Starlink’s residential service delivers about 100–250 Mbps down and 10–20 Mbps up, with latency around 20–50 ms and a median near 45 ms as of mid‑2025. Starlink pricing is typically around $120 per month for standard residential service, with a $80 Lite tier in some regions, and it offers month‑to‑month service with a 30‑day trial.…
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SpaceX operates over 7,000 satellites and posted $4.2 billion in revenue for 2024, with a target valuation of $400 billion to $4 trillion in upcoming funding rounds. Starlink aims for 22,000 satellites by 2030 and could capture 15% of global communications spending. Ovzon secured a SEK 72 million order from Sweden’s FMV for mobile satellite…
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Samsung announced Galaxy Unpacked 2025 on July 9, 2025, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Z Flip 7, and Galaxy Watch 8 with deeper Google Gemini AI integration. Apple disclosed COO Jeff Williams’s retirement after 27 years, appointing Sabih Khan as the new COO and moving the design group to report directly to Tim Cook.…
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MS4022 RF synthesizer from Mixed-Signal Devices, unveiled on June 16, 2025, generates 675 MHz–22 GHz with 25 fs RMS phase jitter. Falcomm with GlobalFoundries achieved 50% PAE in a Ku-band (13 GHz) power amplifier built on GF’s 130 nm CMOS process. Tower Semiconductor and pSemi unveiled a 0–110 GHz SPDT RF switch using a phase-change…
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A global research team led by Japan’s NICT demonstrated 1.02 Pb/s transmission over 1,808 km using a 19-core fiber and custom optical amplifiers. NICT, ASTRODESIGN, and Fujikura deployed a multi-core fiber system with eight 4-core fibers (32 cores total) enabling uncompressed 8K video across a 300 m link at about 70 Gbps per stream. In…
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A new axion Dark Energy (aDE) model from Cornell and Shanghai Jiao Tong University predicts the universe will start contracting in about 7 billion years and collapse in roughly 33–34 billion years. Amazon Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11, 2025, with US online sales forecast at $23.8 billion and record discounts on Apple, Samsung, Google,…
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The FY2026 NASA budget proposal would cut overall funding by 24.3%, with science funding slashed by nearly 47%. Congress moved to restore nearly $10 billion for NASA’s human spaceflight programs including Artemis, SLS, Orion, and the Gateway lunar station, while transferring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston and upgrading the Stennis Space Center. SpaceX accounted for…
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An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent…
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OpenAI’s GPT-4, released in 2023, is a proprietary multimodal model (text and images) available via API or Azure and handles a few thousand input tokens by default. Anthropic’s Claude 2 offers a 100,000-token context window and is accessible via API, with prompting costs roughly half of GPT-4 per token. Meta’s LLaMA 2, released in 2023,…
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In the United States, more than 777 FDA-cleared AI devices are in clinical use for medical imaging, slashing scan times and flagging urgent cases. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieves up to 85.5% diagnostic accuracy, vastly outperforming doctors at about 20%. Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero announced a $1B+ collaboration to discover targets for age-related diseases using…
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