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Industry News 28 June 2025 - 15 September 2025

Australia’s Final Frontier: Inside the Rapid Rise of its Space & Satellite Industry

Australia’s Final Frontier: Inside the Rapid Rise of its Space & Satellite Industry

Key Facts and Figures Historical Context: A Decade of Ascent in Space Just over a decade ago, Australia’s space efforts were scattered across academia, defense, and niche industries. Unlike other nations, Australia had no central space agency until recently. In the 2010s, momentum built to coordinate and grow this sector. A 2017 expert review recommended forming a national agency to capitalize on booming global opportunities newspaceeconomy.ca. Consequently, the Australian Space Agency (ASA) was established on 1 July 2018, marking the nation’s return to space leadership after decades on the sidelines wa.gov.au. This followed high-profile moments like hosting the International Astronautical
15 September 2025
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Nikon Camera Showdown 2025: The Ultimate DSLR vs Mirrorless vs Compact Guide

Nikon’s Bold New Imaging Strategy Shakes Up the Camera Industry

Key Facts: Nikon’s New Vision: Restructuring for a Mirrorless & Video Era Nikon’s September 10 announcement marks a turning point for the iconic camera maker. In a detailed strategy update, Nikon outlined a plan to restructure its Imaging Products business for long-term growth amid fast-changing industry dynamics. A centerpiece of this plan is Nikon’s commitment to mirrorless cameras and professional imaging solutions – a shift the company deems essential after the decline of DSLR sales and the onslaught of smartphone photography. At the heart of the restructuring is an organizational realignment to foster innovation and efficiency. Nikon has established new
10 September 2025
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Camera World Explodes: 48-Hour Blitz of New Cameras, Lenses, and Shocking Industry Moves (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Camera World Explodes: 48-Hour Blitz of New Cameras, Lenses, and Shocking Industry Moves (Sept 9–10, 2025)

Major Camera Announcements and Releases Nikon Enters Cinema: ZR Launch with RED DNA Nikon stole headlines by unveiling the Nikon ZR, its first-ever digital cinema camera, on September 10. Nikon teamed up with RED Digital Cinema to infuse the ZR with true Hollywood DNA – even co-branding it with RED’s logo. The ZR packs a 24.5MP full-frame sensor (apparently the same sensor as the Nikon Z6III) but repurposed for video, minus any mechanical shutter. It can record up to 6K/60p internally and introduces a new “R3D NE” RAW codec based on RED’s Redcode RAW format. This means ZR users can
10 September 2025
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AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

AI’s Wild Weekend: Billion-Dollar Battles, Big Tech Showdowns & Breakthroughs (Sept 6–7, 2025)

Key Facts Summary Authors vs. AI: $1.5 Billion Settlement and New Copyright Battles Content creators scored a major victory against AI firms.Anthropic – maker of the Claude chatbot – agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by authors who alleged the startup illegally downloaded millions of pirated books to train its AI bloomberg.com. The unprecedented deal (about $3,000 per book for ~500,000 titles) is being called the largest-ever copyright recovery in the AI field axios.com ts2.tech. Under the agreement, Anthropic will delete all illicit book data taken from shadow libraries and pay authors for past use axios.com. “This settlement
7 September 2025
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From Sputnik to Sanctions: Inside Russia’s Space & Satellite Industry 2025

From Sputnik to Sanctions: Inside Russia’s Space & Satellite Industry 2025

Key Facts History of Russia’s Space Industry: From Soviet Pioneers to Post-Soviet Turbulence Russia’s space enterprise is anchored in the Soviet Union’s legendary space program, which set many historic milestones. The USSR built a formidable space infrastructure – at its peak in 1989, space spending was 1.5% of Soviet GDP en.wikipedia.org – achieving the first satellite (Sputnik), first human in orbit (Yuri Gagarin), first spacewalk, and launching robust programs like Soyuz crewed spacecraft and Salyut/Mir space stations. Soviet design bureaus (Energia, Chelomei’s OKB, Lavochkin, etc.) and manufacturing plants sprang up across the union, forming the backbone of today’s industry. The
6 September 2025
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Popcorn-Serving Robots, Brain Chips & Billions in AI: Inside Elon Musk’s July 2025 Robotics Revolution

Tesla Optimus Gen 3: Inside the Humanoid Robot Revolutionizing Industry

Optimus Gen 3 stands about 173 cm tall, weighs 57 kg, can lift roughly 20 kg, can walk at about 5 mph, and is powered by a 2.3 kWh onboard battery. Each Optimus Gen 3 hand has 22 degrees of freedom, with five fingers and four joints per finger plus two wrist joints, enabling human-like dexterity. The robot runs on a Tesla on-board AI brain based on Autopilot hardware, with walking gait and manipulation learned in simulation via reinforcement learning. Public demonstrations in 2024–2025 showed Optimus performing yoga, cracking an egg on a stove, dancing, and bartending, though several feats
31 August 2025
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AI Mega-Deals, Breakthroughs & Backlash – August 24–25, 2025 News Roundup

AI Mega-Deals, Breakthroughs & Backlash – August 24–25, 2025 News Roundup

Meta and Google announced a six-year cloud computing deal worth over $10 billion, making Google the backend for Meta’s AI initiatives. Nvidia announced a GeForce NOW upgrade featuring the Blackwell GPU (RTX 5080 class) to roll out in September, delivering 5K at 120fps and up to 360fps at 1080p with sub-30 millisecond latency via DLSS 4. OpenAI will open its first international office in New Delhi later this year as India becomes ChatGPT’s second-largest user base, with a new cheapest plan around $4.60 per month. OpenAI and Retro Biosciences used a GPT-4 variant to design enhanced proteins that produced a
25 August 2025
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Tech World Rocked by 8 Non‑AI Surprises This Week

Tech World Rocked by 8 Non‑AI Surprises This Week

Apple is developing a home companion robot—a 7-inch iPad-like display on a movable arm—targeting a 2027 launch, internally dubbed the “Pixar Lamp,” with a more lifelike, conversational Siri. Pebble Time 2 features a 1.5-inch color e-paper display, heart-rate sensor, and about 30-day battery life, while Pebble 2 Duo uses a black-and-white display with no HR monitor, both running an updated Pebble OS. Amazon expanded Prime same-day delivery of perishables to over 1,000 U.S. cities, with expansion to 2,300 cities by year-end, free for Prime orders of $25 or more, under a $4 billion logistics push. On August 13, President Donald
14 August 2025
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DJI Matrice 4E vs 4T vs Mavic 3T vs 3E: Ultimate Enterprise Drone Showdown (Thermal Tech, RTK & More Revealed)

DJI Matrice 4E vs 4T vs Mavic 3T vs 3E: Ultimate Enterprise Drone Showdown (Thermal Tech, RTK & More Revealed)

The Matrice 4E and Matrice 4T were released in January 2025, introducing triple-sensor payloads and advanced AI features for enterprise use. The Matrice 4E uses a 20 MP 4/3″ wide camera with a mechanical shutter. The Matrice 4T uses a 48 MP 1/1.3″ wide camera with no mechanical shutter. The Mavic 3E uses a 20 MP Four-Thirds wide camera with a mechanical shutter, while the Mavic 3T uses a 48 MP 1/2″ wide camera with an electronic shutter. The Matrice 4E and 4T offer built-in RTK, while the Mavic 3E and 3T rely on optional RTK modules. The Matrice 4E/4T
5 August 2025
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10 Game-Changing Tech Trends for 2025 Every Industry Must Watch

10 Game-Changing Tech Trends for 2025 Every Industry Must Watch

Agentic AI enables autonomous agents that plan and act on a user’s behalf, with Gartner projecting that at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously by 2028. AI Governance Platforms provide bias detection, model explainability, usage tracking, and policy enforcement, with Gartner forecasting that by 2028 organizations using them will achieve about 30% higher customer trust and 25% better regulatory compliance scores. Disinformation Security covers deepfake detection, brand protection, and continuous identity verification, with Gartner predicting that by 2028 50% of enterprises will have anti-disinformation technologies in place. Post-Quantum Cryptography uses quantum-resistant algorithms such as CRYSTALS-Kyber and
7 July 2025
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Semiconductor Industry Roundup (June–July 2025): Advanced Chips, Equipment, and Geopolitics

Semiconductor Industry Roundup (June–July 2025): Advanced Chips, Equipment, and Geopolitics

In summer 2025, TSMC reported near 90% yield on its 3 nm process, versus Samsung’s roughly 50% yield. Samsung, which pioneered 3 nm gate-all-around transistors in 2022, continues to struggle with yields but has won Google’s Tensor G5 on 3 nm and other new clients for older nodes. TSMC and Samsung are racing toward 2 nm (N2-class) technology, with TSMC’s 2 nm on track for risk production and high-volume manufacturing in late 2025 or early 2026. Intel detailed an 18A process (approximately 1.8 nm class) at the mid-June VLSI Symposium, promising >30% logic density scaling and up to ~20% higher
1 July 2025
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Plan-S Expands Connecta Constellation to 17 Satellites, Boosting Gigabit Industrial IoT and Cutting Latency

Plan-S Expands Connecta Constellation to 17 Satellites, Boosting Gigabit Industrial IoT and Cutting Latency

The four new Connecta satellites named Connecta IoT-9, IoT-10, IoT-11, and IoT-12 were launched in June 2025 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the Transporter-14 rideshare. The launch brings Plan-S’s Connecta constellation to 17 satellites in orbit, with 12 commercially active satellites and the remainder as test/demo units. The new satellites enable gigabit-level data access across the Connecta network, with aggregate throughput on the order of gigabits per second (Gbps). <li Plan-S reports a 40% increase in data collection frequency due to the new satellites, reducing data latency and moving toward near real-time global data collection. The Connecta system uses a
28 June 2025
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