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System on a chip
Micro-electronic component
| May 15 2025 | Announcement of the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, featuring advanced Kryo cores, Adreno GPU, and support for LPDDR5X memory and Wi-Fi 7. |
Assassin's Creed
Video game series
| May 27 2025 | Game receives additional content through crossovers with Balatro and Dead by Daylight, including cosmetic items and a new quest. |
DC Extended Universe
Shared fictional universe
| January 2025 | Director Andy Muschietti reflects on the film's critical and commercial performance, claiming it failed to appeal to all audience quadrants and that many audiences, especially women, did not care about the Flash character. |
Human Development Index
Composite statistic of life expectancy
| May 9 2025 | Publication of HDI 2023 data report, ranking ASEAN countries' human development indices. Singapore leads with 0.946, followed by Brunei (0.837), Malaysia (0.819), and Thailand (0.810). |
Kabaddi
Contact team rural sport popular in South Asia
| June 2 2025 | Pardeep Narwal announced his retirement from kabaddi at age 28, after going unsold in the 2025 Pro Kabaddi Auction. |
Power Rangers
American entertainment and merchandising franchise
| May 2025 | Amulet Books published 'Force of Chaos', a young adult novel focused on Trini Kwan from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, written by Diana Ma. |
Physics beyond the Standard Model
Theories trying to extend known physics
| March 2025 | LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in baryon decays with a deviation from zero of 5.2 standard deviations. |
Health informatics
Computational approaches to health care
| June 13 2025 | Passed away at the age of 55, as reported by colleagues on social media. |
Pickleball
Racket or paddle sport
| June 14 2025 | Scheduled Special General Meetings for IPF and WPF to vote on the proposed organizational unification. |
Pokémon
Japanese media franchise
| May 30 2025 | Scarlet & Violet: Destined Rivals set released, continuing the Trainer's Pokémon theme with popular trainers like Cynthia, Ethan, Arven, Misty, Marnie, and Steven. |
Star Wars
American epic space opera media franchise
| June 2025 | Mia Goth joins the cast of Star Wars: Starfighter. |
Transport Layer Security
Cryptographic protocols for securing data in transit
| April 14 2025 | The CA/Browser Forum passed a ballot to reduce SSL/TLS certificates to a maximum 47-day term by March 15, 2029. |
Public-key cryptography
Cryptographic system with public and private keys
| April 14 2025 | The CA/Browser Forum passed a ballot to reduce SSL/TLS certificates to a maximum 47-day term by March 15, 2029. |
Same-sex marriage
Marriage of persons of the same sex or gender
| June 16 2025 | Two-judge bench decided to refer the marriage equality petition to the full constitutional bench of Nepal. |
Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Four
2021–22 group of superhero films and television series
| December 2024 | Third and final season of What If...? is scheduled to debut, part of Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. |
Epidemiology
Study of health and disease within a population
| June 4 2025 | As of the current date, 8 infectious diseases have been recorded as eradicated or on the verge of eradication globally. |
Space exploration
Exploration of space
| June 25 2025 | Ignis expedition planned to launch with Poland's Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, with mission still in progress. |
Investment management
Professional asset management of securities for the benefit of investors
| June 2022 | Spear's Wealth Management Survey provides insights into family offices, describing them as private companies supporting wealthy families' complex wealth management and strategy needs across multiple jurisdictions. |
Public finance
Study of the role of government within the economy
| February 23 2025 | Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto announced a new sovereign wealth fund called Daya Anagata Nusantara (Danantara), expected to manage $900 billion in assets, with an initial $20 billion targeting natural resource processing, artificial intelligence, energy, and food security. |
Gross domestic product
Market value of goods and services produced within a country
| May 30 2025 | United States projected to be part of the Trillion Dollar Club in macroeconomics, representing a significant milestone in global economic status |
FIFA Club World Cup
Association football tournament for clubs
| June 27 2025 | Beginning of period where clubs can make limited changes to their final player lists, contingent on their member association's transfer window being open. |
Particle physics
Study of subatomic particles and forces
| March 2025 | LHCb announced discovery of CP violation in baryon decays with a deviation from zero of 5.2 standard deviations. |
Aerospace engineering
Branch of engineering
| March 2025 | Michael Waltz mentioned the term 'tiger team' in a leaked Signal chat regarding an anticipated strike against the Houthis. |
Gundam
Japanese media franchise
| June 2025 | Announcement made that the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt manga would end in eight chapters. |
Strategic management
Planning for a company's responses to external issues
| April 2025 | Osborne et al. published a comprehensive study examining open-coopetition in company-hosted open source software projects, focusing on AI frameworks PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face Transformers. The research provided new insights into corporate collaboration dynamics in open source environments, revealing variations in project governance and contribution patterns. |
Cooperative banking
Type of retail or commercial bank organized cooperatively
| January 2025 | The Financial Supervisory Authority banned the Raiffeisenbank im Hochtaunus eG from granting loans due to defaulted loans, low equity ratio, and structural risks identified through press investigation. |
Emergency management
Dealing with all humanitarian aspects of emergencies
| May 2025 | World Health Organization (WHO) Member States formally adopted the world's first Pandemic Agreement, establishing a global framework for preventing and responding to potential pandemic threats. |
Silicon Valley
Technology hub in California
| June 2025 | Agency staff recommended terminating the Kiewit Shea Traylor contract due to cost disagreements, potentially adding 18 months of delay to the project. |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
International environmental treaty
| March 2025 | Bill Gates dissolved the Breakthrough Energy units working in Europe and the United States public policy, citing ineffectiveness during the Second Trump administration's promotion of fossil fuels. |
DNA sequencing
Process of determining the nucleic acid sequence
| March 4 2025 | China's Ministry of Commerce prohibited the export of Illumina gene sequencers to China. |
Radio astronomy
Subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies
| April 2025 | SpaceX demolished the STARGATE building to make way for construction of its new GigaBay manufacturing facility. |
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Japanese manga series by Hirohiko Araki
| May 2025 | Viz Media releases the first volume of Steel Ball Run in North America. |