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Technology News 8 August 2025 - 9 August 2025

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

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 a price around $1,199. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra has a 6.9″ AMOLED display at 120Hz, a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, a 200 MP main camera plus 5× and 3× telephotos and a 50 MP ultrawide, plus built-in S Pen and One UI 6, priced about $1,299. Google Pixel 9 Pro / Pro XL use a 6.3″ (Pro) or 6.8″ (XL) OLED, Tensor G4, 50 MP main, 48 MP
9 August 2025
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Framework vs XPS vs Galaxy Book4 Pro 360: Ultraportable Laptop Showdown 2025

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 10 around 5288, Cinebench multi‑core about 2106, and a Time Spy GPU score near 1255. Framework features a 12.2‑inch IPS touch display at 1920×1200 (16:10) with over 400 nits brightness and a 60 Hz refresh rate. Framework offers four modular expansion ports (two on each side) that connect via USB‑C with about 10 Gbps bandwidth and no Thunderbolt 4 support. Framework uses a 50 Wh battery, delivering roughly
9 August 2025
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Markets Surge as Tech Soars, Gold Shines & Tariffs Shake Global Business (Aug 8–9, 2025)

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 rose 0.5% on Friday, August 8, 2025, with Nasdaq up 3.9% for the week. The pan-European STOXX 600 climbed 0.2% on Friday and was up 2% for the week, with banking stocks leading the advance. <liZurich’s SMI index rose as U.S. tariffs on Swiss goods took effect at 15%. Japan’s Nikkei index jumped 1.85% on Friday, while broad Asia-Pacific shares ex-Japan fell about 0.6%. Gold futures surged to
9 August 2025
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Space IPOs, Mega-Hacks, and Tariff Twists: Non‑AI Tech News Roundup (Aug 8–9, 2025)

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 PlayStation division sold 2.5 million PS5 consoles in Q1, up 4%, helping gaming profits double on software and network services. SMIC reported Q2 revenue of $2.2 billion, up 16% year over year, with net profit down 19.5% as factories ran at 92.5% utilization. President Trump demanded Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign over China ties, sending Intel stock down about 3% as the company secured $8 billion in federal
9 August 2025
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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 GPT-5 Nano—sharing the 400K context and multimodal input while offering different performance and cost profiles. The GPT-5 API pricing is $1.25 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, plus $0.125 per million cached tokens. Grok 4 launched in July 2025, promoted as the world’s most powerful AI model, and introduced Grok 4 Heavy as a multi-agent variant capable of collaborating on problems. In Humanity’s Last
8 August 2025
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Complete Guide to Internet Access in Sri Lanka: Fiber, 4G, and Satellite Expansion

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, with about 500,000 households connected, and aimed to reach 2 million by end-2023. 4G LTE coverage is essentially 100% of the population as of 2024, with 2G nearly 100%. Dialog Axiata and Mobitel have begun pre-commercial 5G trials, with live test zones in Colombo delivering speeds over 500 Mbps. TRCSL licensed SpaceX Starlink Lanka in August 2024 to provide nationwide satellite broadband under a five-year license. In March
8 August 2025
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The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

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 2.0 license, boosting startups in open GPT development. July 2022: The BigScience project released BLOOM at 176 billion parameters, covering 46 languages and released under the Responsible AI License. May 2022: Meta AI released OPT at 175 billion parameters under a non-commercial research license, including a logbook documenting the training process. February 2023: Meta AI unveiled LLaMA with 7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B models, and the weights leaked
8 August 2025
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Google’s Genie 3: The AI That Turns Text Prompts Into Interactive Worlds, Changing Gaming and Beyond

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 (early 2024) produced 256×256 2D scenes with glitches, Genie 2 (late 2024) moved to 3D with 360p at 15 FPS for about 10–20 seconds, and Genie 3 (August 2025) delivers 720p at 24 FPS with multiple minutes of interactive play and about 1 minute of full consistency. Genie 3 uses an auto-regressive, memory-enabled video generator that remembers past frames to maintain coherence, built on Genie 2’s diffusion-based latent-transformer
8 August 2025
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AI Stocks Frenzy: Record Highs, GPT‑5 Launch, Soaring Tech Giants and SoftBank’s Big AI Payday (Aug 7–8, 2025)

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 about 5% and SMCI dropped over 18% on Aug. 6–7 after data-center results disappointed, while AMD’s Q2 data-center revenue rose 14% to $3.2 billion, lagging Nvidia’s 73% surge in the same segment. Palantir (PLTR) surged nearly 9% in a day after Aug. 5, as it raised its full-year revenue forecast for the second time in 2025, with Q2 revenue of $1 billion and government sales up 53%. Meta
8 August 2025
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Astounding August Science Breakthroughs: Exoplanet Next Door, AI Milestone, Climate Alarms & More

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. OpenAI released GPT-5 to about 700 million ChatGPT users, delivering significantly improved reasoning, problem-solving, domain expertise, and on-demand software coding with an enterprise focus. Italy’s Space Agency will have Italian scientific payloads aboard SpaceX’s Starship on its first Mars-bound missions, with Starship standing about 123 meters tall and a June engine test having ended in an explosion. On August 7, 2025, a solar storm consisting of M-class flares
8 August 2025
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Space Race Heats Up – Major Launches, Lunar Breakthroughs, and Billion-Dollar Deals (7–8 Aug 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, 2025, marking the first crewed California splashdown under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program after a five-month science mission. China completed the first full-scale test of its crewed lunar lander ‘Lanyue’ at a Hebei facility, validating its ascent and descent engines for a 2030 crewed lunar mission and bolstering plans for a joint International Lunar Research Station with Russia by 2035. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is slated to perform its first
8 August 2025
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Belgium’s Drone Laws Revealed: 12 Essential Facts You Must Know (2025 Update)

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 (BCAA), part of the FPS Mobility and Transport (Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport). Drones are categorized by Open, Specific, and Certified categories, with the Open category limited to drones under 25 kg and operating in visual line of sight (VLOS). Open is subdivided into A1, A2, A3; A1 covers drones under 250 g (or C0/C1) or operations over people under strict limits; A2 allows sub-4 kg drones
8 August 2025
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