Technology News 28 June 2025

SpaceX Wins $81.6 Million U.S. Space Force Deal to Launch WSF-M2 Weather Satellite in 2027

Space News Roundup – June 29, 2025

Japan’s H-2A rocket completed its 50th and final mission on June 28 (US time), launching the GOSAT-GW (“Ibuki”) greenhouse gases and water-cycle satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit with an official 98% reliability rate for the H-2A family. Blue Origin’s New

29 June 2025

Astronomy·Space·Space News·Technology

AI News Roundup – June 29, 2025 (Daily AI News and Analysis)

Alibaba unveiled the Qwen VLo image-generating AI model and pledged at least ¥380 billion ($53 billion) to AI infrastructure over the next three years, including a second data center in South Korea and a broader Qwen multimodal lineup for AGI

29 June 2025

Artificial Intelligence·News·Technology

Latest Satellite News / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:39 CET

Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in Chile, capturing 10 million galaxies in a single frame and previewing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map billions of galaxies. Curiosity rover on Mars captured a 360-degree

29 June 2025

Satellites·Space News·Technology

The Global AI Revolution: Breakthroughs, Challenges, and the Road Ahead / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:01 CET

The 4th Hong Kong InnoTech Expo drew over 58,000 visitors and featured 120 AI-powered student teams, with winners set to represent Hong Kong at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. Mayo Clinic’s StateViewer AI tool detects nine types of dementia

29 June 2025

Artificial Intelligence·Global Trends·Technology

Drone Laws in Brazil

Brazil regulates drones through ANAC, DECEA, and ANATEL, distinguishing recreational model aircraft from non-recreational RPAs while applying many core rules to both. Drones must maintain a 30-meter horizontal distance from uninvolved people, and a single pilot may operate only one

29 June 2025

Drones·Law·Regulation·Technology

Ghost Signals and Laser Shields: The Pentagon’s 500-Satellite Orbital Defense Net

In June 2024, Australian astronomers traced a 30-nanosecond radio burst to NASA’s defunct Relay-2 satellite, offline since 1967, likely caused by a micrometeoroid hit or decades of charge buildup. The LES-1 Lincoln Experimental Satellite, silent since 1967, transmitted again in

29 June 2025

Defense·Military·Satellite·Technology

Quiet Goodbye, Bold Hello: Japan’s H3 Rocket Takes the Torch from H-2A to Slash Costs and Double Cadence

Japan’s H-2A completed its 50th and final launch on June 28, 2025, carrying the GOSAT-GW climate-monitoring satellite, after a 49-for-50 success rate (98%). Over its service, H-2A lofted payloads including SELENE (Kaguya), Akatsuki, Hayabusa 2, and the Emirates Mars Mission.

29 June 2025

Space·Technology

ForgeStar-1: Pioneering the UK’s Orbital Chip Foundry in Space

ForgeStar-1 launched on June 12, 2025 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, marking the UK’s first in-space manufacturing mission. The Welsh-built ForgeStar-1 is a fully retrievable, reusable space factory designed to survive re-entry and be reused

29 June 2025

Satellite·Space·Technology

Blockchain Technology Comprehensive Report 2025: Background, Evolution, Trends & Future Outlook (26th of June 2025).

In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in January 2009 Bitcoin’s genesis block was mined. The 2016 DAO hack on Ethereum triggered a hard fork. Vitalik Buterin proposed Ethereum in 2013, and the Ethereum Frontier network went live

28 June 2025

Blockchain·Technology·Trends

Major Tech Developments in June 2025 and H2 2025 Outlook

At WWDC 2025, Apple opened on-device AI—a ~3-billion-parameter LLM—to third-party developers. Microsoft reported 33% year-over-year Azure growth in Q1 2025 and noted roughly 30% of its code is AI-authored. Google rolled out the Search Generative Experience with AI Mode and

28 June 2025

Future Tech·Industry News·Innovation·Tech Trends·Technology

AI News Roundup – June 28, 2025

Meta hired Trapit Bansal, a key OpenAI researcher, and acquired a 49% stake in Scale AI valued at nearly $15 billion, while securing a 1.1 GW nuclear power supply for AI data centers starting in 2027. Amazon’s stock has nearly

28 June 2025

AI Trends·Artificial Intelligence·Machine Learning·Tech News·Technology

AI News Today June 28th, 2025: MrBeast Axes AI Thumbnail Tool, Denmark’s Deepfake Law, AI Shopkeeper Fails, and More

MrBeast removed the $80/month AI thumbnail generator on Viewstats after backlash and replaced it with a directory of real thumbnail artists, while he has 385+ million subscribers. Denmark unveiled legislation to grant individuals copyright over their face and voice, with

28 June 2025

AI·News·Social Media·Technology

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