OpenAI indefinitely postpones the release of its open-source AI model, with Sam Altman saying safety reviews are needed and that once weights are released they can’t be pulled back. Moonshot AI launches Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter model that reportedly outperforms GPT-4.1 on several coding and reasoning benchmarks. Elon Musk’s xAI debuts Grok 4, a multimodal…
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Konstantinos Migkas and team mapped a 23-million-light-year cosmic web filament with temperatures around 10 million degrees, more than 20 times the Milky Way’s size, detected via the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect and Planck data. Durham University simulations predict 80–100 undetected Milky Way satellite galaxies, the so‑called orphan galaxies stripped of dark matter halos, potentially solving the missing…
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iOS 26, unveiled at WWDC 2025 and released in September 2025, introduces a Liquid Glass redesign with translucent, frosted-glass UI across the Lock Screen, Home Screen, and system apps. Live Translation translates real-time conversations in Phone, FaceTime, and Messages on-device across languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, French, and German. Visual Intelligence lets you ask…
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By the end of 2022, Palestine had about 457,700 fixed landlines in service, up 27% since 2010. By 2022, ADSL broadband subscriptions reached roughly 358,000, up 201% since 2010. By the end of 2022, fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connected over 51,700 subscribers. All Palestinian international internet traffic runs through Israeli-controlled infrastructure with no independent undersea cables. 3G…
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Apple plans to launch the iPhone 17 lineup in September 2025, including iPhone 17, 17 Pro, and 17 Pro Max, all powered by a new A19 chip and featuring a 120 Hz ProMotion display on the base model, with rumors pointing to an ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air variant. An iPhone SE 4 is expected in…
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NASA announced live space coverage on Netflix in 2025, following the launch of NASA+ on Amazon Prime. From July 2025, Starlink Direct to Cell, launched with T-Mobile, will let smartphones connect directly to Starlink satellites for calls and messages, backed by 657 Starlink V3 satellites. Starlink received regulatory clearance to deliver satellite internet to rural…
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Samsung’s triple-foldable Galaxy G Fold uses two hinges and three panels, potentially delivering up to a 10-inch display, with a planned launch by late 2024 or early 2025 in South Korea and China. The G Fold is expected to run on a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, use silicon-carbon batteries, feature a titanium frame, and emphasize…
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Character.AI has over 20 million active users by 2025, and its mobile app logged 1.7 million first-week downloads compared with ChatGPT’s 0.5 million. Anthropic’s Claude features a 100,000-token memory and a ~75,000-word context window, with improved coding and math skills. Google’s Gemini is a multimodal model in testing by mid-2025, and Google launched AI Studio…
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Hailuo AI, MiniMax’s free text-to-video app, went viral in 2025 for Cat Olympics clips, and in early summer 2025 launched Hailuo 02 with 1080p video and camera effects. PixVerse AI reached over 10 million downloads in 8 months and lets users turn a single photo into a short animated video, with GIF export options. AI…
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The SWIFT satellite constellation uses advanced solar sails to deliver earlier, more accurate space weather warnings. In December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe yielded the closest-ever images of the Sun’s corona and CMEs, vastly improving space weather predictions. SpaceX’s Starlink now has nearly 6,000 satellites in orbit and has regulatory approval to operate in India.…
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