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B-2 Stealth Bomber’s Action-Packed 2025: Secret Strikes, High-Tech Upgrades & Pentagon Drama

B-2 Stealth Bomber’s Action-Packed 2025: Secret Strikes, High-Tech Upgrades & Pentagon Drama

March–May 2025: six B-2 Spirit bombers deployed to Diego Garcia to strike Houthi targets in Yemen, marking the bomber’s first combat employment in years. June 21–22, 2025: seven B-2s launched from Whiteman AFB for Operation Midnight Hammer, striking Iran’s Fordow and Natanz facilities after an 18-hour flight with multiple refuelings and dropping 14 GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators. Simultaneously, a U.S. Navy submarine launched more than two dozen Tomahawk missiles to Isfahan to destroy surface infrastructure. By June 23, 2025, the B-2s had returned to Whiteman AFB, capping a mission described as the largest B-2 strike in history and the second-longest
22 July 2025
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Google Glass: From Futuristic Hype to Privacy Nightmare to Enterprise Hero (2025 Update)

Google Glass: From Futuristic Hype to Privacy Nightmare to Enterprise Hero (2025 Update)

Google started Project Glass at Google X around 2011, officially announced in April 2012, with a dramatic June 2012 I/O live demo. Time magazine named Google Glass its Invention of the Year in 2012. The first Explorer Edition shipments began in April 2013, priced at $1,500. Explorer Edition hardware included a 640×360 display (perceived as a 25-inch screen at 8 feet), 5 MP photos, 720p video, bone-conduction audio, 16 GB storage (12 GB usable), 2 GB RAM, a dual-core TI OMAP processor, and a weight of 36 grams. Public reaction shifted to privacy concerns and the ‘Glasshole’ stigma, with bans
20 July 2025
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Future-Proof Your Home Theater: 2025-2026 TVs & Streamers Showdown

Future-Proof Your Home Theater: 2025-2026 TVs & Streamers Showdown

LG G5 OLED (2025) is part of the OLED evo line, features a four-stack panel, up to 165Hz refresh, Alpha 9 Gen8 processor, HDMI 2.1, and comes in 55″–97″ sizes with the 55″ model launched around $2,499. Samsung S95F OLED (2025) delivers up to 2,000 nits peak brightness, a 165Hz panel, four HDMI 2.1 ports, a matte anti-glare screen, and uses the Neo Quantum processor (NQ4 AI Gen3) with Vision AI, with sizes 55″–83″ and no Dolby Vision. Sony Bravia 8 II (2025) is a flagship QD-OLED with ~25% higher peak brightness than the A95L, 55″–77″ sizes, Cognitive XR processor,
19 July 2025
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XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

XR Face-Off: The Top Smart Glasses & Mixed Reality Headsets of 2025–26

Apple Vision Pro, unveiled in 2023 and shipping in early 2024, uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays totaling 23 million pixels, is powered by an M2 chip plus a custom R1 processor, offers eye and hand tracking with about 12 ms passthrough latency, an external battery delivering around 2 hours, and starts at $3,499 in the US. Meta Quest 3, released in October 2023, is a standalone VR/MR headset priced at $499 for 128GB, with 2064×2208 per-eye LCD (~25 pixels per degree), ~110° field of view, 6DoF inside-out tracking, full-color passthrough, and pancake optics that are 40% thinner. Microsoft HoloLens 2,
19 July 2025
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Latest Laptops, Ultrabooks & 2-in-1s (2025–2026): In-Depth Comparison

Latest Laptops, Ultrabooks & 2-in-1s (2025–2026): In-Depth Comparison

The Apple MacBook Air 13″ (M4, 2025) delivers a fanless design with about 15 hours of battery life and starts at around $999. The Dell XPS 13 (2025) uses Intel 14th-gen Core Ultra (or ARM Snapdragon X Elite), features a 13.4″ 3K OLED display, and offers up to ~24 hours of battery life. The Microsoft Surface Laptop 13.8″ (7th Edition, 2025) runs on Snapdragon X Elite and achieves roughly 12–15 hours of all‑day battery life with a fanless design. The HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) uses an Intel Core i7-1360P with a 13.5″ OLED 3:2 display and around 10 hours
19 July 2025
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2025-2026 Tablet & E-Reader Showdown: iPads, Galaxy Tabs, Kindles & More Compared

2025-2026 Tablet & E-Reader Showdown: iPads, Galaxy Tabs, Kindles & More Compared

The 2025 iPad (11th Generation) was refreshed in March 2025 with a faster A16 Bionic chip, 128 GB base storage, USB-C, an 11″ Liquid Retina display, and a price around $349. The iPad Pro (11-inch and 13-inch, 2024) received a late-2024 update with an M3/M4 chip, an Ultra Retina OLED display, up to 16 GB RAM and 2 TB storage, and the Apple Pencil Pro with hover plus a redesigned Magic Keyboard with a larger trackpad; starting prices are $999 for the 11″ and $1299 for the 13″. The iPad Air (6th Gen, 2024) comes in 11″ and 13″ sizes
19 July 2025
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Ultimate 2025-2026 Desktop PC & All-in-One Showdown: Top Picks for Every User

Ultimate 2025-2026 Desktop PC & All-in-One Showdown: Top Picks for Every User

In 2025 Dell retired its XPS, Inspiron, and OptiPlex brands in favor of a three‑tier “good‑better‑best” lineup: Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max. HP unified its consumer PCs under the Omni branding in 2025, introducing OmniDesk desktops, OmniBook laptops, and OmniStudio all‑in‑ones. Apple’s Mac Studio (M2 Ultra, 2023) is a compact 3.7L system with up to 128GB RAM and a 60‑core GPU, while the Mac Pro (2023) offers 7 PCIe slots but cannot upgrade its GPU. At CES 2025 NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 features 92 billion transistors and 32GB of GDDR7 memory with DLSS 4, while top gaming desktops
19 July 2025
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China’s Secret Weapon Revealed: Inside the 2025 Stealth Carrier That Could Change Everything

China’s Secret Weapon Revealed: Inside the 2025 Stealth Carrier That Could Change Everything

China formally unveiled a stealth aircraft carrier program in 2025, highlighted by CCTV footage showing two J-35 prototypes in a Shenyang hangar and Fujian sea-trial progress. The Type 003 Fujian is the first Chinese carrier with electromagnetic catapults (EMALS), configured with three EMALS launchers, displacing about 80,000–85,000 tons and measuring roughly 318 meters. The J-35 stealth fighter is the program’s crown jewel, a twin-engine fifth-generation carrier jet designed for deck operations, with prototypes spotted in 2025 and intended for internal bays and AESA radar. The J-15T upgrade equips a CATOBAR-capable, WS-10 engine-powered variant with reinforced landing gear, a nose refueling
15 July 2025
NVIDIA 2025: Dominating the AI Boom – Company Overview, Key Segments, Competition, and Future Outlook

Nvidia’s $4 Trillion Breakthrough: NVDA Surges on China Chip Deal – What Experts Are Saying

On July 11, 2025, Nvidia closed above a $4 trillion market cap, the first company ever to do so. On July 14, 2025, Nvidia closed at $164.07, down 0.5%, after trading between $162.02 and $165.49 intraday. Nvidia was up about 22% year-to-date and 27% year-over-year as of July 14–15, 2025. On July 15, 2025, Nvidia surged over 5% in pre-market trading to around $172 after news the U.S. would allow export licenses for its H20 AI GPUs to China. At a $4 trillion valuation, Nvidia accounts for roughly 7.5% of the entire S&P 500 by itself. Nvidia unveiled a China-tailored
15 July 2025
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AI Stocks Soar as Nvidia Hits $4T, Apple Feels the Heat, and Musk Doubles Down – Daily Roundup

AI Stocks Soar as Nvidia Hits $4T, Apple Feels the Heat, and Musk Doubles Down – Daily Roundup

Nvidia briefly hit a $4 trillion market capitalization last week, with shares rising to an all-time high of $164.42. Nvidia’s value has roughly tripled in about a year after first crossing $1 trillion in mid-2023. Microsoft closed Monday at $503.51 as part of the AI rally lifting the Magnificent 7. Apple is down about 16% year-to-date, erasing more than $630 billion in market value and prompting talk of a bolder AI strategy, including rumors of Perplexity AI. Meta Platforms announced plans to spend hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure, with Prometheus online in 2026 and Hyperion scaling to 5 GW,
14 July 2025
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Urban Air Mobility 2025: Air-Taxi Pilot Programs, Launch Cities, and Regulatory Hurdles

Urban Air Mobility 2025: Air-Taxi Pilot Programs, Launch Cities, and Regulatory Hurdles

In April 2025 New York City’s Economic Development Corporation unveiled the Downtown Skyport at the Manhattan heliport, the city’s first eVTOL hub. As of mid-2025, 92 U.S. cities and airports have active plans for eVTOL operations. Abu Dhabi plans to become the world’s first city with a commercial eVTOL service in 2025, with Archer Aviation securing agreements with Abu Dhabi’s government, Etihad Airways, and the UAE’s GCAA to deploy initial city-center to airport routes. Joby Aviation’s S4 is a five-seat piloted eVTOL with six tilt-rotor props, designed for speeds up to 200 mph and a roughly 150-mile range, with prototypes
13 July 2025
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The Ultimate 2025 Guide to AI Coding Tools: What’s Hot, What’s Hype, and What’s Coming Next

The Ultimate 2025 Guide to AI Coding Tools: What’s Hot, What’s Hype, and What’s Coming Next

GitHub Copilot rolled out the coding agent, called Agent Mode (Project Padawan), in 2025 to autonomously implement tasks, spin up cloud dev environments, write code, and open pull requests, available to Copilot Enterprise and new Pro+ subscribers. Copilot Chat now uses local codebase feeds to align answers with actual code, and Copilot for Pull Requests provides AI reviews with one-click fix suggestions, becoming robust and mobile by 2025. GitHub announced it will open-source the Copilot VS Code extension, signaling transparency and community input into Copilot’s development. Amazon CodeWhisperer added AI code remediation and security scanning (Security Sentinel) and IaC support,
12 July 2025
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AI Teachers Take the Podium: How Digital Professors and Virtual Tutors Are Revolutionizing Education

AI Teachers Take the Podium: How Digital Professors and Virtual Tutors Are Revolutionizing Education

Jill Watson, a virtual teaching assistant built on IBM Watson, debuted at Georgia Tech in 2016 to answer routine online course questions. Khanmigo, launched in 2023 by Khan Academy and built on GPT-4, is an AI tutor and teacher’s assistant now available by subscription in 2025 and tested in classrooms such as Oklahoma. Squirrel AI, founded in 2014 in China, uses a Large Adaptive Model and by 2025 runs over 3,000 learning centers, has data from more than 24 million students and 10 billion learning behaviors, and claims 50% faster mastery. In spring 2024 HKUST introduced 10 AI-generated lecturers to
12 July 2025
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AirPods Pro 2 vs the World: Best True Wireless Earbuds of 2025 Compared

AirPods Pro 2 vs the World: Best True Wireless Earbuds of 2025 Compared

The article compares AirPods Pro 2 against a lineup that includes Sony WF-1000XM5, Bose QuietComfort Earbuds II and Ultra, Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro/3 Pro, Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 3/4, Jabra Elite 10, Beats Fit Pro, and Google Pixel Buds Pro in 2025. Bose QC Earbuds II are described as delivering the strongest ANC, with the QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds (2nd Gen) adding adaptive AI‑driven ANC and multipoint at a $299 MSRP. Sony WF-1000XM5 offer up to 8 hours of ANC playback, support LDAC on Android, and come with a case that yields about 24 hours total battery life. AirPods Pro
11 July 2025
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Conversational AI and Voice Assistants – Key Developments (June–July 2025)

Conversational AI and Voice Assistants – Key Developments (June–July 2025)

Amazon’s Alexa+ entered broad early access by mid-2025 and surpassed 1 million users by June 2025. Alexa+ is free for Amazon Prime members and costs $19.99/month for others, and it orchestrates “experts” across services like OpenTable, Spotify, and Uber Eats. Alexa+ can remember personal details and even has its own email for user-provided information, enabling more complex multi-step requests than the old Alexa. In Early Access, about 90% of Alexa+ features are live, with hands-free shopping and advanced video controls still under development. Apple’s Siri saw no major generative AI launch in June 2025, with delays to a likely iOS
11 July 2025
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EdTech Sector Developments – June & July 2025

EdTech Sector Developments – June & July 2025

At ISTE Live 2025 (June 27–30, San Antonio), Google announced Gemini for Education, rolling its generative AI models into Google Classroom and Workspace at no added cost and enabling auto-generated vocabulary lists, quizzes, adaptive lesson plans, and AI study buddies called Gems, plus Classroom “Class” mode on Chromebook Plus with privacy safeguards. Microsoft announced Copilot for Education at ISTE 2025, introducing Copilot Chat based on GPT-4 for students 13+, an AI lesson-plan generator in private preview, and the integration of Teams Classwork and Assignments data into Copilot for tailored feedback, with broad rollout by the end of summer 2025. ISTE
11 July 2025
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Creator Economy & Social Platforms Report (June–July 2025)

Creator Economy & Social Platforms Report (June–July 2025)

In June 2025, YouTube rolled out a wave of features around VidCon, including new audience segments “New,” “Casual,” and “Regular” viewers. The YouTube Community Tab became available to all channels and now lets fans post from mobile. YouTube Shorts gained shopping stickers globally with tests showing 40% higher product click-through in the U.S. YouTube reports viewers spend 80 million hours per day watching shopping-related videos. YouTube expanded auto-sync video editing for Shorts to automatically match music beats. YouTube introduced a Fan Leaderboard for live chats globally and added animated donation GIFs (US-only). YouTube launched Player for Education, an ad-free embeds
10 July 2025
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The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots for Sales and Marketing Success in 2025

The Ultimate Guide to Chatbots for Sales and Marketing Success in 2025

Over 80% of companies worldwide now use some form of chatbot technology. The global chatbot market is projected to reach $9.4 billion by 2025. The release of ChatGPT in 2022 sparked massive interest in generative AI-powered business chatbots. Gartner predicted that by 2024, 40% of enterprise applications will have embedded conversational AI capabilities. Chatbots can convert up to 28% of website visitors into leads through real-time conversation. About 55% of companies report higher-quality leads thanks to chatbots. Chatbots can cut customer service response times by 80% for routine questions. 80% of businesses report that chatbot implementations increased sales by about
7 July 2025
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DevOps, DevSecOps & Developer Tooling – Notable News (June–July 2025)

DevOps, DevSecOps & Developer Tooling – Notable News (June–July 2025)

In June 2025, GitLab released version 18 with AI-native features called GitLab Duo, adding AI-assisted code suggestions, test generation, chat-based help, a Maven virtual registry, modular CI/CD pipelines, and built-in security templates (SOC 2 and ISO 27001). In mid-2025, Atlassian unveiled AI agents named “Rovo” for Jira and Bitbucket to auto-generate tests and code, review PRs, and assist deployments using the Teamwork Graph data layer. In late June 2025, Harness reached GA for Harness AI Test Automation, delivering AI-driven test generation and execution across CI/CD to reduce manual QA bottlenecks. In June 2025, Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Containers Public Beta, enabling
7 July 2025
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Telecom Infrastructure Equipment Update (June–July 2025)

Telecom Infrastructure Equipment Update (June–July 2025)

Global telecom equipment revenues declined about 11% in 2024 and are forecast to be essentially flat in 2025. Huawei remains the leading telecom equipment supplier with about 31% global market share, ahead of Nokia at 14% and Ericsson at 13%. Ericsson’s Mobility Report (June 2025) projects 5G subscriptions reaching about 2.9 billion by the end of 2025, roughly one third of all mobile subscriptions. 5G networks are expected to carry 80% of global mobile traffic by 2030. Over 80% of surveyed operators offer Fixed Wireless Access, with more than half selling tiered 5G speed plans, and FWA is projected to
3 July 2025
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Stock Market Today

Zhongji Innolight stock slides nearly 4% into China’s Monday open — what traders watch next

Zhongji Innolight stock slides nearly 4% into China’s Monday open — what traders watch next

8 February 2026
Shanghai, Feb 8, 2026, 08:33 GMT+8 — Market closed. Zhongji Innolight Co Ltd (300308.SZ), a maker of optical communication transceiver modules used in cloud data centres and 5G networks, ended Friday down 3.9% at 540.01 yuan. The Shenzhen-listed stock will be back in focus when China’s A-share market reopens on Monday. (Reuters) Why this matters now: Zhongji has become a lightning rod for China’s “AI infrastructure” trade, with local media pointing to its crowded fund positioning. The same report said the wider optical-module segment has been under pressure as U.S. tech shares swing and expectations for AI-driven data-centre demand keep
AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

AMD stock bounces 8% after brutal midweek slide — what investors watch before Monday

8 February 2026
AMD shares jumped 8.28% to $208.44 Friday, rebounding after steep losses earlier in the week. Chip stocks rallied as investors bet on continued AI data center spending by major tech firms. Nvidia rose 7.8%, Broadcom gained 7.1%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed up 5.7%. Markets now await macroeconomic data and Nvidia’s late-February results.
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