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.