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General Motors Cruise recalls 950 self-driving cars from roads across the United States due to an accident involving one of its robotaxis. Earlier, on October 4, a Cruise unmanned taxi hit a woman crossing the road in San Francisco. The woman was first hit by another car that ran a red light. When the Cruise […]
A robotic manipulator killed a man. The incident occurred in the Republic of Korea when a specialist was inspecting a robot. The robotic arm was used to handle boxes of food. A 40-year-old employee of a robotics company was doing an inspection when an accident occurred. It is reported that the robot could not distinguish […]
A group of Ukrainian engineers has designed a 90-kilogram Dzhmil-90 drone capable of operating in both manned and unmanned modes. The details of the project became known from its founder Ihor Nastashchuk. The idea of creating a large VTOL drone with an internal combustion engine came to a group of enthusiasts from Kramatorsk in 2017. […]
On November 2, the official opening ceremony of the Andoya Spaceport, the first spaceport in continental Europe, took place. The spaceport is located in Nordmel on the Norwegian island of Andoya. It will have several launch sites for launching small and medium-sized satellites. However, the first of these pads, the payload integration facilities and the […]
To combat ticket resellers, the Ukrzaliznytsia app has been integrated with Diia: from now on, tickets for the Kyiv – Warsaw train can only be purchased through Diia.Signature This was announced by Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. “UZ continues its systematic fight against ticket overbuying so that Ukrainians do not overpay and do not […]
Gepard shells explode in the air after 5 seconds if they do not hit the target. This ensures that they do not fall on civilian buildings. The German Gepard self-propelled gun has been successfully used to counter Russian missiles, which the Bundeswehr had not done before. The Facebook page of the Separate Presidential Brigade named […]
Soldiers of the “Wings to Hell” unit of the 103rd Terrorist Defense Brigade set fire to and destroyed a Russian Tor SAM with several drones in the Kupyansk sector. It is noted that such a complex costs more than $24 million. A video of the destruction of Russian expensive equipment was posted on his Telegram […]
Google has introduced a tool that will allow advertisers to create content using generative artificial intelligence. The feature is available in the beta version of Google Performance Max. It allows US advertisers to generate text and graphics for advertising campaigns using AI, the company said. Performance Max already uses AI capabilities to optimize ads on […]
On November 8, it was officially announced that the Government of the Slovak Republic failed to approve the fourteenth military aid package for Ukraine in the amount of 40.3 million euros. Bratislava failed to vote on Ukraine after all What is important to understand is that the proposal to supply aid to Kyiv was prepared […]
The widespread use of UAVs and cheap commercial drones for military tasks in the Russian-Ukrainian war has prompted the US Army to pay more attention to anti-drone capabilities. The private company Epirus has provided the military with the Leonidas system, which can shoot down UAVs in a “non-kinetic way.” The Leonidas system is described as […]