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Technology News 16 September 2025 - 18 September 2025

Tech Shockwaves: Gadgets, Breaches, and a New Space Race Unfold

Tech Shockwaves: Gadgets, Breaches, and a New Space Race Unfold

Key Facts Consumer Tech & Gadgets Apple’s iPhone 17 Launch: Apple’s latest iPhones officially hit shelves on Friday, and the tech giant is smoothing out last-minute wrinkles. Reviewers discovered a camera flaw in the iPhone 17 Pro and new iPhone Air (a 6.1-inch ultra-thin model replacing the former Plus) – in rare cases, photos taken under intense LED concert lighting showed black boxes and squiggly artifacts macrumors.com macrumors.com. Apple acknowledged the issue (caused by extremely bright LED panels confounding the camera sensor) and confirmed it has a fix underway in an upcoming iOS update macrumors.com macrumors.com. Despite this quirk, early
18 September 2025
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AI Accelerator Chip Gold Rush: Inside the Global Race for a $300B Market by 2030

Shockwaves in Silicon: Nvidia’s AI Chip Ban in China Escalates the Tech Cold War

Background: Nvidia’s AI Chips “Not Welcome” in China In September 2025, reports emerged that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) had directed the country’s largest tech companies to halt purchases of Nvidia’s AI chips reuters.com. Specifically, firms like Alibaba and ByteDance were told to cancel orders and stop testing Nvidia’s new RTX Pro 6000D GPUs reuters.com. This model was a China-tailored chip Nvidia unveiled in July after U.S. export rules blocked its most powerful processors. Several Chinese companies had planned to buy tens of thousands of these 6000D chips and were already working with server suppliers to deploy them reuters.com.
17 September 2025
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DJI Mini 5 Pro vs DJI Mini 4 Pro: The Ultimate Mini Drone Showdown (1-Inch Camera Upgrade, Battery & More)

DJI Mini 5 Pro vs DJI Mini 4 Pro: The Ultimate Mini Drone Showdown (1-Inch Camera Upgrade, Battery & More)

Camera Performance and Upgrades Both drones shoot impressively high-quality aerial photos and video for their size, but the DJI Mini 5 Pro’s camera is a major upgrade over the Mini 4 Pro. The Mini 5 Pro is equipped with a 1-inch CMOS sensor (around 4× the area of the Mini 4 Pro’s sensor) capable of 50 MP still images imaging-resource.com. In comparison, the Mini 4 Pro uses the same 1/1.3-inch 48 MP sensor as the prior Mini 3 Pro techradar.com, which was already excellent for a sub-250g drone. The jump to a 1-inch sensor on the Mini 5 Pro promises better low-light performance, higher dynamic range,
17 September 2025
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From VAR to VR: How High-Tech is Revolutionizing the 2025 Champions League

From VAR to VR: How High-Tech is Revolutionizing the 2025 Champions League

Officiating Tech: VAR, Offside AI and More When it comes to refereeing, the Champions League is more high-tech than ever. VAR (Video Assistant Referee) was first introduced to the competition in 2019 and has since become a fixture of every match uefa.com. VAR focuses only on game-changing situations (goals, penalties, direct reds, mistaken identity) and steps in for “clear and obvious” errors refrsports.com. Over the years, UEFA has worked to make VAR quicker and less disruptive – a response to early criticisms that reviews took too long and broke the flow of the game. UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin himself urged
17 September 2025
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DJI Mini 5 Pro Takes Flight with a Game‑Changing 1‑Inch Sensor – How It Stacks Up Against the Competition

DJI Mini 5 Pro Takes Flight with a Game‑Changing 1‑Inch Sensor – How It Stacks Up Against the Competition

DJI Mini 5 Pro Overview – A “Pro” Camera in a Mini Drone The DJI Mini 5 Pro marks a milestone for compact drones, packing features previously exclusive to larger models into an ultralight package. Announced in mid-September 2025, the Mini 5 Pro is the first Mini-series drone to incorporate truly professional-grade imaging and safety tech. Its headline feature is the 1-inch CMOS sensor – a size previously only seen on much larger drones like the 595 g DJI Air 2S techradar.com techradar.com. Cramming that into a tiny <250 g airframe was “considered nigh-on impossible just a couple of years
17 September 2025
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3D-Printed Ghost Guns Won’t Stay Anonymous: How Digital Fingerprints Could Track Every Part

3D-Printed Ghost Guns Won’t Stay Anonymous: How Digital Fingerprints Could Track Every Part

Introduction: Ghost Guns and Digital Fingerprints 3D printing has opened the door to amazing innovations – custom tools, spare parts, even artistic creations – but it also has a dark side. In recent years, hobbyist 3D printers have been used to produce unregistered, untraceable firearms known as ghost guns. These DIY weapons lack serial numbers and skirt traditional gun regulations, making them appealing to criminals. A chilling example came in late 2024, when a ghost gun was implicated in the murder of a healthcare executive engineering.washu.edu engineering.washu.edu. This incident underscored why law enforcement is anxious about ghost guns: they’re effectively
17 September 2025
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Nvidia’s Unreleased GTX 2080 Ti Prototype – A More Powerful Turing Flagship That Never Launched

Nvidia’s Unreleased GTX 2080 Ti Prototype – A More Powerful Turing Flagship That Never Launched

Background: The RTX 2080 Ti and Turing’s Debut Nvidia launched the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti in September 2018 as the flagship of its then-new Turing architecture. Priced around $1,199 at launch, the RTX 2080 Ti was the first consumer GPU to introduce real-time ray tracing and AI DLSS features, marking a major technological leap in graphics. According to Tom’s Hardware, it “was the flagship offering at that moment, bringing ray tracing to the masses for the first time” tomshardware.com. The card featured 11 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and delivered the highest gaming performance of its generation, well ahead of any
17 September 2025
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Japan’s $300 Million Undersea Cable Gamble: Inside the Global Race to Secure the Internet’s Lifelines

Japan’s $300 Million Undersea Cable Gamble: Inside the Global Race to Secure the Internet’s Lifelines

Japan’s Bold Move: Subsidizing Cable-Laying Ships Japan’s decision to bankroll NEC’s purchase of undersea cable vessels signals a major policy shift to protect the nation’s digital lifelines. According to officials, Tokyo is prepared to front hundreds of millions of dollars so that NEC – Asia’s biggest undersea cable installer – can acquire ocean-going cable-laying ships of its own tomshardware.com lightreading.com. Each such ship is a massive specialized vessel (costing about $300 million apiece) equipped to carry and slowly spool out thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cable across ocean floors. Until now, NEC has owned zero of these, relying instead on leasing
17 September 2025
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Belgium’s Space Boom: From Small Nation to Satellite Powerhouse

Belgium’s Space Boom: From Small Nation to Satellite Powerhouse

Key Facts at a Glance Historical Evolution: From Early Collaborator to ESA Pillar Belgium’s journey in space began in the 1960s, making it one of the earliest European nations involved in space endeavors diplomatie.belgium.be. In 1962 the government formed Belgospace, an industry-academia forum to coordinate Belgium’s participation in Europe’s first space organizations (ELDO for launchers and ESRO for science satellites) switchtospace.org. Belgium became a founding member of ESA in 1975 and embraced a multilateral approach – recognizing that pooling resources was the way for a small country to achieve big goals in space diplomatie.belgium.be. Over decades, Belgium honed specific strengths
17 September 2025
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Mars Life Clue, Deadly Heat & Tech Breakthroughs – Science News Roundup (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Mars Life Clue, Deadly Heat & Tech Breakthroughs – Science News Roundup (Sept 16–17, 2025)

Sources Medicine & Health: UC San Diego Health (press release via ScienceDaily) sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com; ScienceDaily (Sep 16) sciencedaily.com; SciTechDaily scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Space & Astronomy: Imperial College London (press release via ScienceDaily) sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com; Symmetry Magazine (Fermilab/SLAC) symmetrymagazine.org symmetrymagazine.org; Sci.News sci.news sci.news.Climate & Environment: The Guardian theguardian.com theguardian.com; UNC Chapel Hill (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com; Florida Atlantic University (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Physics: Symmetry Magazine symmetrymagazine.org symmetrymagazine.org; Sci.News sci.news.Technology: University of Florida (press release via SciTechDaily) scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com.Other: Sci.News sci.news sci.news; Sci.News sci.news.
17 September 2025
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Drone Warfare and Developments in Ukraine (2024–2025)

High-Stakes Drone Showdown: Why the U.S. Is Scrambling to Catch Up with Russia in Ukraine’s War

Drones Take Center Stage in the Ukraine War Unmanned aerial vehicles – drones – have become central to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, redefining how wars are fought. What began in 2022 with ad-hoc use of hobby drones to spot artillery has exploded into a full-scale “drone war.” Both Russia and Ukraine now deploy vast fleets of drones on the front lines, from tiny quadcopters to loitering munitions (self-destructing attack drones). Analysts note this war is built “not around a few elite systems but around millions of small, cheap, and expendable drones deployed by soldiers at the front”. These drones perform reconnaissance,
16 September 2025
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Ultimate 2025 Showdown: iOS vs Android vs HarmonyOS — Which Mobile OS Reigns Supreme?

OpenAI’s Teen ChatGPT Revealed – Safe AI Revolution or Too Little, Too Late?

What Is the Teen Version of ChatGPT? OpenAI’s teen version of ChatGPT is a tailored, safer mode of the popular AI chatbot designed specifically for users aged 13 to 17. It was unveiled in mid-September 2025 as part of OpenAI’s push to make ChatGPT “meet [teens] where they are” developmentally openai.com. This means the AI will respond differently to a 15-year-old than it would to an adult, with built-in awareness of the user’s age and maturity level. Key features and differences of the teen ChatGPT include: It’s worth noting that OpenAI’s terms of service always prohibited users under 13 (due
16 September 2025
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