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Philips Hue’s 2025 Update Changes the Game: Bridge Pro, Cheaper Bulbs & Bold New Moves

Hue Bridge Pro: A Supercharged Smart Hub The Philips Hue Bridge Pro is a long-awaited upgrade to Hue’s central hub. Visually debuting in sleek black, this hub is significantly more powerful than the standard Bridge V2 (2015) it complements. It can handle 150+ lights and 50 accessories on one network – a godsend for smart home enthusiasts who were bumping against the old ~50–60 device limit techradar.com pcworld.com. The hardware jump (quad-core ARM CPU and 1 GB RAM) not only expands capacity but speeds up response times across the system macrumors.com hueblog.com. Users with sprawling indoor/outdoor Hue setups or multiple cameras

4 September 2025

Norway Drone Laws 2025: Comprehensive Guide to Regulations & Recent Updates

Norway adheres to EU drone rules since 2021, applying the Open, Specific, and Certified categories uniformly to recreational and commercial operations. In the Open category, drones must weigh under 25 kg, be kept in visual line of sight, and not exceed 120 meters above ground, with a possible exception to fly up to 15 meters above a structure taller than 120 meters if the owner consents. Drones over 250 g must maintain minimum distances from people and property, typically 30 meters from others and 150 meters from residential or commercial areas unless the drone has a class marker. Night operations

15 July 2025

2025 · Drones · Norway · Regulations · Updates

Space News Digest: July 1, 2025 / Updated: 2025, July 1st, 12:02 CET

The Vera Rubin Observatory began its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) with first light and a 3.2-gigapixel camera, aiming to image the southern sky every few days and catalog over 40 billion objects. Perseverance completed its 30th Martian rock analysis on a sample named Kenmore, using the gaseous Dust Removal Tool to study its interior mineralogy. Perseverance detected clay-bearing bedrock on Jezero Crater’s rim, suggesting ancient water activity about 4 billion years ago. Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama of Gale Crater, providing detailed context for ongoing geological investigations. FireSat plans deployment of over 50 satellites by 2029; FIRENET

1 July 2025

Exploration · NASDAQ:ASTS · News · NYSE:VOD · Science · Space · Updates

Latest Satellite News / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 16:39 CET

Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images in Chile, capturing 10 million galaxies in a single frame and previewing the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to map billions of galaxies. Curiosity rover on Mars captured a 360-degree panorama of boxwork ridges at Gale Crater using 291 Mastcam images. China’s Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return mission targets a 2028 launch and a 2031 return. Japan’s final H-2A rocket launch deployed the GOSAT-GW climate satellite, as the country transitions to the H3 rocket with an overall 98% success rate over 50 launches. Amazon launched its second Kuiper internet satellite batch,

29 June 2025

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Space News Digest: June 2025 / Updated: 2025, June 29th, 00:31 CET

Rocket Lab completed two Electron launches within 48 hours at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, including the Get the Hawk Outta Here mission that deployed four satellites: three Hawkeye 360 RF geolocation microsatellites and the Kestrel-0A experimental satellite. Amazon expanded Project Kuiper by launching 27 new satellites into low Earth orbit, while SpaceX’s Starlink added 80 satellites in a single week, pushing its active constellation past 7,900. Japan marked the 50th and final H-2A launch by deploying the GOSAT-GW greenhouse gas and water-cycle satellite, part of a fleet that achieved 66 launches (63 successful) over 31 years. South Korea’s