93% of Americans now own at least one smart home device, and 42% say most of their home gadgets are “smart.” The global smart home market is booming (projected to exceed $633 billion by 2032). Matter, the universal smart home standard, launched in late 2022; Matter 1.2 arrived in October 2023; 1.3 in May 2024;…
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Amazon Prime Air introduced its MK30 drone in late 2024, a BVLOS-capable hexagonal aircraft that carries up to 5 lbs and operates from Tolleson, Arizona, delivering eligible items within a 4-mile radius in under an hour. Alphabet’s Wing has completed over 350,000 deliveries across 10 locations on 3 continents, using hybrid fixed-wing drones with a…
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Janitor AI was founded by Australian developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023, attracting over 1 million users in its first week and roughly 3 million registered users by September 2023. In July 2023 OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist over Janitor AI’s sexual content, prompting a pivot to its own JanitorLLM and a homegrown model…
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NASA Worldview offers over 1,000 imagery layers from NASA and partner satellites, with a typical 60–125 minute delay after capture. NOAA GOES weather satellites update the continental United States every 5 minutes or less and the full hemisphere every 15 minutes, enabling near real-time weather loops. Landsat 8 imagery is available on the USGS server…
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In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. In 2011, IBM’s Watson beat Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. In 2012, a deep learning system developed by Geoffrey Hinton and colleagues won an image-recognition contest by a large margin, kicking off the deep learning revolution. In 2014, Google acquired DeepMind. In…
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Google Earth was downloaded over one billion times in its first six years. Google Earth’s Time Machine covers 1984 to 2022 in a 4D interactive map built from millions of satellite photos. The Landsat program began in 1972 and offers a 50+ year global land-surface data record, with Landsat 8 and 9 providing 30-meter resolution…
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AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX workstation processor launched at $11,699 and features 96 cores, 192 threads, a Zen 5 design, and up to 5.4GHz, claiming the title of the world’s fastest CPU. Samsung’s 61.44 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD, the largest enterprise drive to date, went on sale for $5,593 (~$0.09/GB) and delivers 14.2 GB/s read…
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ELIZA (1966) pioneered chatbot pattern matching, followed by PARRY (1972) which mimicked a paranoid patient. The 2010s saw a shift from rule-based chatbots to learning-based ones with neural networks and transformers, highlighted by Google’s BERT (2018) and OpenAI’s GPT series (GPT-3, 2020). GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters, debuted in 2020, and the ChatGPT prototype launched…
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On July 27–28, 2025, the White House unveiled an AI Action Plan calling for open-source and open-weight AI models to be freely available worldwide and for regulatory hurdles to be slashed to accelerate innovation. During the July 27–28 weekend, President Trump signed executive orders to expedite AI infrastructure projects and require federally funded AI to…
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78% of companies now use AI in at least one business function, and 83% say AI is a top strategic priority. The global AI market is about $390 billion today and is forecast to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030. By mid-2025, 71% of companies regularly use generative AI, up from 65% six months earlier. Netflix…
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