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Hyundai's Going Electric
The Korean automaker unveils the tiny BlueOn, promises to have a test fleet on the road next month and (some) cars in (some) showrooms in 2012.
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E-Books Are Still Waiting for Their Avant-Garde
E-readers have tried to make reading as smooth, natural and comfortable as possible so that the device fades away and immerses you in the imaginative experience of reading. This is a worthy goal, but it also may be a profound mistake.
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Photog Distinguishes Himself by Mimicking Google
San Francisco photographer Michael Jang has adopted an unusual way of gaining attention with his photography website. His new site mimics a Google search page.
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Jobseekers dress for success, boost Men's Warehouse?
Is the recession helping Men's Warehouse sell more suits? The Houston-based tuxedo and suit retailer reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings, thanks in part to increased sales.
While there was no indication from the company as the reason behind the increased sales, workplace...
Men - Men's Wearhouse - Clothing - Black tie - Shopping
Men - Men's Wearhouse - Clothing - Black tie - Shopping
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IBM Mimics Car Salesman With No-Money-Down to Poach From Rivals
Interest-free payments and no money down until 2011: It sounds like a car-salesman’s pitch. Actually, it’s International Business Machines Corp.’s latest effort to poach corporate customers from rivals Oracle Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Carbon Emissions Not at Doomsday Level ... Yet
What would happen if the whole world suddenly stopped building new carbon dioxide emitters, from coal plants to cars, and let the existing ones die naturally of old age? Will the carbon emitters of today push us over the limit, no matter what we do next?
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Real-Time Physics Engine Gives New Life to <em>NHL '11</em>
Take an inside look at Electronic Art's NHL '11, which sports a real-time physics engine — the first time such a feature has been implemented in a hockey videogame.
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Koran-Burning Church's Website Yanked From Internet
The website of a church that plans to burn a Koran on Saturday to commemorate Sept. 11 was removed from the internet after its hosting service said the site violated its terms of service agreement.
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Rare, Tiny, Supercute Baby Seahorse Found in British Waters
The Seahorse Trust, after years of surveying the fish in British waters, has finally found, measured and photographed a 1.6-inch tiny baby seahorse, which is also called a fry.
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Apple Drops Harsh Development Restrictions, Reveals Review Rules
Apple has opened up the App Store review process, dropping its harsh restrictions on the tools developers are allowed to use and at the same time actually publishing the App Store Review Guidelines — a previously secret set of rules that governed whether or not your app would be approved.
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1976 Look at Mars Soil May Have Missed Life's Building Blocks
The Viking mission to Mars may have destroyed compounds that make biology possible while trying to detect them in the soil.
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What's In A Search, If You Don't Hit the Search Button?
Searches used to be easy to count. You would wait for someone to type words into a search box and then hit enter. Call that a search. That made it easy for outside analysts like ComScore to know how to figure out which search engine was tops. All of that got a lot more confusing with the introduction of Google’s 'Instant Search,' which starts showing you search results as soon as you type the first letter into its search box.
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How Google Instant Could Reinvent Channel Flipping
The key to the next generation of TV is likely to be search, and the biggest drag on search is going to be text entry. If Google TV is really going to be the 'one screen to rule them all,' it has to solve that problem.
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Electrified Beetle Goes Coast-to-Coast in Canada
The student-built E-Beetle fried its charger and dropped a half-shaft, but it became the first electric car to cross Canada.
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This Sept. 11, Will Terror Sites Get Hacked Again?
For two years now, Islamic extremist websites mysteriously have gone down as Sept. 11 approached. Many suspect the U.S. government. Will it happen again?
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Sept. 9, 1926: RCA Creates a Radio Network
The National Broadcasting Company is established. The network would dominate radio during that medium's Golden Age and become the foundation of a massive media empire that to this day just keeps growing.
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Quantifying the Boundaries of Athletic Achievement
In his new book The Perfection Point, Sport Science host John Brenkus explains how we can push and predict the limits in athletic feats.
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Dyno-Testing the Automotive X Prize Finalists
If you follow emerging automotive technology like electric cars and hybrids, you're no doubt excited about the Automotive X-Prize. The contest, which started three years ago, promises $10 million to the best production-capable car that can achieve 100 mpg or the energy equivalent. The winner will be announced Sept. 16 in Washington, D.C.
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