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Member of the US Senate Armed Services Committee Elizabeth Warren is demanding a US Congressional investigation into SpaceX after its founder, multibillionaire Elon Musk, confirmed the disruption of the operation of Ukrainian troops in Crimea using Starlink satellite internet, Bloomberg reported on Monday, September 11. “Congress needs to investigate what exactly happened and whether we […]
A powerful storm, Daniel, struck Libya, killing more than two thousand people and leaving about seven thousand more missing. In some places, the water level reached more than three meters. The disaster was caused by the collapse of a dam over the town of Derna, which washed away entire neighborhoods with their residents. The cities […]
Rescuers have carried out an operation to rescue American caver Mark Dickey from one of the deepest caves in Turkey, called Mork. Dickie had stomach problems and was locked in a cave for over a week. The incident occurred during an expedition with several other researchers in the Morka Cave in the Taurus Mountains in […]
The Portuguese city of Anadia was flooded with wine due to an accident at the Destilaria Levira winery on Sunday, September 10. Locals on social media share footage showing a stormy stream of wine rushing down the slope of a city street, turning it into a real river. The incident was caused by damage to […]
On the morning of September 12, an Airbus A320 passenger plane flying from Sochi to Omsk made an emergency landing in a field near Novosibirsk. The probable cause of the incident is a failure of the hydraulic system. Earlier, Airbus refused to cooperate with Russian airlines, which created difficulties in aircraft maintenance. According to the […]
Last week, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces celebrated a historic event. An American convertible landed on a helicopter carrier for the first time. A V-22 Osprey helicopter belonging to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Forces has landed on the deck of the helicopter destroyer JS Ise (DDH 182). Typically, Mitsubishi SH-60K helicopters are deployed on board […]
The Russian defense industry has modernized the T-80BVM tank based on the experience gained in Ukraine. This follows from a story aired on Zvezda TV channel. Russian journalists visited the closed landfill of Omsktransmash. This company specializes in modernizing outdated tanks. During the modernization of the T-80BVM, it was fitted with new reinforced protection, a […]
Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP, announced the completion of the first stage of the release of treated radioactive water into the sea This was reported by NHK. From August 24 to September 10, about 460 tons of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP diluted with seawater was […]
Meta is investing in hardware and infrastructure to create a chatbot that can compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4 model. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company plans to start training a large language model in early 2024. CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists that it should be free for developers of AI tools. According to the report, […]
Scientists are working to create robots that could end their lives after completing a task. The first step towards this development has already been taken. According to a study published in the scientific journal Science Advances, researchers from South Korea have successfully created a small soft-bodied robot that turned into a puddle of mucus after […]