Gartner projects worldwide generative AI spending will reach $644 billion in 2025, up 76% from 2024. By mid-2025, over 72% of companies have adopted some form of AI, with about 65% of firms using generative AI in 2024. Deloitte predicts 25% of AI-using companies will pilot autonomous “agentic AI” systems in 2025, rising to 50%…
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The national fiber-optic backbone, about 1,300 km long, was completed in 2018 by Huawei to connect major cities and border links in Malawi. In July 2023, ESCOM linked Malawi to Tanzania’s national broadband backbone, a move expected to lower international bandwidth costs and extend connectivity to rural areas. In 2023, Liquid Intelligent Technologies launched a…
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ESA’s Biomass satellite, the first with a P-band SAR, released its initial high-resolution images and enables 3D mapping of forest structure for carbon accounting. Rocket Lab’s 67th Electron launch deployed four satellites—three HawkEye 360 Cluster 12 microsatellites and the experimental Kestrel-0A—marking the ninth Electron mission in 2024. Amazon’s Project Kuiper added 27 satellites to reach…
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Meta’s Quest 3, released in late 2023, is a standalone VR headset with mixed reality capabilities that is roughly twice as powerful as its predecessor and features high-resolution pancake lenses plus full-color passthrough for MR. Apple’s Vision Pro, announced in mid-2023 and released in early 2024, costs about $3,500 and uses dual 4K micro-OLED displays…
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Huawei Pura 80 Ultra features a 1-inch main sensor with dual telephoto zooms (3.7× and 9.4×), a 120 Hz OLED display, a 5,700 mAh battery, 100 W wired and 80 W wireless charging on Pro/Ultra variants, priced at ¥10,999. OnePlus 13s (global/India) uses a 6.32″ LTPO AMOLED display at 1.5K resolution with 120 Hz, is…
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Nintendo Switch 2 launched on June 5, 2025, alongside a wave of first-party titles, with Mario Kart World as a day-one exclusive priced at $79.99. Enhanced Switch 2 editions of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild were released on launch day with improved performance.…
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Waymo’s robotaxis are now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides per week in U.S. cities. By 2025 AI drives an estimated 80–90% of trading volume in major stock markets. The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024, with prohibitions enforceable by February 2025, general-purpose AI rules taking effect by August 2025, and high-risk requirements…
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In 2025, researchers unveiled the first topological quantum processor, an 8-qubit device using Majorana particles. D-Wave’s Advantage quantum annealing computer solved a complex magnetic simulation in minutes, a problem that would take classical supercomputers millions of years. In late 2024 Google debuted the 105-qubit Willow superconducting chip with unprecedented error-correction performance. IBM crossed the 1,000-qubit…
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The space-based solar power (SBSP) concept was proposed in 1968 by Peter Glaser to place satellites in orbit and beam power to Earth. In 2023 Caltech’s Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1) conducted three beaming tests in May, June, and July 2023 using the MAPLE flexible array to show ground reception of orbital power. In June…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is now one of the world’s top websites, with over 5 billion visits per month as of May 2025. In 2024, 78% of organizations reported using AI in at least one business function, up from 55% in 2023. U.S. venture funding for AI in 2024 reached $109 billion, nearly 12× China’s $9.3B…
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