NASA’s ATLAS telescope identified the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, currently about 420 million miles from Earth, with closest approach to the Sun on October 30, 2025, and it will pass safely between Mars and Earth as the third confirmed interstellar visitor after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov. July marks Aphelion Day, when Earth is about 94.5 million miles…
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On July 3, 2025, Ukraine signed a co-production deal with U.S. firm Swift Beat to manufacture hundreds of thousands of drones in 2025, including interceptor, reconnaissance, and attack UAVs. DroneShield secured a $61.6 million contract to supply handheld drone detectors and jammers to a European military, with deliveries in Q3 2025 and plans for a…
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Microsoft laid off about 9,100 employees in 2025, primarily in the Xbox division, with Turn 10, Rare, The Initiative, and ZeniMax Europe hit hardest and projects like Perfect Dark, Everwild, and Blackbird canceled. The Stop Killing Games campaign surpassed 1,000,000 signatures, prompting the European Commission to review remote game shutdowns and digital preservation, with supporters…
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Starlink has over 4.6 million users and a constellation of nearly 7,900 satellites in orbit as of mid-2025. The EU Space Act would unify space regulation with debris mitigation, cybersecurity, and environmental standards, with existing Starlink satellites exempt through 2030 but future deployments subject to the Act. France’s SNCF plans to deploy satellite internet on…
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As of January 2024, Oman had 4.58 million internet users, representing 97.8% of the population. Median mobile data speed was 71.3 Mbps and fixed broadband speed 68.4 Mbps in January 2024. By end-2024, about 90% of housing units had fiber or high-speed broadband availability. Omantel held roughly 48% of mobile subscribers in 2024, Ooredoo about…
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Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Fold7 for the July 9, 2025 Galaxy Unpacked event, featuring an 8.2-inch main display, Snapdragon 8 Elite, up to 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, Android 16 with One UI 8, a 4,400mAh battery with 40-hour life, IP48 water resistance, a drop rating A, average repairability C, Blue Shadow color, and…
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Boeing won a $2.8 billion U.S. Space Force contract to develop two Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications (ESS) satellites, with options for two more, for NC3 in geostationary orbit, with first delivery targeted for 2031. MethaneSAT, a $134 million satellite funded by the Environmental Defense Fund and Jeff Bezos’ Earth Fund, was lost after 15 months…
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Honeywell partnered with Verizon to integrate 5G connectivity into smart meters, achieving data speeds up to 10 Gbps for near real-time consumption data and improved demand forecasting. Eaton unveiled an AI-based wildfire prevention system called HiZ Protect that detects high-impedance power line faults with 95% accuracy in under 0.5 seconds. Hitachi Energy and AWS launched…
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Samsara announced the Samsara Wearable at a June 24, 2025 conference, a rugged safety device with a >1-year battery life that detects falls or accidents in real time and alerts supervisors via the Samsara cloud. Zoox opened its first dedicated robotaxi production facility in California, a 220,000 sq ft plant capable of assembling 10,000 autonomous…
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Microsoft laid off about 9,000 employees, roughly 4% of its global workforce, in July 2025, with the Xbox division heavily affected. Microsoft’s AI push includes an $80 billion investment in AI infrastructure for fiscal 2025, plus a $30 billion annual cloud deal with Oracle to support Project Stargate via Azure. Microsoft’s gaming division seismic changes…
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