The European Commission’s freshly‑minted EU Space Act lands at the very moment low‑Earth orbit (LEO) is sliding from boomtown to bottleneck. Behind the headline pledge to fine careless satellite operators lurks a hard truth: more than 40 000 tracked objects, 7 500+ Starlink spacecraft alone, and upward of 120 million un‑tracked fragments already threaten satellites, science and Earth’s atmosphere. This report unpacks…
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Space’s Messy Problem: Orbital Debris and the Sustainability Crisis Earth’s orbits have become a cosmic junkyard. Decades of launches have left tens of thousands of pieces of debris whizzing around the planet at 28,000 km/h, each one a potential bullet threatening active spacecraft vivatechnology.com vivatechnology.com. As of mid-2020s, over 32,000 debris objects are regularly tracked…
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Unstoppable “Unjammable” Drones: How Fiber-Optic Technology is Revolutionizing Warfare and BeyondIntroduction: A New Era of Drone Technology In the forests of eastern Ukraine, thin glinting strands now drape from treetops – the telltale webs of fiber-optic drone cables scattered across the battlefield businessinsider.com. These fiber-optic drones represent a breakthrough in unmanned aerial v…
Galaxy Watch Shake-Up, Apple’s Hidden Health Trick, and a $23 Smartwatch Steal – Today’s Gadget News Roundup July 16, 2025Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Updates Revive Old Models and Redefine Design Samsung’s new Galaxy Watch 8 series embraces an Apple-style quick-release band connector instead of traditional spring bars, marking the end of a decade of standard watch pins. This “dynamic lug” system (first seen on last year’…
VR/AR Weekly Roundup June 16, 2025: Apple’s Vision Pro 2 Plans, ByteDance’s New XR Goggles, and Massive Prime Day DealsIt’s been a blockbuster week in the XR world, with major developments spanning consumer gadgets, industry moves, and new immersive experiences. Apple is already prepping an upgraded Vision Pro while eyeing smart glasses of its own, and TikTok-owner ByteDance is cooking up a lightweight headset to…
Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass’ Stumbles, Google Merges Android & ChromeOS, Foldable Frenzy, and More – Mobile Tech Roundup July 16, 2025Google’s Android-ChromeOS Unification: A “Future-First” Strategy Google is officially confirming plans to merge Chrome OS into Android, aiming to consolidate its ecosystem across phones, tablets, and laptops hindustantimes.com hindustantimes.com. Android chief Sameer Samat hinted at this “ambitio…
AI News Roundup June 16, 2025: Musk’s ‘Waifu’ Chatbot Scandal, China’s Billion-Dollar AI Push, Google’s $25B Power Play & MoreChina’s AI Ambitions and Open-Source Revolution Beijing’s Billion-Dollar AI Drive: China is pouring massive resources into AI as a matter of national strategy. A New York Times report notes that Beijing is taking an “industrial policy approach” to help its AI companies catch up to U.S. rivals int…
