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Aussie Team Smashes Land Speed Record For Solar-Powered Cars
By admin on January 9, 2011 | Comments Off
snowdon writes “A record which has stood since 1987, set by General Motors, has been broken (YouTube video) by a university team. The land speed record for a solar powered car was 78km/h, and now stands at 88km/h despite the cloudy conditions… If only Doc Brown had used the metric system!”
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Speed in frame for Wales positionBy admin on December 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Gary Speed emerges as a target for the Football Association of Wales as it seeks a successor to former national team boss John Toshack.
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UK Minister Backs ‘Two-Speed’ InternetBy admin on November 17, 2010 | Comments Off
Darkon writes “UK Culture minister Ed Vaizey has backed a ‘two-speed internet’, letting service providers charging content makers and customers for ‘fast lane’ access. It paves the way for an end to ‘net neutrality’ — with heavy bandwidth users like Google and the BBC likely to face a bill for the pipes they use.”
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FA to speed up disciplinary casesBy admin on August 8, 2010 | Comments Off
Disciplinary cases will be dealt with in days rather than weeks by the Football Assocation under a new initiative.
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E3 2010: Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Reboot AnnouncedBy admin on June 25, 2010 | Comments Off
The developers behind the popular Burnout racing series, Criterion Games have unveiled their newest project, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit — a title that’s said to take the Need for Speed series “back to its roots,” intense cops vs. racer chases.
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Bud Selig: Umpires Can Speed Up MLB GamesBy admin on April 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Selig has given umpires the green light to crack down on slow-poke hitters, the sport’s equivalent of those drivers cruising at 45 mph in the left lane with their turn signal perpetually on.
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High-Speed Video Free With High-Def PhotographyBy admin on February 17, 2010 | Comments Off
bugzappy notes a development out of the University of Oxford, where scientists have developed a technology capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. The researchers started out trying to capture images of biological processes, such as the behavior of heart tissue under various circumstances. They combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors. What’s new is that (more…)
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Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For SpeedBy admin on January 31, 2010 | Comments Off
VonGuard writes “Facebook has gotten fed up with the speed of PHP. The company has been working on a skunkworks project to rewrite the PHP runtime, and on Tuesday of this week, they will be announcing the availability of their new PHP runtime as an open source project. The rumor around this began last week when the Facebook team invited some of the core PHP contributors to their campus to discuss some new open source project. I’ve written up everything (more…)
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Driver Wears Monkey Mask to Beat Speed CamerasBy admin on September 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Valley Monkey has 37 unpaid photo enforcement tickets; actually it’s just a dude in a mask, but he’s not paying the tickets either.
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Kernel 2.6.31 to speed up Linux desktop – Firewire, Linux, lBy admin on September 5, 2009 | Comments Off
With the next version of the Linux kernel, 2.6.31, due for release soon, Linux desktop users can look forward to a faster experience in addition to USB 3.0 support and new Firewire drivers.
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