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Coming up with a name for your ship in Helldivers 2 is actually quite challenging if you care about these sorts of things. Do you want to be serious, funny, or make a cool reference to something else? The game gives you a lot to work with, so if you’re struggling to come up with one, here are the best combinations for ship names in Helldivers 2. Best combinations for ship names in Helldivers 2 The best combinations for ship names will be below. The naming process for your ship starts with a noun followed by a…

Over time, you can upgrade your Super Destroyer ship in Helldivers 2. With the purchase of new modules, the ship transforms by adding new sectors or weaponry on the bow. But if there’s something that I feel needs to be included on the Helldivers 2 ship, it’s a shooting range. Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’re making your way through the Cutting Edge Warbond and spot the Punisher Plasma weapon. You always wanted an electric shotgun, you just didn’t know until now. Quickly, you buy it and jump into a mission. While…

In 2021, Australian mining and cleantech company Fortescue announced a plan to float the world's first ammonia-powered ship by 2022. It's a bit late, and not quite as ammonia-powered as we hoped, but the Green Pioneer now appears ready to roll.The Fortescue Green Pioneer was loaded with three metric tonnes of liquid ammonia at a terminal on Jurong Island, off the southwest coast of Singapore, earlier this week. That's the news here, it doesn't appear to have started actually using the fuel – and that's perhaps emblematic…

An age of greener, more efficient shipping may be in the offing as a specially modified 43,000-tonne bulk freighter completes a six-month sea trial using a combination of diesel engines and a set of high-tech automatic sails to catch the wind.Mixing sail and power isn't a new thing. In fact, it goes back to the very first steamships when shipmasters weren't particularly keen to rely on a cranky, half-experimental portable steam engine to cross the ocean. Even today, all but the smallest sailing boats have some sort of…

This innovative control method accounts for the wave loads present in real sea conditions that affect the maneuvering performance of autonomous ships, providing an optimized controller for time-efficient navigation. Credit: Daejeong Kim from Korea Maritime & Ocean University The study of ship maneuvering at sea has long been the central focus of the shipping industry. With the rapid advancements in remote control,…

Several subsea communications cables in the Red Sea were cut on Saturday, temporarily affecting a quarter of all data traffic flowing between Asia and Europe. Some have blamed the Houthi rebels for intentionally sabotaging the cables. The group, which has conducted a number of attacks on cargo vessels in the Red Sea in recent weeks, has denied any responsibility.   The real picture, however, looks a little more complex. According to German internet firm DE-CIX, which rents capacity on one of…

Image: Photo: Shutterstock Graphics: Vicky LetaRenowned puzzler Peter Winkler invented the addictive word game, HIPE, with some friends when they were juniors in high school. While it may not have become the overnight success of Wordle, the game did earn Winkler admission to Harvard. According to his book, Mathematical Mind-Benders, he wrote a college admission essay about how his verbal diversion sparked a local craze. Four years later, as a Harvard senior, Winkler overheard an admissions committee member quizzing a…

Global EV leader BYD is taking Europe by storm. BYD’s first cargo ship landed in Germany Tuesday, with about 3,000 vehicles set to roll out BYD’s first cargo ship lands in Germany with 3K cars BYD’s first car transport ship, the Explorer No.1, arrived in China earlier this year. The so-called “Ro-Ro” (roll on, roll off) transport ship is 653 ft long and can carry 7,000 vehicles. The ship is owned by Zodiac Maritime, with BYD leasing it. The vessel is the first of eight for exports. As the first…

Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups are notoriously so, regardless of how much money and excitement you’ve managed to drum up. Given all that, it’s likely few are too surprised that Humane’s upcoming Ai Pin has been pushed back a bit, from March to “mid-April,” per a new video from the Bay Area startup’s Head of Media, Sam Sheffer. In the Sorkin-style walk and talk, he explains that the first units are set to, “start leaving the factory at the end of…

While the majority of your success lies in which weapons and armor you carry when facing off against the Terminids and Automatons on various missions in Helldivers 2, you shouldn’t overlook what your ship can do to support you. Besides just naming your destroyer, there’s far more you can do to customize it with modules. Whereas weapons and Boosters will impact you and your squad on a more constant basis, ship modules come in clutch when you need to bring out the big guns, aka Stratagems. These power weapons are…