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Holidays and anniversaries, national and international traditions for 2025-2026 year
Wednesday 15 July - 2006 – Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world
Sunday 26 July - In 2017 the Breakthrough Starshot initiative announces that it has developed and launched the world's smallest spacecraft, precursors of "StarChip", known as "Sprites", measuring just 3.5 cm and weighing only four grams, but containing solar panels, computers, sensors, and radios; Researchers discover that stem cells in the brain's hypothalamus govern how fast aging occurs in the body
Tuesday 4 August - In 2016 a team at the University of Oxford achieves a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required to build a quantum computer
Monday 10 August - In 2017 researchers at Brown University report the transmission of data through a terahertz multiplexer at 50 gigabits per second, which could lead to a new generation of ultra-fast Wi-Fi
Saturday 12 September - Video Games Day (The Nimrod was a computer built and displayed at the Festival of Britain in 1951 and designed to play a game called Nim)
Saturday 17 October - Digital Society Day in India; Spreadsheet Day; In 2016 a team at Australia's University of New South Wales create a new quantum bit that remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved; In 2017 Qualcomm announces the first 5G mobile connection, which has a connection speed of 1 Gbit/s
Sunday 18 October - In 2017 Alphabet announces an improved version of the AlphaGo artificial intelligence, developed by its subsidiary Google DeepMind