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…
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ChatGPT Enterprise offers unlimited, faster GPT-4 access, a 32K-token context window, and data-privacy controls for organizations. Claude 2 can ingest up to 100,000 tokens in context; Claude Pro costs $20/month; Claude API pricing is $0.008 per 1K input tokens and $0.032 per 1K output tokens. Google Gemini is a family of models (Gemini Pro and…
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Gemini Ultra achieved 90.0% on the MMLU benchmark, the first AI to exceed human expert performance. GPT-4 Omni (GPT-4o) was introduced by 2025, handling text, images, and audio with about 232 ms response times and powering the free ChatGPT tier in mid-2025. Claude Opus 4 is billed as the world’s best coding model, achieving 72–73%…
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SpaceX launched back-to-back Falcon 9 missions for Starlink within 24 hours: on July 26 at 5:01 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral with 28 Starlink satellites and on July 27 at 12:31 a.m. EDT from Vandenberg with 24 Starlinks, with first-stage boosters landing on droneships on their 22nd and 19th flights respectively and the company pushing…
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On July 25, 2025, Russia’s Roscosmos launched a Soyuz-2.1b from Vostochny with two Ionosfera-M satellites into polar orbit as part of the Ionozond program, and deployed 18 secondary payloads (17 Russian CubeSats and Iran’s Nahid-2). Europe’s Vega-C rocket lifted off from Kourou on July 25, 2025, delivering MicroCarb and four CO3D satellites into orbit, with…
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In 1958, the Mirage III became the first Western European combat aircraft to exceed Mach 2 in level flight. The Mirage IIIC entered French service by 1961. The Mirage F1 first flew in 1966 and could land about 60 knots slower than the Mirage III. The Mirage 2000 first flew in 1978 and introduced fly-by-wire…
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By early 2025, Starlink was available in over 100 countries across every inhabited continent. In the past year, Starlink launched in 42 new countries and territories and surpassed 6 million active customers worldwide. In the United States, the standard Starlink plan costs about $90 per month with a $599 equipment kit. SpaceX added about 2,300…
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Python 3.14 RC1 introduces an opt-in no-GIL build and an experimental JIT compiler, plus a smarter Windows installer, with single-thread performance in free-threaded mode about 5–10% slower. Java JDK 25 enters Rampdown Phase Two with no new JEPs ahead of its September release. Spring Framework 7.0 reaches its 7th milestone, aligning with JDK 21+ and…
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Google released a 13-second teaser of the Pixel 10 Pro ahead of its August 21 launch, showing a “10” morphing into a camera bar and revealing a new third rear telephoto lens with a gray-blue finish. A federal appeals court rejected a class-action claim against Apple over iCloud storage, ruling users received exactly 200GB when…
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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…
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