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On Friday, Chinese private company LandSpace completed a series of tests of the reusable Zhuque-3 methane-powered rocket. This is the second privately developed reusable rocket in China that uses environmentally friendly fuel. Earlier, iSpace conducted a series of lifts of the Hyperbola-2 rocket. Thus, while SpaceX is trying to successfully launch the giant Starship rocket, […]
On the evening of January 20, a Russian Falcon 10 business jet with six people on board disappeared from radar in Afghanistan. Later it became known that the plane crashed into a mountain in Badakhshan province. This was reported by Aamaj News. According to them, the plane crashed due to a technical malfunction. Representatives of […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company plans to develop powerful artificial intelligence on par with human intelligence and open source (AGI). This approach will allow any developers and the public to work with such technology, customizing and adapting such systems to their tasks. Zuckerberg’s statement alarmed the public – in fact, it is […]
Researchers from the University of Washington have presented two mini-robots inspired by insects. They became the smallest, lightest, and fastest fully functional robots in history. Devices inspired by the beetle and the water meter can be used in a variety of fields, such as artificial crop pollination, search and rescue operations, environmental monitoring, micro-manufacturing, and […]
On January 19, 2024, the Turkish shipyard Sefine hosted a ceremony of commissioning four new ships into the Turkish Navy, including the TCG Istanbul frigate (F-515), the TCG DERYA tanker, and the TCG Ütğm logistics vessel. Arif Ekmekçi and the MARLIN surface unmanned ship. The importance of this event for the Turkish Navy is emphasized […]
The new DragonFire laser system was tested on the territory of the Hebrides Range military training ground. This is reported by the official website of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom. The tests of the DragonFire laser system were the first in the UK. They confirmed the possibility of effective use of the […]
A new artificial intelligence system has successfully detected dozens of entrances to caves on Mars using images of the planet’s surface where people could live. This was reported by the British edition of The Independent. Researchers from Durham University in the UK have trained the CaveFinder machine learning algorithm to recognize potential cave entrances from […]
A denture jaw of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which he used during his famous speech “We will fight on the beaches” delivered during World War II, will be auctioned in the UK. CNN and BBC wrote about it. The auction is scheduled to take place in Cheltenham on February 6. “Churchill’s false teeth are […]
Mehler Protection, a company specializing in the development and production of protective equipment, has shown an armored suit with a passive exoskeleton ExoM. This is described on their official website. A passive exoskeleton is placed under the modular armor elements, which takes 70 percent of the load from the carrier. The use of a passive […]
Two minesweepers of the British Navy collided in the port of Bahrain. This is reported by UK Defence Journal with reference to the UK Navy spokesman. “We are aware of the incident with two minesweepers in Bahrain. There were no casualties as a result of this incident and it would be inappropriate to comment further […]