Rowan University opened the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park Museum in late June 2025, a mass-timber building that runs fossil-fuel-free with geothermal heating and planned solar to achieve net-zero energy, designed by Buro Happold and Ennead Architects. Brooklyn College began drilling a 500-foot geothermal well in early June 2025 to retrofit a 20,000-square-foot building…
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SpaceX’s Starlink 10-28 mission launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 8, 2025, deploying 28 broadband Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit and marking the Falcon 9 booster’s 22nd flight, with the booster landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes and 14 seconds after liftoff. The 500th Falcon 9…
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In the United States, more than 777 FDA-cleared AI devices are in clinical use for medical imaging, slashing scan times and flagging urgent cases. Microsoft’s MAI-DxO AI system achieves up to 85.5% diagnostic accuracy, vastly outperforming doctors at about 20%. Chugai Pharmaceutical and Gero announced a $1B+ collaboration to discover targets for age-related diseases using…
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Apple scaled back the Liquid Glass UI in iOS 26 beta, significantly reducing transparency to improve readability ahead of the September 2025 final release. Prime Day 2025 runs July 8–11 with record-low prices on AirPods Pro 2 (as low as $149 in the US and €199 in Spain) and other Apple gear, MacBook Air with…
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Deloitte forecasts global data center electricity use will nearly double from about 536 TWh in 2025 to over 1,000 TWh by 2030. S&P Global projects U.S. data center power demand rising about 12% annually through 2030, with roughly 60% of new demand potentially met by natural gas. Germany passed the Energy Efficiency Act (EnEFG) requiring…
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In June 2025, Austrian startup Revo Foods partnered with Slovenia’s Juicy Marbles to debut a 3D-printed plant-based fish fillet called “Kinda Cod,” leveraging mycoprotein and high-throughput 3D printing, and it launched direct-to-consumer in the US via Juicy Marbles’ online store with UK and EU rollout planned. In April 2025, Bel Group teamed with Standing Ovation…
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Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for RPA, released in late June 2025, again names Automation Anywhere, Microsoft, SS&C Blue Prism, and UiPath as Leaders for the seventh consecutive year. Gartner warned about ‘agent washing’ and projected that by 2027 more than 40% of agentic AI projects could be canceled due to unclear ROI. UiPath announced a…
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The European Union’s AI Act will be fully enforced by mid-2026, establishing strict rules for high-risk AI applications across member states. Capgemini agreed to acquire WNS Holdings for $3.3 billion to accelerate autonomous AI for enterprise operations. At the BRICS summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged multilateral AI governance and announced plans for an independent…
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China launched the Three-Body Computing Constellation, with each satellite delivering 744 TOPS and the network targeting 1 EOPS for in-orbit AI and real-time data processing. China proposes a Neptune Orbiter for 2033 powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators to study Neptune, its moon Triton, and deep-space propulsion capabilities. BeiDou-3 has been completed with 30 operational satellites…
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Leonardo AI launched in 2022 as a Sydney-based platform for image, art, and video generation. By mid-2024 it had over 19 million users who had generated more than a billion images. Canva acquired Leonardo.ai in 2024, with all 120 Leonardo team members joining Canva. Core models include XL variants like Anime XL, Lightning XL, and…
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