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Tech billionaires intend to build a new city near San Francisco, tentatively titled California Forever, which will have no local government. Gizmodo writes about it. Instead, the developers plan to keep the new urban center as an unincorporated area and leave the management to the Solano County government, which already controls the region. Gabriel Metcalfe, […]
The company cooperates with the Environmental Protection Fund to help fight climate change. While carbon dioxide gets the lion’s share of attention when it comes to global warming, there are other factors at play as well. According to the International Energy Agency, methane is responsible for about 30 percent of the global temperature increase since […]
The US Army will purchase 600 Coyote 2C drone interceptors from Raytheon at a price of $125 thousand. per unit. The contract is worth $75 million. The agreement was prompted by a series of drone attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East. Several thousand such interceptors are planned to be purchased in the coming […]
The legendary global technology company IBM has its roots in the late nineteenth century. But the official birthday of IBM should still be considered February 15, 1924, when the Computing-Tabulous-Recording Co. was renamed International Business Machines Corp. The history of IBM reflects the development of the computing and IT industry. After all, the term “data […]
The Norwegian-Finnish ammunition manufacturer Nammo is switching to five shifts at its Swedish facility to produce ammunition around the clock. Minna Alander, a researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs think tank in Helsinki, wrote about this on Twitter. Norwegian-Finnish ammunition manufacturer Nammo has activated 5-shift production at its facility in Sweden, meaning 24/7 […]
Merlin, which specializes in aircraft automation systems and converting them into drones, has been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force to convert a KC-135 Stratotanker tanker aircraft into a drone. The company announced this on its website. It is reported that the contract was concluded with the participation of the Air Mobility […]
This incident occurred in the nearly eight-kilometer-long Renstaig tunnel on the A 71 highway near Zuhl (Thuringia, Germany): a trailer of a car carrier caught fire. Firefighters say that the Polish driver of the Volvo FM is not bleeding blood, but ice water: when he saw the fire on the trailer, he stopped and tried […]
Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Sekerski apologized to Ukraine for the spilled grain incident that occurred on February 11 and commented on the actions of Polish farmers. His statement was published by the press service of the Polish ministry. “We must admit that the situation is tense. Polish farmers threw some grain out of Ukrainian […]
SpaceX has announced on its social network X (formerly Twitter) that it is preparing a third rocket for orbital testing of the Starship. The company is ready to launch by the end of February if the US Federal Aviation Administration issues a flight license. The Super Heavy booster in the Booster 10 version and the […]
Lawmakers in the European Parliament on Tuesday ratified an interim agreement that paves the way for a full-fledged, world-first artificial intelligence law. The landmark agreement aims to regulate and limit AI, which is used in almost all areas. Thus, the EU becomes the first global power to gradually bring AI into the realm of law. […]