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A massive electric mining truck out of China is turning heads in the heavy industry space. The Zijin Longking ZL two-thirty E weighs in at three hundred fifty tons and carries a one thousand four hundred kilowatt-hour battery — enough energy to power dozens of homes. The company claims it can charge from ten to ninety percent in just twenty-five minutes, a remarkable figure for a machine of this scale.
Shifting from mines to the sea, Taiwan has partnered with American defense startup Vatn Systems to explore modular undersea drone technology. The collaboration centers on Vatn's S-twelve drone platform, which pairs artificial intelligence with a flexible, lower-cost design. For Taiwan, investing in unmanned underwater systems offers a strategic hedge that doesn't require the price tag of traditional naval hardware.
And on a deeply unsettling note, scammers in Singapore used real video footage of the country's leaders to construct a convincing fake Zoom call, ultimately defrauding victims of five million dollars. It's a sharp reminder that deepfake technology is no longer a theoretical threat — it's an active tool in the hands of organized fraud operations right now.
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