The Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to MEO on July 22, at 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT) with two SES communication satellites — O3b mPOWER 9 and 10. About 8.5 minutes after launch, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth, landing gently on the droneship “Just Read the Instructions” in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the sixth launch and landing for the booster and extended a run of spot-on recoveries and frequent orbital missions for SpaceX.SpaceX Expands SES’s mPOWER Constellation with 89th Falcon Launch of 2025According to a SpaceX mission update, the Falcon 9’s…
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Gupshupa business messaging startup that began its journey in India over two decades ago and became a unicorn four years ago, has raised a new over $60 million round — but is keeping its new valuation under wraps. In 2021, Gupshup raised two funding rounds within four months, securing $340 million from prominent investors including Tiger Global, Fidelity Management, Think Investments, and Malabar Investments. These rounds — the startup’s first in roughly a decade — valued Gupshup at $1.4 billion. However, Fidelity, which led the round following its unicorn milestone, slashed its internal valuation of the startup at least three…
Destiny 2‘s The Edge of Fate kicked off with a set of seasonal challenges, and one of them sends you looking for data pads scattered around three maps in the new Solo Ops playlist. The Solo Ops Data Pad Search seasonal challenges hide those devices in multiple Solo Ops missions, giving players a little extra to hunt for when completing the Portal activities. You don’t always have to go at it alone, though: Bungie hid data pads in other playlists such as Fireteam Ops, Empire Hunts, Onslaught, and even Pinnacle missions such as Kell’s Fall, Encore, and Starcrossed. Here are…
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 were unveiled earlier this month during the company’s latest Galaxy Unpacked event. Now, early sales data from South Korea reveal a shift in buyer preference for foldable smartphones. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip lineup has historically dominated the brand’s foldable sales and pre-orders. For the first time, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is reportedly leading in pre-orders in South Korea, overtaking the Galaxy Z Flip 7. This signals a rise in consumer interest for book-style foldable phones.Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 Tops Galaxy Z Flip 7 in Pre-OrdersAs per a report…
Microsoft has given us more details on how PC-to-PC migration worksIt’ll offer a useful alternative to those who don’t want to restore a backup via OneDriveThe feature does still have caveats, though, including needing a Microsoft account – and it won’t support Arm-based PCs initially, eitherMicrosoft has provided more details on how its PC-to-PC migration feature will actually work when it comes to switching over to a new Windows 11 PC.The feature is designed to smooth over the upgrade to a new PC, and make it as easy as possible – albeit with some caveats – and clearly the focus…
AMD has released a new Stable Diffusion 3 Medium artificial intelligence (AI) model optimised for XDNA 2 neural processing units (NPUs). The chipmaker claimed that it is the world’s first AI model that processes outputs in the BF16 format. The model will be supported by the newer Ryzen AI laptops with at least 24GB RAM, after users download Tensorstack’s Amuse 3.1 beta software. The Stable Diffusion 3 Medium is an on-device image generation model that does not require Internet connectivity.AMD’s Image Generation Model Can Generate Print-Ready ImagesIn a press release, the Santa Clara-based tech giant detailed the new image generation…
Fold, fold and fold again. It doesn’t matter how many times you open and close the Galaxy Z Fold 7 phone — it’s highly unlikely to give out on you. Samsung Display (SDC) announced Tuesday that its latest foldable OLED panel “remained fully functional after a 500,000-fold durability test,” more than doubling its previous benchmark of 200,000 folds.Bureau Veritas, a French leader in testing, inspection and certification, tested the screen with 500,000 folds over a 13-day period at a temperature of 25°C (77°F).For those of you trying to wrap your head around the math, half a million folds translates to the average…
Gemini and ChatGPT both participated in this year’s International Math Olympiad (IMO) and achieved gold medal-level scores in the competition. Google DeepMind highlighted that its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot officially entered the competition and was able to solve five out of six questions, following the test’s rules, without any human interaction. On the other hand, OpenAI’s experimental research model was used for the test, and its results were independently evaluated. The San Francisco-based AI firm says scores were finalised after unanimous consensus.Gemini and ChatGPT Score 35/42 in IMOIn separate posts on X (formerly known as Twitter), Google DeepMind CEO Demis…
About six months after coming out of stealth with $50 million in funding, Latent Labs has released a web-based AI model for programming biology. Latent Labs model has “achieved state-of-the-art on different metrics” when testing the proteins it developed in a physical lab, according to Latent Labs CEO and founder Simon Kohl, a scientist who previously co-led DeepMind’s AlphaFold’s protein design team. State-of-the-art, or SOTA, is a term often used in the AI field that represents the industry’s best performance to date on a specific task. “We have computational ways of assessing how good the designs are,” he told TechCrunch,…
Ubisoft’s annual financial report claims microtransactions makes game experiences “more fun”It comes after years of criticism regarding microtransactions, particularly in single-player gamesIt calls for a change, especially considering the increased price standard for gamesAfter the release of Ubisoft’s recent Assassin’s Creed Shadowsthe French video game publisher is in the spotlight yet again – but this time, it’s not particularly for the best reasons for gamers.As reported by NotebookcheckUbisoft’s annual financial report claims its microtransactions and monetization in premium games “makes the player experience more fun”. It’s a bold statement in the wake of titles like Star Wars Outlaws, Skull and…