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Births – Deaths
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2025 (MMXXV ) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2025th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 25th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century , and the 6th year of the 2020s decade.
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Predicted and scheduled events [ edit ]
January 1
In the United States , books, films, and other works published in 1929 will enter the public domain , assuming there are no changes made to copyright law.
The American FAA will have been implementing a new system of GPS called NextGen that will be fully functional by this year.[1]
January 8 –February 2 – The 2025 World Men's Handball Championship will be held in Croatia , Denmark and Norway.
January 20 – The president-elect of the 2024 United States presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated.
January 24 – The next UK general election will be held no later than this date.
May 12 – The 2025 Philippine general election, are scheduled to take place in the Philippines .
May –November 23 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka , Japan.[2]
October 14 – Microsoft has set the retirement (end-of-life) date for its Windows 10 operating system on this date, phasing it out in favor of its successor, Windows 11 (and Windows 11's successors).[3] [4] Users with unsupported hardware will either have to retire use of the unsupported hardware, upgrade the machine, install a non-Microsoft OS like Linux , or force-install the OS.
October –November – The 2025 Rugby League World Cup will be held in France .
November 11 – Legislative elections will be held in Israel to elect the members of the twenty-fifth Knesset on or before this date.
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References [ edit ]
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^ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host | JAPAN Forward" . Japan Forward . November 23, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2018 .
^ "Windows 10 Home and Pro Lifecycle" . docs.microsoft.com . Retrieved June 27, 2021 .
^ "Windows 10 Enterprise and Education Lifecycle" . docs.microsoft.com . Retrieved June 27, 2021 .
^ NASA. "Parker Solar Probe: The Mission" . Parker Solar Probe . NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Retrieved June 29, 2021 .
^ "Voyager – Spacecraft – Spacecraft Lifetime" . NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory . January 14, 2003. Archived from the original on October 27, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2007 .
^ Alexander Stoklosa (June 10, 2019). "Toyota Details Six New EV Models Launching for 2020–2025" . Car and Driver . Retrieved November 15, 2020 .
^ Peppard, Michael (May 30, 2014). "Nicea III in 2025?" . Commonweal Magazine. Retrieved November 12, 2015 .
^ Kent, Lauren (January 22, 2019). "The European Space Agency plans to start mining for natural resources on the moon" . CNN . Retrieved January 23, 2019 .
^ Coren, Michael J. (August 7, 2018). "Nine countries say they'll ban internal combustion engines. So far, it's just words" . Quartz . Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
^ "Norway is electric" . Government.no . Government of Norway. November 29, 2019. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
^ "First Plasma: 2025" . ITER . August 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
^ "Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap" . Deutsche Welle . January 4, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2017 .
^ Kumar, Suhas (2012). "Fundamental Limits to Moore's Law". arXiv :1511.05956 [cond-mat.mes-hall ].
^ Waldrop, M. Mitchell (February 9, 2016). "The chips are down for Moore's law" . Nature . 530 (7589): 144–147. Bibcode :2016Natur.530..144W . doi :10.1038/530144a . ISSN 0028-0836 . PMID 26863965 .
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips NY Times, September 2015
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