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Technology News 23 June 2025 - 27 June 2025

Drone Laws in Turkey: A Comprehensive 2025 Report

Drone Laws in Turkey: A Comprehensive 2025 Report

Turkey’s drone regime is administered by the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (SHGM) under the 2016 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Instruction (SHT-İHA), which classifies civil drones by weight into four categories: İHA0, İHA1, İHA2, and İHA3. Drones with a maximum takeoff weight of 500 grams or more must be registered in SHGM’s UAV registry, while drones under 500 g are largely exempt, and foreign operators must obtain a flight permit at least 20 business days before flying. Recreational pilots can fly İHA0 (0.5–4 kg) without a license but must be at least 12 years old; İHA1 (4–25 kg) requires an İHA1
27 June 2025
Airbus CO3D: AI-Powered, Laser-Linked Constellation for 50 cm Global 3D Mapping

Airbus CO3D: AI-Powered, Laser-Linked Constellation for 50 cm Global 3D Mapping

CO3D comprises four identical S250-based satellites, each weighing about 250–300 kg with 100% electric propulsion, delivering ~50 cm spatial-resolution optical imagery. It aims to produce a global Digital Surface Model with ~1 m vertical accuracy and to map ~40 million km² of Earth’s land per year in 3D. The system targets roughly 90% of the globe’s land areas between ±70° latitude to be mapped within five years. Satellites operate in two pairs on opposite sides of Earth, with ~100 km separation in the same orbit plane to enable synchronized stereo imaging. The four-satellite launch is planned for 25 July 2025
27 June 2025
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Thailand Drone Laws Explained: What You Must Know in 2025 (Tourists & Locals)

Thailand Drone Laws Explained: What You Must Know in 2025 (Tourists & Locals)

NBTC registration is required for all drones operating in Thailand, with online registration via AnyRegis, a fee of about THB 214, and a 30-day deadline after bringing the drone into the country or purchasing it. CAAT registration is mandatory for any drone with a camera or weighing over 2 kg, and heavier drones up to 25 kg must also be CAAT-registered, with drones over 25 kg requiring specific Minister of Transport approval. CAAT also requires a Drone Operator License obtained by passing a 40-question online theory exam with a 75% threshold, and the license is valid for 2 years. Since
26 June 2025
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Global Technology Trends in June-2025: AI, Quantum, EVs, Space & Beyond

Global Technology Trends in June-2025: AI, Quantum, EVs, Space & Beyond

The global AI market is valued around $758 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $3.68 trillion by 2034. Generative AI and large language models drove a 76% increase in spending in 2025. 78% of companies use AI in at least one function as of mid-2025. At Apple’s June 2025 WWDC, Apple unveiled on-device AI features including Live Translation, a “Personal Voice” assistant, and opened its core on-device AI model to third-party developers. Foldable smartphones are forecast to ship 27.6 million units in 2025, up about 70% CAGR since 2020. Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset, launched in 2024, will
26 June 2025
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Britain’s Broadband Battle: The Truth About Internet Access Across the UK (and Beyond!)

Britain’s Broadband Battle: The Truth About Internet Access Across the UK (and Beyond!)

By 2025, about 99.8% of UK households are within reach of a decent broadband connection (≥10 Mbps). About 97–98% of UK households have an active internet subscription. In 2024, the average fixed broadband speed was around 157 Mbps, up from just over 50 Mbps in 2022. Gigabit-capable broadband is available to about 84% of UK premises as of January 2025. Full-fibre FTTP coverage has reached roughly 73–74% of premises as of January 2025. The fixed broadband market is led by BT Group with about 8.8 million broadband customers, Sky Broadband with about 5.8 million, and Virgin Media with around 5.74
26 June 2025
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Why Luxembourg’s Internet Is Speeding Ahead—But Can It Reach the Stars?

Why Luxembourg’s Internet Is Speeding Ahead—But Can It Reach the Stars?

As of 2024, 94.7% of Luxembourg households are served by a Very High Capacity Network (approximately 1 Gbps or more), with coverage rising to 95.2% by 2025. Fiber-to-the-premises coverage is about 80% of households, with FTTH deployment underway since the late 1990s. Cable broadband via DOCSIS 3.1 from Eltrona/Telenet reaches about 90% of households, typically delivering 500 Mbps or higher. NGA availability (networks offering at least 30 Mbps) reaches 99% of households thanks to VDSL2 with fiber-to-the-cabinet and cable networks. Orange Luxembourg offers Livebox Fiber up to 8.5 Gbps down and 1.5 Gbps up for around €99.99 per month. Luxembourg
26 June 2025
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Latest Satellite News & Insights 26.06.2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 26.06.2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured images of exoplanet TWA 7b, a Saturn-mass planet orbiting the young star TWA 7, using high-contrast imaging and a coronagraph. Israeli airstrikes on western Iran targeted military satellites, air defense systems, and missile infrastructure, using around 20 fighter jets and over 30 munitions. ESA’s Biomass satellite, launched in April, released its first images mapping global forests using radar to measure the carbon stored in forests. A transient radio signal from NASA’s long-inactive Relay 2 satellite was detected on Earth, likely caused by an electrostatic discharge. The U.S. Space Force’s FY26 budget includes $277 million
26 June 2025
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Drone Laws in the Netherlands (2025)

Drone Laws in the Netherlands (2025)

The maximum altitude for recreational drones in the Netherlands is 120 meters (394 feet) above ground or water. Recreational drones must be kept in visual line of sight at all times, and FPV flights without a spotter are not allowed. Distance rules require at least 50 meters from bystanders for moderately heavy drones (500 g–2 kg) and at least 150 meters from residential or urban areas for larger drones up to 25 kg. Recreational drones must weigh under 25 kg (55 lbs) including payload and cannot transport dangerous goods or drop objects. Daylight-only flying applies, with operations allowed from 15
25 June 2025
Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

Sky on Fire Tonight: Giant ‘Solar Canyon’ Aims 800‑km/s Wind at Earth—Northern Lights Could Ignite 15 U.S. States & Test Global Tech

NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic‑storm watch for the night of 25 June 2025. A negative-polarity coronal hole crossing the Sun’s central meridian is releasing plasma at roughly 500–800 km/s toward Earth. The fast solar wind could drive auroras as far south as Colorado, New York and Oregon and briefly disturb power grids, satellites and GPS. Peer‑reviewed modeling in Nature Scientific Reports shows high-speed streams routinely trigger medium geomagnetic storms that can inject more energy into near‑Earth space than rarer CMEs over a solar cycle. A compressed co-rotating interaction region at the leading edge combined with
25 June 2025
Historic Liftoff! Poland’s “Star Scientist” Launches on SpaceX Dragon—All the Inside Details on the Ax-4 Mission, Crew and Experiments

Historic Liftoff! Poland’s “Star Scientist” Launches on SpaceX Dragon—All the Inside Details on the Ax-4 Mission, Crew and Experiments

On June 25 at 08:31 CEST, SpaceX Crew Dragon “Grace” launched from Pad 39A with four astronauts on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). Peggy Whitson (USA) commands Ax-4 and is on her fifth spaceflight, with a U.S. orbital record of 675 days. Shubhanshu Shukla (India) is Pilot for Ax-4, becoming the first Indian in space since 1984. Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski (Poland) is the first Polish national on the ISS and the second Pole in space. Tibor Kapu (Hungary) is Ax-4’s Mission Specialist, marking Hungary’s first visitor to the ISS. Poland’s 47-year space drought ends with Ax-4, following Mirosław Hermaszewski’s 1978 Soyuz 30
25 June 2025
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The High-Speed Secret: How Finland Quietly Built One of the World’s Best Internet Networks

The High-Speed Secret: How Finland Quietly Built One of the World’s Best Internet Networks

By September 2023, 71% of Finnish households had gigabit fixed broadband (1 Gbps) and 78% had 100 Mbps+ speeds, driven by 61% fiber access by end-2023. Finland aims for every household to have at least 100 Mbps connectivity (upgradeable to 1 Gbps) by 2025, with a national plan to reach full 1 Gbps nationwide by 2030. 4G coverage exceeds 99% of the population and 5G coverage reached about 88–90% by early 2023, with Elisa reporting 90% 5G home-area coverage by end of 2023 and DNA at 86% by March 2023. Starlink became available in Finland in late 2022, with a
24 June 2025
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Massive iCloud Meltdown: Why Apple’s Cloud Went Dark Today — and What It Means for Millions of Users

Massive iCloud Meltdown: Why Apple’s Cloud Went Dark Today — and What It Means for Millions of Users

On 24 June 2025, the iCloud outage began after lunchtime in the US, with Apple’s System Status dashboard flagging an outage at 2:36 p.m. ET for iCloud Web Apps and iWork for iCloud, and yellow warnings for Mail, Photos, and Storage Upgrades. Downdetector spiked around 1:00 p.m. ET, and by 4:11 p.m. ET reports reached about 900+ complaints. iCloud Web Apps, iWork for iCloud, Photos, iCloud Mail, and Storage Upgrades and backup APIs experienced outages or severe slowness. The status tiles remained red for several hours and flipped to green roughly four hours after the first alert as Apple rolled
24 June 2025
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Latest Satellite News & Insights 25.06.2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 25.06.2025

EarthDaily Analytics launched its first Earth observation satellite, initiating a next-generation ten-satellite constellation to deliver daily AI-ready global imagery and analytics, with the full constellation expected to be operational next year. SpaceX launched 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on a Falcon 9 booster (B1080) in its 20th flight, with the first stage successfully recovered, expanding global internet coverage to over 7,800 active relays. James Webb Space Telescope captured its first direct image of exoplanet TWA 7 b about 110 light-years away using a coronagraph on the MIRI instrument. ESA’s Biomass satellite released its first radar images using P-band synthetic
24 June 2025
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Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk: How Amazon’s New Kuiper Satellites Could Disrupt a $100 Billion Space‑Internet Gold Rush

Space Race Frenzy: Exploding Starships, Quantum‑Proof Satellites & Europe’s Billion‑Dollar Constellation Shake‑Up — Everything That Hit Orbit TODAY (24 June 2025)

SpaceX’s Transporter-14 rideshare lofted 70 payloads, including memorial capsules, ICEYE and Capella radar sats, and York Space Systems’ Dragoon Tranche-1 12-satellite demo. The first Dragoon craft launched Monday on Transporter-14 is now on orbit, with SDA citing a four-month schedule cut to accelerate capabilities. Shijian-21 rendezvoused with Shijian-25 at about 22,236 miles, rehearsing refueling and capture maneuvers that analysts warn could neutralize adversary satellites in a conflict. T-Mobile’s T-Satellite service will provide full data links on 1 Oct 2025, piggybacking on 657 Starlink satellites, with basic messaging starting 23 July and 911 texting free for all U.S. users. SpaceX targets
24 June 2025
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Lyon’s Bold Digital Revolution: 7 Reasons the City’s Break‑Up With Microsoft Will Rock Government IT

Lyon’s Bold Digital Revolution: 7 Reasons the City’s Break‑Up With Microsoft Will Rock Government IT

On 23 June 2025, Lyon announced Territoire Numérique Ouvert (TNO) and a progressive migration from Microsoft Office to OnlyOffice, Linux, and PostgreSQL across municipal workstations. Territoire Numérique Ouvert is an open-source collaborative suite developed with SITIV and the Lyon Metropole. TNO is hosted in regional datacentres. TNO received a €2 million grant from the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT). TNO already serves several thousand agents in nine local authorities. Civil servant training for the switch began in June 2025. The initiative aims to escape American software dependency. Zimbra integration by Axess reduces maintenance costs by at least 50%. Over
24 June 2025
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The Digital Desert Awakens: Inside Tunisia’s Expanding Internet Frontier

The Digital Desert Awakens: Inside Tunisia’s Expanding Internet Frontier

As of early 2024, about 9.96 million Tunisians were internet users, roughly 79.6% of the population. In January 2024, Tunisia had 16.73 million active mobile connections, equal to 133.7% of the population. 99.9% of the population is covered by mobile signals, with 4G reaching about 94.9% of inhabitants. Tunisie Telecom’s fiber backbone spans roughly 50,000 km, and late-2024 initiatives connected 2,900 homes in Tataouine (~7,000 users) via fiber at about $160,000. International bandwidth capacity grew from 82.5 Gbps in 2012 to about 1,710 Gbps in 2023. 5G licensing occurred in September 2024, initial licenses were granted in November 2024, and
24 June 2025
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Singapore Drone Laws 2025 – Everything You Need to Know (Updated Guide)

Singapore Drone Laws 2025 – Everything You Need to Know (Updated Guide)

Drones weighing more than 250 grams must be registered in Singapore, a rule in effect since 2020, with penalties up to S$10,000 or 6 months’ imprisonment for unregistered flights. Registration involves two steps: purchasing a S$25 registration label and completing online registration on the CAAS UA Portal, with the label uniquely tied to the aircraft and non-transferable. As of February 14, 2025, Singapore removed the registration cap, allowing unlimited drones above 250 g to be registered to a single owner via the Centralised Flight Management System (CFMS). Recreational drones weighing 1.5 kg to 7 kg require at least a UA
24 June 2025
Peering Through Clouds: Microwave Radiometry’s Crucial Role in Weather Prediction

Peering Through Clouds: Microwave Radiometry’s Crucial Role in Weather Prediction

Microwave radiometers measure brightness temperature from natural microwave emissions, enabling all-weather, day‑and‑night sensing through clouds, haze, and light rain. Oxygen absorption bands around 60 GHz (with a separate line at 118 GHz) are used for temperature sounding, while water vapor absorbs near 22.235 GHz and 183 GHz for humidity profiling. Nimbus-7 SMMR, launched in 1978, was the first conical-scanning microwave imager with five channels at 6, 10, 18, 21 and 37 GHz. DMSP SSM/I, launched in 1987, carried seven channels from 19 to 85 GHz and provided all-weather ocean winds, rain rates, and snow cover. NOAA’s MSU/AMSU family began with
24 June 2025
Latest Satellite News & Insights 24.06.2025

Latest Satellite News & Insights 24.06.2025

Vodafone becomes the first operator to commercially deploy satellite-guided GPS sensors in 4G/5G antennas, starting in Albania to improve alignment and signal quality. Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) will launch to the International Space Station on June 25, 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying ISRO’s Shubhanshu Shukla as the first ISRO astronaut on a commercial ISS flight. ESA will launch MTG-S1 on July 1, 2025, the first European geostationary satellite capable of atmospheric sounding, enabling extreme weather prediction with Sentinel-4 data. NASA’s Relay-2, inactive since 1967, emitted a powerful radio signal detected in June 2024, highlighting ongoing concerns about space
23 June 2025
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AI Revolution 2025: 17 Breaking Stories You Must Read Before Anyone Else

AI Revolution 2025: 17 Breaking Stories You Must Read Before Anyone Else

OpenAI’s GPT-5 is slated for release this summer, with Sam Altman calling it “materially better” than GPT-4 and hinting limited advertising outside the output stream. Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 in May, claiming top SWE-bench scores and improved memory with built-in tool use. Google DeepMind’s Gemini evolves into a “universal assistant” at Google I/O 2025, offering browser actions, multimodal context, and deeper Google ecosystem integrations. Meta released Llama 4 in April as a fully open-source multimodal model with Scout and Maverick variants, already live on Hugging Face for commercial fine-tuning. Nvidia announced Rubin, a family of GPUs
23 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

AstraZeneca stock price: What could move AZN next week as earnings loom

AstraZeneca stock price: What could move AZN next week as earnings loom

7 February 2026
AstraZeneca shares rose Friday, closing at $193.03 in New York, up 3.1%, and 14,104p in London, up 0.9%. The company reports full-year and Q4 2025 results Tuesday, with investors focused on 2026 guidance. The FDA this week issued a complete response letter for a subcutaneous Saphnelo filing, while granting Priority Review to Datroway for breast cancer. AstraZeneca recently shifted its primary U.S. listing to the NYSE.
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