Technology News: 7 August 2025

Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

A Saturn-mass exoplanet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 1–2 AU was directly imaged by JWST, potentially the closest directly imaged planet to its star at roughly 4 light-years from Earth.

8 August 2025

Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 2025)

Crew-10, comprising NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov, is targeting undocking on Aug 8, 2025, with splashdown off the California coast on Aug 9,

8 August 2025

Astronomy · Business Deals · Science News · Space · Space Exploration · Technology

Belgium’s Drone Laws Revealed: 12 Essential Facts You Must Know (2025 Update)

Belgium has operated under the EU Drone Regulation since December 31, 2020, aligning national rules with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Enforcement is conducted by the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority

8 August 2025

2025 · Belgium · Drones · Regulations · Technology

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

AI Chatbot Showdown 2025: ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity – Who Reigns Supreme?

In August 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5 powering ChatGPT, claiming fewer factual errors, stronger coding ability, and new agent-like capabilities such as calendar access and email drafting. Anthropic rolled out Claude 4 in

8 August 2025

2025 Trends · AI · Chatbots · Comparisons · Technology

Hailuo AI vs Pollo AI vs Runway: The Ultimate AI Showdown in 2025

In late 2024, MiniMax released Hailuo’s first text-to-video model “Video-01,” and its current Hailuo-02 can generate 6‑second 720p videos at ~25 fps from text prompts and images. As of January 2025, Hailuo

8 August 2025

2025 Trends · AI Tools · Comparisons · Reviews · Technology

Photoshop vs Lightroom vs GIMP: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown for Photo Editors

Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship raster editor, available on Windows, macOS, and iPad, with Creative Cloud integration and AI features like Neural Filters and Generative Fill. Lightroom Classic offers end-to-end photography workflow with

8 August 2025

Photo Editing · Photography · Reviews · Software Comparison · Technology

Grok 4: Elon Musk’s “PhD-Level” AI Outshines OpenAI & Google on Major Benchmarks

The AI Chatbot Showdown of 2025: Grok vs DeepSeek vs Perplexity

Grok is Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot built on the Grok LLM family, with Grok-4 released in July 2025 and Grok-3 trained in a 200,000-GPU data center codenamed Colossus, plus built-in web search

7 August 2025

2025 Trends · AI Chatbots · Comparisons · Reviews · Technology

Leonardo AI vs Canva vs Simplified: 2025’s Ultimate AI Design Tool Showdown

Canva serves 180+ million users, is used by about 95% of Fortune 500 companies, and acquired Leonardo in 2024. Leonardo AI has 19 million+ users, features a Phoenix model for photorealism, and

7 August 2025

AI Design · Creative Software · Graphic Tools · Reviews · Technology

Lightning-Fast Liechtenstein: Inside Europe’s Most Connected Country in 2025

By the end of 2023 Liechtenstein completed a nationwide Fiber-to-the-Home rollout, connecting 99%+ of buildings to gigabit fiber and making LKW the passive network owner. As of early 2025, internet penetration is

7 August 2025

Connectivity · Digital Innovation · Europe · Liechtenstein · Technology

Midjourney vs DALL·E vs Stable Diffusion: 2025 AI Art Generator Showdown 🚀

Midjourney released v6 in 2024 and v7 in early 2025, delivering improved prompt accuracy, higher photorealism, and new text-to-video and 3D capabilities. DALL·E 3 is integrated with ChatGPT (via GPT-4) to expand

7 August 2025

AI Art · Art Tools · Generative AI · Reviews · Technology

AI Detector Showdown: GPTZero vs Originality.AI vs Winston AI – Which One Wins in 2025?

GPTZero was created for academia by Princeton student Edward Tian and now offers an AI vs Human probability score, an AI Vocabulary flag, a ‘Compare with AI Text’ mode, an AI-written explanation,

7 August 2025

2025 Trends · AI Detectors · Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Tool Comparison

WIZ.AI vs Cognigy vs Kore.ai – The Ultimate 2025 Conversational AI Platform Showdown

WIZ.AI is a Singapore-based voice-centric conversational AI provider that launched TalkGPT in 2023 as the region’s first ChatGPT-powered customer engagement solution. WIZ.AI claims 98% of users cannot tell they are speaking with

7 August 2025

2025 Trends · Artificial Intelligence · Conversational AI · Platform Comparison · Technology

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