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The upper house of the Swiss parliament has supported the government’s proposal to transfer frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, France24 reports. More than $8 billion of the Russian central bank is kept in this country. Twenty-one MPs voted in favor of this proposal, 19 were against, and three abstained. The Lower House passed the bill […]
Finland says cars with Russian license plates must leave the country by next Saturday, March 16 This was reported by Yle. It is noted that the ban on entry to Finland for cars with Russian license plates came into effect in the fall of 2023. However, car owners who were in the country at the […]
The Wave House team has built a new data center in Germany using the power of 3D printing technology to bring a sense of style to cloud computing infrastructure, creating Europe’s largest 3D printed building. The Wave House building is located in Heidelberg, designed by SSV and Mense Korte and created by Peri 3D Construction […]
Russia has apparently begun mass production of its heaviest glider bomb to date and is now increasingly using the FAB-1500-M54. This was reported by the German edition of BILD. Recently, the Russians dropped such a 1.5-ton explosive on a residential area of Krasnohorivka near Donetsk. The FAB-1500 crashed into the middle of a residential neighborhood […]
In Japan, McDonald’s has released a new line of perfumes with the scent of French fries in honor of International Women’s Day, Siliconera reports. They will be sold only today, on March 8, 2024. There are three flavors in the line: classic McFries, French fries with seaweed and salt, and French fries with garlic, black […]
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, regained the title of the world’s richest man, overtaking Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla. This was due to the growth of Amazon and other tech companies. Bezos’s fortune is now estimated at $200 billion, which is $2 billion more than Musk’s. The last time Bezos was the leader […]
Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will put to a vote a bill that would force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell its part to the Americans, otherwise TikTok will be blocked in the country. The first time TikTok was sought to be restricted was when President Donald Trump unsuccessfully tried to ban the […]
Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO 11 months later than Finland, although the countries applied together Sweden’s path to NATO, which began on May 18, 2022, with the submission of an application jointly with Finland, has finally come to an end. According to the US State Department, which is the depositary of the NATO […]
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, a leading chipmaker, including those for artificial intelligence, recently shared his thoughts on when we can expect artificial general intelligence (AGI) to emerge. Speaking at the Stanford Economic Forum, Guang said that AGI could become a reality in five years, based on certain definitions of the term. He believes that […]
Police arrested a homeless man who they say tried to steal a Waymo self-driving car in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday night. The man entered and tried to drive the Waymo car, which had stopped to let a passenger out. After the homeless man, whom the Waymo representative called an “unauthorized pedestrian,” entered the car, […]