Technology News in Kyiv Region and Ukraine

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IT Company Buys 73.5% of Palliative Service: Where's the Business Logic in Document Circulation

# Vchasno Group Becomes Majority Shareholder in Medics Opika Vchasno Group, known for electronic signatures and business reporting solutions, has become the majority owner of Medics Opika. The service has grown eightfold over the past year, with 35,000 monthly visits financed by the National Health Insurance Fund of Ukraine (NSZU). This is no longer diversification — it is a bet on state healthcare funding.

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One Click—and the Drone Flies Itself: MaXon Systems Brings Autonomous Interceptor to Combat Level

Ukrainian company MaXon Systems has tested a system within the Brave1 cluster that assumes 95% of the process of destroying Iranian-made kamikaze drones, with the operator only designating the target. According to the developers' calculations, 20–25 such complexes would be sufficient to protect the entire Kyiv.

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"Good morning" for the last time: Cook gathered Hollywood stars to say goodbye to WWDC — and hand over Siri to Google

Tim Cook held his last WWDC as Apple CEO: between a ceremonial video with Harrison Ford and Whoopi Goldberg — and the real decision to migrate Siri to Google's Gemini model with 1.2 trillion parameters.

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Privatbank24 goes down mid-workday: authorization glitch hits 13.7 million active users

On May 11, Privat24 went down in the middle of the business day — users were unable to log into accounts, make payments, or use any features. The bank confirmed a technical glitch and restored service the same day.

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21 problems from ministries — only three will get solutions: how the state is learning to formulate requests to IT

GovTech Lab Ukraine has opened a new call for applications from state bodies. But the key indicator is not the number of participants, but rather that in the previous cycle, 18 out of 21 submitted challenges failed to pass the selection — and this may be a more useful result than the winners themselves.

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$150 for Samsung OLED, 8000 mAh and IP69X: what OnePlus Turbo 6X Pro really hides

OnePlus is preparing a budget smartphone with dust and steam protection higher than most flagship models — and the price calls into question the entire "premium" segment up to $300.

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HP Sold a Ferrari Laptop to F1 Fans — And It's the First Product From a Two-Year Partnership That Nobody Noticed

$5,600, 4,999 units and a transparent "engine compartment" — but behind this gadget lies a quiet corporate alliance: since 2024, HP has been the title sponsor of Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1, and the laptop is the first tangible evidence of this deal.

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Apple Gives Siri's Brain to Competitors — and It's Not a Bug, It's an Admission of Defeat

To save Siri from failure, Apple signed a multi-year deal with Google and opened access to user queries for Nvidia servers. The company, which spent years building an isolated technology stack, is now dependent on two of its main competitors.

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450 km/h and retargeting: why Dancer 4.5.0 is the answer to accelerating "shaheds"

Yartura has developed an interceptor that catches up with enemy drones where most competitors lag 100–150 km/h behind. But the key bet is not on speed, but on AI that operates after the first miss.

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AI for $50 Phone: Google Brings Gemini to Devices with 2GB RAM

Google has launched Gemini Go, a simplified version of its AI assistant for smartphones running Android Go. This marks the first time Gemini becomes available to hundreds of millions of users of budget devices in Global South countries.

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iOS 27 will leave four iPhone models without updates: who will be affected

Apple is preparing for WWDC 2026, and the first data on iOS 27 compatibility has already emerged. Four popular models may be excluded from the support list — what this means for millions of users.

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Uklon buys e-Wings for $2.2 million: not just scooters — a bet on multimodal ecosystem

# Deal for 97.6 Million Hryvnia to Consolidate Taxi, Scooters, Delivery and Tickets in Single App. But the Broader Context Is Larger: Uklon Already Tests Drones, Backed by Kyivstar and VEON's $1.3 Billion Investment in Ukraine.

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ChatGPT Now "Dreams" in the Background — and Remembers You Better. But There's a Catch With Deleted Chats

OpenAI has rolled out Dreaming V3, a new memory architecture for ChatGPT that has significantly improved context retention accuracy for the first time. However, few have noticed: deleting a conversation does not erase the memories extracted from it.

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Amazfit Challenges Garmin and Apple Watch Ultra for $200 Less — But There's a Catch

Balance Ultra with a titanium case and 30 days of battery life costs $599 compared to $849 for the Apple Watch Ultra 2. The difference is substantial, but the watch is going up for pre-order, and there are no real-world tests yet.

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Samsung Health Learns to Read Between the Lines of Your Biomarkers — But Where Are These Lines Stored

Starting June 8, Samsung Health will analyze five nighttime biosignals through AI and compare them to your personal baseline norm. The question is not whether this will work more accurately than a doctor — but who else will have access to the data.

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Amazon Taught Robot to Understand Human Language — And It Changes Not So Much Warehouses As the Question About a Million Jobs

Amazon's New Proteus Gets AI and Voice Control: The warehouse robot now plans routes and prioritizes tasks on its own. But behind the technical upgrade lies a much sharper bottom line.

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iOS 27 like "Snow Leopard": Apple heads to WWDC 2026 with cleanup, not revolution

On June 8, Apple will open WWDC 2026 under the slogan "All Systems Glow" — and the main intrigue is not new features, but whether the company will finally be able to restore Siri's reputation after a year of failures with Apple Intelligence.

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Honor X7e: Budget Smartphone with 7500 mAh Battery That No One Officially Announced

Honor quietly added a new X7e smartphone to its lineup — without any presentation or fanfare. The main focus: a giant battery and a 50 MP camera at a minimal price.

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Vepr progressed from testing to codification in a year: what Ukraine's first serial medic-robot can do

The Ministry of Defense has officially codified the Vepr ground robotic complex — a platform that has been operating on the front lines for a year and is capable of evacuating two wounded soldiers per trip without a human operator.

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US Opens Factory for NGI Missiles — But First Interceptors Will Arrive 18 Months Behind Schedule

Lockheed Martin officially opened the MAB-5 production facility in Cortland, Alabama. The plant has been built on schedule, however, delivery timelines have already been adjusted due to issues with solid rocket boosters.

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Drone Named After Fallen Fighter of 72nd Brigade Passes Codification and Ready for Procurement

Martyn Tech has developed a heavy quadcopter Adis with satellite control: 10 kg payload over 20 km, and in tests — 12 kg and 50 km with reduced load. The drone has already passed codification for military procurement.

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Poland will ban smartphones in schools from September — and has evidence it works

# Poland's government approved a bill banning mobile phones for students under 16 throughout the entire school day. The Netherlands, where a similar measure has been in effect since 2024, has already recorded results — and they are inconvenient for those who dismissed this idea as populism.

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Google Reads Your Email and Calendar — and Makes an Animated Film Out of It

# Google Labs' New Dreambeans App Generates Up to 14 Illustrated Stories Daily from Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search Data. An Antidote to Endless Scrolling — or a Perfect Surveillance Wrapper?

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Monobank customers learned one rule — thefts fell by half. Scammers have already found a workaround.

When mass public awareness about calls from "pseudo-banks" yielded real financial results, scammers shifted their focus: now they don't call themselves — they force victims to install an application or click a button.

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Ferrari Luce for €550,000: The Brand's First Electric Car Was Developed for Five Years — and It Has No Touchscreen

Ferrari has officially unveiled the Luce, a four-door, five-seater electric vehicle with 1,000 horsepower priced from €550,000. The design is by Jony Ive, it features physical buttons, and Ferrari's stock fell 3% on the day of the presentation.

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Delete — and it will disappear from OneDrive too. But only until September 2026

Samsung and Microsoft are removing the built-in Gallery synchronization with OneDrive. It's not a disaster, but there's one behavioral nuance that few people know about: after switching to a separate application, deleting photos from your smartphone will no longer erase them from the cloud.

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Terra A2: Japanese radar-integrated interceptor deployed to the front — Shahed will meet it 75 km from target

# Tokyo's Terra Drone Deploys Fixed-Wing Terra A2 Interceptor Drone in Ukraine with 75 km Coverage Radius Tokyo-based Terra Drone has deployed its fixed-wing Terra A2 interceptor drone in Ukraine with a coverage radius of 75 kilometers. The system complements the already-deployed Terra A1 and is built around a single principle: a cheaper interceptor against mass cheap threats.

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Samsung Galaxy S26 FE: case reveals more than manufacturer intended

Renders from a third-party accessory manufacturer have revealed the design of the Samsung Galaxy S26 FE months before its announcement — and simultaneously confirmed a shift in the Fan Edition lineup's philosophy.

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39,000 hryvnias per strike at 45 km: BlueBird Tech launches 'Bebradrone' into mass production

A kamikaze drone of aircraft type was developed together with fighters of the Special Operations Forces — and now it costs less than many FPV quadcopters. The question is whether the price can withstand the pressure of scaling.

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Google Renamed Tiles to Widgets — And It's Not Just Cosmetics

Wear OS 7 replaces familiar tiles with unified Android-compatible widgets and opens Galaxy Watch to third-party developers. Behind the convenient rebranding lies a serious bet on Gemini and voice control for smartwatches.