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Elon Musk’s Starlink has about 150k daily users in Ukraine, confirms official

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Roughly 150,000 people are using Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system in Ukraine every day, according to Digital minister Mykhailo Fedorov. To date, Starlink has provided Ukraine with stable internet access despite Russia’s efforts to disconnect the country from the World Wide Web. .

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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives

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One month into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a group of more than 100 makers from all over Ukraine manufactured and supplied a number of 3D-printed products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Territorial Defense Force, and the Air Forces. For security reasons, this group does not disclose most of their work.

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SpaceX produces 1M Starlink terminals ~19 months after preorders opened

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The space enthusiast noted that she was able to acquire the information from a source who works at SpaceX’s Starlink manufacturing facility in Redmond, Washington. . Elon Musk promptly confirmed the news on Twitter, noting that “Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured.”

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Ford, Volkswagen, and GM Explore EV-Powered Houses

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Tesla, right now the world’s best-selling manufacturer of electric vehicles, is already marketing an integrated setup involving solar panels and a large wall-mounted battery as a kind of nascent virtual utility in Germany and in the UK. And that’s much cheaper than a new $1,300 kit.

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What If Europe Loses Russian Natural Gas?

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And the recent revelation of atrocities committed by the Russian military in Ukraine have renewed calls to boycott Russian gas, an action European countries are struggling to figure out how to implement. But Rosenow explains that “there is a shortage of installers in Europe; there is a shortage of kit.” Carrier , another prominent U.S.

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An MPGuino Fuel-Economy Computer with a Retro Look

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the skyrocketing fuel prices that ensued last year got me thinking about how to cut down on my consumption of gasoline. But my car was manufactured years before OBD-II became standard. Although the software side of MPGuino is still being actively developed, hardware for it is now harder to come by.