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Porsche Green Lights 718-HP 918 Spyder; Hybrid Said to Get 78 Miles Per Gallon

The Supervisory Board at Porsche this week gave the green light for series development of the 918 Spyder, the 718-horsepower all-wheel-drive hybrid sports car with outstanding fuel economy and claimed 3.2-seconds 0-62 mph quickness.
Taken from …


Only 0.3% of files on BitTorrent confirmed to be legal

The large majority of content found on BitTorrent is illegal, a new study out of the University of Ballarat in Australia has confirmed. Researchers from the university’s Internet Commerce Security Laboratory scraped torrents from 23…


Deepwater Horizon: Where will the oil go now?

Using data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Slate has produced a fascinating (and very depressing) interactive model of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (thanks, Richard Metzger).


Fart-operated TV remote

On Instructables, Schmidtn posted how-to instructions for his Fart Operated Random Channel TV Remote.

My Pops really enjoys two things; 1) channel surfing and 2) farting.
So one day I was over at Hackaday and read about a guy who used his Arduino to …


For Online Video, Work Time Is Still Primetime

Despite the growing number of people who watch online video in the primetime hours of 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., for the most part online-video viewing continues to be a work-time distraction, according to new data from TubeMogul and Brightcove. That’s espec…


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