The drone regulatory framework in Seoul is led by MOLIT with KOCA as the aviation regulator, KOTSA handling the Drone One-Stop registration portal, and the Ministry of National Defense plus the Capital Defense Command overseeing security-sensitive airspace. Drones over 250 grams must be registered in Korea, a threshold lowered from 2 kg in 2021, while…
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ULA launched its first operational Vulcan rocket on the USSF-106 mission from Cape Canaveral, a 198-foot launcher boosted by four solid boosters and BE-4 engines that reached geosynchronous transfer orbit. Google teased the Pixel 10 Pro Fold in a teaser video released a week before its official launch event. Leaks suggest the iPhone 17 Pro…
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Bitcoin breached $120,000 in July 2025 and traded around $123,000 by month’s end. The total crypto market capitalization surpassed $4 trillion for the first time in July 2025. MicroStrategy purchased 4,225 BTC for about $472.5 million in mid-July 2025, bringing its holdings to 601,550 BTC. Grayscale’s Digital Large Cap Fund was approved to convert into…
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Solar Sail Spacecraft Could Enhance Early Space Weather Warnings A new satellite constellation, SWIFT, equipped with solar sails, aims to deliver earlier and more accurate warnings of space weather threats such as coronal mass ejections. These events can disrupt satellite operations, power grids, and pose risks to astronauts. “Our goal is to forecast extreme space…
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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 June 30, 2025, X hires Nikita Bier, founder of tbh and Gas, as Head of Product to revitalize the main feed and engagement features, after advising Musk’s xAI since late 2024. U.S. District Judge Julien Neals denied Apple’s motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust case filed in 2024, allowing the suit alleging an App…
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Vodafone becomes the first operator to commercially deploy satellite-guided GPS sensors in 4G/5G antennas, starting in Albania to improve alignment and signal quality. Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) will launch to the International Space Station on June 25, 2025 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying ISRO’s Shubhanshu Shukla as the first ISRO astronaut on a commercial…
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In the first four months of 2025, over 1,200 satellites were launched, roughly a 50% increase from the same period in 2024. SpaceX’s Starlink had more than 7,000 small satellites in orbit by late 2024, with 573 Starlinks launched in Q1 2025 and about 9,000 laser inter-satellite links moving some 42 petabytes of data per…
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Kwangmyong is North Korea’s national intranet launched in the early 2000s, a closed network that provides email, websites, and digital resources only within North Korea to isolate citizens from the global Internet. <li North Korea’s first internal email service, Sili Bank, was established in 2001 to enable internal electronic correspondence on Kwangmyong. The first intranet…
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Kwangmyong is North Korea’s nationwide domestic intranet that is completely isolated from the World Wide Web and hosts roughly 1,000–5,500 internal websites. Global Internet access is restricted to a tiny elite; only a few dozen websites are reachable from abroad, with a 2016 leak noting 28 .kp domains and North Korea having about 1,024 Internet…
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