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Russia’s Kremniy EL plant in Bryansk, which was attacked by unidentified UAVs on the night of August 30, produces parts for Pantsyr air defense systems and Iskander missile systems. It is one of the largest microelectronics manufacturers in the aggressor country of Russia. According to media reports, Russian air defense allegedly shot down drones in […]
Ukrainian actress Ivanna Sakhno has landed a role in the series Star Wars: Ahsoka” series from Disney Plus. The 24-year-old Hollywood star will play a new character created for this project, a sequel to the famous movie saga. Sahno will appear in the series alongside such actors as Rosario Dawson (who will play Ahsoka Tano), […]
The Ukrainian military is actively using wheeled drones to deliver ammunition to positions, remotely mine territory, gather intelligence, and blow up enemy equipment. One of the suppliers of such platforms is the Engineering Corps Association. It posted a video on its Facebook account featuring a wheeled kamikaze drone called Karakurt. The ground drone owes its […]
Ukraine has begun to send cases of scooter drivers to court for violating traffic rules, Opendatabot reports. Since 2023, e-scooter riders have been recognized as full-fledged road users, but the state has not yet approved special rules for e-scooters. Over the past four years, at least four electric scooter drivers have been prosecuted for violating […]
The main goal of Duet AI is to help you find out what happened during your Google Meet calls if you’re late for a meeting or missed it altogether. At the Cloud Next conference, Google presented new AI features that will soon appear in the Meet video calling app. One of them is the ability […]
The American publication Forbes has calculated how many Leopard 2 tanks Ukraine has lost on the battlefield. Thus, in the 13 weeks since the start of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed only 5 tanks out of 71 available. At least 10 other tanks were damaged and are being repaired. The damaged tanks […]
Scientists from the United States have presented a new approach to cancer treatment: using differentiated therapy, they made cancer cells become healthy again without the possibility of “changing their minds” and turning into a tumor again. The first successes were demonstrated on aggressive sarcoma. Now it is planned to use the new approach in the […]
China’s state-owned Standard Map Service has presented a set of geographic maps for 2023, which for the first time shows part of Russia’s territory as part of China. We are talking about the Big Ussuri Island on the Amur River. According to a 2008 agreement between Russia and China, the island was divided between the […]
The Warsaw Aerospace Institute designed and developed the HAASTA unmanned aerial system, taking into account the needs of combat operations. The HAASTA design was developed jointly with Eurotech and is based on the experience of combat operations over the past few years. The drone is equipped with a hybrid propulsion system, which is used (depending […]
NASA has captured an image of a black hole tearing apart a large star as a result of a “tidal event,” as astronomers call it. This is a greatly enlarged version of the effect in which the moon’s gravity causes tides in the ocean on Earth, the Mirror reports. The black hole was named ASASSN-14li. […]