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each other, all on the same topic of batteries but different projects, all just today. There is something going on in the battery research and development area that's crazy. Now it makes sense because if there are robots everywhere, whoever makes the best battery is going to be making so much money you can't even believe it. They're going to be making more money than the Tesla-making robots probab…

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like a war, like let's say Ukraine against Russia, one of the things that would be really important to winning the war, especially a long ongoing kind of affair, is how well your team can communicate without getting intercepted. So you want to be able to quickly talk to your own team if you're in war, but you don't want the other team to be able to intercept your stuff.

Well it turns out that the Russians, the government, the military, was concerned that the Ukrainians could already hack their regular military communications, which would you know be encrypted but you know might be hackable. So what was and is the Russian military using instead of their normal encr

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ypted military app? Well it turns out that the only thing they trusted was the Telegram app. That's right. The soldiers who were actually in the thick of battle didn't have a better option than opening their phone and using the app to say, you know, you should target this or you should get some supplies over here or get some reinforcements over here. So if NATO could get a hold of a back door, hy…

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