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From Class to Orbit: UK Girls Launch School-Built Satellite
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Sun Jul 06 2025
A team of bright young women from the Astrogazers Club at Croydon High School has taken a giant step, conducting the final test flight of their Mission Pegasus CubeSat prototype on 1 July 2025, aboard the FAAM research aircraft at Cranfield University. This remarkable achievement gets them one step closer to making history as the world's first all-girls school to design, construct, and eventually launch a satellite into space.
China’s Humanoid Robots Stumble Their Way Through Autonomous Football Showdown
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Mon Jun 30 2025
Beijing's latest spectacle involved cutting-edge, if clumsy, performances as four university-developed humanoid robot teams clashed in China's first-ever fully autonomous 3-v-3 football tournament. More than a novelty, the contest is also a testbed for AI-driven robotics and a prelude to the World Humanoid Robot Games. The following report explores the event’s context, key moments, and future significance.
Axiom 4’s Triumph: A Global Unity in Space
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Wed Jun 25 2025
In a milestone moment in the history of international space exploration, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax‑4) successfully lifted off on June 25, 2025, a triumphant step into private sector exploration and international collaboration once again. Commanded by Peggy Whitson, veteran NASA astronaut, and crewmates from India, Poland, and Hungary, the mission blasted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, opening the door to a new era of commercial space missions.
China’s Mosquito‑Sized Military Drone Unveiled
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Tue Jun 24 2025
In a stunning military breakthrough, China's National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) has developed a revolutionary mosquito-sized micro drone to conduct stealth reconnaissance. Revealed on state television channel CCTV-7 on June 14, 2025, the bionic insect-like unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) provides insight into the future of stealthy battlefield espionage.
Meta & Oakley Launch HSTN Smart Glasses with 3K AI Camera
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Fri Jun 20 2025
On June 20, 2025, Meta officially released its initial sports-performance smart glasses with Oakley. Brand-new glasses for athletes and explorers called the Oakley Meta HSTN, featuring AI technology, a 3K front-facing camera, open-ear speakers, extended battery life, water-resistant construction, and built-in Meta AI. With preorder doors opening on July 11, this is a bold venture into performance-driven wearable technology.
Wear OS smart watch will give alerts before earthquake
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Fri Jun 13 2025
Google is launching its Android Earthquake Alerts System to Wear OS smartwatches, which will alert users about upcoming, potentially life-saving earthquakes on-the-wrist. First launched on Android phones back in 2020, the feature leverages crowdsourced sensor data. Migrating to wearables will provide lifesaving seconds to users even when their phones aren't within reach.
Apple to release delayed Siri update by 2026
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Fri Jun 13 2025
Apple has declared that its highly anticipated, AI-fueled overhaul of Siri—unveiled at WWDC 2024—will arrive now in spring 2026 as a feature of iOS 26.4. The feature, initially set to deploy with the iPhone 16 in autumn 2025, was pushed back due to quality concerns. Regarding reliability issues, senior Apple executives vowed to wait instead of rushing, in a market that's rapidly changing in terms of AI capabilities.
Meta urged to go further in crackdown on 'nudify' apps
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Thu Jun 12 2025
Meta Platforms is facing increasing pressure—from lawmakers, civil society, and its own policy wonks—to accelerate its crackdown on "nudify" apps. The artificial intelligence-based apps generate non-consensual nude or explicit images from user-uploaded photos, often without users even realizing what they are looking at. The company has already launched a legal battle and is bolstering its tech defenses, but its detractors say that more forceful and faster enforcement is required to curb abuse.
Apple WWDC 25 Day 3
By Daniel Ifeoluwa | Thu Jun 12 2025
Day 3 of Apple's WWDC25 in Cupertino marked a major turn towards a novel design philosophy across all its operating systems. Dubbed Liquid Glass, the redesign brings with it an entirely new visual language that spans iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and CarPlay. Apple also put emphasis on more extensive AI‑powered capabilities and increased developer access to its on‑device intelligence models.
Axiom-4 mission to International Space Station: Postponed AGAIN
By Meghna Nagi | Wed Jun 11 2025
India’s much-celebrated human spaceflight aspiration - Axiom-4 missionhas encountered a fresh delay, as Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla's planned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed once again. The announcement was made through a joint statement issued by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) and NASA, citing logistical and technical factors behind the deferral. As the SpaceX launch sequence unfolds, the Axiom-4 crew—Commander Peggy Whitson (USA), Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla (India), and Mission Specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski (Poland) and Tibor Kapu (Hungary)—appear on the countdown video display. Originally scheduled for the second quarter of 2025, Shukla’s ISS mission was intended to mark a historic milestone—India’s first participation in an international crewed spaceflight since Rakesh Sharma’s legendary voyage in 1984. However, the latest review by mission engineers and flight directors resulted in a decision to postpone the launch indefinitely. NASA explained that "traffic congestion at the ISS, spacecraft scheduling conflicts, and pending safety verifications" were key reasons for the delay. Although not indicative of a critical fault, the review board emphasized caution. {source, The Hindu}