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On the morning of Tuesday, December 12, Kyivstar telecommunications company experienced a malfunction. Users complain about the lack of mobile connectivity and the inability to access the operator’s website. The company said it was working to fix the problem. For example, when I try to log in to Kyivstar’s website, I get an error and […]
Google has published a ranking of search queries for 2023, analyzing what Ukrainians searched for most often and what topics gained the most interest during this year. This is stated in the final rating from Google. For example, among the year’s highlights, the Air Alert Map query took the top spot. The second place was […]
Iran has deployed a drone that can launch air-to-air guided missiles, Bloomberg reports from the Islamic Republic’s state news agency. “Dozens of Karrar UAVs with new capabilities will guard the country’s borders and force enemies to seriously reconsider their air warfare strategies,” IRNA reported on Sunday, citing Army Chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi. According to […]
On December 11, one of the checkpoints on the border between Ukraine and Poland was unblocked. We are talking about the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint. First Vice Prime Minister of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov said this on his Facebook page. “The blockade of the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint is over. Stable truck traffic has […]
Scientists are successfully using virtual reality systems to study the brain activity of mice. This is stated in a study in the journal Neuron. A team from Northwestern University has developed a special kind of virtual reality goggles that can be placed on a mouse’s face and most of its body. This allows you to […]
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen has managed to capture a rare atmospheric phenomenon known as a red sprite. The red sprite is a rare form of upper-atmospheric lightning that was confirmed to exist about 30 years ago. Such cold plasma discharges occur over thunderstorm clouds that form at an altitude of 40 to […]
The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s new company xAI, has issued a humiliating text about the billionaire. CEO of Perplexity AI Aravind Srinivas asked Grok to “vulgarize” Elon Musk based on his posts on X (Twitter) and showed the results in a post on the platform. The chatbot responded by not only […]
To protect the airspace, Ukrainian radio engineering troops use the latest radar station 80K6KS1 “Phoenix-1”. The photo of the installation was published by the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Phoenix-1 three-coordinate radar detection station was developed in Ukraine and put into service only in 2021. The system is designed to […]
Ukrainian troops defending Avdiivka defeated a Russian convoy of vehicles. Among the lost vehicles was a rare APC-90 Rostock. This became known from a video of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Lieutenant General Marko Bezruchko. Ukrainian Armed Forces defeated the occupiers during an assault near Krasnohorivka. Among the armored vehicles, the observers identified […]
Phison has announced several new products, including the PS5026-E26 Max14um Gen5 M.2 2280 SSD for the PCIe Gen 5 connector. It will be presented at CES and will be available in 2024. This drive delivers a maximum sequential read and write speed of up to 14,000 megabytes per second, which is about a third faster […]