Quicksink kit turns “dumb” bombs into ship destroyers

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has demonstrated the ability of air-dropped bombs to sink ships with the effectiveness of a submarine-launched torpedo at a fraction of the cost by sinking a full-scale vessel in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Brabus transforms Mercedes G-Class into gnarly, dune-sending SxS

To celebrate its 45th anniversary, Brabus does something different, stripping the Mercedes-AMG G63 into a downright evil buggy that looks plucked from the side-by-side market. In fact, it's a literal OHV that's no longer street-legal in the least.

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Why your open-source project definitely should not be the next Kubernetes

There is no one-size-fits-all definition of success in open-source projects. Image: Amazon Everyone is into open source these days. Microsoft just released its 3D Movie Maker software under an open…

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Portable MRI could perform onsite checks for tennis wrist injuries

Tennis players are susceptible to wrist cartilage injuries, which may not even present any symptoms at first. A van-based MRI system was designed with that in mind, as it can spot such injuries right at the tennis court, before they become serious.

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Salt-loaded BioBullets kill zebra mussels by passing as food

Invasive freshwater zebra mussels are a problem in many areas, clogging structures such as water intake and water treatment pipes as they rapidly reproduce. A new technology could help, by getting them to eat "eco-friendly" poison disguised as food.

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