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Why the US Navy had to turn its carriers into floating fortresses

World War II showed just how vulnerable early carriers could be when bombs, torpedoes, fire, and aviation fuel turned a single hit into a catastrophe. Over the decades, the U.S. Navy answered that ...
manilatimes

MOL, Hitachi partner to transform used ships into floating data centers

SHIPPING giant Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL) and tech conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. announced on Monday, March 30, the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to repurpose second-hand vessels into ...
TechSpot

Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers

Offshore AI: Despite growing public skepticism toward AI, corporations are aggressively building an unprecedented number of new data-crunching facilities... so much so that Japan is now exploring the ...
New York Post

NorCal county could be home to hundreds of wind turbines as tall as the Eiffel Tower — and the project would cost billions

Green energy activists have set their sights on a small county in Northern California for the construction of a massive offshore wind farm that is estimated to cost billions. The 10-year construction ...
Bay News 9

'World’s Largest Rubber Duck' coming to Clearwater

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A special visitor will be making an appearance in downtown Clearwater in January, and you won’t be able to miss it. The “World’s Largest Rubber Duck” is set to visit Coachman Park ...
BBC

Floating studio aims to get youngsters into art

The narrowboat will travel 150 miles on the West Midlands' waterways A canal narrowboat which has been turned into a floating arts studio will travel 150 miles (241km) on the region's canal networks, ...
AppleInsider

How NASA approved the iPhone 17 Pro Max for the Artemis II space mission

Early images of the Artemis II launch showed an iPhone floating inside the spacecraft. Here's how Apple's smartphone got approved for spaceflight. NASA is very strict when it comes to what items are ...
TechRadar

Floating data centers cruise a bit closer after a major show of support from Japanese giant Hitachi

Floating data centers move closer as Hitachi backs ship conversion plan Japan explores offshore computing to bypass land shortages and infrastructure limits Seawater cooling offers efficiency gains ...
Indiatimes

Why astronauts carry plush toys into space: Baby Yoda, Snoopy and other mascots used as floating zero gravity indicators

Plush toys travelling into space may sound unusual, yet they have quietly remained part of human spaceflight for decades. Missions conducted by organisations like NASA and companies such as SpaceX ...
Forbes

Currency Converter: Live Currency

Check the currency rates against all the world currencies here. The currency converter below is easy to use and the currency rates are updated frequently. This is very much needed given the extreme ...
The Washington Post

As one of Greenland’s largest ice shelves shrinks, a once-doubtful scientist has come around to the role of climate change in melting it.

Half a decade before he took this trip to the farthest reaches of the north, Andreas Muenchow had his doubts about whether warming temperatures were causing one of the world’s great platforms of ice ...