France will build a new, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to replace its Charles de Gaulle carrier by 2038, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday. The Associated Press reports: Macron framed the decision to use nuclear reactors to propel the future warship as part of France’s climate strategy, stressing its lower emissions compared to diesel fuel. Speaking at a nuclear facility in the…
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Wreck of WWII battleship with Nazi symbol discovered off Norway
The wreck of a German warship torpedoed and sunk by a British submarine in 1940 has been discovered in deep water off the North Sea coast of southern Norway. Source: https://www.livescience.com/wwii-battleship-with-nazi-symbol-discovered.html
Famous World War I Battleship Discovered at the Bottom of the Atlantic
The wreck of one of the most famous German warships of World War I has been located on the seafloor near the Falkland Islands, where it sank in a battle with British warships more than 100 years ago. Source: https://www.livescience.com/famous-wwi-german-warship-discovered-scharnhorst.html
Long-Lost WWII Ship Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean
The Kaga sank during the historic Battle of Midway, along with six other vessels. Source: https://www.livescience.com/explorers-find-wwii-warship.html
Ex-Google Engineer Says That Robot Weapons May Cause Accidental Mass Killings
“A former Google engineer who worked on the company’s infamous military drone project has sounded a warning against the building of killer robots,” reports Business Insider. Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger quotes their report: Laura Nolan had been working at Google four years when she was recruited to its collaboration with the US Department of Defense, known as Project Maven, in 2017,…