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25-year-old Briton Dakomb became Europe's youngest self-made billionaire. The founder of startups Olix and CoMind, he dropped out of school at 17 and built his fortune on AI chips and neurotechnologies.

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are launching pilot projects for artificial rain to combat drought. Kazakhstan has already conducted a series of flights with reagents, expecting an economic benefit of $74 million.

🚁 Hunting 'Shaheds': How Ukrainian interceptor drones became the main weapon of air defense. 🇺🇦 Crews work 24/7, deployment takes 10–30 minutes. Automatic homing and AI reduce errors to zero. 🤖 Fixed-wing drones (up to 360 km/h) catch up with jet targets, while multicopters ensure maneuverability. 🛡️ Economy: an interceptor is cheaper than a missile, and effectiveness is up to 90%. #Ukraine #AirDefense #Drones #Technology

📧 **Full Cyrillic in email:** The Internet Technical Center has launched support for email addresses without a single Latin letter. You can now write <code>[email protected]</code>. 🔹 **Technology:** The EAI and SMTPUTF8 standards, adopted back in 2012, have been implemented. 🔹 **Statistics:** More than 806,000 domains are registered in the .РФ zone. 🔹 **Context:** Russia is a leader in the implementation of Cyrillic IDN among CIS and European countries. #Technology #Internet #Cyrillic #RF

🇺🇸 The US is facing a mass exodus of IT specialists from India and China in 2026. The cause is a new Trump executive order raising the H-1B visa fee to $100,000. 📉 Major tech giants are reducing hiring, while the number of Indian experts returning home has grown by 55%. 🤖 AI development and rising xenophobia are exacerbating the situation, forcing talent to leave the country. #Trump #VisaH1B #TechNews #Migration

🇨🇳 China successfully launched the 24th batch of satellites for the global Qianfan network! 🚀 📅 August 16, 2026, 12:10 Beijing Time 📍 Commercial spaceport on Hainan Island ✅ All satellites reached orbit 🔧 Rocket developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology 🌐 Goal: Creating a competitor to Starlink #China #Qianfan #Space #Satellites #Starlink #Technology

💸 The AI boom has driven up tech prices in Ukraine! Laptops and graphics cards are rising faster than TVs due to a chip shortage. Why this is happening and what to expect from prices in the future — let's break it down in detail. 📉 Graphics cards first got cheaper, but now they are rising again. 📺 TVs are holding on for now, but growth is inevitable. 🧠 AI data centers are buying up memory, leaving consumers with no choice. #Economy #Technology #Prices #Ukraine #AI

🎉 CHERY celebrates 20 years in Ukraine! During this time, more than 90,000 cars have been sold, and 39 dealerships have opened. The brand has evolved from budget models to flagship crossovers with advanced technologies. 🚗💡 #CHERY #Cars #Ukraine

🚨 Space Collapse: 1.7 Million Satellites Could Block Earth's Orbit. A new study by the University of Birmingham shows that 6 major constellations (including those of the US and China) have already exceeded the critical safety threshold. Cascade collisions could create an unmanageable avalanche of debris, permanently cutting humanity off from space. 📉 30,000 satellites are already in orbit. 📈 Applications submitted for another 1 million. ⚠️ 6 constellations in the zone of uncontrolled debris growth. #space #technology #disaster #satellites

🏙️ Chicago on the brink of a digital renaissance: historic 1927 building to be converted into a data center. The project has sparked controversy between heritage defenders and investors. #Chicago #DataCenter #HistoricPreservation

🤖 Anthropic is introducing invisible watermarks into Claude texts. This will help determine AI involvement in content creation but will not affect generation quality. #AI #Claude #Watermarks

🌍 Space on the verge of collapse: 30,000 satellites already in orbit, with applications for another 1 million. Scientists warn of cascading collisions that could render the orbit unusable. #space #satellites #spacedebris

📱 **iPhone 2026: How the Smartphone Changed in 5 Years?** Five years after the iPhone 13, Apple has completely rebuilt its lineup. The switch from Lightning to USB-C, the appearance of Action Button and Camera Control, and the implementation of Apple Intelligence have made smartphones unrecognizable. 🔹 **Screens:** Dynamic Island and Always-on Display are now the norm; ProMotion is in base models. 🔹 **Cameras:** 48 MP everywhere, 8x zoom in Pro, and 4K 120fps video. 🔹 **AI:** Siri in iOS 27 (2026) now understands context and works with neural networks. Full breakdown of the transformation in our longread. #Apple #iPhone17 #iOS27 #TechNews

🌩️ Scientists from Peking University have shown that smartphones can become weather stations! 📱 Data from phone barometers improved hail forecasts by 14–17%. 🔍 But there are limitations: there are few smartphones in mountains and rural areas. 🌍 Integration with traditional weather stations is the key to future accurate forecasts! #technology #weather #hailprotection

🚀 Alphabet hits the jackpot: $900 million invested in SpaceX turned into almost $94 billion! After the SpaceX IPO, Alphabet became the largest institutional owner, overtaking Fidelity and BlackRock. The stake growth amounted to more than 100 times in 10 years. #SpaceX #Alphabet #IPO #Investments #Technology

🔬 **Revolution in Sensing**: Scientists from Sweden and the UK have created flat HARFF optical fiber that is 1,000 times more sensitive than standard fiber. 📉 🧠 **How it works**: New geometry and micro-cavities with metals allow the fiber to "feel" pressure and temperature. 🚀 **Where it applies**: From monitoring the condition of bridges and aircraft to controlling battery safety and medicine. The main advantage is compatibility with standard equipment! #Science #Technology #OpticalFiber

🚀 D-Wave makes a breakthrough in quantum computing! The company has presented a new 'dual-rail' qubit architecture capable of detecting errors independently. This is a key step towards creating universal quantum computers. Operation accuracy has reached 99.9%. 🧮⚛️ #DWave #QuantumComputing #Technology #Science