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Technology News 7 July 2025 - 11 July 2025

Samsung Unpacked 2025: Galaxy Z Fold7, Flip7, and Watch8 Series Redefine the Future of Foldables and Wearables / Updated: 2025, July 11th, 12:01 CET

Samsung Unpacked 2025: Galaxy Z Fold7, Flip7, and Watch8 Series Redefine the Future of Foldables and Wearables / Updated: 2025, July 11th, 12:01 CET

The Galaxy Z Fold7 is Samsung’s thinnest and lightest foldable yet, with a redesigned hinge, IPX8 water resistance, aviation-grade aluminum and Gorilla Glass Victus 3, an 8-inch 120Hz Dynamic AMOLED display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, up to 1TB storage, and the first-ever 200MP camera on a foldable. The Galaxy Z Flip7 adds enhanced customization with new color options and finishes and AI-powered camera features for smarter photography and user experiences. The Galaxy Z Flip7 FE offers a more affordable entry point to broaden foldable adoption. Samsung confirms a triple-folding smartphone by the end of 2025, enabling a tablet-sized display in a
11 July 2025
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Turkey’s Digital Divide: Inside the State of Internet Access and Satellite Connectivity in 2025

Turkey’s Digital Divide: Inside the State of Internet Access and Satellite Connectivity in 2025

Turkey’s fiber backbone length grew from about 425,000 km in 2020 to over 605,000 km by 2024. Fiber broadband subscribers reached around 8.1 million by 2024, and fiber accounted for about 39.4% of fixed broadband subscriptions at end-2024. Turkey’s 4.5G network, launched in 2016, provides nationwide coverage and had over 87 million 4.5G users by 2024. Commercial 5G has not launched as of 2025; a spectrum tender is planned for August 2025 with initial 5G service targeted to begin in 2026. Turkcell is the largest mobile operator with about 40.2% of mobile subscribers in Q1 2024 and about 45% of
10 July 2025
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Inside the AI Revolution: Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and What Comes Next / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:01 CET

Inside the AI Revolution: Who’s Winning, Who’s Losing, and What Comes Next / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:01 CET

Nvidia became the first company to reach a $4 trillion market capitalization, up from under $600 billion in 2023, a roughly 15x gain over five years driven by demand for AI GPUs. The Harvard AI Index 2025 finds generative AI most impacts entry-level and high-skill jobs, with enterprise adoption rising from 33% to 71% and entry-level productivity up 21–40%. Microsoft laid off 15,000 workers as AI tools saved over $500 million in call centers and generated 35% of new product code. OpenAI completed a $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s io Products; the first product is rumored to be a
10 July 2025
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Tech Just Leveled Up: Samsung’s Foldables, AI Browsers, and the Smartwatch Takeover / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:00 CET

Tech Just Leveled Up: Samsung’s Foldables, AI Browsers, and the Smartwatch Takeover / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 12:00 CET

Samsung released the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7, with Fold 7 folded thickness of 8.9 mm and Flip 7’s 4.1-inch external cover display, a 200 MP main camera, Snapdragon 8 Elite, up to 16 GB RAM, IP68, seven years of Android updates, and Fold 7 dropping S Pen support. Both devices feature deep Google Gemini AI integration powering Circle to Search, Gemini Live for screen and camera assistance, and native app enhancements. The Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic are the first Samsung wearables to include Google Gemini AI, with 3000-nit sapphire displays, antioxidant measurement, and
10 July 2025
Internet Access in Israel

Internet Access in Israel

In early 2024, 92.1% of Israelis—about 8.51 million people—were online, according to DataReportal. Israel has about 10.40 million mobile subscriptions, yielding 112.5% mobile penetration due to multi-SIM usage. Roughly 92.9% of Israelis live in urban areas, with 7.1% rural. Median speeds are high: fixed broadband 167.4 Mbps and mobile 40.2 Mbps (early 2024), and Speedtest ranked Israel around 16th worldwide for fixed broadband with a median of 226.6 Mbps in January 2025. Fiber deployment reached about 45% of homes by early 2024, up from about 35% in 2023, with Bezeq and Partner (Unlimited FTTH) as the main fiber players. HOT
10 July 2025
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Hong Kong Drone Laws 2025: Comprehensive Guide to Regulations and Requirements

Hong Kong Drone Laws 2025: Comprehensive Guide to Regulations and Requirements

Hong Kong’s drone regime is governed by the Small Unmanned Aircraft Order (Cap. 448G) under the Civil Aviation Ordinance, which took effect on June 1, 2022 and became fully enforced on December 1, 2022. The framework uses a risk-based classification with Category A1 for drones up to 250 g, Category A2 for 250 g to 7 kg, and Category B for over 7 kg up to 25 kg. Category A1 is exempt from registration and most licensing, while Category A2 requires drone and remote-pilot registration, and Category B requires CAD permission and advanced training. Registration is via the CAD Electronic
10 July 2025
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

Space News Roundup: July 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

NASA deployed the WB-57 and UAVSAR-equipped Gulfstream III to support Texas flood recovery, delivering high-resolution real-time data despite persistent cloud cover, with over 110 fatalities and more than 170 missing. The European Launcher Challenge finalists are Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, MaiaSpace, PLD Space, and Orbex, each eligible for contracts up to €169 million. Airbus Defence and Space España will build two PAZ-2 radar satellites for Hisdesat, delivering sub-25 cm SAR imagery with AI analytics, and first in-service expected by 2031, with 65% of work performed by Spanish firms. India approved Starlink to operate under IN-SPACe for five years, allowing
10 July 2025
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The State of AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Backlash, and the Battle for Trust / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

The State of AI in 2025: Breakthroughs, Backlash, and the Battle for Trust / Updated: 2025, July 10th, 00:00 CET

In 2025, Nvidia became the first public company to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, with its GPUs powering data centers for Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Microsoft reported over $500 million in annual AI-driven savings, with AI generating 35% of new product code and improving call-center efficiency. Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold is enabling rapid AI-designed drug discovery, with human trials imminent. The European Union’s AI Act bans manipulative algorithms, social scoring, and predictive policing to protect fundamental rights. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot sparked global outrage for antisemitic and Nazi-themed content, triggering bans in Turkey and investigations in Poland and the
10 July 2025
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Internet Access in Zambia: Current Status and Outlook

Internet Access in Zambia: Current Status and Outlook

As of December 2023, ZICTA reported about 12.6 million internet subscriptions, representing 64.1% penetration. DataReportal’s Digital 2024 estimate puts Zambia at 6.51 million internet users, about 31.2% of the population, due to multiple SIM ownership inflating subscription counts. Over 99% of internet users rely on mobile broadband, while roughly 99,000 fixed-line subscriptions existed nationwide in 2023. Median download speeds were about 15 Mbps on mobile and 8.7 Mbps on fixed broadband in early 2023; by February 2024 mobile speeds rose to ~19.6 Mbps and fixed to ~21.3 Mbps, with uploads ~7.6 Mbps mobile and 5.3 Mbps fixed. MTN launched Zambia’s
9 July 2025
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Ultimate DJI Enterprise Drone Comparison (2025): Matrice vs Mavic 3 Enterprise & Thermal Models

The Matrice 350 RTK (M350) is the flagship successor to the Matrice 300 RTK, offering up to 55 minutes of flight time with no payload, up to 20 km O3 Enterprise range, IP55 weather resistance, and a top speed around 23 m/s. The Matrice 30T blends portability with a built-in multi-sensor payload—12 MP wide, 48 MP tele with 5× optical and 200× digital zoom—and a radiometric thermal camera (640×512), enabling about 41 minutes of flight and IP55 protection with hot-swap TB30 batteries. The Matrice 4 Series comprises the M4E and M4T with a triple-camera gimbal (48 MP wide, 3× tele,
9 July 2025
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Tech News Today: The Biggest Stories in Technology, Science, and Innovation (July 9, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

Tech News Today: The Biggest Stories in Technology, Science, and Innovation (July 9, 2025) / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

A new axion Dark Energy (aDE) model from Cornell and Shanghai Jiao Tong University predicts the universe will start contracting in about 7 billion years and collapse in roughly 33–34 billion years. Amazon Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11, 2025, with US online sales forecast at $23.8 billion and record discounts on Apple, Samsung, Google, Lenovo, and OnePlus. OnePlus Nord 5 and Nord CE5 smartphones launch with the Nord 5 featuring Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, a 6.83-inch 144Hz OLED display, up to 12GB RAM, and a 5200mAh battery; the Nord CE5 uses the MediaTek Dimensity 8350. NVIDIA’s AI hardware leadership
9 July 2025
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AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

AI News Today: Global Trends, Breakthroughs, and Controversies / Updated: 2025, July 9th, 00:00 CET

An unknown actor used AI-generated voice and text to impersonate US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, contacting foreign ministers and senior officials via Signal, using as little as 15-20 seconds of audio to create a convincing deepfake. Meta hired Ruoming Pang, Apple’s head of AI models, for its new Superintelligence Lab, amid the AI talent wars where engineers command salaries in the tens of millions per year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns millions of jobs—especially entry-level roles—could be automated within five years, as UK entry-level postings drop 32% since late 2022. The Velvet Sundown, an AI-generated indie band, amassed over
9 July 2025
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The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series (GPT-3, 2020). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020, and the ChatGPT prototype launched in November 2022, reaching 100 million users in two months. Voice assistants emerged with Siri (2011), Alexa (2014), Cortana (2014), and Google Assistant (2016). Google’s Bard evolved into Gemini in 2024, with Gemini Ultra as the top model, offering multimodal input, 40+ languages, and real-time
8 July 2025
RegTech Roundup: Key Regulatory Compliance Tech Developments (June–July 2025)

RegTech Roundup: Key Regulatory Compliance Tech Developments (June–July 2025)

On June 19, 2025 UK RegTech firm CUBE announced the acquisition of Acin, its fourth deal since 2023, folding Acin’s controls benchmarking network into CUBE’s platform to form an end-to-end link from regulations to risk controls for about 1,000 institutional clients in 20+ countries with 700 staff, backed by Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, J.P. Morgan, and Lloyds. In July 2025 Hong Kong ESG RegTech Diginex received government funding to scale its AI-driven sustainability platform, following its US$2 billion acquisition of Resulticks in early June 2025 and aiming to streamline ESG reporting aligned with ISSB and IFRS standards with a leading
8 July 2025
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June–July 2025 Global Green-Building Tech & PropTech Roundup

June–July 2025 Global Green-Building Tech & PropTech Roundup

Rowan University opened the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park Museum in late June 2025, a mass-timber building that runs fossil-fuel-free with geothermal heating and planned solar to achieve net-zero energy, designed by Buro Happold and Ennead Architects. Brooklyn College began drilling a 500-foot geothermal well in early June 2025 to retrofit a 20,000-square-foot building with a 100% geothermal heating and cooling system in a $10 million decarbonization project. Practice Greenhealth recognized 496 hospitals in June 2025 for climate-smart leadership, with a Top 25 cohort highlighted for exemplary performance in renewable energy use and resilience. USGBC rolled out a sustainability
8 July 2025
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Global Green Data Center Efficiency Developments (June–July 2025)

Global Green Data Center Efficiency Developments (June–July 2025)

Deloitte forecasts global data center electricity use will nearly double from about 536 TWh in 2025 to over 1,000 TWh by 2030. S&P Global projects U.S. data center power demand rising about 12% annually through 2030, with roughly 60% of new demand potentially met by natural gas. Germany passed the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEFG) requiring 100% renewable energy by 2027 for all data centers, a PUE of 1.2 or better for facilities operational from July 2026, at least 10% energy reuse, and an energy or environmental management system by July 1, 2025. Effective July 1, 2025, any data center hosting
8 July 2025
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AgriTech and Precision Agriculture Update (June–July 2025)

AgriTech and Precision Agriculture Update (June–July 2025)

Major News Developments in AgriTech (June–July 2025) Innovations and Technology Deployments (AI, Drones, IoT, Robotics) In mid-2025, numerous precision agriculture technologies moved from concept to field deployment. Automation and robotics saw significant strides: major manufacturers and startups alike introduced autonomous farm machinery to tackle labor shortages and improve accuracy. Kubota’s partnership with Agtonomy will outfit Kubota’s popular M5N narrow tractors with automation for tasks like spraying in vineyards and orchards, reducing labor needs and pesticide use Agtechnavigator. Similarly, Monarch Tractor reported growing interest in its driverless electric tractors – “our latest feature, autonomous feed pushing, has seen strong uptake, especially
8 July 2025
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Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI: The $14B AI Answer Engine Challenging Google and ChatGPT

Perplexity AI launched its flagship search engine product on December 7, 2022, founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski. Its tech uses a retrieval+generation architecture that performs live web searches and generates answers with inline citations, with Sonar, a modified version of Meta’s Llama 3, as the default model and support for GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4-turbo, Claude and other engines. The platform provides concise, sourced answers, supports multimodal inputs such as images and code, allows file uploads, and includes an Internal Knowledge Search for Pro users with up to 500 private files. It operates on a freemium model
7 July 2025
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AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

ChatGPT uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 with multi-turn dialogue and voice input/output, refined through RLHF, and offers a ChatGPT Plus plan at $20 per month. Google Bard runs on PaLM/LaMDA, can generate multiple draft responses and pull web results via Google Search, and is currently free to use in the experiment phase. Soul Machines builds digital-human avatars with AI-driven real-time facial expressions and lip-sync, with enterprise pricing custom and a consumer trial of $5.99 per month. Replika provides an AI companion with a 3D avatar and text/voice interactions, with a Pro subscription approximately $70 per year. Synthesia Studio turns text into videos
7 July 2025
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Global Wearable Health Tech News – June and July 2025

Global Wearable Health Tech News – June and July 2025

Biobeat’s cuffless vital-sign patch received FDA clearance and CE marking for hospital-grade remote monitoring, enabling cuffless measurement of blood pressure, heart rate, SpO2, and respiratory rate via PPG and AI. On June 19, PharmaSens and SiBionics announced niia™ signature, an all-in-one patch that combines a continuous glucose monitor with an insulin pump, unveiled at ADA 2025. LifePlus’s LifeLeaf non-invasive monitor (June 24) is a cuffless device for continuous glucose and blood pressure tracking, validated in Mayo Clinic trials with readings within about 10.8% of glucometers and BP error around 0.03 mmHg. Wearable Devices Ltd.’s Large-Motion AI Platform expansion on June
7 July 2025
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