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Smartphones from the current iPhone 14 lineup have received the Emergency SOS feature. It allows you to call emergency services via satellite. Emergency SOS is especially relevant in the mountains, forest, or at sea, as there are no base stations there. The feature was launched by a North American corporation in partnership with Globalstar. It […]
International payment systems Visa and MasterCard plan to increase the interchange rate* to 0.9% starting July 1, 2023. Accordingly, the acquiring fee paid by businesses for each non-cash transaction to banks and payment systems will increase. This will entail hundreds of millions of hryvnias of additional costs for Ukrainian businesses per year. Ukrainian retailers are […]
Marines from the 37th Separate Brigade received armored M1152A1 Humvees equipped with LAND-LGR4 launchers. They are designed to launch laser-guided missiles. The developer of the LAND-LGR4 is the North American company Arnold Defense. Its headquarters are located in St. Louis. LAND-LGR4 is a modern laser guidance system. The system is designed to fire 70mm APKWS […]
In Germany, cars with Russian license plates have begun to be confiscated en masse. The customs officials there refer to the rules introduced by Berlin last year as sanctions against the aggressor country that unleashed a full-scale war in Ukraine. This is reported by the Russian media, to which “offended” Russian motorists are turning. For […]
The fact that the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and the coastal zone of the Kakhovka Reservoir were mined by the Russian army was known in the first months of the plant’s occupation. This was reported by the Ukrainian energy company Energoatom, to which ZNPP is subordinated. After the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP and […]
Popcorn Computer has launched the ultra-compact PopStick computer. It looks no different from a regular flash drive. This is reported on the manufacturer’s website. With the help of an adapter, the tiny computer can be connected to a smartphone or any other gadget with Lightning, USB-C, or USB Micro-B. It is equipped with an Allwiner […]
Occupants keep trying to use kamikaze tanks on the battlefield The manufacturer of FPV drones Eskadron has posted another video of their weapons being used by the Ukrainian military on the battlefield on its Telegram account. The footage shows a Russian T-62 being hit, and it appears that the occupiers continue to use tanks on […]
In early summer, NASA used the James Webb Space Observatory to observe Saturn. Unusual photos of the sixth planet from the Sun were published on the James Webb Space Telescope Feed website. You can see Saturn in an unusual way thanks to the publication of raw photos taken by the space telescope. The black-and-white executions […]
The Geely Cao Cao 60 electric car is equipped with a quick-release battery that can be replaced at a special station. For this reason, its fastening to the chassis is weak. An unusual accident occurred in the Chinese city of Chengdu. The battery of the Geely Cao Cao 60 electric car fell off on the […]
It seems that the jokes about Ukrainian specialists being able to equip anything with an Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA) kit are no longer jokes. This year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine received German Leopard 2A4 tanks from various countries. The combat vehicles have not yet arrived in Ukraine, but hundreds of memes about equipping tanks […]