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Belarus currently does not need to host Russian military bases on its territory. The level of development of defense technologies of the Russian army allows opposing NATO directly from the territory of Russia. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Volodymyr Makei, in an interview with the propagandist RIA Novosti. In […]
Over the past few weeks, Google developers have been testing a restyled version of YouTube’s video hosting service. Last weekend, the redesigned homepage appeared briefly for some users. They managed to take screenshots of it. From the images published by users, it follows that the updated page has a darker design. In the mobile version […]
Japan has decided to ban exports to Russia of goods potentially linked to chemical weapons as additional sanctions against Moscow in connection with its invasion of Ukraine. This was stated by the Secretary of the Japanese government, Hirokazu Matsuno, Reuters reports. According to the decision of the Japanese government, 21 Russian organizations, including scientific laboratories […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used the Saildrone marine drone to study Hurricane Fiona. The agency has long used Saildrone to find reasons for rapidly intensifying storms. In a new mission, the drone was able to record video while inside Category 4 Hurricane Fiona, which hit Canada’s east coast last weekend. On September 22, […]
Samsung is working on the preparation of OneUI 5.0 firmware for several Galaxy smartphones. Program participants willing to risk the health of their phones for the chance to be the first to join the shell based on Android 13 have started to get access to the beta firmware. According to testers, the South Korean brand […]
Russian occupiers have not yet fully mastered Iranian Shahed-136 drones. Trying to learn how to use these drones, Putin’s invaders managed to destroy their base in the area of the city of Skadovsk, Kherson region. Journalist Roman Bochkala told about it. He noted that Iranian instructors personally came to the south of Ukraine to help […]
The introduction of an excise tax on fuel already leads to an increase in prices both on the wholesale market and at retail gas stations. In the near future, the price of retail autogas will increase by at least 1-2 hryvnias per liter. The price of liquefied gas in the group for the week (16-23) […]
The EU is preparing to disconnect Gazprombank, Alfa-bank, Rosbank and Tinkoff Bank from SWIFT. Such a measure is being discussed as part of the eighth package of sanctions for the annexation of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Donbass by Russia, writes EUObserver. Currently, sanctions against the remaining Russian banks from the 27 EU countries are supported by […]
Starlink noted another significant achievement — as of the end of September, more than 1 million user terminals for SpaceX satellite Internet have been released, Elon Musk reported on Twitter. Let us immediately note that the total number of Starlink terminals released since the launch of the service (since October 2020) should not be confused […]
Scientists from the Laboratory of Thin Film Devices of the Riken Research Institute of Japan, under the leadership of Kenjiro Fukada, have developed a film for solar cells with a thickness of 4 microns. It can become the basis of a device that is placed on the abdomen of insects and allows remote control of […]