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Inductive-charging startup wins $13.3 million bid to build wireless EV charging technology in Florida
The Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) has awarded Norwegian startup ENRX a $13.3 million contract to build a test strip for its induction charging system on a one-mile stretch of State Route 516 near Orlando. The company claims its “dynamic wireless charging” technology can accommodate passenger vehicles, heavy-duty commercial trucks,…
Final UK evacuation flights from Sudan take off as airlift bid comes to close
THE UK’s last evacuation flights have left Sudan, the Government has said.
Two final aircraft took off from Port Sudan on Wednesday night and in the early hours of yesterday morning, local time, heading for Cyprus.
Evacuation flights had been due to end last Monday before the extra planes were announced.
The Foreign Office said there would be no further extensions.
On Tuesday, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said 2,341 people had left on 28 flights.
Some 1,195 were British nationals, with others including their Sudanese dependants also helped to leave.
Mr Cleverly tweeted: “We’ve coordinated the largest evacuation of any Western country.
“But the hard work in Sudan has not finished.”
Sudan has descended into chaos and violence amid a power struggle within the country’s military leadership.
United Nations under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs Martin Griffiths arrived in Port Sudan on Wednesday, seeking guarantee for safe passage of aid deliveries.
He said: “It’s not as if we’re asking for the moon.
“We’re asking for the movement of humanitarian supplies and people.
“We do this in every other country, even without ceasefires.”
Putin blames US for ‘assassination bid in Kremlin’ as despot blitzes Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with drone strikes
RUSSIA has blitzed Kyiv in revenge what they say was an assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin.
Residents in Ukraine’s capital were hit with spasms of gunfire and explosions last night.
An explosion of a drone is seen in the sky over Kyiv[/caption]
Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital[/caption]
It comes after the Kremlin was hit by two drones on Wednesday[/caption]
The strikes started just after 8 pm and lasted around 20 minutes.
It comes after Moscow claimed the United States was behind the alleged attack on the Kremlin on Wednesday.
Footage showed a flying object exploding in flames overnight above the fortress in central Moscow – where the president has his office and an apartment.
Russia has since accused the US of being a direct participant in the war, intent on inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Moscow.
Washington denies this, saying it is arming Kyiv to defend itself and retake illegally seized land.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said: “We certainly don’t dictate to them the terms by which they defend themselves, or the operations they conduct.”
Ukraine’s president Zelensky earlier denied his country attacked Russia or Putin.
“We don’t attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on our territory. We are defending our villages and cities,” he said.
But Putin allies reacted to the alleged attack with alarming calls for revenge.
Russian authorities – who have launched a terrorism probe – claim they downed two unmanned aerial vehicles aimed at the presidential complex, where Putin is known to increasingly live during the war.
Extraordinary footage appeared to show the moment a drone exploded over the Senate Palace, with flames and smoke seen coming from the 18th-century dome at 2.27am.
Grandstands set up for the Victory Day parade on May 9 can be seen in Red Square below, in front of the fortress walls.
A second blast was seen over the rooftops at 2.43am.
Residents of the nearby Stalinist House on the river embankment said they “saw sparks in the sky and people with flashlights near the Kremlin wall after the thunderclaps”.
The Kremlin said two drones had been used in the alleged attack, but were disabled by Russian electronic defences.
British security officials believe the attack was a “false flag” operation carried out by Russia to distract Ukraine from its counteroffensive and rack up generate support back home.
Experts from the Institute for the Study of War think-tank said: “Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilisation.”
Film Studios Lose Bid To Unmask Reddit Users Who Wrote Comments on Piracy
Reddit has no involvement in the underlying case, which is a copyright lawsuit in a different federal court against cable Internet service provider RCN. Bodyguard Productions, Millennium Media, and other film companies sued RCN in the US District Court in New Jersey over RCN customers’ alleged downloads of 34 movies such as Hellboy, Rambo: Last Blood, Tesla, and The Hitman’s Bodyguard. In an attempt to prove that RCN (now known as Astound Broadband) turned a blind eye to customers illegally downloading copyrighted movies, the studios subpoenaed Reddit seeking identifying information for specific users who commented in piracy-related threads. While some of the comments were posted in 2022, other comments were made in 2009 and 2014.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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President Joe Biden Officially Announces 2024 Re-Election Bid with Kamala Harris
President Joe Biden has confirmed that he is indeed making a bid for another term in office.
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The sitting President of the United States announced his official campaign by way of an announcement video, which in turn confirmed that Vice President Kamala Harris will also be running alongside him.
Many political commentators believe that the bid will possibly set President Biden up for another showdown with former President Donald Trump –
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