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| 9 hours ago | New SSC Supercar Leaked, Reveal Coming Later This Month | | The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has once again put the Volkswagen Group's French marque back at the top of the fastest production car charts with its recent 268-mph record, but within days Shelby Supercars (SSC) announced it would be once again gunning to top Bugatti. We already know that SSC's new... |
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| 9 hours ago | 8 Incredible LEGO Mods | | Building a LEGO model by following the directions is one thing, but it takes ingenuity and engineering ability to create an original LEGO composition. Here are eight of the most incredible LEGO mods ever constructed. |
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| 9 hours ago | ACLU: Obama Is Embracing Abusive Bush Policies | | For disillusioned Obama supporters, the ACLU's July report "Establishing the New Normal" is not a heartening read.
After being voted into office on promises that included undoing abuses carried out under the Bush administration - promises to protect privacy, to end government-sanctioned torture and rendition programs and to end the use of military commissions for non-enemy combatants - President Obama's administration is proving it is far easier to tow the line than buck a trend. |
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| 15 hours ago | Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas | | NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Mexican authorities opened shelters and warned people to watch out for mudslides Monday as Tropical Storm Hermine approached the northeastern border with Texas, the second major storm to hit the area this season. |
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| 15 hours ago | MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts | | Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it'd take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to let researchers and scientists convert to Google's mobile OS, but if you aren't falling for that one, it's also designed to "let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field, and to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems." Of course, the models that are hosted on the phone do require a supercomputer to create, but once certain formulas are embedded, the app can then compute approximations in mere seconds rather than hours. Best of all, rbAPPmit is available for download as well speak in the source link below, but we'd probably wait for the (presumably thick) user guide to surface before diving in headfirst.
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| 15 hours ago | Colombian named 'world's shortest man' | | A Colombian has officially been declared the world's shortest man by Guinness World Records officials -- but his reign looks set to be short-lived. |
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| 15 hours ago | The 5 Dumbest Comic Story-lines | | Comics are known to sometimes be nothing more than soap operas with thought bubbles, but sometimes the stories can get seriously dumb. |
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| 15 hours ago | When Did Bureaucrats Become Legislators? | | A memo surfaced from Homeland Security suggesting ways to circumvent existing law to allow several categories of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and, indeed, for some to be granted permanent residency. Regardless of your feelings on the issue, administrators administer the law, they don't change it. That's the legislators' job. |
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| 24 hours ago | Giant Metal Transmission Towers Designed to Look Like Humans | | Boston-based architecture firm Choi + Shine designs giant electric transmission towers with lifelike features! Nothing spoils a peaceful drive or bike ride through nature more than passing by a series of ugly manmade transmission towers... |
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| 24 hours ago | Rare Designer Slams Activision Regarding Goldeneye Remake | | Martin Hollis, the designer of the original GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, has spoken in a recent interview with Official Nintendo Magazine about his thoughts on the upcoming remake. What he has to say isn't particularly nice, however. |
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| 24 hours ago | Snakebot inspires dreams, haunts nightmares | | Built by robotics students at Carnegie Mellon, Uncle Sam the Snakebot is simultaneously horribly awesome, and awesomely creepy.
Uncle Sam is programmed with a variety of different "gaits", or types of movement patterns, which are based on the real-life behavior of real-life snakes. The goal is to create a modular—and, thus, relatively simple to produce and scale—robot that can get to and through places where people, and less-willies-inducing robots, can't maneuver.
Via Switched
The snakebots are coming
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| 24 hours ago | 9 Websites Stuck in the 1990’s | | In the past ten years, the Internet has changed so drastically – so completely – that it’s hard to remember what a vastly different place it was in the 1990’s. |
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