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Telecoms giant Kyivstar wants a seat in Ukraine's driverless car revolution
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Telecoms giant Kyivstar wants a seat in Ukraine's driverless car revolution

by Luca Léry Moffat

Ukraine's most popular ride-hailing service wants to conquer the global robotaxi race. Uklon, owned by Ukraine's telecoms giant Kyivstar, gathered journalists, executives, and policymakers at Kyiv's shuttered Boryspil airport on May 27 to showcase the remote-driving technology the company is testing — and one day hopes to bring to the streets of Kyiv. "We want Ukraine to be the best in Europe for self-driving cars," Uklon CEO, Serhiy Hryshkov, told the crowd in a sleek ceremony, during which h

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Ukraine war latest: Russia's territorial gains slipped into red in May, DeepState reports

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There is one thing emergency teams need ready on arrival, and it's not what most organizations prepare for

In January 2023, World Central Kitchen teams traveled to recently liberated communities in Kherson Oblast, delivering hot meals and food packages. People came for aid, but almost immediately they asked for a way to call home — to reach their children, spouses, relatives in another city, anyone who might know whether the others had survived. That experience changed my understanding of critical connectivity. A system matters only when it is ready when a team arrives: a vehicle stops, people gat

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