In late 2022, Apple launched Emergency SOS via satellite on the iPhone 14 series, enabling two-way emergency texting via Globalstar satellites. As of iOS 17 and later, iPhone 14/15 users in supported regions can share their location and send basic non-emergency texts via satellite, with two years of free service after activation before a paid…
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Telstar 1 (NASA) transmitted the first live television signals via satellite in 1962, linking Europe and North America. Syncom 2 became the first geosynchronous satellite in 1963, and Syncom 3 in 1964 broadcast the Tokyo Olympics to the United States. Intelsat I (Early Bird) was launched in 1965 as the world’s first commercial communications satellite…
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The CORONA (Discoverer) program operated from 1959 to 1972 as the United States’ first photo-reconnaissance satellite program, with Discoverer XIV achieving the first mid-air film recovery in August 1960. KH-11 KENNEN (CRYSTAL), first launched in 1976, introduced electro-optical digital imaging with about 15 cm per-pixel resolution, and a 2019 declassified image from USA-224 reportedly achieved…
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ChatGPT (OpenAI) launched in November 2022, added GPT-4 in 2023, reached about 122 million daily active users by early 2025, and offers a free GPT-3.5 tier plus ChatGPT Plus at $20 per month and an Enterprise tier introduced in 2023. Google Bard launched in 2023, evolved from LaMDA to PaLM 2 and Gemini by 2025,…
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OpenAI DALL-E 3 is OpenAI’s chat-integrated text-to-image model, available with ChatGPT Plus for $20/month or free (limited) via Bing. Midjourney Version 7, released in April 2025, provides four variations per prompt with upscaling; Basic $10/month, Standard $30/month, and Pro $60/month. Adobe Firefly integrates with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Express, offers 25 free credits per month, and…
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Suno AI generates complete songs with vocals and lyrics from a short text prompt in seconds, using its v4.5 model and offering multi-language vocals plus a Personas feature to remember your preferred style. Udio creates full songs with AI-sung vocals from natural-language prompts in about 30–60 seconds, with editing (extend, remix, inpaint) and stem separation,…
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OpenAI Sora is a 2025 text-to-video generator integrated into ChatGPT that enables multi-scene storyboarded videos with prompts, limited initially to US ChatGPT Plus users and offering 50 video generations per month at 720p up to 5 seconds per clip. Runway ML provides Gen-2 and Gen-3 text-to-video models in an all-in-one studio, includes AI editing tools…
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Quantix Prime AI is a web-based automated trading platform that acts as a marketing platform connecting users to partner brokers, with trading accounts and funds actually held by the brokers. It claims to use advanced AI algorithms that scan real-time price feeds, historical charts, news and social sentiment to identify profitable trades and operate 24/7.…
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Google Chrome holds roughly two-thirds of the global browser market in 2025, about 66–67%. Apple Safari commands about 17–18% of the global market in 2025, with desktop share around 9%. Microsoft Edge accounts for about 5% of global share in 2025, with roughly 13.8% of desktop usage and features like Vertical Tabs, Collections, and an…
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As of early 2025, about 98–99% of Ireland’s population is online and roughly 94% of households have internet access. In 2025 the median fixed broadband speed was about 146 Mbps, with the 2024 average around 103 Mbps and Ireland ranking around 40th globally. Gigabit-capable broadband is available to about 86% of premises nationwide in 2025,…
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