The iPhone 17 family will comprise four models—iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max—with the Plus variant dropped and a September 2025 launch tied to iOS 19/26. The iPhone 17 Air is expected to be ultra-thin at about 5.5–6mm, feature a centered rectangular camera bar, use an eSIM-only design,…
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Agent on July 18–19, 2025, a mode that lets the chatbot act on the user’s behalf using a virtual browser and plugins like Gmail and GitHub to perform multi-step tasks with user permission. AWS unveiled AgentCore at its NY Summit, a toolkit for enterprises to build and deploy custom AI agents…
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Sony WH-1000XM6 over-ear headphones, launched mid-2024 and priced around $449, feature a 12-microphone adaptive ANC system, about 30 hours of battery with ANC, a foldable design, a 30mm carbon-fiber Soft Edge driver, LDAC, Bluetooth LE Audio with Auracast, and Speak-To-Chat. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones introduce Bose Immersive Audio with head tracking, offer up to 24…
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In 2025 flagship smartphones use premium materials—Apple’s Pro iPhones with titanium alloy frames and Gorilla Glass Victus 2/3—while foldables such as Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 showcase improved Ultra-Thin Glass hinges. Displays in 2025 feature OLED panels with 120Hz LTPO refresh rates, QHD+ resolution on many flagships, and brightness over 1,500…
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The 2025 iPad (11th Generation) was refreshed in March 2025 with a faster A16 Bionic chip, 128 GB base storage, USB-C, an 11″ Liquid Retina display, and a price around $349. The iPad Pro (11-inch and 13-inch, 2024) received a late-2024 update with an M3/M4 chip, an Ultra Retina OLED display, up to 16 GB…
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The Holy See published its first website, www.vatican.va, on December 25, 1995, marking Vatican City’s online debut and the creation of the Vatican Internet Service. By the late 1990s the Vatican established the Internet Office of the Holy See as its ISP, connected Vatican City to the global internet, and secured the .va domain for…
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On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, introducing an agent mode that can take actions such as booking reservations, shopping, or drafting documents and can connect to apps like Gmail and GitHub, with safeguards that the system will always ask for user confirmation before major actions and can be interrupted. Starting immediately, subscribers to…
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By 2023, the U.S. FDA had approved 223 AI-powered medical devices, up from 6 in 2015. GPT-4, released in 2023, is described as having over 100 trillion parameters and powers ChatGPT-like capabilities. The Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 with the paper “Attention Is All You Need,” enabling self-attention and the training of very large…
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The final General-Purpose AI Code of Practice was delivered to the European Commission on July 10, 2025. The EU AI Act will apply on August 2, 2025, with a one-year grace period for new GPAI models and two years for existing models before penalties. Adhering to the GPAI Code creates a rebuttable presumption of conformity…
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The iPhone Fold is tipped to debut in the second half of 2026, with mass production of key components planned to begin by late 2025. UBS analysts estimate a launch price around $1,800, with a bill of materials about $759 and gross margins of 53–58%. The device is described as a book-style foldable with a…
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