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O piloto americano Mark Miller, da equipe Volkswagen Motorsport foi o vencedor da quinta etapa do Rally Dakar. Ele percorreu o trecho de 456 quilômetros entre Copiapó e Antofagasta, no Chile, em 5 horas, 16 minutos e 15 segundos, chegando 2 minutos e 10 segundos à frente do seu companheiro de equipe, o espanhol Carlos Sainz, segundo colocado.

Em terceiro lugar ficou o Racing Touareg de Nasser Al-Attiyah .

Com o resultado da quinta etapa, o time oficial da Volkswagen assumiu a liderança da competição, ocupando os três primeiros lugares. No cômputo geral, quem está na ponta é Carlos Sainz, 4 minutos e 37 segundos adiante de Al-Attyiah e 9 minutos e 39 segundos à frente de Miller.

Para a equipe da Volkswagen, o mais importante foi a larga vantagem estabelecida sobre o quarto colocado, o americano Robby Gordon, que corre com um protótipo Hummer. Considerado um dos mais fortes concorrentes da prova deste ano, o ex-piloto da Fórmula Indy está quase uma hora atrás do líder.

O líder da competição, Carlos Sainz, lamentou ter tido um pneu furado que, apesar da rapidez na troca, lhe custou um tempo valioso. “Devemos ter perdido um pouco mais que dois minutos”, contou ele. “Mas estou muito contente por terminar bem este trecho de velocidade, que foi muito longo e difícil. Vou continuar mantendo o mesmo ritmo nas próximas etapas – ainda falta muito para o final e a regularidade é muito importante”, complementou.

Segundo o vencedor da etapa, Mark Miller, a equipe teve uma reunião na noite da véspera e decidiu manter o ritmo imposto desde o início do rali. “Foi o que fizemos hoje, não assumimos nenhum risco. Na parte mais pedregosa, fui super cuidadoso e não tivemos nenhum problema”, contou. “Ainda teremos vários dias longos nas dunas pela frente. Fiquei surpreso com nosso desempenho em relação a Robby Gordon – ele não está aqui para brincar e fará tudo para nos vencer. Nosso time está de parabéns.”

Fonte: Volkswagen

The younger Washington, 25, shows a lot of promise. He convinced his father to do “Training Day,” a provocative police drama in which he played a dirty cop (winning an Oscar in the process), and the acclaimed crime drama, “American Gangster,” in which he depicted a drug kingpin. John David also convinced his dad to sign on to Allen and Albert Hughes’ post-apocalyptic “The Book of Eli,” in which he plays a lone traveler carrying a sacred book across the country in a lawless and dangerous world.

“This has to do with him coming of age,” says Denzel Washington about his son. “I wanted him to read more, so I started giving him scripts to read. All my children are movie buffs.”

Set in the not-too-distant future, “The Book of Eli” is about a solitary man who walks across the wasteland that was once America. Empty cities, broken highways and seared earth are all that remain following an unspecified catastrophe. There is no civilization and no law. The roads belong to bands of thieves who will murder a man for his shoes or a sip of water.

Eli (Washington) is a warrior not by choice but necessity. He wants only peace but if challenged he will cut down his attackers (with a handy machete) before they realize their mistake. It’s not his life he guards so fiercely, it’s his hope for the future – a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years. The only man who understands the power Eli holds is Carnegie, the self-appointed despot of a makeshift town of thieves and gunmen, and he is determined to get what he wants no matter the cost.

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We know our colleagues from Industry News have kept you updated on the GM Selling or Not Selling Saab saga in recent weeks, but it has now surfaced in the media that some of the highly ranked figures of Formula One are also considering buying the Swedish marque from GM. According to financial news service Bloomberg, it is the very owner of F1 Bernie Ecclestone who confirmed his interest for buying the aforementioned car company.

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What if finding that one bit of information is of vital importance? Well, it may not have been the main story angle taken on last month’s attempted terrorist attack over Detroit in the United States, but we’ve certainly heard a lot about how better information management and cross-border collaboration might have prevented the attempted airline bombing.

Or as U.S. President Obama was quoted as saying, "This was not a failure to collect intelligence; it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had. The information was there, agencies and analysts who needed it had access to it, and our professionals were trained to look for it and to bring it all together."

How is it possible the dots weren’t connected? We’ve grown accustomed to seeing movies and series where searches instantly bring up all the relevant information. Then there’s hush-hush operations like ECHELON supposedly filtering all of our communications (we can say with some certainty it exists, but nobody really knows what it does). So we automatically assume that all the content is there, and through some inconceivably complex software, it leads to actionable information. You and I, of course, have no access to such technology, but certainly the intelligence agencies have it, right?

Maybe. In our Search & Information Access research, there’s plenty of familiar software that we’ve heard about from major intelligence agencies in the U.S., UK and France. For instance, Autonomy will gladly tell you their IDOL is being used by many agencies (among them, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and also my local Dutch counter-terrorism agencies). Sinequa is used by the Ministry of Defense in France, and also correlates related crimes logged by Parisian police forces. Or there’s the CIA, which has shown an interest in Lucene Solr; so they invested in Lucid Imagination (which specializes in that technology). And therein lies the point: in all these cases, the software doesn’t just magically achieve the end result of successful crime or terrorism prevention. It takes work to be sure the technology is pulling the right information together, and even more work to make sure someone acts on it. 

So is a "lowered threshold for information considered important enough to put suspicious individuals on a no-fly list or revoke their visas" the real answer here? In information retrieval terms, that’s increasing the recall at the cost of precision. And yes, a large part of this is an information access problem. It’s about common problems such as uniquely identifying a person (especially if there are several different spellings of a name, as there was in this case). It’s about connecting various databases and (geographically disparate) repositories, and federating search across them. And then once all that is achieved, and the relevant data is flagged: someone has to do something about it.

Your organization’s need to retrieve, correlate and act on information may not be in an equally serious domain; still, you likely have a similar challenge. You need to not only decide what information is important, but how it should be weighted, correlated and acted upon. This is an ongoing challenge for those trying to get search right – and it’s a challenge that never ends. Your information needs constant tending, trends need to be analyzed, and subsequent courses of action put in place.

It’s the complete process of retrieving, correlating, and acting on relevant information — not just finding it — that makes all the difference. 

“Christmas is a time when Ars people get toys. January is a time when they review them.”  Thus tweeteth Deputy Editor Jon Stokes, and right he is. Under the tree this year (well, on the UPS truck) was a new steering wheel for my Xbox 360. Not just any wheel, but a (deep breath) Fanatec Porsche Turbo S steering wheel and Clubsport pedal setup, available directly from the manufacturer for the princely sum of $499.95. Yes, that’s a lot of money, but as we’ll see, you get quite a lot in return, and you could spend quite a lot less on the standard edition and still have what’s probably the best driving wheel peripheral on the market right now. Compared to the Microsoft Wireless Racing Wheel, the Porsche-licensed peripheral is a massive leap forward for Xbox gamers, and the ability to use the rig with a PS3 and the forthcoming Gran Turismo 5 should put it high on any racing nut’s wish list.

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A GMC apresenta o Acadia Denali 2011 no Salão Internacional do Automóvel de Detroit, que acontece a partir da próxima segunda-feira (11/01/2010). Dentro da gama de veículos da GMC, os modelos topo de linha são identificados com o nome Denali, sendo que o primeiro foi lançado em 1999, baseado no modelo Yukon e ajudou a definir o segmento utilitários-esportivos de luxo no mercado norte-americano. O Acadia Denali fornecerá aos clientes GMC todas as tecnologias e confortos reconhecidos dos modelos Denali em um crossover mais eficiente no consumo de energia.

“Os modelos Denali da GMC chegaram para representar luxo e exclusividade, e é isso que os clientes terão com o novo Acadia Denali,” disse Lisa Hutchinson, diretora de marketing de produtos da GMC.

O Acadia foi lançado em 2007 e como o primeiro crossover da GMC, apresenta o melhor índice de consumo de combustível do segmento e características inovadoras, como o sistema SmartSlide, que permite acesso fácil a terceira fileira de bancos, com versões para sete ou oito passageiros. Os bancos da segunda e terceira fileiras são dobráveis e permitem diversas configurações entre passageiros e carga.

O Acadia Denali 2011 estará à venda no terceiro trimestre de 2010 e é disponível nos modelos com tração nas rodas dianteiras ou tração nas quatro rodas, nas configurações para sete ou oito passageiros. O motor é um V6 3.6 l com injeção direta.

O Acadia Denali se sobressai com seus detalhes do design que levam a assinatura Denali destacados pelo exterior e a grade em forma de colméia cromada, uma característica de todos os modelos topo da GMC. Também apresenta algumas características como:

* Painéis dianteiro e traseiro exclusivos
* Faróis de xenônio
* Revestimento inferior e molduras na cor da carroceria
* Painel de instrumentos na cor da carroceria e protetores dos paralamas
* Exclusivas molduras do lado da carroceria com detalhes cromados e emblemas da Denali
* Ponteiras de escapamento duplas e cromadas

Outros diferenciais são as rodas cromadas em dois tons de 20 polegadas. As rodas de seis raios apresentam acabamento em cromado negro e cromado brilhante.

Fonte: GM

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Nada de aplicación aparte o compra de un servicio establecido – de momento – la integración de las búsquedas de lo que está cerca del usuario en movilidad la han hecho directamente en la versión web del buscador, sin que el usuario tenga que ir a la búsqueda en el mapa. De momento sólo en terminales iPhone y Android y para Estados Unidos, como explican en el buscador oficial, donde detallan también casos de uso que podemos esperar: necesitamos un sitio para comer y realizamos una búsqueda de sitios “que estén cerca”. Lo novedoso no es ya la funcionalidad – que ya la tienen en mapas – sino que la ponen en el lugar más visible de las búsquedas desde el teléfono.

El buscador devuelve no sólo información – localización, teléfono – sino también valoraciones y opiniones de otros usuarios, ya sean las que agrega Google o las que recoge directamente. Un paso más en pro de ganar la lucha por ser el interfaz en el internet móvil y la búsqueda por localización y hacerse con el que se presume próximo gran mercado de la publicidad online, el de los servicios locales.

Darren alerts us to an interesting writeup by a performance artist who can’t do a certain performance because of licensing issues. It’s not that the musicians don’t want their work used by the artist. In fact, they’ve spoken and they would love for their music to be used. But, of course, they don’t own the copyrights on their own music, so the performer needs to work through all the licensing issues, which is simply too much of a pain — so the whole performance gets dropped:

The thing is, I’ve spent a lot of time learning how to make art. I have spent no time learning how to negotiate the licensing of music. These are very different skills! It’s bizarre that in order to share my art, I need to have the latter skill set, or hire someone who does. The lack of that skill set results in my work being kept secret.

It’s really backward. I would love to talk to artists directly, and negotiate something that’s mutually beneficial. Right? My work calls attention to their work. I’m a big fan of their work. I want to support their art and their livelihood. I want everyone to know about and support their work. It’s such a natural alliance, but it’s perverted by this system we have now.

Of course, what’s really amusing here is that it’s the same people who berate us for suggesting that artists need to either become musical entrepreneurs or hire someone who understands the business side of things, who will say that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with these same artists having to become experts in the byzantine world of music licensing — a world in which even many lawyers remain very confused.

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With digital content becoming more prevalent, some of us want to directly link our computers to our TVs quickly and easily. But we don’t all have a dedicated HTPC to make life simple. Enter Netgear’s Push2TV wireless display adapter.

Netgear’s solution involves the use of a box which picks up a signal from your laptop and feeds your desktop to the TV via HDMI, eliminating the need for your lappy to be tethered to your entertainment center. The only downside is that it requires an Intel-based computer with Wireless Display technology built in.

Push2TV will be available this month, bundled with select laptops at Best Buy, or sold separately for $100. Dongle plz? [Netgear]

David Walt wrote:

It was a remarkable decade. There were so many advances in biotech during the first decade of the millennium that it is hard to choose the most important ones so I’d prefer to focus on five transformational biotechnologies coming in the future.

1. Who would have guessed that by the end of the decade, what took 10 years and several billion dollars to generate the first human genome sequence, could be done in a few days at roughly 10,000 times lower cost? This trend of increasing throughput and decreasing cost will continue with a number of new technologies on the horizon. Data processing and bioinformatics will become the bottleneck as the need grows to assemble and compare large numbers of genomes. Moore’s Law just can’t keep up.

2. Genome wide association studies (GWAS), the approach that scans for markers across the genomes of many individuals to spot small variations that might be associated with a particular disease, have identified only a small percentage of the underlying DNA markers linked to hereditary disease, even for common diseases that are known to run in families. With the availability of many full human sequences, the identification of rarer, and perhaps more meaningful single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), is in the works. Microarrays are already available with millions of SNPs. With better sequence information, the content on microarrays will improve. The next round of genome wide association studies will be conducted and we will know if the “missing heritability” can be found.

3. Cancer will be cured in some cases by sequencing genomes of tissues from cancer patients and comparing them to non-cancerous tissues from the same individual. The underlying defects in pathways will be determined by examining differences in sequence and appropriate customized treatments can then be employed. Personalized medicine will finally arrive at least for some cancers and probably for other diseases as well.

4. Developments in bioanalytical science will begin to have an impact on clinical diagnostics. There has been a revolution in imaging technology that can provide increasingly high-resolution pictures of the smallest components of the cell. These techniques are beginning to be applied to monitor living cells in real-time, albeit in laboratory environments, not inside the body. Look for these methods to advance and migrate into the clinic where label-free imaging will be conducted to identify lesions at the sub-cellular level.

5. Single molecule measurements have been all the rage the last decade, starting with fundamental physics and now moving toward biomedical research applications. Such capability will lead to more sensitive measurements of biomarkers that have not even been detected yet. The relevance of these markers to disease and wellness will start to be uncovered but don’t expect immediate clinical applications. These things take time.

While these thoughts and predictions are the most exciting from my perspective, there is no doubt that we will be disappointed in the pace of progress in some areas and surprised by discoveries and technologies that are not even contemplated right now. As we reach the end of the decade and the start of a new one, I have high hopes for the new technologies and the discoveries they will enable.

[Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of posts from Xconomists and other technology leaders from around the country who are weighing in with the Top 5 innovations they’ve seen in their respective fields the past 10 years, or the Top 5 disruptive technologies that will impact the next decade.]

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The God of War Trilogy is all set and raring to go out in te Japanese market. However, one important tiny detail seems to have been overlooked by the curious public, and it’s just so happens to

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If by chance we thought about the Chevrolet Aveo at all during the past several years, it was usually because of its unfortunate styling and cheap feel. Starting with next week’s 2010 Detroit Auto Show, Chevy is out to change the Aveo’s image into a product that we might actually desire. The process begins with the Aveo RS concept, which provides a preview of what to expect from the next-generation production Aveo when it arrives in showrooms sometime next year.

The B-segment of small cars in the U.S. is shaping up to be a real battle royale with the new Ford Fiesta arriving soon, Fiat bringing over the stylish 500, the Volkswagen Polo and, of course, the incumbent Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris. It remains to be seen how much the segment will grow unless gas prices start climb again. Regardless, those of us who appreciate good small cars are certainly in for more feast than famine in the next several years. Follow the jump to learn more about Chevy’s redesigned entry in the resurging small car segment.

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Boeing is hardly a high-profile name in the world of solar thermal power development — firms like BrightSource Energy or Abengoa spring to mind a lot quicker. But Boeing, as it turns out, is the lord of solar thermal technology patents, according to a cleantech law firm.

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