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Why Your Next TV Might Be a Projector: What You Need to Know Before You Buy

Why Your Next TV Might Be a Projector: What You Need to Know Before You Buy

In 2025, a midrange projector plus a screen can deliver a 120-inch image for about $2,000, cheaper than most 98-inch LED TVs. The Epson LS12000 uses a laser light engine with 3LCD imaging to produce a native 4K (3840×2160) picture with deep blacks and 1,500–3,000 lumens brightness. JVC’s DLA-NZ8 and NZ9 are native 4K (D-ILA) projectors famed for deep blacks, with some models offering 8K e-shift upscaling. No consumer projector has a native 8K chip in 2025; 8K is achieved via techniques like e-shift on high-end models, often costing around $25,000. The BenQ X3100i is a 4LED DLP projector that
29 July 2025
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2025’s Hottest Phones Face Off: Flagship vs. Budget (and Feature Phones) and What’s Coming in 2026

2025’s Hottest Phones Face Off: Flagship vs. Budget (and Feature Phones) and What’s Coming in 2026

In 2025 flagship smartphones use premium materials—Apple’s Pro iPhones with titanium alloy frames and Gorilla Glass Victus 2/3—while foldables such as Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 showcase improved Ultra-Thin Glass hinges. Displays in 2025 feature OLED panels with 120Hz LTPO refresh rates, QHD+ resolution on many flagships, and brightness over 1,500 nits, with foldables refining durability and crease handling. Performance centers on 3nm/4nm chips like Apple A18 Bionic (~3nm, 10+ billion transistors) and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, with RAM up to 16GB on top models and 6–8GB on mid-rangers. Android and iOS remain dominant, with Android
19 July 2025
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Inside YouTube’s 2025 Empire: Ads, Algorithms, and the Fight for Video Dominance

Inside YouTube’s 2025 Empire: Ads, Algorithms, and the Fight for Video Dominance

In Q4 2024, YouTube’s advertising sales reached $10.5 billion, up from $9.2 billion in Q4 2023, boosted by U.S. midterm spending. Analysts estimated YouTube’s 2024 ad revenues at $35–36 billion, about 13–14% of Alphabet’s total ad intake, with some valuing YouTube at roughly $550 billion as a standalone enterprise. As of 2025, YouTube Premium and YouTube Music have more than 125 million paying subscribers, with subscription revenues around $14.5 billion in 2024. YouTube Shorts generated over 70 billion daily views by 2023, and Shorts joined the main YouTube Partner Program in early 2023 to share ad revenue with creators. YouTube
16 July 2025
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OpenAI Hits Pause, Musk’s Bot Blunders, and 1 Million Robots – AI News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

July 15, 2025: AI’s Next Frontier – Generative Breakthroughs, Robotic Milestones, and Global Policy Shifts

OpenAI delayed its first open-weight model release, initially expected this summer, with CEO Sam Altman saying safety tests require more time and that weights, once released, can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2, a one-trillion-parameter model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on several coding benchmarks. At Google I/O 2025, Google rolled out Imagen 4 and Veo 3, introduced the Flow AI filmmaking app, and announced Gemini 2.5 with an enhanced reasoning mode called Deep Think, plus a new AI Mode in Search and customizable Gemini assistants in Chrome and Workspace. Anthropic’s Claude is integrated into Canva’s design platform,
15 July 2025
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60 AI Tools That Don’t Exist Yet—But Should: The Missing Pieces of the Future

60 AI Tools That Don’t Exist Yet—But Should: The Missing Pieces of the Future

Manus AI in China is described as the first “general AI agent” able to take a natural-language request and independently perform all steps, such as finding a pet-friendly 2-bedroom apartment under $50k and messaging brokers. The AI Personal Concierge would autonomously handle a wide range of daily tasks across digital and physical domains, integrating with calendars, email, apps, and APIs. The AI Household Robot Assistant envisions a versatile home robot that can clean, do laundry, wash dishes, and perform basic house maintenance by learning a home layout and object locations. AI Nutritionist & Meal Planner would analyze biometric data and
10 July 2025
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June–July 2025 Update: Workflow Automation & RPA Industry Report

June–July 2025 Update: Workflow Automation & RPA Industry Report

Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for RPA, released in late June 2025, again names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism, and UiPath as Leaders for the seventh consecutive year. Gartner warned about ‘agent washing’ and projected that by 2027 more than 40% of agentic AI projects could be canceled due to unclear ROI. UiPath announced a mid-June 2025 launch of a next-generation Agentic Automation Platform in Australia, unifying AI agents, RPA bots, and human workflows and introducing UiPath Maestro as the orchestration layer with a Google Cloud Agent-to-Agent protocol for secure AI-agent communication. UiPath reported thousands of AI agents created and
8 July 2025
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AI, Cloud & Cybersecurity Boom: Inside the 2025 CIO Tech Agenda

AI, Cloud & Cybersecurity Boom: Inside the 2025 CIO Tech Agenda

In 2025, 58% of global tech leaders named AI as the most important technology area for the year ahead. Gartner’s 2025 ANZ CIO poll found 88% of ANZ CIOs identified cybersecurity as their top tech investment for the year. A 2025 global CIO survey shows over 80% of CIOs plan to invest in cybersecurity & risk management, generative AI & ML, data analytics & business intelligence, and integration & APIs. 68% of U.S. CEOs in PwC’s survey believe generative AI will significantly change how their company creates and delivers value. Gartner’s 2025 data shows 71% of digital Vanguard organizations achieve
7 July 2025
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Global IoT Market 2025 Forecast: Inside the $1 Trillion Tech Revolution

Global IoT Market 2025 Forecast: Inside the $1 Trillion Tech Revolution

Global IoT spending in 2025 is projected to approach $1 trillion, up from $805.7 billion in 2023. By 2025, the number of connected IoT devices is expected to reach 27 billion, rising to over 40 billion by 2030. Manufacturing is the leading IoT vertical by spending, with 2023 top use cases including manufacturing operations at $73 billion and production asset management at $68 billion. The IoT in healthcare market was about $72 billion in 2020 and is projected to grow to $446.5 billion by 2028 at a 25.9% CAGR. The automotive IoT market is projected to reach over $190 billion
7 July 2025
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Smart Homes Just Got Smarter: New Gadgets, Big Trends & Surprising Challenges in Summer 2025

Smart Homes Just Got Smarter: New Gadgets, Big Trends & Surprising Challenges in Summer 2025

In June 2025 Generac launched ecobee by Generac Smart Thermostat Enhanced with built-in Home Energy Management, promising up to 26% savings on annual heating and cooling and direct coordination with Generac generators and solar batteries. In June 2025 Arlo rolled out Advanced Audio Detection for Arlo Secure Plus, enabling cameras and doorbells to recognize sounds such as a person screaming, glass breaking, gunshots, dog barks, and smoke alarms with instant video alerts. The Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch, introduced in late spring 2025, uses fingerprint biometric unlocking and disarms the alarm, and integrates via Z-Wave with ADT’s security system. Samsung’s
6 July 2025
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XR Revolution Unleashed: June–July 2025’s Biggest Extended & Mixed Reality Breakthroughs

XR Revolution Unleashed: June–July 2025’s Biggest Extended & Mixed Reality Breakthroughs

Snap announced the Specs AR glasses at AWE 2025 as a next-generation, lightweight glasses form factor due in 2026, backed by an 11-year, $3 billion investment, with Specs described as an ultra-powerful wearable computer with see-through lenses and major Snap OS updates including OpenAI and Gemini AI integration. At WWDC 2025, Apple unveiled visionOS 26 for the Vision Pro headset, adding 90 Hz hand tracking, a spatial accessory API for tracked controllers, multi-user co-located experiences, enhanced RealityKit/ARKit tools, and on‑device AI branded Apple Intelligence, with Vision Pro shipping by late 2025. On June 20, 2025, Meta and EssilorLuxottica unveiled Oakley
6 July 2025
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Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 00:01 CET

Tech News Deep Dive: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 4th, 00:01 CET

Microsoft laid off about 9,000 employees, roughly 4% of its global workforce, in July 2025, with the Xbox division heavily affected. Microsoft’s AI push includes an $80 billion investment in AI infrastructure for fiscal 2025, plus a $30 billion annual cloud deal with Oracle to support Project Stargate via Azure. Microsoft’s gaming division seismic changes include the cancellation of Perfect Dark and Everwild, the closure of The Initiative, and departures of Gregg Mayles and Matt Firor, while the Xbox hardware roadmap remains reportedly intact. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold7, Galaxy Z Flip7, and Galaxy G Fold at Galaxy Unpacked,
4 July 2025
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Claude AI Revolution: An Up-to-Date 2025 Guide to Anthropic’s ChatGPT Rival

Claude AI Revolution: An Up-to-Date 2025 Guide to Anthropic’s ChatGPT Rival

In May 2025, Anthropic released Claude 4 as Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4, introducing a 200K+ token context window, code execution, and agentic tool use with a new Files API. Claude 2.1, released in November 2023, expanded the context to 200K tokens, cut hallucinations by about 2x, and added beta support for tool use such as API calls and web search. The Claude 3 family launched in March 2024 with Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, added multimodal support (text and images) and a tiered model lineup, with Claude 3 Opus maintaining 200K context and experiments hinting at up to
3 July 2025
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