La Lettre tech feels everything, a little embarrassed to mix its stories of clicks, business and gadgets with the sad disaster and the suffering of civilians in Ukraine. But technology is also a human vector, so we will salute, as does the NPR, Airbnb customers around the world who spontaneously came up with the idea of using the app as a tool to transfer funds to this ravaged country. All you have to do is make a reservation, without going there, since Ukraine, under the bombs, is not a holiday destination. In Kiev or elsewhere in the country, the Ukrainian “hosts” have already received more than 2 million dollars.
bad news from the stars
This is an opportunity, too, according to Recode, to wonder about the future of a celestial paradise of scientific collaboration and fraternity which seemed to have resisted the recurring tensions between the West and Russia. The International Space Station (ISS) was created twenty-nine years ago thanks to a partnership between NASA and the Russian space program and would never have seen the light of day without the Baikonur rockets. This 420-ton space monster, as wide as a football field, was also intended to be a laboratory for political reconciliation between the two Cold War rivals. But the war in Ukraine ruined everything. In the latest news, Dmitri Rogozin, fiery boss of the Russian space program, reminds on all the television sets of his country that the ISS only holds in the air thanks to the Russian engines which regularly adjust its position in orbit. Without them, the station would move little by little, before falling back to Earth. Its most massive elements would not burn up while passing through the atmosphere and could strike the United States or Europe.
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