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Vice Prime Minister Fedorov reached out to Elon Musk for Starlink internet service in a last-ditch effort to restore internet access. As Russian forces approach Kyiv, Ukraine has been suffering internet problems.

Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation contacted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk about the company’s Starlink satellite broadband service.

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The late 90s and early 2000s were a breakout time for mobile phones, with cheap GSM handsets ushering in the era in which pretty much everybody had a phone. Back then, a popular way to customize one’s phone was to install a sticker that would flash when the phone rang. These required no batteries or any other connection to the phone, and [Big Clive] has dived in to explain how they worked.

It’s an old-fashioned teardown that requires a bit of cutting to get inside the sticker itself. A typical example had three LEDs in series for a total voltage drop of around 7V, hooked up to two diodes and a PCB trace antenna. A later evolution used raw unpackaged components bonded to the PCB. Future versions went down to a single diode, using the LEDs to serve as the second. The basic theory was that the PCB traces would pick up RF transmitted by the phone when a call was coming in, lighting the LEDs.

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Now, that’s a superpower!What if you could speak every language on Earth? You would travel around the globe with ease making new friends everywhere.

The firm is working on building an A.I.-focused universal instantaneous speech translator and it could forever change how we communicate.

A powerful translating A.I.

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The U.S. is pinning its hopes in the race for energy supremacy in a low-carbon world on startups like Ion Storage Systems, which is aiming to build a better battery.

A new therapy called CINDELA (Cancer-Specific InDel Attacker) is reported by scientists in South Korea, which uses CRISPR-Cas9 to kill cancer cells without harming normal tissues.

The thousands of defunct satellites and tons of orbiting space debris necessitate a low-Earth orbit cleanup starting this decade.