Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite (Oryon) is built on a 4 nm process, houses 12 high‑performance Oryon cores up to 4.3 GHz, an Adreno GPU around 4.6 TFLOPs, and a Hexagon NPU up to 45 TOPS with dual micro NPUs in an always‑on sensing hub. The X Elite includes dual micro NPUs in an always‑on Sensing…
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In 2021, more than 400 cell towers were destroyed amid fighting, crippling parts of Myanmar’s mobile network. MPT’s FTTH network expanded to 154 of 330 townships by early 2024, up from 27 townships in 2019. As of early 2024, Myanmar had about 64.3 million mobile connections (roughly 117% SIM penetration), with 4G coverage around 90%…
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The three drives in the showdown are Samsung Portable SSD T9, SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4, and Crucial X10 Pro. Samsung T9 uses USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbps) with up to 2000 MB/s read and 1950 MB/s write on 1TB/2TB, and 2000 MB/s read/write on the 4TB model. SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4 uses USB4 (40…
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As of August 2025, Arlo has not officially released a Pro 6, with coverage basing expectations on the Pro 5S 2K and the Secure 6 platform. Arlo Pro 5S 2K records up to 2K HDR video at 24 fps (dropping to 15 fps at night) with a wide 160° field of view and a built-in…
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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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NVIDIA’s Blackwell B200 features 180 GB of HBM3e memory per GPU with up to 8 TB/s bandwidth, 18 PFLOPS FP4 tensor throughput, 9 PFLOPS FP8, and 4.5 PFLOPS FP16, plus a second-generation Transformer Engine. NVIDIA claims DGX B200 delivers about 3× the training performance and 15× the inference performance of DGX H100 in end-to-end workflows.…
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Sora can generate videos up to 20 seconds at 1080p for ChatGPT Pro users and 10 seconds at 720p for ChatGPT Plus, with a research version capable of about 1 minute. Sora outputs at 24 fps and supports widescreen, vertical, and square aspect ratios, with visible watermarks by default. Sora excels at photorealistic imagery and…
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CATL unveiled the world’s first mass-produced sodium-ion EV battery, named Naxtra, in 2023 and began deploying it in cars by late 2023. Sodium-ion cells typically deliver 140–160 Wh/kg, with CATL’s best prototypes around 175 Wh/kg and a second-generation cell expected to exceed 200 Wh/kg. All-solid-state lithium batteries are projected to store 50% to 100% more…
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OpenAI raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a funding round led by Dragoneer with a $2.8 billion check, as SoftBank commits up to $40 billion in total (with $10 billion already in April and $30 billion more by year-end) and new backers include Blackstone, TPG, and Sequoia. AI-driven M&A surged to $2.6…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT runs on GPT-4o (GPT-4 Omni), introduced in early 2025 as a multimodal model that handles text, images, and voice. GPT-4.5, code-named Orion, was rolled out to ChatGPT Pro in February 2025 to boost performance ahead of GPT-5, which is under development for late-summer 2025. Anthropic released Claude 4 in May 2025, with two…
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