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“Today marks a major milestone for EE as we become the first major UK provider to offer broadband speeds of up to 8Gbps on next-generation XGS-PON technology.”
“he spent three years as the Head Dolby Atmos Mix Engineer at the world-famous Dean Street studios.”
“after reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs”
“Pellet guns are shotguns designed for bird hunting. They fire cartridges, known as 'birdshot', containing 200 to 400 small metal pellets.”
“Flock says it has deployed about 120,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) and pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras across the United States.”
“Martinez built the 2.5m x 3.5m garden office”
“Fifteen real machines downloaded and ran it.”
“\"The injuries depicted are definitely from a pellet gun,\" UK-based ballistics forensic scientist Philip Boyce told the BBC, adding that the weapon used is \"a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun\".”
“The Lürssen diesel-electric powertrain powers Dragonfly and includes two diesel engines driving controllable-pitch propellers, a PTI/PTO, and an electric azimuth pod drive.”
“an 8 Sub LFE”
“The package sat on the open internet for roughly an hour.”
“more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents”
“Martinez's last five full-length records, which he mixed in that studio, required no tweaking at all when he tested them in large commercial studios.”
“the figure for GPT-4 as released in March 2023 was about three and a half minutes.”
“generated more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude between April 22 and June 5 through nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts”
“All five of those records have been signed off by their delighted artists.”
“For Claude Opus 4.5 it was 320 minutes.”
“Microsoft shares surged 17% to $457 -- positioning the company for its largest single-day percentage gain since October 2008.”
“Martinez has been nominated for the prestigious Music Producers Guild award as Atmos Engineer of the Year.”
“Over a thousand attempts it appears at least once about sixty‑three percent of the time.”
“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that the company now counted more than 30 million paid users of Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI assistant sold as an add-on to the ubiquitous Office software. That’s up from roughly 20 million three months ea…”
“Mozaic 5+, the company's 5TB-per-disk platform, remains on track for qualification shipments in late calendar 2027.”
“Analysts predict the keynote will take place on Wednesday, September 9.”
“Borges reiterated her Buy rating on Microsoft while raising her 12-month price target nearly 5% to $640, implying a potential upside of approximately 64% from Wednesday’s closing price.”
“Ten of those platters in a single 3.5-inch chassis is what gets Seagate to the 50TB-class drives it has been promising for the better part of a decade.”
“The official announcement confirming this special event is typically made two weeks in advance, suggesting Wednesday, August 26 as the probable date.”
“The company revealed that Microsoft 365 Copilot has surpassed 30 million paid seats—a substantial increase from roughly 20 million recorded just three months prior.”
“Qualification shipments are engineering samples sent to OEM and hyperscale customers to run their own validation; production is scheduled for 2028, and the original target was 2026.”
“It turns out that in that Covid year, 2020, and the following one, Apple announced its special event seven days before it took place.”
“Alphabet’s Google Cloud division has built strong momentum, with nearly 90% of Fortune 100 companies adopting its enterprise-grade Gemini platform.”
“Seagate's public roadmap slides in late 2019 put 50TB HAMR drives in 2026.”
“However, since then, the announcement has been earlier, exactly 14 days before the keynote.”
“By mid-2025, when the first 40TB HAMR samples went out to data center customers, the roadmap had been restated as 44TB in 2027 and 50TB in 2028.”
“For instance, in 2024, the announcement came on Monday, Aug. 26 and the keynote on Monday, Sept. 9.”
“The channel is served last, and a 50TB drive is unlikely to appear on a shelf, physical or virtual, until well after volume production begins around 2029.”
“Last year, a Tuesday, Aug. 26 announcement confirmed a Tuesday, Sept. 9 keynote.”
“An April 2020 release date was set, but the game was delayed twice, until Cyberpunk 2077 finally launched in November 2020.”
“Following the keynote, the new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max models are projected to hit stores on Friday, September 18.”
“Sony issued full refunds and temporarily removed the game from the PlayStation Store, and it didn't return until a year later.”
“Google has rolled back its brand-new AI-powered Google Earth image generator worldwide less than 24 hours after launch.”
“exposed 70,000 people's government IDs and personal data last year.”
“the Hive AI detection service rated a screen-recording of Google Earth’s AI-generated images as only 1% likely to be AI-generated video.”
“Blu-ray turned 20 this year”
“The company currently operates 490 ScreenX screens across 52 countries.”
“Sony removed over 500 purchased movies from people's accounts without compensation”
“48 of those screens are Ultra4DX”
“Blu-ray can be coded up to 128Mbps because that's the disc's technical limit,” he explains. “Streaming is a different story, most popular platforms cap out natively around 25Mbps, with some going up to 40 or 80Mbps.” "Unfortunately, the la…”
“CJ 4DPLEX said it requires a minimum of 7.1 surround sound for its auditoriums.”
“Kaleidescape even recently launched a new ‘Cinematic 4K’ format for movies, which it says will offer even higher-quality bitrates for video, promising over 100Mbps of average bitrate (not maximum), which it compared to 60Mbps of average bi…”
“only seven feature films were shot using this process”
“Catalogue has been very strong and only 2% down year-on-year.”
“new ScreenX installations now uses laser 4K cinema projectors for both the center screen and the side walls, in 25,000, 35,000, or 45,000-lumen configurations”
“ERA’s 2025 figures showing Blu-ray sales increased by 19.5%.”
“The latest Chrome security update, for example, addressed 370 vulnerabilities and fixed them all before any attackers were known to have exploited them in the wild.”
“over its first 12 months in the market, Nintendo Switch 2 hit 5.9M units sold in the US”
“piloting a shift to twice-weekly security releases”
“For the 2026 year-to-date period ending May, US hardware spending in total was up 37% compared to the same period a year ago”
“ScreenX provides a 270-degree wraparound cinematic experience using three projectors for an immersive view.”
“We got 892 votes”
“ScreenX has introduced 'Shot for ScreenX,' integrating its format into the film's production from day one.”
“We received 446 votes (at the time of writing), with 61% selecting ‘hit’, and 39% going with ‘flop’”
“New ScreenX installations utilize laser 4K projectors for all three screens, ensuring uniform visual quality.”
“Across all of our polls on our website, WhatsApp, and YouTube, we received 1,338 responses. Of those, 693 (51.8%) were generally positive on the Switch 2 (respondents called it ‘a hit’ or ‘pretty good’), whereas 645 (48.2%) were generally …”
“CJ 4DPLEX plans more 'Shot for ScreenX' productions, aiming to elevate the format and attract audiences back to theaters.”
“very few members of our audience (10.4% in our main poll) consider the Switch 2 to be an outright flop”
“The company currently operates 490 ScreenX screens across 52 countries, 48 of those screens are Ultra4DX.”
“At $449.99 / £395.99 it’s much more affordable than any worthwhile PC handheld, and even after its upcoming price hike to $499.99 it’ll still be a solid pickup”
“I was told that to achieve the ultra-wide footage, the production crew used a dual-camera setup, with a dedicated wide-format camera mounted directly above the primary production camera.”
“$79.99 / £74.99 / AU$119.95”
“The final ScreenX experience incorporates imagery captured during production alongside visual effects created specifically for the expanded canvas.”
“added 12 more countries to its network”
“By strategically utilizing controlled blur and reduced contrast on the peripheral walls, the filmmakers aimed to create a comfortable, deeply immersive environment that preserves the director's intended focal point.”
“total reach to an impressive 102 countries and more than 140 global locations”
“Not every ScreenX theater is the same, but every new ScreenX installation now uses laser 4K cinema projectors for both the center screen and the side walls, in 25,000, 35,000, or 45,000-lumen configurations, depending on the auditorium's s…”
“reduces connection times by more than 50% and connection errors by over 60%”
“To ensure the three distinct projection planes operate as a continuous, unbroken image, the system uses the SX-100 Show Control System, an advanced software platform developed by the same engineering minds behind large-scale immersive venu…”
“rolled out 25 Gbps servers across busy cities”
“According to CJ 4DPLEX, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is just the beginning. It says it is actively working with more filmmakers and studios to adopt this native approach.”
“Mark‑0 microreactor reached criticality at Idaho National Laboratory”
“This is why the Samsung Z-Fold8 set you back a minimum of US$12,560 each, and that’s for the base 256GB version of each device and the Z-Fold 8 starts at $12,990.”
“first privately developed non-light-water reactor to achieve criticality in the United States in more than four decades”
“You’d better hurry though as the Caviar movie legends collection will be just 19 pieces per design worldwide, making them almost as hard to get hold of as IMAX 70mm tickets for The Odyssey.”
“plans to build an electricity-producing Mark‑1 reactor in 2027, followed by initial deployments to defense customers by 2028”
“has released three hand-crafted versions of the new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 and Z Fold8 Ultra devices featuring the iconic cinematic faces of Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather (1972), Al Pacino as Tony Montana from Scarf…”
“Mark‑1 uses the same full-scale core, facility, and TRISO fuel as the Mark‑0”
“Based on import/export databases, initial details about the new devices in the expanded series of high‑end smartphones, now comprising four models, are already emerging. The publicly accessible online databases reveal that Samsung is plann…”
“engineered to run reliably for six-plus years deployed without refueling”
“the most obvious sign of this crisis appears to be the entry Pixel 11 Pro going from 16 GB of RAM to 12 GB. The rumored starting price of the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro is expected to increase by $100, but storage doubling to 256 GB would s…”
“no company has yet to manufacture microreactors at a production scale”
“reduced the black border down to zero microns.”
“Firefox sits, according to StatCounter, at 3.4% of the global browser market share. By contrast, Chrome has 69% and Safari almost 16%.”
“The estimated supply volume is approximately 2.5 million units.”
“The San Francisco-based startup was cofounded in 2025 by brothers Ben Spector, 25, and Asher Spector, 26, and Aidan Smith.”
“The London-based company raised $1.1 billion to train AI that doesn’t need human data at all, instead learning through trial and error.”
“As a PhD student at Stanford University, Ben Spector ran an incubator called Prod that helped founders of high profile AI companies like Cursor, Decagon, Etched and Decart (Spector and Cursor CEO Michael Truell were early collaborators).”
“Smith, a Thiel Fellow, spent three years working at Neuralink while studying at Georgia Tech.”
“IBM says that it also used Bob, its AI coding agent, to migrate more than 15,000 digital assets in the Wimbledon archive, a job that reportedly would have taken a team of engineers months and instead took one engineer four weeks.”
“private 5G network upgrades have become a fixture of Major League Baseball’s summer schedule, supporting the Automated Ball‑Strike challenge system across all 29 U.S. MLB ballparks, along with new 5G cameras installed at the pitcher’s moun…”
“At the end of 1960, only about 1,000 commercial electronic computers had been installed.”
“An estimated 1 billion computers were installed worldwide by 2009.”
