Inside Perplexity AI: The Search Engine That’s Disrupting Google with Conversational Intelligence Perplexity AI is a new breed of AI-powered search and answer engine that uses large language models (LLMs) to deliver direct answers to user questions instead of just links observer.com. In essence, it’s a “conversational search engine” where you ask a natural language…
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Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends That Will Change Your Business Data and analytics are entering a new era of ubiquity and strategic importance for businesses. As Gartner VP Gareth Herschel observes, “D&A is going from the domain of the few to ubiquity,” with leaders now under pressure “to do a lot more with a lot…
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Barcelona is a stunning city – but if you plan to fly a drone there in 2025, you’ll face some of the strictest regulations in Europe. Recent law changes have overhauled drone rules in Spain, affecting everything from casual vacation flights to professional aerial filming. This comprehensive guide breaks down recreational vs. commercial drone use,…
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The past two months have been buzzing with smart-home breakthroughs. From next-gen thermostats and AI-powered appliances to tighter security and evolving ecosystems, June and July 2025 saw a flurry of smart-home product launches, strategic moves, and debates. Industry giants and startups alike made headlines with new devices and features, analysts painted an upbeat market outlook,…
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2025 Highlights: Gemini’s Breakthrough and Latest Developments Google’s Gemini AI emerged in 2024 as a next-gen model and has rapidly advanced through 2025, with Google integrating it across products and releasing new versions and tools. Gemini 2.5 and Ultra: By early 2025, Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most powerful AI model to date techcrunch.com.…
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The newly confirmed comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) is the third identified interstellar object after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019). Discovered on 1 July 2025 by the NASA‑funded ATLAS telescope in Chile, it is racing through the solar system on an extremely hyperbolic path at ∼68 km s⁻¹, will reach perihelion just inside Mars’s orbit on 29 October 2025, and poses no threat to Earth. Early…
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June and July 2025 have been eventful months for the advertising technology (AdTech) industry, marked by significant news, strategic acquisitions, evolving tech trends, and crucial regulatory moves. This report compiles the major developments from this period – including key announcements, market forecasts, trend analyses (from programmatic and CTV to mobile, identity, AI, and privacy), regulatory…
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Apple is weighing a dramatic shift away from its “build-everything-in-house” doctrine by licensing large-language models (LLMs) from Anthropic and OpenAI to power a rebuilt Siri—an about-face that underscores both the urgency of Apple’s AI catch-up plan and the scale of its recent missteps. Bloomberg first broke the story, and follow-on reports reveal protracted delays to…
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Relentless Launch Cadence and Doubleheader Missions SpaceX’s launch tempo shows no sign of slowing. In one day, the company pulled off back-to-back Falcon 9 launches from opposite U.S. coasts space.com. In the early hours of June 28, a Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida with 27 Starlink internet satellites, followed by another Falcon…
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In May and June 2025, the cloud computing industry – spanning Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – witnessed significant news and developments. This report organizes the key highlights of this period, including major announcements (mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, funding), market forecasts from industry analysts, financial results of leading providers, new technological launches, expert commentary,…
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