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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
09:30 GMT |
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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
09:13 GMT |
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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
05:46 GMT |
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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
08:00 GMT |
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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
10:25 GMT |
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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
07:16 GMT |
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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
05:19 GMT |
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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
05:50 GMT |
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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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The yacht has become, in recent years, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. It seems that you can't be in The Forbes 400 top of the richest people on the planet without owning a kick-a** yacht, or was it the other way around?Originally, it was defined as a light, fast sailing vessel used by the Dutch na... |
19 May 2007
03:22 GMT |
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Many car enthusiasts or Formula One fans around the world have heard the statement: 'A Formula 1 car can drive upside down without falling.' Is it true? And if yes, how do they do it?If you thought abound the car's aerodynamics, you were right, but let's see exactly what are the equipments and th... |
17 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The Dragster is a modified automobile, purpose built for Drag Racing. It can be a heavily modified already existent vehicle, or it can be custom made according to race specifications.Drag racing is a parallel sprint race, for a distance of 300 meters, the classical "quarter mile." These supercars can accelerate from... |
11 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The name is Spyker D12 Paris-to-Pekin. There's no typo here, that's the real name of the car. One point for weirdness. She's a strange looking car, the design looking more like a combination between a coupe, a muscle-car and a taller station-wagon.Probably not many of you have heard of the name Spyker... |
9 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The car enthusiasts will probably say: "Of course we know, it's the Bugatti Veyron, with her 1001 hp and 253 mph (407 km/h)" Wrong!Although a monster of the roads and a technological wonder, the really cool Veyron will no longer be the fastest street-legal car in the world, when a new supercar will enter produ... |
4 May 2007
17:16 GMT |
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SpeedBit, the famous creator of Download Accelerator Plus, managed to design a new application able to increase the YouTube loading speed and accelerate your clips. SpeedBit Video Accelerator is available for free and is currently downloadable as a beta version. The product works quite simple and it is based on the c... |
3 May 2007
14:36 GMT |
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The latest technological development is put to good use in medicine and helps patients that suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease improve their walk speed and distance.The device, developed by Technion-Israel Institute of Technology scientists, combines audio and visual feedback to improv... |
1 May 2007
05:31 GMT |
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A new world speed record for a train on rails is to be established on Tuesday by French TGV. Organizers will intend to reach at least 560 km (350 mi) per hour on a 73 kilometer (45.3 mile) stretch between Paris and the eastern city of Strasbourg. The new Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) would "depasse" a 17-year-old reco... |
3 April 2007
06:18 GMT |
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Wake up to the smell of burnt asphalt as the thrill of illicit street racing spreads in the air. From the makers of the hit Need for Speed Underground series that has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, Need for Speed Most Wanted challenges you to become the most notorious and elusive street racer. Combining ... |
29 March 2007
03:51 GMT |
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What happens when you mix a truck with a jet fighter?It's called Shockwave, a triple jet-engine truck on a 260-inch (660-cm) wheelbase, and it holds the Guinness record for jet-truck speed at 376 miles per hour (605 kph). Driving on a runway, Shockwave races airplanes that are flying above it at 300 miles per h... |
28 March 2007
11:03 GMT |
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It seems like the police will hire some experts to view all the movies published on YouTube very soon, because more and more interesting cases are discovered through the clips published on Google's online video sharing service. Today, BBC informs that a 34-year-old Edinburgh man driving with almost 170mph was th... |
28 March 2007
07:49 GMT |
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Need for Speed Underground lets racers live out the fantasy of turning everyday cars into tricked-out racing machines. Either alone or with a friend, players race their customized cars through city streets and push their driving skills to the limit. Here are the tricks you can do while playing the game and some secre... |
8 March 2007
03:58 GMT |
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65 % of the bird species migrate. The ancients, like Aristotle for example, thought that during the winter birds go inside the mud of the bottom of the swamps or in caves, where they pass the winter, and reemerge in the spring. In the 13th century, the German emperor Frederick the Second, passionate hunter, was the f... |
6 March 2007
03:25 GMT |
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