can t keep paying the bill. they re asking the pentagon to pick up the tab. the company said it s spent close to $100 million and now it s time for washington to step up. in ukraine s fight to push out russian invaders, one of the most critical pieces of technology doesn t fire rockets or bullets. it s small, easy to use satellite terminals called star link made by spacex, founded by elon musk. there are around 20,000 star link terminals in ukraine. and they ve been vital for soldier s communications, flying drones and targeting. star link is the glue really between the forward deployed drone and the artillary conducting the strikes. reporter: cnn has now exclusively obtained documents
he s such a pessimist! i m going to leave you to keep battling this out. you re such a pessimist! we ve got the optimist and the pessimist here. osman and omar, thank you. hello and welcome to your weekly tech news round up. it was the week big tech got involved in the war between russia and ukraine. google removed russian state funded publishers such as rt from google news and youtube and has turned off live traffic data in ukraine on its maps service. apple says it s stopped selling its products in russia and has restricted apple pay. and spacex has sent starlink satellite terminals to ukraine after its deputy prime minister requested the dishes over twitter. activity monitoring company fitbit is voluntarily recalling its ionic smartwatch after users reported burns from its internal battery overheating. the wearable device was launched in 2017 and the company is issuing full refunds and discount codes for those affected.
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