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A consortium led by BAE Systems has been tapped to provide the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) next generation of frigates based on Britain's Type 26 warship as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy with BAE providing the variant modifications.

​Although professional mechanics use a lift or a pit to get at the undersides of cars, home-based tinkerers don't usually have such a setup. And while using a wheeled creeper to squeeze underneath the vehicle is one alternative, the new "It's a Jack" lets users tilt their autos over instead.

Orbex has unveiled the world's largest 3D-printed rocket engine. The single-piece, cryogenic liquid-fueled engine was installed in the second stage of an engineering prototype of the company's Orbex Prime launcher and is claimed to be more powerful by volume than many heavy launchers.

In a new commentary, two researchers are questioning the ethics and transparency of Facebook’s suicide prevention system. The algorithm reportedly flags users deemed to be at high-risk of self-harm activating a process where the company notifies local authorities to intervene.

​​Attaching regular roof racks to your car is an investment. Lately we're seeing cheaper and more flexible solutions emerge, the latest of which uses bicycle inner tubes to support sports gear en-route and keep your paintwork scratch-free.​

Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have developed a new material that senses how warm a person’s body is and automatically adjusts how much heat it traps or releases.

A 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B has taken out the Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, the de facto world championship for concours cars. This one-of-five car was displayed at the 1937 Paris Auto Salon, 1937 Milan Auto Show, 1938 Berlin Motor Show, and won the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

​​It didn’t come easily, but Tesla’s long grind toward become an influential force in electric vehicle manufacturing, and the automotive industry as a whole, is beginning the bear some fruit.

Alfa Romeo unveiled a 4C Spider called the Italia. When the cover was pulled off it in Chicago, we could see that the handcrafted little 4C would be something special. Only 15 of the cars will be built for the North American market, each with a US$5,000 price jump over the standard 4C.

With an array of tiny speakers and a microphone built into the arms, Bose hopes its Frames sunglasses will begin life as a personal audio device, but soon start augmenting realities by layering useful snippets of sound over what the wearer sees in front of them.

Plants are incredibly complex organisms that sense and react to their surroundings. Their normal methods of getting around are pretty slow, so to give them a helping hand researchers at MIT have now created “cyborg plants” that can control a robot base to drive themselves where they want to go.

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), working with local firm A_Lab, has won an architecture competition to design two stations for a new metro line planned for Oslo, Norway. Construction on the line is due to begin in 2020 and the stations are expected to be completed by 2025.