American shoppers once again staged a record shopping marathon: according to Adobe Analytics, they spent $11.8 billion online on Black Friday 2025, 9.1% more than a year earlier. Globally, analysts put total online Black Friday sales at around $78–80 billion — and a substantial share of that pie now comes from European consumers hunting for discounts and increasingly turning to AI to help them choose what to buy.
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In April of this year, a group of Toshiba researchers published a landmark article in Nature that may have escaped the attention of our readers. In the article, the engineers and physicists demonstrated how quantum communication could be established between different cities using existing optical network infrastructure. Until now, quantum messages could only be transmitted via special, expensive, and labor-intensive networks. In fact, the “quantum internet” existed primarily on university campuses.
In late 2025, the market is saturated with medical apps and digital therapeutics, yet new HealthTech ventures keep launching. Is there a room or need for more? Dr. Uladzimir Svirkoū, a Pain Medicine Doctor and HealthTech Advisor, argues that as long as problems like endless MRI waiting lists persist, technical solutions are required.
Diagnosis of respiratory diseases through lung sounds remains one of the most complex clinical tasks. Even experienced physicians admit that auscultation results are often subjective: one specialist hears a pathology, while another does not. Yet these judgments influence critical decisions – whether to hospitalize a patient, prescribe antibiotics, or assess the severity of their condition.