Apple launched Emergency SOS via satellite in late 2022 with the iPhone 14, becoming the first mainstream phone to offer satellite messaging. Apple’s satellite system uses Globalstar’s LEO satellites (about 1,400 km altitude) with custom hardware and extremely low bandwidth, delivering a few bytes per second and requiring the user to point and hold the…
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Tesla introduced its own charging connector with the Model S in 2012 and opened it as NACS in late 2022. Tesla’s V3 Superchargers deliver up to 250 kW (about 1000 V, 250 A) to compatible vehicles, enabling about 80% charge in roughly 20 minutes under ideal conditions. Ford announced NACS ports for 2025 models in…
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Fujitsu announced R&D on a superconducting quantum computer with over 10,000 physical qubits, targeting completion in fiscal 2030, using its STAR fault-tolerant architecture to reach 250 logical qubits by 2030 and 1,000 logical qubits by 2035 as part of a Japan-backed industrialization effort. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a quantum-enhanced power-grid optimization using…
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HarmonyOS Next, released in late 2024, runs on a fully self-developed system base with no Android dependencies. At launch, HarmonyOS Next offered over 15,000 apps and meta-services, and Huawei reported more than 6.75 million HarmonyOS developers by late 2024. Huawei claimed HarmonyOS powers over 1 billion devices as of 2024. Global smartphone OS market shares…
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Galaxy Z Fold 7 uses an Armor FlexHinge with 69 components, is 8.9 mm thick folded (4.2 mm unfolded), weighs 215 g, and uses an Advanced Armor Aluminum frame with Gorilla Glass Victus 2 back and Ceramic Glass 2 cover glass, plus IPX8 water resistance. Its cover display is 6.5 inches with a 21:9 aspect,…
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All three color e-readers use a 7-inch Kaleido 3 display with a base 1264×1680 (300 ppi) monochrome resolution and an effective 632×840 (about 150 ppi) when displaying color, supporting up to 4,096 colors. Kindle Paperwhite Color (Colorsoft) offers two color modes (Standard and Vivid), a brighter front light, lacks an accelerometer, is IPX8 waterproof, and…
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<li Apple plans to launch a 2025 Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen), potentially marketed as Apple TV 8K, powered by an A17 Pro or A18 with a 6-core GPU and hardware AV1 decoding, 64GB+ storage, at least 8GB RAM, HDMI 2.1, and possible 8K output. <li The NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019) remains a strong…
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Fujitsu announced it has begun developing a superconducting quantum computer with over 10,000 physical qubits, aiming for completion in fiscal 2030, and a STAR fault-tolerant architecture to reach 250 logical qubits by 2030 and 1,000 by 2035. IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a hybrid quantum-classical approach to a Unit Commitment power-grid optimization using…
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Blue Origin launched six passengers on the NS-34 suborbital flight on Aug. 3, 2025 at 8:43 a.m. ET from West Texas, including Justin Sun who paid $28 million for a seat in 2021. NS-34 marked Blue Origin’s 13th crewed space tourism launch. SpaceX’s Starlink Group 10-30 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 4,…
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Nintendo raised the US price of the original Switch from $299.99 to $339.99, with the Switch OLED up $50 and the Switch Lite up $30 in August 2025 amid tariff pressures. President Trump signed an executive order imposing reciprocal tariffs, including 20% on electronics from Vietnam and 15% on Japanese electronics, pushing consumer tech prices…
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