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Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX workstation processor launched at $11,699 and features 96 cores, 192 threads, a Zen 5 design, and up to 5.4GHz, claiming the title of the world’s fastest CPU. Samsung’s 61.44 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, the largest enterprise drive to date, went on sale for $5,593 (~$0.09/GB) and delivers 14.2 GB/s read and 2.1 GB/s write speeds using QLC flash. The FOSSiBOT F107 Pro rugged phone adds “Starlight Night Vision” capable of color photography at 0.0005 lux, powered by a 28,000 mAh battery and MIL-STD-810H durability. A GoPro Max 2 prototype leaked showing a 360° camera with
28 July 2025
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Starlink Doubleheader, NASA Upheaval & Space Race Showdowns – Global Space News Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

Starlink Doubleheader, NASA Upheaval & Space Race Showdowns – Global Space News Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

SpaceX launched back-to-back Falcon 9 missions for Starlink within 24 hours: on July 26 at 5:01 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral with 28 Starlink satellites and on July 27 at 12:31 a.m. EDT from Vandenberg with 24 Starlinks, with first-stage boosters landing on droneships on their 22nd and 19th flights respectively and the company pushing its 2025 launch total to 95 flights and the Starlink fleet above 8,000 satellites. Europe’s Vega-C VV27 launched July 25 at 10:03 p.m. ET from Kourou carrying five Earth-observation satellites including MicroCarb (180 kg, 1 ppm CO2 accuracy) and four CO3D satellites built by Airbus
27 July 2025
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Space Triumphs, Gadget Shockers & Cyber Breaches – Tech Weekend Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

Space Triumphs, Gadget Shockers & Cyber Breaches – Tech Weekend Roundup (July 26–27, 2025)

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7, unveiled July 9, 2025, reached general availability on July 25, 2025, and stands 8.9 mm thick when folded with a 200 MP camera. Sony revived its RX1R line with the RX1R III, launched nine years after the last model and featuring a 61 MP full-frame sensor. AMD rolled out the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series on July 23, 2025, led by the 9995WX with 96 Zen 5 cores and an $11,699 price tag. Seagate began shipping 30 TB hard disk drives using HAMR, the largest consumer HDDs on the market, at roughly $600 each. Kioxia announced
27 July 2025
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Starlink Outage, New Launches and Space Alliances – Major Space Developments (July 25–26, 2025)

Starlink Outage, New Launches and Space Alliances – Major Space Developments (July 25–26, 2025)

On July 25, 2025, Russia’s Roscosmos launched a Soyuz-2.1b from Vostochny with two Ionosfera-M satellites into polar orbit as part of the Ionozond program, and deployed 18 secondary payloads (17 Russian CubeSats and Iran’s Nahid-2). Europe’s Vega-C rocket lifted off from Kourou on July 25, 2025, delivering MicroCarb and four CO3D satellites into orbit, with MicroCarb mapping global CO₂ sources and sinks to within 1 ppm accuracy and CO3D producing ~50 cm land-surface resolution. SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 booster (tail number B1078) from Cape Canaveral on July 26, 2025, marking the booster’s 22nd mission and
26 July 2025
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Giant Leaps in Space, Gigantic Gadgets & Shocking Breaches – Tech News Roundup (July 25–26, 2025)

Giant Leaps in Space, Gigantic Gadgets & Shocking Breaches – Tech News Roundup (July 25–26, 2025)

Consumer Electronics & Gadgets Computing & Chips Software & Operating Systems Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Telecommunications & Infrastructure Biotech & Health Tech Space & Aerospace Sources: Official corporate announcements, government releases, and reputable tech media were used in compiling this report. For more details, see NASA nasa.gov nasa.gov, Space Insider spaceinsider.tech spaceinsider.tech, Wired wired.com wired.com, Reuters reuters.com reuters.com, PCMag/CNET graphics-unleashed.com graphics-unleashed.com, Business Insider businessinsider.com businessinsider.com, and other sources as cited above.
26 July 2025
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SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

SpaceX’s Action-Packed 48 Hours: Starlink Outage Shakes Users, Satellite Phone Service Debuts, Launch & Starship Updates

From July 24 to July 25, 2025, Starlink endured one of its largest outages, knocking tens of thousands offline with more than 60,000 outage reports before service largely returned in about 2.5 hours. Starlink’s outage was attributed by VP of Engineering Michael Nicolls to a failure of key internal software services that operate the core network, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly apologized on X. Starlink now serves over 6 million users across roughly 140 countries. On July 24, 2025, T-Mobile launched T-Satellite, a satellite-to-cell texting service, after a six‑month beta with nearly 2 million participants and up to 30,000
25 July 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Russia’s 21-Satellite Launch, Amazon’s $140 M Bet, and a New Artemis Ally

Space Race Heats Up: Russia’s 21-Satellite Launch, Amazon’s $140 M Bet, and a New Artemis Ally

On July 25 at 1:54 a.m. ET, a Soyuz-2.1b from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome lofted 21 satellites into orbit, including two Ionosfera-M space weather satellites, Iran’s Nahid-2, and 18 rideshares. The four Ionosfera-M satellites will provide three-dimensional near-Earth space coverage to study solar wind effects on radio communications and satellites, with the first two launched in late 2024. Amazon announced a $139.5 million investment to accelerate Project Kuiper, including a new 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Kennedy Space Center that opened in April. Senegal joined the Artemis Accords on July 24, becoming the 56th signatory to commit to peaceful, transparent space
25 July 2025
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Space Triumphs, Medical Marvels & More: Must-Read Science News (July 23–24, 2025)

Space Triumphs, Medical Marvels & More: Must-Read Science News (July 23–24, 2025)

On July 23, 2025, NASA and SpaceX launched the TRACERS tandem-satellite mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to study how solar eruptions trigger magnetic explosions in Earth’s atmosphere. The two TRACERS probes will fly seconds apart through Earth’s polar magnetic cusp to observe magnetic reconnection events in real time. TRACERS is expected to yield more than 3,000 measurements per year to map how solar storms drive auroras and radiation surges and improve space-weather forecasts for satellites, power grids, and astronauts. In winter 2024–25 in the UK, a study of 537 hospitalized babies found maternal RSV
24 July 2025
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SpaceX Launch, Artemis Accords & a ‘5-Hour Year’ Planet: Space Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

SpaceX Launch, Artemis Accords & a ‘5-Hour Year’ Planet: Space Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched NASA’s TRACERS mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 23 at 2:13 p.m. EDT. The Falcon 9 first stage was on its 16th flight and performed a pinpoint landing at Vandenberg, marking SpaceX’s 479th booster recovery. TRACERS, Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, consists of two 200-kg satellites to study magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere. Five small rideshare satellites accompanied TRACERS carrying experiments such as next-generation communication terminals and Earth radiation budget sensors. In the U.S., House appropriators on July 23 directed NASA to study alternatives to the SLS’s planned Exploration Upper Stage for
24 July 2025
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Space Triumphs, EV Turmoil & Cyber Shocks: Global Tech News Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

Space Triumphs, EV Turmoil & Cyber Shocks: Global Tech News Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

Google released a 13-second teaser of the Pixel 10 Pro ahead of its August 21 launch, showing a “10” morphing into a camera bar and revealing a new third rear telephoto lens with a gray-blue finish. A federal appeals court rejected a class-action claim against Apple over iCloud storage, ruling users received exactly 200GB when paying for a 200GB upgrade. Texas Instruments warned that new U.S. tech tariffs could distort buying patterns after its stock fell 11% on a markedly cautious earnings outlook. TSMC reported Q2 2025 net profit of about $13.5 billion, a 60% year-over-year rise, while raising its
24 July 2025
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From Space Breakthroughs to Medical Marvels: The Must-Read Science News of July 22–23, 2025

From Space Breakthroughs to Medical Marvels: The Must-Read Science News of July 22–23, 2025

On July 22, 2025, NASA, with SpaceX, launched TRACERS, a twin-satellite mission aboard a Falcon 9 to study magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere. The University of Iowa-led TRACERS mission will fly two probes through Earth’s northern magnetic cusp in tandem to improve space weather forecasts. A UK study found that vaccinating pregnant women against RSV reduced newborn hospitalizations by 72 percent, based on analysis of over 500 newborns hospitalized in winter 2024–25. Svalbard’s Arctic winter is turning to rain, with the region warming 6–7 times faster than the global average, observed during February 2025 fieldwork. Finnish researchers from Aalto University
23 July 2025
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Global Tech Roundup: Space Triumphs, Cyber Breaches & Gadget Surprises Rock July 22–23, 2025

Global Tech Roundup: Space Triumphs, Cyber Breaches & Gadget Surprises Rock July 22–23, 2025

Nintendo Switch 2: Borderlands 4 will launch on the Switch 2 on October 3, 2025, according to Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, with the Switch version running about 30fps to preserve feature parity. Google Pixel 10 Pro: Google released a Pixel 10 Pro teaser ahead of its August 21, 2025 launch, showing an evolutionary design and promising upgrades including improved camera capabilities and Android 16 integration. Chip tariffs affect TI: Texas Instruments warned new U.S. tariffs could dent demand, issuing a softer sales forecast and sending its stock down about 12%. TSMC profit with caution: TSMC posted a 60% year-on-year surge
23 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Bitfarms stock jumps on Keel rebrand and U.S. redomiciliation plan — what BITF investors watch next

Bitfarms stock jumps on Keel rebrand and U.S. redomiciliation plan — what BITF investors watch next

7 February 2026
New York, Feb 7, 2026, 05:41 EST — Market closed. Bitfarms shares ended Friday up 25.2% at $2.14, with trading volume around 59 million shares, after the company laid out a plan to shift its corporate home to the United States and rebrand. The company said its board approved a Canadian “plan of arrangement” — a court-supervised process — to redomicile, or move its legal home, from Canada to the United States, with the parent expected to be a Delaware corporation called Keel Infrastructure. CEO Ben Gagnon said the move marks “the final phase” of Bitfarms’ U.S. pivot and that
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