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Microsoft has announced plans to invest $2.9 billion over the next two years to develop its hyperscale cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Japan. This will be Microsoft’s largest investment in the country. The announcement came after a meeting in Washington, DC, between Microsoft President Brad Smith and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who […]
Ukrainians may have their cars taken away for the needs of the front line – such provisions are included in the new draft law on mobilization. According to the law, citizens may mobilize their vehicles if they own more than one vehicle. This was reported by MP Mariana Bezuhla on Facebook and Oleksiy Honcharenko on […]
In the first reading, the Verkhovna Rada supported draft law No. 11079 on the mobilization of convicts. The document was supported by 281 parliamentarians, said MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak of the Voice party. According to Zhelezniak, the risks contained in the document on anti-corruption and serious crimes should be removed before the second reading. According to […]
Google, as part of the Cloud Next 2024 conference, presented an official “query writing guide” for its Gemini AI integrated into Workspace. The guide offers 4 main components of an effective request: Person: who you are in relation to the task (e.g., sales manager). Task: what the AI needs to do (write, summarize, change the […]
Another draft law on compensation for destroyed cars as a result of hostilities has been registered in parliament. On April 3, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine registered Draft Law No. 11147 “On Compensation for Damage and Destruction of Motor Vehicles as a Result of Hostilities, Terrorist Acts, and Sabotage Caused by the Military Aggression […]
The Swedish and German military intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft in Swedish airspace. The Swedish Air Force said that the offender was a Russian Il-20 aircraft. An Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft flew into Swedish airspace southeast of the Blekinge area. To intercept the plane, two German Eurofighter jets were raised, which were on standby at a […]
According to the developers, the missile can reach a speed of at least Mach 5, with a range of 350 km. The weapon can be mounted on F-35, F-22, F-16, F-15 and F-18 aircraft with appropriate mounting points. Lockheed Martin and CoAspire have unveiled a new Mako multi-purpose hypersonic rocket at Sea Air Space 2024. […]
For observers from Earth, the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, over a narrow strip of land from Mexico to Canada lasted about three minutes, but from space, it looked much larger and longer. A handful of astronauts and cosmonauts could watch the Moon’s shadow move across the face of the Earth for a […]
The Court of Justice of the European Union granted the claim of Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman, shareholders of Alfa-Bank, to remove them from the sanctions lists. A document was published on the court’s website stating that the Court granted Aven and Friedman’s petition and canceled their stay on the restrictive measures lists for the […]
Soldiers of the Signum unit of the 93rd Brigade together with the 80th Air Assault Brigade destroyed another improvised self-propelled missile system of the Russian occupiers in the Bakhmut sector at night using an FPV drone. The enemy vehicle, nicknamed “Frankenstein,” was hit near Bakhmut. This monster was created on the basis of the Ural […]