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The largest trial in the history of the Vatican ended on Saturday. For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, the court sent a cardinal to prison. This was reported by DW. “Angelo Becciu, 75, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for participating in a criminal conspiracy, […]
A soldier of the 241st Kyiv Territorial Defense Brigade showed a video of a unique self-propelled gun “Oksana”. They placed the KS-19 anti-aircraft system on the Tatra 815 chassis. Now the Ukrainian development is working in combat conditions. A new video was posted by Kyiv fighters. The gun fires 100-mm shells. Ukrainian engineers managed to […]
A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Sunday, December 17, amid North Korea’s plans to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile this month. This is what writes Yonhap with reference to the Seoul Defense Ministry. According to the South Korean Navy, the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Missouri (SSN-780) has entered a key naval base […]
The Ukrainian military has received the initial batch of new AQ 400 Scythe attack drones. An important feature of drones is their low cost and the possibility of mass production. This is evidenced by published photos by Terminal Autonomy, a company formerly known as One Way Aerospace. In an official statement, the company also announced […]
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction and interception of 33 drones over the territories of Lipetsk, Rostov and Volgograd regions by air defense forces on the night of December 17. The target of at least some of them was most likely a military airfield near Morozovsk, Rostov region, the newspaper Astra said . […]
India has tested a drone with a flying wing aerodynamic design. It is known that the drone uses a Russian-made engine. This is reported by the Ministry of Defense of India. The tests were conducted by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) at the Chitradurga Air Test Site in Karnataka. The UAV was designed […]
A four-legged robotic dog named HOUND demonstrated an unprecedented level of agility and speed, running the fastest 100-meter race ever achieved by a four-legged robot, setting a new Guinness World Record. The robot dog was developed and manufactured by the Laboratory of Dynamic Control and Robot Design of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and […]
Instagram has launched a new feature that allows you to create customized templates called “Add Your Own” with GIFs, images, and text. About this he writes TechCrunch. Subscribers can use templates and add something of their own to them, but they can’t change what’s already on the template. To create an Add Your Own template, […]
Agility Robotics has enhanced its Digit warehouse robot with a large language model (LLM). Now it understands people’s requests, even if they are formulated in a complicated way. The company is developing the Digit robot with the goal of eliminating the need for people working in warehouses to deal with significant physical activity in the […]
A number of Chinese state-owned companies and agencies have begun to ban their employees from using Apple and Samsung equipment at work. This was reported by Bloomberg. According to sources familiar with the matter, several state-owned firms and government departments in at least eight provinces have instructed their employees to use smartphones and other mobile […]