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Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that a long-expected Ukrainian counter-offensive had started but that Kyiv had not reached its goals. Russia reported heavy fighting along the front in southern Ukraine this afternoon, where bloggers described the first sightings of German and US armour, signalling that Ukraine's long-anticipated counterattack was…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as the Kremlin looks to lock in a steady supply of weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, according to a U.S. intelligence finding released by the White House on Friday. National…

Ukraine: Volunteers search for survivors in flooded townRussian forces have been shelling Ukrainian civilians as they attempt to escape the flooded region of Kherson after a critical dam was blown up by Vladimir Putin, Ukraine has claimed. Families have been frantically attempting to flee their homes in rubber boats, all…

Scientists achieved a quantum speedup by effectively suppressing errors in a bitstring guessing game, managing strings up to 26 bits long. They showed that, with proper error control, quantum computers can execute full algorithms with better time-scaling than conventional computers, even in the current noisy era of quantum computing. Researchers…

TechSpot is celebrating its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? American semiconductor company Micron Technology has announced that it has started mass-producing high-capacity 96GB DDR5 RDIMMs. The modules offer speeds of up to 4800MT/s and are designed for workstations and server deployments. The company…

Researchers have engineered a novel superconducting diode that shows promise in enhancing the performance of artificial intelligence systems and scaling up quantum computers for industrial applications. This device outperforms its counterparts with superior energy efficiency, the ability to process multiple electrical signals simultaneously, and a unique series of gates controlling…

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday evening held another telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said. Russia’s UrduPoint News and Sputnik news agencies reported on Wednesday that the two leaders, who belong to the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (Brics) bloc, discussed developmental and bilateral relations.  “The topical…

Blowing up the dam would make any Ukrainian attempt to cross the river with a significant force — an already difficult task — impossible, said Michael A. Horowitz, a geopolitical and security analyst who is the head of intelligence at Le Beck consultancy. Crucially, it reduces the area of the…

Traders betting on a pump for metaverse projects were disappointed yesterday after Apple’s unveiled the Vision Pro headset. In fact, Apple shied away from any use of the term ‘metaverse’, instead calling it ‘Spatial Computing’. Let’s take a closer look at the $3500 mixed-reality headgear. TL;DR Apple did not mention…

The Apple Vision Pro headset has drawn comparisons to Steven Spielberg's film Ready Player One on social media. (AFP via Getty Images) Apple's new product, the Apple Vision Pro, is being described as the start of a “new era of spatial computing” but the mixed reality headset has already drawn…