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Future Technology News 23 June 2025 - 4 October 2025

Archer Aviation Skyrockets: eVTOL Test Milestones & Stock Surge Ignite Industry Buzz

Archer Aviation’s Electric Air Taxi Ambitions – Soaring Stock, Bold Forecasts & the Race to Rule the Skies

2025 YTD Stock Performance: Archer’s Ascent and Volatility Archer Aviation’s stock has been on a bumpy upward trajectory in 2025. After a meteoric rise late last year, ACHR entered 2025 trading near $10 and initially stumbled – by mid-September the stock was actually down ~13% year-to-date 247wallst.com. However, a late-quarter surge flipped the script. As of early October 2025, Archer’s share price is up about 18% for the year, outpacing the S&P 500’s ~14% gain ca.finance.yahoo.com. More dramatically, Archer has returned almost 290% over the past 12 months marketbeat.com, reflecting the eVTOL hype cycle that sent many “flying car” stocks
4 October 2025
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Windows vs Linux in 2025: The Epic OS Showdown Reveals Surprising Facts

Windows vs Linux in 2025: The Epic OS Showdown Reveals Surprising Facts

Conclusion In the Windows vs. Linux showdown of 2025, there is no one-size-fits-all winner – each OS excels in different arenas. Windows offers ease of use, broad app compatibility, and a familiar environment that’s ideal for mainstream personal and business use. Linux shines in flexibility, security, cost efficiency, and power-user/developer features, and it utterly dominates the server and cloud world. As one IT consultant put it, transitioning to Linux has evolved from a fringe idea to “a full-fledged enterprise strategy”, thanks to its benefits in security, cost control, and technological independence bluefoxconsultant.com. For casual users and gamers, Windows still holds
22 September 2025
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Sky Is No Limit: Global Satcom Market Set to Soar Through 2035

Satellite IoT Boom: Space Networks Poised to Connect the Unconnected by 2029

Global Market Growth: From Niche to €1.6 Billion Just a few years ago, satellite IoT was a niche segment – but not for long. Analysts project exponential growth through the decade. Berg Insight’s latest report pegs satellite IoT connectivity revenues at €1.58 billion by 2029 (36.4% CAGR from 2024) techafricanews.com. The subscriber count is expected to quintuple, reaching 32.5 million IoT devices on satellite networks by 2029 techafricanews.com. Another analysis by IoT Analytics finds 7.5 million active satellite IoT connections in 2024, with total market (connectivity + hardware) climbing 26% annually to $4.7 billion by 2030 iot-analytics.com. In short, space-based IoT is transitioning
19 September 2025
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SpaceX Starship: The Giant Rocket Poised to Change Space Travel Forever (2025 Update)

SpaceX Starship: The Giant Rocket Poised to Change Space Travel Forever (2025 Update)

Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable rocket system about 120 meters tall, with 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster and 6 Raptors on Starship, delivering roughly 74 MN of thrust. The first orbital-class flight occurred on April 20, 2023 from Starbase with Ship 24 atop Booster 7, cleared the pad but failed to separate stages and was terminated, yet SpaceX called it a success for pad clearance. On November 18, 2023 (Flight 2), SpaceX conducted hot staging with a 33-engine Super Heavy (B9), achieved stage separation, but the booster exploded on return due to a clogged fuel filter
24 August 2025
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Popcorn-Serving Robots, Brain Chips & Billions in AI: Inside Elon Musk’s July 2025 Robotics Revolution

Humanoid Robot Showdown: Sophia vs Tesla’s Optimus vs Figure 02 – Who Leads the Future?

Sophia, unveiled in 2016 by Hanson Robotics, stands 167 cm tall, weighs about 20 kg, has 83 degrees of freedom (36 in the head) and is designed for social interaction rather than heavy labor. In 2017, Saudi Arabia granted Sophia honorary citizenship, a publicity stunt that sparked widespread debate over AI rights and public perception of humanoid robots. Optimus Gen 2 is a 173 cm tall, 57 kg humanoid with about 40 DoF (11 DoF in the hands), a 2.3 kWh chest battery, eight cameras, and the Tesla Autopilot computer onboard for perception and control. Optimus can deadlift about 150
23 August 2025
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Quantum in Orbit, 100K-Qubit Ambitions & More – Quantum Computing Roundup (July 30–31, 2025)

Quantum in Orbit, 100K-Qubit Ambitions & More – Quantum Computing Roundup (July 30–31, 2025)

The first quantum computer in space is now operational in Earth orbit, launched on June 23 as a compact photonic device about 3 liters in volume that consumes roughly 10 watts, led by Philip Walther of the University of Vienna. On July 30, D-Wave Quantum unveiled a plan to scale to 100,000 qubits through advanced cryogenic packaging leveraging NASA JPL know-how to interconnect multiple chips for fluxonium-based gate-model qubits and next-generation annealers. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical approach to unit commitment for a power grid, using IonQ’s 36-qubit Forte ion-trap system to schedule 26 generators
31 July 2025
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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT Agent – The AI Assistant That Can Plan, Shop and Make PowerPoints For You

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent on July 17, 2025, turning ChatGPT into a personal AI assistant capable of autonomously handling multi-step tasks. The agent uses a built-in “virtual computer” to browse the web, fill forms, run code, and produce Excel spreadsheets or PowerPoint presentations on the user’s behalf. It can manage schedules and plans by checking your calendar and finding free times to reserve tables via OpenTable. It can perform online research and compile concise reports or analyses, including trend summaries. It can shop online, compare options with criteria you specify, and place orders with your permission. It can generate editable
17 July 2025
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Smartphone Wars 2025: Inside the Global Market Shake-Up, Trends, and Future Tech Disruptions

Smartphone Wars 2025: Inside the Global Market Shake-Up, Trends, and Future Tech Disruptions

In 2024, global smartphone shipments reached 1.24 billion units, up 6.4% year over year, with revenues exceeding $500 billion. Premium smartphones (≥$600) accounted for about 25% of global unit sales in 2024, while ultra-premium (> $1,000) comprised around 40% of premium sales. In early 2025, Samsung and Apple together controlled about 40% of global smartphone shipments, with the top five vendors (Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, OPPO, vivo) comprising roughly 70% of shipments. By 2025, India is projected to produce 20% of the world’s smartphones, up from about 9% in 2016, driven by the Production-Linked Incentive program. Transsion (Tecno, Itel, Infinix) shipped
16 July 2025
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AI Supremacy, Space Odyssey & Tech Shakeups: The Biggest Tech News of July 2025

AI Supremacy, Space Odyssey & Tech Shakeups: The Biggest Tech News of July 2025

In July 2025, Nvidia briefly surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the world’s first company to reach a $4T valuation. In July 2025, Google DeepMind signed a $2.4 billion deal to license Windsurf technology after OpenAI’s $3 billion Windsurf bid collapsed, an acqui-hire boosting Project Gemini. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that matches or outperforms top closed models on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Baidu open-sourced ERNIE 4.5, a model family up to 424 billion parameters, claiming it rivals top Western models at half the size. On July 2, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 achieved its 500th orbital
15 July 2025
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60 AI Tools That Don’t Exist Yet—But Should: The Missing Pieces of the Future

60 AI Tools That Don’t Exist Yet—But Should: The Missing Pieces of the Future

Manus AI in China is described as the first “general AI agent” able to take a natural-language request and independently perform all steps, such as finding a pet-friendly 2-bedroom apartment under $50k and messaging brokers. The AI Personal Concierge would autonomously handle a wide range of daily tasks across digital and physical domains, integrating with calendars, email, apps, and APIs. The AI Household Robot Assistant envisions a versatile home robot that can clean, do laundry, wash dishes, and perform basic house maintenance by learning a home layout and object locations. AI Nutritionist & Meal Planner would analyze biometric data and
10 July 2025
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Virtual Reality in 2025: Latest Trends, New Releases and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Virtual Reality in 2025: Latest Trends, New Releases and Industry Outlook (Updated: June 27th, 2025)

Meta’s Quest 3, released in late 2023, is a standalone VR headset with mixed reality capabilities that is roughly twice as powerful as its predecessor and features high-resolution pancake lenses plus full-color passthrough for MR. Apple’s Vision Pro, announced in mid-2023 and released in early 2024, costs about $3,500 and uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays with advanced eye- and hand-tracking and passthrough AR for spatial computing. Samsung and Google’s Project Moohan XR headset is slated for late 2025, uses Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, reportedly delivers up to 4.3K per-eye displays with pancake optics and color passthrough, and runs an
27 June 2025
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Fueling the Future: Inside the $8 Billion In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Boom by 2034

Fueling the Future: Inside the $8 Billion In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Boom by 2034

The global in-orbit servicing market is forecast to grow from about $2.4–$2.7 billion in the mid-2020s to roughly $8 billion by 2034, a CAGR of about 11–12%. Northrop Grumman SpaceLogistics’ Mission Extension Vehicle, MEV-1, docked to Intelsat-901 in 2020, restoring operations and extending life by more than 5 years. MEV-2 docked with IS-10-02 in 2021, following MEV-1, demonstrating repeatable life-extension capability. ESA’s ClearSpace-1 is slated for 2026 to capture and deorbit a Vega rocket upper stage, marking the first commercial debris-removal mission. Orbit Fab’s RAFTI refueling port was qualified as an official DoD standard in 2023, with at least three
23 June 2025
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