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The Pentagon has selected contractors to build much of its next-generation missile tracking system satellites, but efforts to detect Chinese and Russian hypersonic missiles depend on funds provided in the yet-to-be-approved 2024 defense budget, reports DefenceOne. L3Harris, Lockheed Martin and Sierra Space will each build 18 satellites for the Proliferation Warfighter Space Architecture program, receiving […]
It seems that the designers from Maranello are developing a unique creation in the spirit of last year’s Ferrari KC23. If so, according to a new trademark registration application filed last week with the Italian Patent and Trademark Office, it could be called the Ferrari PB24. Ferrari has used two-letter and two-digit names for production […]
American entrepreneur and Microsoft founder Bill Gates visited the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He expressed the opinion that in the next five years, people’s lives will change dramatically due to the influence of artificial intelligence. Bill GatesBill Gates believes that artificial intelligence will radically change people’s lives in the next five years and […]
Following the news in December that the flagship Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches were banned from sale, Apple is trying to bring them back to the market. The problem is that the US Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that the blood oxygen sensors in the devices infringe on patents owned by another […]
On the morning of Wednesday, January 17, a Mi-8 military aircraft crashed in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. One person was killed and eight others were injured in the crash. Defense Minister Baktybek Bekbolotov said that the crew commander was killed, Sputnik Kyrgyzstan reports. Four people are in intensive care, one of them is in […]
The surgeons at the National Children’s Specialized Hospital “Okhmatdyt” performed surgery on the chest of a child with asphyxial thoracic dystrophy. This was the first time such an intervention was performed in Ukraine, the hospital’s press service said. It is noted that a boy with a rare syndrome that occurs in one in 130,000 newborns […]
SpaceX has launched 23 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket, Space reports. A Falcon 9 carrying 23 Starlink satellites was launched from Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida on January 15 at 03:52 Kyiv time. Falcon 9 delivered 23 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida, completing our 300th successful launch! SpaceX The […]
The American company Apple takes the lion’s share of the global smartphone market, pushing South Korea’s Samsung out of first place for the first time in 12 years This was reported by the BBC. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), Apple accounted for more than a fifth of the phones shipped last year. Samsung, […]
Raytheon has completed work on the Barracuda underwater drone being developed for the US Navy. The technical data package for the mine countermeasure has been successfully completed, and a testing program is underway. The company is currently building a launcher. Raytheon began the Barracuda project in 2023, with a planned production of 128 units, 63 […]
SpaceX plans to conduct 150 space launches this year, up from 96 in 2023, with about a dozen of them to be Starship flights. The head of the company believes that he has found out the reasons for the explosion of the ship during its last, third, test flight, and this allows him to hope […]