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If you put off assembling the LEGO Millennium Falcon for $ 700, here’s an extra incentive: you can now insert a ‘computer’ brick with a working OLED display into the cab. New Zealand engineer James Brown has built a tiny computer terminal with a screen that mimics the user interfaces of your favorite science fiction […]
Amid a shortage of products, Huawei has decided to close several official stores in Russia. A source close to the Russian office reports this. The first store in Moscow was closed on February 28. Since then, the units in Ufa, Rostov-on-Don and Novokuznetsk have stopped working. Now Huawei has 15 out of 19 stores in […]
The European Parliament on Wednesday supported changes to the rules proposed by the European Commission, which provide for a total ban on cars with internal combustion engines until 2035. The initiative was supported by 339 MEPs, 249 opposed and 24 abstained. This was reported by the press service of the European Parliament. According to the […]
Ukraine is ready to buy the Iron Dome missile defense system (ISD) from Israel and asks the country’s authorities to facilitate this. This was announced by the Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel Yevhen Korniychuk. “I want the Israeli government to step out of its comfort zone and return to reality. We need Israel’s help. I […]
AnTuTu has released the top 10 smartphones in the global market in May. Nine models of the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 were in the top ten. The ranking was topped by Nubia Red Magic 7. It is also the only smartphone in the top 10, which managed to score more than 1 million in tests. His […]
Samsung Electronics has announced the launch of global sales of the 2022 line of gaming monitors Odyssey, which is represented by three models – G85NB, G75NB and G40B. The most interesting among them is probably the G85NB model, which the manufacturer calls the world’s first gaming monitor with 4K resolution and 240 Hz support. It […]
The German company Volocopter reported on the successful completion of the debut test flight of the electric air taxi VoloConnect. The first test took place in May. During the tests, the air taxi performed several maneuvers. The flight lasted 134 seconds. The manufacturer claims that a prototype air taxi with operational and aerodynamic parameters of […]
A parody of the Stefania track of the winners of Eurovision-2022, the Ukrainian rap group Kalush Orchestra, is gaining popularity on the Internet. The composition was performed by blogger Dmitry Varvaruk, changing the text to: ‘Evdokiya, babo. Babo, Evdokiya. Sows the field, and Russia smolders.’ Dmytro published a video for the cover on his YouTube […]
From the beginning of June, Earthlings can enjoy a parade of five visible planets. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter will be bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. Uranium is also on the line, but it requires dark skies and binoculars to detect it. At this time, Neptune will be present in […]
Air conditioning is one of the most energy-intensive systems in the car. His work has a particularly ‘painful’ effect on electric transmissions. Israeli scientists have come up with a special film coating that acts as a ‘black hole’ and causes the sun to cool rather than heat the car body. At the heart of the […]