Technology News 21 July 2025

AI’s 48-Hour Frenzy: Breakthroughs, Billion-Dollar Bets & Bold Policies (July 22–23, 2025)

Google and OpenAI won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad by solving 5 of 6 problems with new general-purpose reasoning based on natural language understanding. OpenAI disclosed its experimental model scaled up test-time compute to think longer and in parallel, a very expensive undertaking. Google DeepMind’s Gemini Deep Think, unveiled in May, solved IMO problems within the 4.5-hour limit entirely in natural language. MIT CSAIL and Facebook AI researchers presented ICML 2025 work showing image generation with encoder-only tokens, enabling inpainting without a generator and morphing a red panda into a tiger. Alibaba’s Qwen-3 Coder, open-sourced for software development,

23 July 2025

From Space Breakthroughs to Medical Marvels: The Must-Read Science News of July 22–23, 2025

On July 22, 2025, NASA, with SpaceX, launched TRACERS, a twin-satellite mission aboard a Falcon 9 to study magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere. The University of Iowa-led TRACERS mission will fly two probes through Earth’s northern magnetic cusp in tandem to improve space weather forecasts. A UK study found that vaccinating pregnant women against RSV reduced newborn hospitalizations by 72 percent, based on analysis of over 500 newborns hospitalized in winter 2024–25. Svalbard’s Arctic winter is turning to rain, with the region warming 6–7 times faster than the global average, observed during February 2025 fieldwork. Finnish researchers from Aalto University

23 July 2025

Medicine · News · Science · Space · Technology

Global Tech Roundup: Space Triumphs, Cyber Breaches & Gadget Surprises Rock July 22–23, 2025

Nintendo Switch 2: Borderlands 4 will launch on the Switch 2 on October 3, 2025, according to Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford, with the Switch version running about 30fps to preserve feature parity. Google Pixel 10 Pro: Google released a Pixel 10 Pro teaser ahead of its August 21, 2025 launch, showing an evolutionary design and promising upgrades including improved camera capabilities and Android 16 integration. Chip tariffs affect TI: Texas Instruments warned new U.S. tariffs could dent demand, issuing a softer sales forecast and sending its stock down about 12%. TSMC profit with caution: TSMC posted a 60% year-on-year surge

23 July 2025

Cybersecurity · Gadgets · News · Space · Technology

Everything You Need to Know About Internet Access in Italy: From Fiber to Satellite

As of June 2023, 59.6% of Italian households were passed by FTTH, roughly in line with the EU average of about 64%. Fixed broadband in mid-2023 relied on copper DSL for almost all households (99.8% coverage), with FTTC/VDSL coverage at 96.4% and VDSL2 speeds often exceeding 100 Mbps near cabinets. FTTH is the fastest-growing fixed broadband technology, with major deployments by TIM’s FiberCop and Open Fiber across the country. Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is pivotal in rural areas, with EOLO covering 6,500+ municipalities and about 79% of homes in low-density areas, offering 30–100 Mbps services. 4G LTE coverage is near

22 July 2025

Broadband · Connectivity · Internet · Italy · Technology

iPad Pro 11 vs The Best Tablets of 2025 – Ultimate Premium Tablet Showdown

The iPad Pro 11-inch (2024/2025 model) uses the Apple M4 chip, an 11-inch Ultra Retina XDR OLED display with a 2420×1668 resolution (264 ppi) and ProMotion 120Hz. Storage spans 256 GB to 2 TB, with 8 GB of RAM on 256/512 GB models and 16 GB on 1 TB/2 TB configurations. The iPad Pro 11 carries a 31.3 Wh (~8160 mAh) battery rated for about 10 hours of web/video on Wi‑Fi and roughly 9 hours on 5G, charging via USB‑C Thunderbolt 4 with a 20 W adapter. It supports the Apple Pencil Pro (magnetically attaches/charges on the side) and a

22 July 2025

Comparisons · iPad Pro · NASDAQ:AAPL · Reviews · Tablets · Technology

Battle of the Titans: Microsoft Surface vs Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo & Samsung – The Ultimate 2025–2026 Laptop & Tablet Showdown

Apple’s M4-based MacBook Air Geekbench 6 score is 14,849, and the 16-inch MacBook Pro delivers desktop-class performance with 18–20 hours of battery life in light use. Surface Pro 11 uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite ARM chip, with reviewers saying it closes much of the CPU gap to Apple and provides long battery life. The new Surface Pro 12-inch starts at $799. The Surface Laptop 13-inch starts at $899, a $100 reduction from last year’s model. The 2025 MacBook Air M4 13-inch starts at around $999, about $100 cheaper than the M2 model. <li Dell’s XPS 13 base models hover

22 July 2025

Comparisons · Laptops · Reviews · Tablets · Technology

San Francisco’s Drone Law Exposed: The Ultimate 2025 Guide to No-Fly Zones and Regulations

Drones weighing over 0.55 pounds (250 grams) must be registered with the FAA for $5 every three years, via the FAA Drone Zone, and drones under 250 grams used recreationally are exempt from registration but commercial use still requires it. FAA rules cap small drones at 400 feet AGL, require visual line of sight at all times, and require FAA LAANC authorization to operate in controlled airspace near airports. There is a standing Stadium TFR that bans drones within a 3-mile radius of stadiums hosting MLB or NFL games from one hour before to one hour after the event, affecting

22 July 2025

Drones · Law · NYSE:ORCL · Regulations · San Francisco · Technology

War of the Drones: How Jammers, Lasers, and Nets Are Taking Down Rogue UAVs

NFL drone incursions rose from about a dozen in 2017 to 2,845 in 2023. The global anti-drone market quadrupled from 2018 to 2024 to about $2.4 billion and is projected to exceed $10 billion by 2030. Israel’s Rafael Drone Dome radar detects drone-sized targets out to about 3.5 km. RF jammers are a non-lethal countermeasure that typically work within a few hundred meters to 1–2 km, as seen with DroneShield’s DroneGun Tactical and Russia’s Stupor jammer in 2022. The Iran–U.S. GPS spoofing incident of 2011 involved spoofing a U.S. spy drone’s navigation signals. In 2023–2024, the U.S. Navy began deploying

22 July 2025

Countermeasures · Drones · NYSE:GD · NYSE:RTX · NYSE:SYK · Security · Technology · Warfare

AI Accelerator Chip Gold Rush: Inside the Global Race for a $300B Market by 2030

The AI accelerator chips market is projected to exceed $360 billion by 2032, up from $28.5 billion in 2024, with about 37.4% CAGR. In 2024, GPUs accounted for about 35% of AI accelerator revenue, while custom AI ASICs were the fastest-growing segment at 43%+ CAGR. Cloud data centers dominate AI chip demand at roughly 75%, while edge AI chips are growing at more than 40% annually. North America held about 44% of the AI accelerators market in 2024, and NVIDIA commanded over 80% of data-center AI accelerator hardware. Hyperscalers like Google with TPU and AWS with Inferentia/Trainium have built in-house

21 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Chips · Hardware · Market Analysis · NASDAQ:AMZN · NASDAQ:GOOGL · NASDAQ:NVDA · Technology

Google AI Studio Unleashed: Inside Google’s Gemini-Powered AI Playground Taking on ChatGPT

Google AI Studio is a browser-based cloud platform that gives developers direct access to Google DeepMind’s Gemini multimodal models for prototyping and building AI-powered applications. Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 1.5 Pro were in public preview on AI Studio by late 2024, offering up to a 1,000,000-token context window, the largest context length among commercial AI at the time. At Google I/O 2024, Gemini 1.5 Pro extended context to 2,000,000 tokens via a waitlist, doubling single-prompt capacity. In early 2025, Gemini 2.0 was released with Flash and Flash-Lite variants for low-latency production use and a 2.0 Pro Experimental focused on

21 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · ChatGPT · Google · NASDAQ:GOOGL · Technology · Tools

Major AI Conferences, Exhibitions, and Awards in 2025–2026

AAAI 2025 was held February 27–March 2, 2025 in Philadelphia, USA, and AAAI 2026 is scheduled for January 20–27, 2026 in Singapore. NeurIPS 2025 will be held December 10–15, 2025 in San Diego, USA, attracting over 13,000 participants. ICML 2025 takes place July 13–19, 2025 in Vancouver, Canada, with around 6,000 participants. ICLR 2025 is scheduled for April 24–28, 2025 in Singapore, marking the conference’s first return to Asia post-pandemic. IJCAI 2025 runs August 16–22, 2025 in Montréal, Canada, and IJCAI-ECAI 2026 will be a joint conference in Bremen, Germany, August 8–14, 2026, with about 2,500 attendees. CVPR 2025 takes

21 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Awards · Conferences · Events · NYSE:FDX · NYSE:JPM · NYSE:MGM · Technology

Meta’s AI Revolution Unleashed: July 2025 Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash

In July 2025, Meta AI expanded to include generative video editing powered by the MovieGen model, with one-click effects to change outfits, backgrounds, and lighting. WhatsApp introduced an AI concierge for business chats that handles customer inquiries and post-purchase recommendations, announced at Conversations on July 1, with testing in select markets including Mexico and plans for cloud-based voice and video calling. The Ray-Ban smart glasses’ companion app was rebranded as the Meta AI app, enabling hands-free AI queries and moment recording, following the June debut of Oakley Meta Glasses with built-in AI. In mid-July 2025, Meta and AWS announced a

21 July 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Breakthroughs · Industry Analysis · Meta · NASDAQ:META · Technology

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