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The U.S. Department of Defense has approved a program to improve air defense systems with new Sentinel A4 phased array produced by Lockheed Martin, a modernization that is crucial to the country’s future defense capabilities. According to the approved program, the US Army will receive 19 updated radar systems by 2025. The army’s current radar […]
Apple presented a short but emotional video about how smartphones, as it turned out, can help animals. What they showed The video, titled The Invincibles, tells the story of 3DPets, a non-profit organization that manufactures customized prosthetics and wheelchairs for animals. They print prostheses on a 3D printer, adapted to the needs of each pet […]
Lithuania handed over 36 units of Bofors anti-aircraft guns to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Last weekend, X posted a video showing the weapon in action. It was published by a user with the nickname AlexRaptor. The video shows a Bofors L70 gun. The transfer of such weapons to the Armed Forces was announced on January […]
SpaceX has launched 22 more Internet satellites. The total number of Starliners in Earth orbit has exceeded five thousand. The American company SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit on the night of Sunday, August 27. A Falcon 9 rocket delivered 22 mini-satellites there. Watch Falcon 9 launch 22 @Starlink […]
A group of Ukrainian engineers has developed an attack octocopter. They called their brainchild “The Great Bandera”. In an interview with ArmyInform, the creators of the octocopter said that they began manufacturing the aircraft a few weeks after the invasion began. Initially, Ukrainian engineers adapted agricultural drones for the needs of the Armed Forces, designed […]
Perhaps the history of sanctions against Huawei prompted Xiaomi to think about its own operating system. According to recent reports, Xiaomi is developing its own operating system compatible with Android. The upcoming new operating system is expected to be used on a variety of devices, including smartphones, tablets, and wearables. So far, nothing is known […]
Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more capable, but Stephen King believes it still has a lot to learn before it can successfully imitate human creativity. In his essay for The Atlantic, the writer says that he would not object to the use of his works for training artificial intelligence – he is not yet […]
The management of Patria, a Finnish company, is considering the possibility of starting operations in the Ukrainian market. Yle journalists were the first to report it. The material they published suggests that Kyiv is interested in setting up production of Patria wheeled vehicles. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are already familiar with them, as the Polish […]
Google Chrome will get a new feature that will allow users to listen to the content of web pages. This feature is currently available in a preview version of the Chrome Canary app, but may soon be available to all. This is reported by one of the users of X. According to X social network […]
The German company Global Logistics GmbH (GLS) has indeed purchased more than two dozen Leopard 1A5 tanks for the price of a regular Chinese smartphone. The seller is the well-known Swiss concern RUAG. He wanted to sell 96 Leopard 1A5 tanks to the German company Rheinmetall to be transferred to Ukraine. However, the country’s authorities […]