ComputersNews

Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments

Can you name one single, solitary, success Microsoft had in 2025? Think hard. It sure ain’t easy. In the years that PCWorld has catalogued Microsoft’s wins, failures, and head-scratching “WTF” moments, there’s always been a mix of high points and lows. I went through our list or stories, polled colleagues, even queried Copilot, Google Gemini, and ChatGPT. Microsoft’s strongest victory?
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CryptoNews

Ripple Sees Institutional Acceleration: ‘We’ve Never Been in a Better Position Heading Into a New Year’

Ripple sees accelerating institutional crypto adoption fueled by regulatory clarity, tokenization growth, and surging demand for stablecoins, ETFs, and XRP-linked products, driving momentum heading into the new year. Ripple Executive Flags Strong Institutional Momentum Across Crypto Markets Ripple Managing Director for APAC Reece Merrick shared on social media platform X earlier this month a…
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NewsSpace

SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025

Surprise, surprise: SpaceX shattered its single-year launch record again in 2025. Elon Musk’s company has now set a new mark six years in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly. The record has risen from 25 orbital liftoffs in 2020 to 31 (2021) to 61 (2022) to 96 (2023) to 134 (2024) and, now, to a whopping 165. And that’s not including five non-orbital Starship test flights…
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MobileNews

MediaTek Dimensity 7100 SoC Launched for Mid-Range 5G Phones

MediaTek has launched the MediaTek Dimensity 7100, a new 5G system-on-chip for smartphones. With the Dimensity 7100, MediaTek is targeting mid-range smartphones globally, with a focus on providing power savings and advanced features to compete in the mobile Processor…
AI & RoboticsNews

‘College dropout’ has become the most coveted startup founder credential

Although iconic founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg famously didn’t finish college, multiple studies show that the vast majority of successful startups had founders with bachelor’s or graduate degrees. Despite this data, the appeal of a dropout founder persists, though VC enthusiasm for the ‘un-degreed’ is far from constant. It is a phenomenon that…
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