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To celebrate 20 years of Sonic, Sega has launched the latest game in the series, Sonic Generations, on multiple platforms including the Nintendo 3DS. Now, the legendary hedgehog meets his classic counterpart in a new adventure where old and modern merge. Story As it turns out, a mysterious new creature comes into ... |
31 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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How long can a series get by on sheer exploitation of nostalgia intermingled with an appreciation of speed? If you believe that respecting the pat and repackaging it for a new generation is OK and you have good reflexes you will probably enjoy Sonic Generations, the new platformer from publisher SEGA and the develope... |
15 December 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Sonic Generations might just be the game to revive the fortunes of the anthropomorphic hedgehog, with its focus on pure gameplay and the interesting and smart mix between the old and the new of the series.The main quality of Sonic Generations is that it manages to play up the element of speed that has always been the... |
2 December 2011
18:01 GMT |
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One of the biggest changes made to Dragon Age 2, one that is unavoidable even in the earliest moments of the game, is the modification made to the speed of all combat action, with all characters now mowing around about twice as quickly as they did in Origins, by my evaluation.
There seems to be no actual increase ... |
14 March 2011
17:51 GMT |
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Racing games have been an important part of a gamer's life ever since the early arcade days when you’d control spaceships and tried to avoid asteroids. Later on, cars took their place and the limits of computer generated reality kept on expanding. Black Rock Studios is pushing forward into the racing simu... |
10 February 2011
18:11 GMT |
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The big tail that Tyrannosaurus Rex had, was helping it run much faster than scientists estimated, making it the fastest hunter of its time.University of Alberta graduate student Scott Persons, discovered that Tyrannosaurus Rex was not at all a slow Cretaceous creature, whose tail only served as counterbalance for it... |
16 November 2010
09:11 GMT |
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Google's love affair with 'speed' is a downright obsession, not that anyone's complaining. The company is not content with speeding up its own products, it wants everyone else to be faster as well and the latest move towards this is a new module for the very popular Apache web server, dubbed mod_p... |
4 November 2010
05:25 GMT |
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According to a new decision by authorities in the United States, a series of speed restrictions will be imposed for the water along the Eastern Seaboard, so that inbound or outbound ships could avoid striking endangered right whales, and accidentally killing them. These restrictions will however be only seasonal for ... |
2 November 2010
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Researchers have recently identified a chemical that could soon make barnacle contamination of ship hulls a thing of the past. The finding was been a long time coming, and it arrives not a moment too soon. Even the US Navy has bee investigating methods of getting rid of the pesky marine life forms for years, but with... |
16 August 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Scientists announce the discovery of the fastest known jumper in the animal kingdom. The flea-sized, shrimp-like critter is capable of achieving speeds of up to thousands of times its body length per second, admittedly over very short distances. However, the amount of effort involved in doing so is unrivaled among an... |
13 May 2010
04:47 GMT |
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The New Zealand Government has approved plans to sponsor and build a national rural broadband network to supply 5 Mbps connections to people and institutions in rural areas. The plan is to be carried out by Telecom New Zealand, and will be aimed at providing high-quality Internet access for schools, students and home... |
16 March 2010
10:46 GMT |
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It looks like Google isn't the only web company with a need for speed. While its efforts border on obsession, another Silicon Valley-based startup turned internet giant is starting to be a contender for the title, one that is quickly becoming Google's main adversary. Facebook has caught the speed bug and se... |
19 February 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Biologists and anthropologists have argued for a long time that, past a certain speed level, the amount of force that is used to push against the ground becomes less important, and the emphasis shifts on the muscles. It is believed that, in order to achieve the maximum theoretical speed possible for a human being, 40... |
3 February 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Recently announced by Sony as the standard web browser on its future selling PCs, Chrome has come a long way since its debut last year – such a long way, that it’s already setting the bar for speed and function, according to a person at Google. Competing web browsers, such as Safari, are faster today beca... |
7 September 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Since Ancient times, people have been fascinated with the way these large cats run, and especially with the speed that they can reach, of up to 112 to 120 kilometers/hour (70 and 75 mph) over short distances of about 460 meters (1,500 feet). What exactly makes the cheetah run so fast has been a subject of controversy... |
10 July 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Today, Apple will release its latest iPhone model, the iPhone 3G S. The new device is almost identical to its predecessor, but packs under-the-hood enhancements, such as a better processor, more memory, a better camera and a digital compass. All these features, as well as the original ones, go hand in hand with the r... |
19 June 2009
08:07 GMT |
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A recent discovery showed that fungal species registered speeds of 88 km/h (55 miles per hour), exhibiting accelerations 180.000 times Earth's gravity as they project their spores outwards. The common pathogens of the crops are mostly harmless to humans, but some can still increase the negative effects of a... |
18 September 2008
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A water jet cutter is a tool able to slice into various solid materials with the help of a high speed jet containing a mixture of water and an abrasive material. Basically, water jet cutters rely on the same process that shaped most of the surface of the planet over the course of the past several billion years, water... |
31 July 2008
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There are few firearms out there than can do anything else but kill. But, as you might have noticed in the last few decades, military forces around the world are constantly heading towards developing non-lethal weapons that wound or disable the individual instead of killing him. The US Army is no exception to this ru... |
22 July 2008
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The change in the circulation patterns of oceanic currents is likely to have been the key mechanism for the abrupt climate change that took place during the last glacial period of Earth more than 21,000 years ago. If this is indeed true, then air temperature and wind speed could have also had a significant contributi... |
21 July 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Symantec is one of the best security software companies on the web and this fact only forces it to bring more and more advanced technologies which would be able to protect one's important data. Because of that, Symantec is preparing to implement impressive new features in the upcoming Internet Security 2009 but,... |
23 May 2008
04:15 GMT |
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The importance of helicopters in air transportation services is given mainly by the advantages over airplanes, namely the capability to take off and land vertically and hover at a fixed point in the air. However, the biggest disadvantage is their speed. For example, a 12 passenger helicopter can reach a top velocity ... |
30 April 2008
08:43 GMT |
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Dolphins are considered the fastest sea mammals. Smaller dolphins reach 35-40 km (22-25 mi) per hour, but the orca or killer whale, that is in fact the world's largest dolphin, reaches 54 km (33 mi) per hour, which is a lot in the water. The question is: why not faster? The answer is given by a new research publ... |
1 April 2008
03:25 GMT |
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The new flat-rate data plans from phone carriers is overwhelming, pure and simple, and it is fueling the rate at which the Internet is accessed via mobile handheld devices up to rocket speed. That has not always been the story; there was a time (which I like to refer to as "The Dark Ages") when the per-minute chargin... |
20 March 2008
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By tracking our galaxy's movement through the vast immensity of space, astronomers found that the Milky Way is actually traveling with an excess speed of 120 kilometers per second, due to a mysterious gravitational pull exerted by an unseen body, which might be hiding away from our sight behind the galaxy's... |
30 November 2007
09:15 GMT |
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The broadband speed is currently on every Internet user's top five problems list from all domains, right next to "war", "world hunger" and "finding Osama" but I couldn't really be completely honest and tell you where it ranks for me. I guess I'm not the humanitarian soul I thought I was, I'll tell... |
27 November 2007
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Do you remember the much advertised speed that the new version of Gmail was said to be capable of unleashing into our unsuspecting midst? Flash! Thunder! Lightning! Actually something more in the terms of… Bogus! The pre-fetching of emails is there and is a very useful option if you don't mind the prolonged wait... |
12 November 2007
11:01 GMT |
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There's nothing faster than a cheetah on the hunt. The maximum speed is of 112 km (70 mi) per hour, but the average hunting speed is still of 72-90 km (46-56 mi) per hour. No living or extinct animal runs or used to run at such speeds. How can this be possible? The cheetah is a very special cat, with specific ad... |
26 October 2007
16:42 GMT |
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The low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins or the South Beach Diet may let you still eat and lose a great deal of weight in a short time, but there are dangers lurking, like regaining faster weight after giving up the diet and gout. Now, another tricky effect has been found: these diets make you dumber!A low-carbohyd... |
1 October 2007
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More and more clips posted on the very popular video sharing platform YouTube shows insane drivers who are speeding and recording themselves to become famous. IOL reports that a motorcycle rider who created a clip with him at about 300 kilometers per hour became famous through the YouTube platform after his clip reco... |
27 August 2007
10:36 GMT |
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If a hungry T-rex chased you, you would stand no chance. The smallest dinosaurs were as fast as a racehorse, with about 40 mph (64 kilometers per hour), and even the huge Tyrannosaurus rex could outrun average people.Computer models were employed to calculate the top speeds for 5 carnivore dinosaurs. The velociraptor... |
22 August 2007
05:29 GMT |
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There are lots of old things you can find in a barn, like rusted tools, really useless pieces of equipment and appliances, even dad's rusted car that used to make him proud in his young days and is now slowly eaten away by time.But once in a while, someone stumbles on a rare collection car that's been sitt... |
30 July 2007
09:02 GMT |
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The Shadow Reconnaissance, Surveillance Targeting Vehicle (RST-V) is a prototype vehicle developed by General Dynamics Land Systems for the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).It looks like a heavily modified Hu... |
28 July 2007
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Remember the cartoon series "The Jetsons" where sometime in the future, everybody had flying cars that could be packed in a briefcase to avoid parking space problems? Well, a company has brought this from the far future of the cartoons to our reality.They don't know how to fit their car in a suitcase yet, but t... |
26 July 2007
10:11 GMT |
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A physics theory states that molecular chaos is an assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated and independent of position. Also called collision number hypothesis, it is useful in making numerous calculations tractable, but so far no one was able to experimentally prove it.Air in any room... |
25 July 2007
09:44 GMT |
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New research provides extremely broad bandwidth and could bring the next generation of wireless data connections that will transfer a 4.7 GB DVD in just a few seconds. This new product will finally get us rid of the tangle of wires that lurk under the desk.Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at... |
20 July 2007
08:19 GMT |
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When cruising in your car, a police laser radar can easily measure your speed and send the ticket to your door, probably along with a picture showing your big grin at 160 km/h (100 mph). But when it comes to observing particles traveling at 1/3 the speed of light - 100,000 km/s - things get a bit complicated.Even the... |
19 July 2007
11:17 GMT |
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An 18-year-old teenager has been sentenced to 4 months in prison after he filmed himself driving with approximately 120 miles per hour and posted the clips on the popular online video sharing service YouTube. The recordings were made with a cellphone and were created on a quite busy motorway from Fenwick Street, Burn... |
9 July 2007
10:18 GMT |
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This may be a question not many people have asked themselves, and it may sound crazy, too. But in theory, if a human being were covered in a layer of fat thick enough, a bullet could be stopped from reaching vital parts of the body.The Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge really performed such a test f... |
30 June 2007
06:48 GMT |
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Many of today's cars are equipped with state-of-the-art driver assist technologies, like cruise control, anti-lock brakes, automatic transmission and adaptive headlights, designed to do things beyond the natural abilities of human drivers, thus relieving him of some manual operations during complex driving situ... |
27 June 2007
09:01 GMT |
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We all understood that men with minute penises employ huge cars to compensate for their lack. But now "Young men who speed do so because they have a small penis" is the slogan of a new road safety campaign triggered by Road and Traffic Authority in Australia. The $1.9 million campaign is targeting speeding among 17- ... |
26 June 2007
14:11 GMT |
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The impact force has the greatest effect when it's applied over a short time period and it is equal to the mass of the hitting object times the acceleration. This means that a stone weighing one kilogram (2.2 pounds) moving at 50 m/s (1600 ft/s) will have the same impact force as a 10 grams rock moving at 500 ... |
26 June 2007
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You've probably heard than when a lightning storm catches you on open ground, you shouldn't take cover under a tree. That's true. Since lighting often strikes the highest spot in an area, ducking below a tall tree is definitely not a good idea, since you'll probably be struck in the same time.If ... |
25 June 2007
10:10 GMT |
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c, G, π, all three are fundamental constants that rule the very existence of our universe. The first represents the speed of light, exactly 299,792,458 meters per second, the second is the gravitational constant, equal to 6.67300 × 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2, and the third is pi, approximately equal to 3.14159, which is ... |
21 June 2007
09:45 GMT |
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So far, the only commercially successful supersonic jet was the Concorde, that regularly flew from London and Paris to New York and Washington. It set many records, including circumnavigating the world in a time of 31 hours 27 minutes 49 seconds flight, on August 16, 1995.Although for the moment there are no immedia... |
18 June 2007
16:46 GMT |
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In a vacuum, light travels at a speed of nearly 300,000 km/s (186,282 mi/s) and it's generally believed that matter cannot exceed this speed. Recently, astronomers discovered matter traveling at more than 99.999% the speed of light.It's the fastest speed ever recorded in the case of matter in the universe,... |
14 June 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Wanna know what's the fastest motorbike? Well, it's the Dodge Tomahawk, a prototype with an unusual design, featuring the 500 hp (373 kW) 8.3 L V10 engine from the Dodge Viper. The motorcycle has two front wheels and two rear wheels to aid in turning and stability at highest rate of speed. There's onl... |
7 June 2007
11:14 GMT |
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A black hole is an object with a gravitational field so powerful that a region of space becomes cut off from the rest of the universe - no matter if radiation (including light) that has entered the region can ever escape.Since a black hole is defined as an object from which light cannot escape, nothing else can esca... |
4 June 2007
16:36 GMT |
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High-speed trains have always been admired for their comfort, noise reduction, ride quality and of course, their speed. But the next generation of Japanese high-speed trains is not only designed to provide all that, it was also built to consume less energy, and thereby be more environmentally-friendly.The new train ... |
25 May 2007
15:06 GMT |
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The largest horses in the world are those of the English breed Shire. These horses often bypass the height of 1.8 m (6 ft) and reach in weight one tone (almost as much as a rhino, to which horses and their relatives, donkeys and zebras, are related). Average horses have 0.3-0.4 tones. These draft horses are generall... |
22 May 2007
16:36 GMT |
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