iPhone Fold is tipped to debut in the second half of 2026, with mass production of key components planned to begin by late 2025. UBS analysts estimate a launch price around $1,800, with a bill of materials about $759 and gross margins of 53–58%. The device is described as a book-style foldable with a…
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Google launched the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in May 2023, an AI-driven results format that places an AI-generated snapshot at the top of the page using PaLM-era models and later Gemini. Google introduced the Knowledge Graph in 2012, a semantic database powering knowledge panels with over 500 billion facts about more than 5 billion entities.…
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In Q4 2024, YouTube’s advertising sales reached $10.5 billion, up from $9.2 billion in Q4 2023, boosted by U.S. midterm spending. Analysts estimated YouTube’s 2024 ad revenues at $35–36 billion, about 13–14% of Alphabet’s total ad intake, with some valuing YouTube at roughly $550 billion as a standalone enterprise. As of 2025, YouTube Premium and…
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Samsung was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chul as a trading company and later diversified into electronics in the late 1960s, becoming South Korea’s largest chaebol. After Lee Byung-chul’s death in 1987 the group was split among family branches, but the Lee family still controls via cross-shareholdings and Samsung Group accounts for about 20% of…
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