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You Won’t Believe What Launched in Space This Week

You Won’t Believe What Launched in Space This Week

SpaceX conducted two Falcon 9 Starlink launches within 24 hours (July 26 from Florida and July 27 from California), marking SpaceX’s 92nd mission of 2025, with the first booster flying 22nd time and the second booster 19th flight, and both droneship landings bringing the total to 480 recoveries. A rare global Starlink outage on July 24 was resolved within hours through software fixes, with SpaceX identifying the bug to prevent a repeat. Amazon announced a $139.5 million investment in new Florida facilities to scale up Project Kuiper launches after three prototype satellite batches this year and plans for more. China
29 July 2025
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You Won’t Believe What Just Happened in Tech: July 28–29 Shockers

You Won’t Believe What Just Happened in Tech: July 28–29 Shockers

Stay tuned as we break down the biggest global tech stories (excluding AI) that unfolded over the past two days, organized by category for easy scanning. Consumer Electronics Cybersecurity Semiconductors Space Tech Telecom Automotive Tech Green Tech Policy/Regulatory Changes Sources: The roundup above is compiled from reputable outlets including Reuters, The Verge, and official statements. For more details, see the cited references reuters.com reuters.com et al. Each link points to the original news reporting or document for those who want the full story.
29 July 2025
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Internet Access in Nauru: Infrastructure, Access, and Future Outlook

Internet Access in Nauru: Infrastructure, Access, and Future Outlook

Nauru has a population of about 12,000 and an area of 21 km², with roughly 83% of residents using the internet as of 2023. Since 2022–2023, SpaceX Starlink has become available in Nauru, and the Starlink Community Gateway on Command Ridge began operating in December 2024. In January 2025 Neotel launched a nationwide 5G network in Nauru, marketed as the first nationwide 5G+ network in Oceania. Digicel Nauru launched the island’s first GSM mobile network in August 2009, initially with about a two-year monopoly. Telstra acquired Digicel Pacific in 2021, bringing Digicel Nauru under Australia’s largest telecom group. By 2023
28 July 2025
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Smart Home Revolution: How Integrated Tech Is Transforming Homes in 2025

Smart Home Revolution: How Integrated Tech Is Transforming Homes in 2025

93% of Americans now own at least one smart home device, and 42% say most of their home gadgets are “smart.” The global smart home market is booming (projected to exceed $633 billion by 2032). Matter, the universal smart home standard, launched in late 2022; Matter 1.2 arrived in October 2023; 1.3 in May 2024; 1.4 in late 2024 with Enhanced Multi-Admin, and by mid-2025 major platforms like Amazon Alexa, Google Nest, Apple Home, and Samsung SmartThings support it. Thread is a low-power IPv6-based mesh protocol that underpins Matter, with a major Thread 1.4 upgrade in 2024 addressing reliability and
28 July 2025
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From Skies to Sidewalks: Inside the 2025 Drone Delivery Revolution

From Skies to Sidewalks: Inside the 2025 Drone Delivery Revolution

Amazon Prime Air introduced its MK30 drone in late 2024, a BVLOS-capable hexagonal aircraft that carries up to 5 lbs and operates from Tolleson, Arizona, delivering eligible items within a 4-mile radius in under an hour. Alphabet’s Wing has completed over 350,000 deliveries across 10 locations on 3 continents, using hybrid fixed-wing drones with a top speed of about 70 mph and a rideshare-like model with retailers including Walmart in Dallas–Fort Worth. Zipline’s Platform 2 system carries 6–8 pounds and serves a 10-mile radius (up to 24 miles out-and-back between hubs), with high-volume flight tests beginning in 2023 and first
28 July 2025
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See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

See Your House from Space? Inside the World of Live Satellite Maps and Weather from Orbit

Google Earth was downloaded over one billion times in its first six years. Google Earth’s Time Machine covers 1984 to 2022 in a 4D interactive map built from millions of satellite photos. The Landsat program began in 1972 and offers a 50+ year global land-surface data record, with Landsat 8 and 9 providing 30-meter resolution imagery. Sentinel-2A and 2B image the entire Earth’s land every 5 days at 10-meter resolution (20 meters for some infrared bands). Maxar’s WorldView-3 and WorldView-4 offer 30-centimeter imagery, and the upcoming WorldView Legion aims for up to 15 revisits per day at 30 cm. Planet
28 July 2025
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Quantum Leap: Inside SuperQ’s Mission to Be the “ChatGPT of Quantum Computing”

Quantum Leap: Inside SuperQ’s Mission to Be the “ChatGPT of Quantum Computing”

From March 21, 2025 to July 10, 2025, Atco Mining pivoted to quantum computing by acquiring Staque’s Super platform, rebranding as SuperQ Quantum Computing Inc., completing a 10-for-1 share consolidation, and listing on the CSE as QBTQ with Staque owning about 37.8%. The Super platform is a cloud-based hybrid quantum-classical computing system with a natural-language, ChatGPT-like interface. It coordinates quantum annealing from D-Wave, gate-model QPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and CPUs via AI-driven workload management. Verge Ag project produced SuperQ’s first revenue in mid-2025, via a quantum-optimized robotic motion planning module on Verge’s Launch Pad, with revenue recognized on July 24, 2025.
28 July 2025
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Lasers vs Radio: Inside the Laser Satellite Communication Revolution (2025)

Lasers vs Radio: Inside the Laser Satellite Communication Revolution (2025)

NASA’s TBIRD CubeSat achieved a 200 Gbps laser downlink in 2023, transmitting 4.8 terabytes in under five minutes. SpaceX’s Starlink had over 4,000 satellites in orbit by early 2024, with inter-satellite laser links moving about 42 petabytes per day (roughly 5.6 terabits per second). Amazon’s Project Kuiper demonstrated 100 Gbps inter-satellite laser links in late 2023 over distances of about 1,000 km, with production satellites planned to launch in 2025 and each carrying multiple laser terminals. Europe’s European Data Relay System (SpaceDataHighway) uses Tesat laser terminals on two GEO satellites, delivering up to 1.8 Gbps links and as much as
28 July 2025
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Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

Batteries That Fix Themselves, Space Showdowns & a $12,000 Superchip – Tech Roundup (July 27–28, 2025)

AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX workstation processor launched at $11,699 and features 96 cores, 192 threads, a Zen 5 design, and up to 5.4GHz, claiming the title of the world’s fastest CPU. Samsung’s 61.44 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, the largest enterprise drive to date, went on sale for $5,593 (~$0.09/GB) and delivers 14.2 GB/s read and 2.1 GB/s write speeds using QLC flash. The FOSSiBOT F107 Pro rugged phone adds “Starlight Night Vision” capable of color photography at 0.0005 lux, powered by a 28,000 mAh battery and MIL-STD-810H durability. A GoPro Max 2 prototype leaked showing a 360° camera with
28 July 2025
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The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

The Chatbot Revolution Nobody Saw Coming: How AI Assistants Took Over the World

ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series (GPT-3, 2020). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020, and the ChatGPT prototype launched in November 2022, reaching 100 million users in two months. Voice assistants emerged with Siri (2011), Alexa (2014), Cortana (2014), and Google Assistant (2016). Google’s Bard evolved into Gemini in 2024, with Gemini Ultra as the top model, offering multimodal input, 40+ languages, and real-time
28 July 2025
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AI in Overdrive: Weekend of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Dire Warnings (July 27–28, 2025)

AI in Overdrive: Weekend of Breakthroughs, Big Tech Moves & Dire Warnings (July 27–28, 2025)

On July 27–28, 2025, the White House unveiled an AI Action Plan calling for open-source and open-weight AI models to be freely available worldwide and for regulatory hurdles to be slashed to accelerate innovation. During the July 27–28 weekend, President Trump signed executive orders to expedite AI infrastructure projects and require federally funded AI to maintain political neutrality. At WAIC in Shanghai on July 28, 2025, Premier Li Qiang announced plans for a new international AI cooperation organization to jointly develop and govern AI and urged a global governance framework with broad consensus. The Model-Chip Ecosystem Alliance linked Huawei, Biren,
28 July 2025
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AI vs. Robotics Revolution: How Smart Algorithms and Machines Are Reshaping 2025

AI vs. Robotics Revolution: How Smart Algorithms and Machines Are Reshaping 2025

In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, was installed on a General Motors assembly line. From 1966 to 1972, Stanford Research Institute’s Shakey became the first mobile robot to reason about its actions using AI. In 1973, Kawasaki introduced the first robot arm with six electromechanical axes. In 1981, IBM introduced a robotic arm controlled by a microcomputer. In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2002, iRobot released the Roomba, the first widely adopted consumer robot. In 2012, AlexNet achieved a breakthrough in image recognition, signaling the deep learning renaissance. In 2016, Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo
27 July 2025
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