Technology News: 8 August 2025

2025 Flagship Smartphone Showdown: Apple vs. Samsung vs. Google (and More) in the Battle for Phone Supremacy

Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max features a 6.9″ LTPO OLED display with 120Hz, the A18 Pro chip, a 48 MP main camera with a 5× telephoto, a titanium frame, iOS 18, and

9 August 2025

2025–2026 Smartphone Mega-Preview: Flagships, Foldables, Gaming & Future Phones

Мега-преглед паметних телефона 2025–2026: водећи модели, савитљиви, гејминг и телефони будућности

Pripremite se za ogroman talas novih pametnih telefona u 2025. i početkom 2026. godine. Od najmodernijih premijum modela i pristupačnih telefona srednje klase do neobičnih preklopnih uređaja, gejmerskih zveri, izdržljivih radnih konja,

9 August 2025

Technology · Водећи модели · Гејминг · Паметни телефони · Савитљиви телефони

Framework vs XPS vs Galaxy Book4 Pro 360: Ultraportable Laptop Showdown 2025

Framework Laptop 12 is sold as a $549 DIY kit or about $799 assembled, emphasizing repairability and modularity. Framework uses Intel 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” U‑series CPUs (Core i3-1315U or i5-1334U) with PCMark

9 August 2025

Laptops · Product Comparisons · Reviews · Technology · Ultraportables

Markets Surge as Tech Soars, Gold Shines & Tariffs Shake Global Business (Aug 8–9, 2025)

Nasdaq Composite reached a record high for the second consecutive day on Friday, August 8, 2025, led by Apple and other tech shares. The S&P 500 rose 0.8% and the Dow Jones

9 August 2025

Global Business · Gold · Markets · Tariffs · Technology

Space IPOs, Mega-Hacks, and Tariff Twists: Non‑AI Tech News Roundup (Aug 8–9, 2025)

Sony raised its annual profit forecast 4% to ¥1.33 trillion ($9 billion) on tariff relief and strong PlayStation demand, with tariff impact now expected at ¥70 billion, down from ¥100 billion. Sony’s

9 August 2025

Business News · Cybersecurity · Space · Space Industry · Tariffs · Technology

Don’t Miss This Weekend’s Sky Spectacle (Aug 8–9, 2025): Meteor Showers, a Full Moon, Planetary Dance & Aurora Alerts

تماشای شگفتی آسمان این آخر هفته را از دست ندهید (۱۷–۱۸ مرداد ۱۴۰۴): بارش شهابی، ماه کامل، رقص سیارات و هشدار شفق قطبی

برای یک آخر هفته فراموش‌نشدنی از رصد آسمان آماده شوید. در شب‌های ۸ تا ۹ اوت ۲۰۲۵، آسمان نمایشی تماشایی دارد: یکی از معروف‌ترین بارش‌های شهابی تابستانی در حال اوج‌گیری است (با

9 August 2025

AI · Innovation · Internet · Space · Technology

GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

Battle of the AI Titans: GPT-5 vs Grok 4 vs Microsoft Copilot – Who Wins the Next-Gen AI Showdown?

GPT-5 launched in August 2025 with a 400,000-token context window, multimodal text-and-image input, test-time compute, and access for about 700 million ChatGPT users worldwide. GPT-5 comes in three tiers—GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and

8 August 2025

AI · Comparisons · Future Trends · Reviews · Technology

Complete Guide to Internet Access in Sri Lanka: Fiber, 4G, and Satellite Expansion

As of early 2025, Sri Lanka has 29.3 million mobile subscriptions, exceeding its population. SLT’s national fiber backbone spans about 45,000 km. By mid-2022, SLT had infrastructure for 1 million fiber connections,

8 August 2025

Broadband · Connectivity · Internet · Sri Lanka · Technology

Ultimate Electric Scooter Showdown 2025: Segway GT2P vs Xiaomi 5 Pro vs Apollo Phantom 2.0 – Speed, Range & Surprises

نبرد نهایی اسکوترهای برقی ۲۰۲۵: سگوی GT2P در برابر شیائومی ۵ پرو و آپولو فانتوم ۲.۰ – سرعت، برد و شگفتی‌ها

بررسی اجمالی علاقه‌مندان اسکوتر برقی در سال ۲۰۲۵ با گزینه‌های فراوانی روبرو هستند؛ از «سوپر اسکوتر»های فوق‌سریع گرفته تا مدل‌های شهری پیشرفته. سه مدل برجسته عبارتند از Segway GT2P، Xiaomi Electric Scooter

8 August 2025

AI · Internet · Space · Technology · اسکوتر برقی

The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

March 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-Neo at 2.7 billion parameters, the first free open alternative to GPT-3, under the MIT license. June 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-J at 6 billion parameters under the Apache

8 August 2025

AI · Innovation · LLMs · Open Source · Technology

Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

Genie 3, announced by Google DeepMind in August 2025, is the first real-time, interactive world model that can generate dynamic 3D environments from text prompts and let users explore them. Genie 1

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Gaming · Google · Innovation · Technology

AI Stocks Frenzy: Record Highs, GPT‑5 Launch, Soaring Tech Giants and SoftBank’s Big AI Payday (Aug 7–8, 2025)

By Aug. 7, 2025, the Nasdaq Composite reached a record peak driven by chipmakers and AI stocks. OpenAI launched GPT-5 in August 2025 amid a push for ROI in AI. AMD fell

8 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Business News · Investments · Stock Market · Technology

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