Major AI Company Announcements and New Launches Notable Research Breakthroughs and AI Milestones Government and Regulatory Updates in AI Funding Frenzy, Acquisitions and Partnerships Investors and tech giants opened the checkbooks in July, signaling that the generative AI boom is still in full swing: Expert Reactions and Industry Perspectives With so many rapid developments, leaders…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 24 new Starlink satellites on July 18 from California, with the booster landing for the 14th time on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, expanding the constellation to nearly 8,000 active satellites. Raytheon delivered the OCX GPS control software to the U.S. Space Force, upgrading the Global Positioning System…
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Apple Watch Series 10 (2024) features a 1.9-inch OLED display, ECG, SpO₂, skin-temperature sensing, and about 18 hours of battery life, with Series 11 rumored for fall 2025 to bring major innovations such as a possible Watch X design and micro‑LED display. Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 (2025) comes in 41mm and 45mm sizes, adds the…
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The Pixel 10 family will include four models: Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with codenames Frankel, Blazer, Mustang, and Rango. The launch is expected at a Made by Google event on August 20, 2025, with retail availability around August 28, 2025, marking the 10th Pixel anniversary.…
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3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet, was detected on July 1, 2025, possibly 10 km across, and is the third known interstellar visitor after ʻOumuamua (2017) and Borisov (2019). <li NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of the Sun’s corona and solar wind from 3.8 million miles away during a December 24, 2024 flyby. <li…
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On July 9, 2025, Earth’s length of day was predicted to be −1.30 ms, the fastest day of 2025 and close to 2024’s all‑time −1.66 ms. A 1 millisecond timing error can yield GPS position errors of hundreds of meters and disrupt high‑frequency trading algorithms. Leading explanations for the spin‑up include an unusual Moon alignment,…
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The USSF-178 task order is an $81.6 million NSSL Phase 3 Lane 1 award to SpaceX to launch WSF-M2 on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB in the first half of FY2027, including a BLAZE-2 rideshare. This award marks SpaceX’s third consecutive Lane 1 win under NSSL Phase 3, following two earlier Lane 1 awards…
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The ESA Biomass satellite, launched on April 29, 2025, carries the first P-band synthetic aperture radar (435 MHz) to map the world’s forests in 3D and quantify their carbon content. The mission uses a 12-meter deployable antenna—the largest radar antenna ever flown—to enable detection of biomass changes as small as 10–20 tons per hectare. Biomass…
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A large negative-polarity coronal-hole high-speed stream (CH HSS) has been rotating into Earth’s line of sight since 23 June, prompting NOAA SWPC to issue a G2 geomagnetic-storm outlook for 25–26 June UTC. Solar wind gusts exceeding 600 km/s are expected, with the planetary K-index (Kp) peaking near 5–6. Solar Cycle 25 is nearing its predicted…
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The 24–25 June 2025 event is forecast to reach G1–G2 geomagnetic storming with a peak Kp of 5.67. NOAA SWPC’s 3‑Day Forecast issued on 24 June projects storming for 25–26 June. Up to 14–15 states could see auroras, from Alaska and Washington to New York and South Dakota. A large equatorial coronal hole rotated into…
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