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Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A central processor microchip known as a semiconductor within a circuit board at Bonn Proton Ltd on October 08, 2021 in Bonn, Germany. (Photo illustration by Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images)
A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency Bitcoin is on display in front of the Bitcoin course's graph on October 21, 2021 in Paris, France. (Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)
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