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On Wednesday, March 16, Meta released a video in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky allegedly ordered his surrender and announced his surrender. Ukraine was ready for this fake, the special services warned about it a long time ago, and the low quality of the video came as a surprise. Nathaniel Gleicher, head of Meta’s security […]
Xerox Holdings has suspended all supplies to Russia indefinitely. This was stated by CFO Xavier Hayes. “Nothing is going to the country,” – Hayes commented. The company’s CFO added that in Russia and Ukraine, representative offices are registered for various legal entities. In addition, he stressed that the company does not receive significant revenues in […]
Germany and Norway are in talks to build a hydrogen pipeline to reduce dependence on Russian gas. The Minister of Economy of Germany Robert Habeck and the Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Store discussed this issue during the meeting, Bloomberg reports. The countries plan to carry out a feasibility study in the near future […]
According to research by Sensor Tower, after the start of the war in Ukraine, 6,982 iPhone and iPad applications were removed from the Russian section of the App Store. Source: TechCrunch In total, these programs have been installed in Russia about 218 million times – about 3% of the global number of installations (6.6 billion) […]
The European Union has announced sanctions against Russian chipmakers. The companies on the list previously suffered from US sanctions in 2014, but now their situation will deteriorate significantly. Experts predict that the situation around Russian chipmakers could worsen significantly, although their situation was already bad after the US sanctions imposed earlier. The following companies were […]
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law “On Virtual Assets” passed by the parliament a month ago, which gives the green light to launch a legal market for virtual assets in Ukraine and bring the cryptocurrency transaction out of the shadows. The law on financial monitoring has been in force in Ukraine since April […]
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the completion of the process of unification of the Ukrainian and European energy systems, saying that Ukraine has now become a member of the “Energy European Union”. The head of state wrote about this on Twitter on Wednesday. “Now our electricity flows to the EU, and European – to Ukraine,” – […]
On February 15 at 16:22 UTC, a Rocket 3.3 rocket was launched from the Pacific Spaceport site on Kodiak Island (Alaska). Carrier number LV0009 sent a payload for three clients into solar-synchronous orbit: NearSpace Launch equipment inseparably attached to the second stage, Portland Aerospace Cubs, and some cargo in favor of an unknown customer. The […]
During the war, Vodafone Ukraine lifted restrictions on the distribution of mobile Internet from smartphones to other devices for tariff plans with unlimited Internet. The offer applies to prepaid tariff plans Vodafone Unlim 3G, Vodafone Unlim 3G Plus, Vodafone SuperNet Unlim, Vodafone SuperNet Turbo 2019. At the time of the war, the services ‘Internet distribution […]
In order to promptly respond to the new challenges facing participants in the startup ecosystem of Ukraine under martial law, the Ukrainian Foundation of Startups conducted an online study of the ecosystem. About 150 founders of Ukrainian startups took part in the survey. Respondents answered questions about the possibility of continuing their activities, in particular, […]