Scientific Breakthroughs 🚀 Industry Updates 🏭 Policy & Government Initiatives 🏛️ Major Conference Highlights 🎙️ Expert Insights & Outlook 🔭 Leading experts emphasize that the quantum field’s rapid progress comes with both excitement and caution. IBM’s venture chief Emily Fontaine stresses the immense opportunity, arguing that quantum is “the next frontier for computation” with “enormous…
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Investors braced for Powell’s Jackson Hole speech as the S&P 500 fell 0.4% and the Dow and Nasdaq were down about 0.34%. Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said there is ‘no case for reducing interest rates’ now, while Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic still penciled in a 2025 rate cut. Futures indicated a 70–75% probability…
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Consumer Electronics: Pixel 10 Shines, Apple Feels the Heat Cybersecurity: Breaches, Patches and a Hacker Behind Bars Space Exploration: Secret Spaceplane Soars, Mice in Orbit, and a New Moon Semiconductors: Chip Alliances and Expansions Span the Globe Telecommunications: 5G Choices Diverge – Huawei in Spain, Security Scrutiny Elsewhere (The Nuro story illustrates convergence of telecom/tech…
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The 2024 Tesla Model 3 refresh, codenamed Highland, introduced a sleeker exterior, upgraded interior, and efficiency tweaks. Tesla Model 3 Highland offers about 60 kWh in the base RWD with ~318 miles WLTP, while the Long Range reaches up to ~436 miles WLTP and the Performance model does 0–60 mph in about 3 seconds. BYD…
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Slack (launched in 2013) is primarily a workplace collaboration tool with structured channels and threads, and in 2024–25 reported roughly 65–79 million monthly active users and 42–47 million daily active users. Discord (launched in 2015) focuses on real-time voice and video for online communities, with a default server member limit of 250,000 (raiseable) and around…
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Netflix reached about 302 million paid memberships worldwide by late 2024, aided by a crackdown on password sharing and the launch of an ad-supported tier. Netflix’s Squid Game Season 2 drew 126 million views in the first 11 days after its release, illustrating the franchise’s global appeal. Disney+ had about 164 million global subscribers by…
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OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7 with a 256,000-token context window. OpenAI released open-weight GPT-OSS models GPT-OSS 120B and GPT-OSS 20B under the Apache 2.0 license on August 5. Anthropic expanded Claude’s context window to 1,000,000 tokens in August. NVIDIA announced the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, a CPU+GPU combo designed for AI workloads and set…
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Nvidia reported Q2 FY2026 revenue around $45 billion, up about 50% year over year, with data-center revenue at a record pace and $26.3 billion in the year-ago quarter. Nvidia’s market capitalization briefly surpassed $4 trillion in mid-2025, underscoring investor enthusiasm for AI leadership. The Blackwell architecture, led by the flagship H200/B100 GPUs, is up to…
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The F-35 has three variants—F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C—and can carry 2× 2000-lb bombs internally (or up to 18,000 lb externally) with a top speed of about Mach 1.6. As of 2025, the F-35A unit flyaway price is roughly $80–$90 million (B/C around $100 million), with production around 150 jets per year and over 1,000 aircraft…
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Industry & Corporate Developments Mergers, Acquisitions & Partnerships Regulatory & Drug Approval Updates Public Health & Policy Research & Clinical Breakthroughs Sources: Reuters, Politico, HealthLeaders, BioPharma Dive, FierceBiotech, Pharmaceutical Executive, Technology Networks, McGill University reuters.com reuters.com healthleadersmedia.com reuters.com fiercebiotech.com reuters.com reuters.com technologynetworks.com technologynetworks.com.
