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A full-scale launch of Ruwiki, a Russian version of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopaedia, will take place on Monday, according to Russian media reports . Beta testing - a limited audience testing of the site - started in mid-2023, the daily Kommersant reported, and there were reportedly already more articles in Ruwiki than in the Russian-language segment of Wikipedia. Russia has said it was not yet planning to block Wikipedia - one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russia since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian courts, however, have handed the online encyclopaedia a series of fines over Ukraine-related content since. Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his approval to new alternative platforms to Wikipedia in May of 2022, according to Russian media. The Izvestia newspaper reported last week, citing Ruwiki's press service, that the most-read articles during the b

Amazon on Friday said it booked three Falcon 9 launches with Elon Musk's SpaceX to help deploy the e-commerce giant's Project Kuiper satellite network, tapping a rival in the satellite internet business for its multi-billion dollar launch campaign. Amazon aims to build Kuiper as a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit to beam broadband internet globally and compete with SpaceX's Starlink network, which already has some 5,000 satellites providing nearly global coverage. Amazon, which vowed in 2019 to invest $10 billion into the project, will put an unspecified number of Kuiper satellites on three Falcon 9 rockets from SpaceX beginning in mid-2025, the company said Friday. The Falcon 9 missions add to 83 rocket launch es it had already procured from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin, the Boeing-Lockheed, joint venture United Launch Alliance and Europe's Arianespace in a multi-billion dollar launch deal. Amazon was sued by a shareholder in Aug

South Korea says North Korea has launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the North’s eastern waters SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Wednesday night, its neighbors said, hours after the U.S. flew long-range bombers for drills with its allies in a show of force against the North. The launches , the latest in the North’s barrage of weapons tests since last year, came amid ongoing annual U.S.-South Korean Military exercises that North Korea regards as a rehearsal for invasion. There were no reports of damages caused by Wednesday's launches . But observers say North Korea likely aimed to demonstrate again it has missile s capable of striking key targets in South Korea in protest at its rivals' Military exercises. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the North Korean missiles both travelled about 360 kilometers (225 miles) before landing in the waters of the Korean Peninsula's eas