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A 6.6-pound Canadian missile the length of a baseball bat chases a laser dot somebody on the ground is holding on the drone, blows its fragments straight ahead instead of ...

Calgary's North Vector Dynamics unveiled the CM-70, a 6.6-pound counter-drone missile built to swat $100K Shaheds without breaking the bank.
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A Swiss tomato grower hung 1,736 solar modules inside his greenhouse directly over the rows, and they take only the infrared the plants never use, so the crop came ou…

Put a solar panel anywhere near a crop and you have started a fight. The panel wants sunlight, the plant wants sunlight, and ...
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Japan switched one reactor back on at the biggest nuclear station ever built after fourteen years dark, and three weeks later the utility that owns it started switching o…

Kashiwazaki-Kariwa sits on the Sea of Japan coast about 135 miles northwest of Tokyo, and it is the largest nuclear power ...
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A 2,000-pound American drone named after a fish swims into the mines Iran laid in the Strait of Hormuz for 16 hours at a time, comes up nose-first so nobody has to go in the ...

The US Navy's answer to Iran's mine campaign in the Strait of Hormuz isn't a destroyer or a minesweeper — it's a 2,000-pound robot fish that hunts alone for 16 hours straight in waters no sailor is ...
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Two 4,400-ton machines finished digging under Melbourne last month after two years and 2.8 million tons of rock, and nobody drives through the hole until 2028, b…

A tunnel boring machine gets famous exactly twice in its life. Once when it goes into the ground with a naming ceremony and a ...
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A 661-pound Swedish drone fires out of a submarine’s torpedo tube, crawls across the Baltic floor at 3 knots, picks up a second one that has been sitting there waiting and ...

Sweden has been quietly running a torpedo-tube-launched robot that rescues other underwater drones since 2019 — six years before the US Navy held its first press conference about doing something ...
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Four 330-ton German steam generators came out of a dead reactor building whole, sailed to a Swedish smelter as a single 1,200-ton shipment, and about 95% of that steel will ...

Germany just sent four massive steam generators from a shuttered nuclear plant on a one-way trip to a Swedish smelter, and the scale of what it takes to actually dismantle a dead reactor will stop you ...
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A 13-foot yellow Japanese drone spent two weeks hunting mines in a northern bay alongside an American ship with a wooden hull, because the frigate that carries the drone is ...

Japan's Mogami-class frigates have quietly solved one of naval warfare's oldest puzzles by keeping the steel ship safely out of the minefield and sending a 13-foot drone to do the dangerous work ...
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Arizona bolted 2,556 solar panels over half a mile of irrigation canal on steel trusses that never touch the water, the first in the country to do it, and it costs about twice ...

Arizona just pulled off something no American irrigation district had done before — solar panels bolted over a working canal — but the real story is how a project that was supposed to finish second ...
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Supercars are in trouble: Influencers may flock to them at Monterey Car Week, but rich people aren’t actually buying them

The supercar market is quietly cracking — and it's not just average buyers walking away, it's the wealthy ones who are suddenly saying "no thanks" to Lamborghinis and Bentleys. An anonymous industry ...
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Jay Leno’s classic car law cleared the committee that killed the last version, and it would let 1976 to 1985 cars skip California’s smog check for good, which is a window ...

Jay Leno's smog exemption bill just cleared the exact California committee that killed its predecessor, and this time it has something the last version didn't: bipartisan support engineered through a ...