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More than 500,000 Mercedes me Adapters activated

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Connecting the adapter with a smartphone means that connectivity services are no longer solely reserved to customers buying new cars. With Estonia, Lithuania and Cyprus, three more markets will be added this year. More than half a million vehicles worldwide have been equipped with the adapter to date.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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But through it all Ukrenergo and its European colleagues were quietly working on an emergency support scheme: uniting Ukraine’s grid with those of the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E)—a continuous zone of synchronized AC power connecting most of Continental Europe. ius told IEEE Spectrum yesterday.

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Study finds substantial increase in nanoparticles in air as it crosses the Baltic Sea; shipping emissions responsible for about half

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The researchers evaluated 10 months worth of data (September 2009 to June 2010) of atmospheric aerosol particle number size distribution at three atmospheric observation stations along the Baltic Sea coast: Vavihill (upwind, Sweden); Utö (upwind, Finland); and Preila (downwind, Lithuania). Kecorius et al. Click to enlarge.

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SpaceX delivers truckload of Starlink dishes to Ukraine, as promised

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Packed with at least 100-200 dishes, SpaceX’s delivery will thus hopefully ensure that thousands or even tens of thousands of Ukrainians will be able to stay connected to high-quality internet in the event that Russia’s invasion begins to a larger toll on the country’s connectivity infrastructure. Good to see.

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Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare

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When the lights went out on the BCS East-West Interlink fiber optic cable connecting Lithuania and Sweden on 17 November, the biggest question wasn’t when internet service would be restored. That’d come another 10 or so days later.)

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NATO’s Emergency Plan for an Orbital Backup Internet

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As this article was going to press, two undersea cables in the Baltic Seaconnecting Sweden with Lithuania and Finland with Germanyhad been severed, with suspicion resting on a Chinese merchant vessel in the region. Germanys defense minister, Boris Pistorius, went so far as to call the outages sabotage.

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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

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In a simulated fallout map produced by Ukraine’s national weather service and posted Sunday, a radiation plume spreads northwest and reaches Poland and Lithuania within 72 hours. It also left the plant with just one grid connection, compared with 7 preinvasion connections.

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