Reality Bites
We’ve featured a few Chrome extensions for Google services before, but today Google released three official extensions. With them, you can view your Google Calendar, clip web pages to Google Docs, and view your YouTube feed right from Chrome’s navigation bar. More »
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Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. .
There is evidence to suggest that those with high I.Q.s stay up later and sleep later.
Researchers from the London School of Economics have found that people with high I.Q.s are more … Read more
The use of a second key to unlock extra potential in a vehicle isn’t exactly new: Bugatti’s mind-blowing Veyron has a special tumbler-tickler that will let it hit 253mph; the Segway PT offers different fobs for different speeds. But such high-tech foppery on a Mustang? Yes, Ford continues to impress as the domestic marque with the techiest toys, announcing that buyers of next year’s Boss 302 can purchase an optional TracKey package, shown after the break. Take the standard black key and you’ll have a rip-roaring, 444hp monster. Take the red key, though, and you’ll see how fast that pony can run down the rabbit hole. The car detects a different RFID chip in the fob and loads a secondary, track-specific engine tune, tweaking 200 ECM parameters to boost everything from throttle response to engine braking. It’ll turn a semi-civilized muscle car into a completely track-ready beast, including launch control. When it’s time for a more leisurely cruise users can just switch back to the black key, return to daily driver status, and leave Wonderland — for a little while, at least.
Ford adds race-ready TracKey to Mustang Boss 302, leaves no doubt about who’s in charge originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Solemn ceremonies were held across the country and as far away as Afghanistan and South Korea to remember Canada’s war dead on Thursday.
Zooey Deschanel might be starring in the new Spider-Man movie! Sources say director Marc Webber — who worked with the actress on Days of Summer
Six days. That’s how long it took to build this level 9 Earthquake-resistant, sound-proofed, thermal-insulated 15-story hotel in Changsha, complete with everything, from the cabling to three-pane windows. The foundations were already built, but it’s just impressive. More »
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Simpsons did it, again.
Fox has officially ordered a 23rd season of The Simpsons, ensuring…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops sold-through an estimated $360 million in the first 24 hours in North America and the UK alone, Activision has announced, leading the publisher to declare the November 9 launch the new “biggest entertainment launch ever.” It had previously bestowed the title upon Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Treyarch’s Cold War-era shooter sold through approximately 5.6 million copies in North America and the United Kingdom, according to Activis…
Space. It’s an expansive cold place full of giant scary
things–huge terrifying object like these space bubbles. There are two of them,
jutting out on either side of the Milky Galaxy, north and south. The two
objects, taken together, measure 50,000 light years.
The giant space bubbles weren’t discovered until recently,
when astronomer Doug Finkbeiner happened upon them at the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, thanks to NASA’s Fermi
Gamma-Ray Telescope.
So, what are they? Who knows? Not Finkbeiner. He told the press, "We don't fully
understand their nature or origin." We do know that they're big, however–they take
up roughly half of the visible sky. Apparently we've haven't seen them until
now, thanks to all of the gamma radiation in the sky.
Just a few weeks ago, we got word (by way of a few Tweets) that Jolicloud was seemingly — if the images were any indication — in the final stages of developing a netbook of its own. Well, we’ve just gotten some official news on just that topic. The Jolibook, as it’s going to be known, is of mostly unknown specifications at this point, but here’s what we do know: the Jolicloud 1.1-powered laptop will boast an Atom N550 CPU, and a 250GB hard drive. Jolicloud also says that the netbook’s display will boast a “gorgeous” screen and an affordable price. Sadly, that’s all we know for now, though the company is promising that all this is going down this month, so we’re going to keep our eyes peeled for you.
Jolibook is the official netbook of Jolicloud, coming this month? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox 4 Beta 7 is out, and it’s an impressive preview of the final release. Mozilla has let loose the JaegerMonkey engine, enabled hardware graphics acceleration on Windows and Mac, and integrated Sync and the awesome Panorama/”Tab Candy”. More »
And if for some reason you disagree, you have to at least admit it’s the sexiest.
Google has a lesson for its employees: Don’t tell the world how well we treat you, or you’ll be fired. The company apparently told staff today it terminated the employee who leaked word of a 10 percent companywide pay raise. More »
Internet search giant Google Inc. is giving its 23,300 employees a 10 per cent pay raise starting next year.
The United States Air Force is now looking for a F-22 Raptor replacement. It must be in service by 2030 and, for the first time ever, they want to be able to deploy these combat fighters unmanned and remotely controlled. More »
