Esse é o primeiro flagra do modelo com ele totalmente descoberto, que mostra com todos os detalhes a nova “perua” da Audi.
Segundo fontes, o modelo é uma mistura de Audi A6 e S4, que levou a criação da “perua” Q7. O modelo foi flagrado fazendo testes de resistência em clima gelado.
Além disso, o modelo é equipado novamente com um motor de 2.0 litros V6 a gasolina. Sua potencia real não foi revelada, e a marca não quis se pronunciar sobre o flagrante.
Fonte: The German Car Blog
If you’ve been eagerly refreshing the iPhone Developer Center today, the wait is over! iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 is now available for download. We’ll follow up with the usual list of changes soon. [Apple via BGR] More »
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Tomorrow’s battle over what should be included in Texas social studies curriculum is about to get really interesting. The curriculum that’s decided on will be used to create social studies textbooks in Texas, and- because Texas is such a big textbook purchaser-across the country. More than two hundred people have signed up to speak publicly at tomorrow’s meeting of the Texas Board of Education. Each person will have three minutes to speak. It doesn’t take a math major to figure out that the testimony may stretch well into the night. Board members may also introduce new amendments to the current draft of the curriculum. Outgoing Board Member Don McLeroy has already announced he has several to wants to be discussed. McLeroy is part of a conservative voting block behind many of the changes in the draft curriculum. Opponents believe McLeroy is pushing a political agenda. McLeroy says he is trying to correct a liberal slant in the standards. Expect a long, heated debate. The final vote will be held this week.
It has become common knowledge – to foodies, at least – that a super-hot, wood burning oven is one of the best places there is to bake a pizza. The smoke from the wood infuses a lot of flavor into both the pizza crust and its toppings, and the high heat gives it the perfect crispy texture. What type of wood delivers the best flavor varies depending on who you ask, but there is talk of a particularly unsavory type of wood being used in Naples, Italy: coffin wood.
Il Giornale, a daily Italian paper, has recently reported that local police in Napes “think many restaurant owners across the notoriously lawless port are purchasing cut-price wood from a gang of coffin thieves operating in the city” and using that wood to fire up pizza and bread ovens. The article went further to say that “Andrea Santoro, president of the city’s cemetery commission, said: ‘It’s no wonder these things are happening given the state of the cemeteries. There are graves uncovered, thefts and vandalism.’”
It’s a pretty shocking story, given how pizza is such an iconic food for Naples. No doubt that continued investigations will reveal more about what is going on, but for now, that wood-cooked flavor is definitely going to leave a bad taste in some people’s mouths!
Schooling fish, it turns out, have a lot to teach us about setting up wind farms. That’s the conclusion reached by John Dabiri, a fluid dynamics expert from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). One of the biggest current problems with wind farms is the large land area that they require – if you place the turbines too close to one another, they will be adversely effected by each other’s turbulence. By applying principles learned from observing fish, however, Dabiri thinks he might have found a solution…
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A car as powerful as the Bugatti Veyron can do a great many things. Crest the 400 km/h mark. Burn through fuel and rubber faster than a jumbo jet on take-off with the parking brake engaged. But how about stop time? Maybe if you lay down all that twist in the opposite direction off the earth’s rotation. Or bring back a rumor that first reared its head some four years ago.
We’re talking about the long-rumored 1,200-horsepower “super Veyron.” Its arrival has been anticipated for years, and now accounts from Germany are bringing it back to life. According to the reports, Professor Ferdinand Piëch – the former Volkswagen chairman, Porsche heir and father of the Veyron – recently delivered a lecture at the Vienna University of Technology, wherein he briefly alluded to the emergence of the 1,200-hp Veyron, but revealed no further details.
That the quad-turbocharged, sixteen-cylinder Bugatti engine is capable of more than its stated output of 987 horsepower is no secret. And if such a car is in the works, surely Piëch would be among the few in the world who’d know about it, even if he’s not sitting in the big seat these days. With the existing Veyron’s production run winding to a close, if there were ever a time to make it happen, surely that time is approaching at Veyron-esque velocity.
[Source: motorline.cc via Teamspeed.com]
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Below, from the White House…
Readout of the President’s meeting with Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses
“The President met with Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses for approximately an hour and a half this afternoon to discuss a range of issues important to U.S. foreign policy. The conversation included an update on proximity talks and administration efforts to strengthen Israel’s security, including the Administration’s recent decision to provide Israel with an additional $205 million in funding for the Iron Dome missile defense system. They also discussed today’s announcement of a consensus P5+1 draft of an Iran sanctions resolution. The President and the Members had a wide ranging and productive exchange about their shared commitment to peace and security in Israel and the Middle East.”
Here’s a list of members attending today’s meeting
1. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
2. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.)
3. Al Franken (D-Minn.)
4. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.)
5. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
6. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.)
7. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
8. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)
9. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
10. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
11. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
12. John Adler (D-N.J.)
13. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
14. Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
15. Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.)
16. Ted Deutch (D-FL)
17. Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
18. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
19. Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
20. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
21. Paul Hodes (D-N.H.)
22. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
23. Steve Kagen (D-Wisc.)
24. Ron Klein (D-Fla.)
25. Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
26. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
27. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
28. Jared Polis (D-Colo.)
29. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
30. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
31. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
32. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
33. Brad Sherman (D-Calif)
34. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
35. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
36. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
37. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)
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Some bad news to follow as well.
Well, well. Two years ago, we wrote about a patent held by Erich Spangenberg, a notorious patent hoarder who is involved in a ton of lawsuits against companies who actually make stuff, attacked with highly questionable patents. The patent in question (5,367,627) basically described an electronic parts catalog, which Spangenberg used to sue tons of companies. The absolute ridiculousness of the patent even got the EFF’s attention after the USPTO agreed to re-examine that patent (though, a quick look through the USPTO’s system doesn’t seem to show anything actually happening with the re-exam — unless I’m missing something… which is entirely possible).
That said, one of Spangenberg’s many lawsuits over this patent, done by a shell company called Orion IP or, later, Clear with Computers, was against Hyundai. A jury sided with Spangenberg over Hyundai, and Hyundai appealed. After all that effort, the Federal Circuit has dumped the original ruling, noting that the “invention” (if you can call it that) was “anticipated” by earlier inventions. But, honestly, if you want to get a deeper sense of just how messed up the patent system is, you should read the full ruling:
What gets me is the pure absurdity of the whole thing. First of all, this is an electronic catalog. The argument that this should be patentable never should have passed the laugh test. But, it gets even more ridiculous. When Hyundai points to an electronic parts catalog system that pre-dated this patent, the response from the patent holder was that this invention was different because not only was it a catalog but… it also created a customer proposal. Well, knock me down and sign me up for a 17-year-monopoly. I’m sure no one could have possibly come up with the idea for using an electronic catalog to create a customer proposal without such an incentive… Thankfully, the court found that the important claims in the patent were anticipated by the other product, but just the fact that they had to go through this ridiculous process should raise serious questions about the patent system.
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Today, Google announced the acquisition of Global IP Solutions, a move that could lead to native Android video chat. Are you excited yet? It is possible this video chat(if it becomes a reality) will be integrated in Gmail, Google Talk, or even Google Voice. It might even become something new altogether.
While this is all very new, check out the video below to get an idea of Global IP Solutions does and can do with Android. As always, we will bring you more on this as soon as we hear it.
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Source: Electronista
With a few choice modifications, the Kizashi Sport improves the breed and provides a great alternative to the Camcords of the world.
The Audi A7 might be an odd bird to begin with, but slap a 580-hp V10 into the svelte five-door and you’ve got a fire-breathing formula for extra-legal autobahn runs.
The 2011 Ford GT500 is fast. How fast? It manages to lap VIR nine seconds faster than its predecessor.
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If Todd Davis’s face looks familiar, it’s because it’s plastered all over subway stops and billboards—right next to his social security number—on ads for the personal security company LifeLock. His lifelock? It’s been picked 13 times. More »
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Transformers actress Megan Fox stars in the cover of the June issue of Allure magazine. This time Fox is committed to a natural image, which features her face.
Megan also gave an interview, she mentioned that she is terrified of germs. The beautiful actress is suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder and admits she is concerned about the bacteria when it comes to public restrooms.
On the other hand, she was referring to the person who leaked her nude pictures during the filming of Passion Play, Fox said that “If I knew who took this picture, I would personally cause them harm–physical harm, I’m not a fuc**ng reality-TV star that’s courting the paparazzi and wants my fuc**ng picture taken all the time. I’m at my job and I’m trying to play a character and I’m trying to be serious, and this is the sh*t that’s happening to me. It makes me furious.. ”
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And to give a bit of seriousness to his remarks also referred to plastic surgery. “I would encourage people who are going to perform plastic surgery to talk to your therapist to try to find out what your real problem. The surgery will not alleviate their insecurity,” he says.
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The Cook Political Report – one of the most highly respected, non-partisan national analyses – is now saying that the U.S. Senate race in Connecticut is a toss-up.
The change for the report comes on the day that The New York Times published a front-page story and released a video that shows that Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said that he served in Vietnam when he did not. The change in the rating for the race is a major turnaround from the conventional wisdom, which placed Blumenthal far ahead of all challengers.
Blumenthal is seeking the Democratic nomination on Friday night at the state party convention in Hartford, and challenger Merrick Alpert would need 15 percent of the delegates to force a primary in August.
Politico is reporting at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37440.html that Alpert now has a new lease on life.
It’s that time again, folks: with another two weeks behind us, Apple has released yet another Beta rendition of iPhone OS 4. Like those that came before it, this fourth Beta release is signed and sealed for developers only — in other words, if you’re not a dev, you’ll have to sit tight for a little while longer.
Read the rest at MobileCrunch >>
During HP’s earnings conference call today, HP CEO Mark Hurd spoke a bit on the Palm acquisition and some of HP plans for its new assets. During his opening remarks he mentions a bit about how HP will utilize webOS saying (via CNET):
“In order to enhance our intellectual property…in the connected-mobility space. We expect to leverage webOS into a variety of form factors, including slates and Web-connected printers, [ ] “With a whole series of Web-connected printers, as they connect to the Web, they need an OS.”
HP’s Todd Bradley already strongly hinted at webOS on tablet like devices from the beginning saying HP would “invest heavily” in webOS technology. In the financial department, HP had an impressive second quarter with net revenue of $30.8 billion, up 13%, or $3.5 billion, from a year earlier with strong double digit growth across all regions.
It’s that time again, folks: with another two weeks behind us, Apple has released yet another Beta rendition of iPhone OS 4. Like those that came before it, this fourth Beta release is signed and sealed for developers only — in other words, if you’re not a dev, you’ll have to sit tight for a little while longer.
If Apple’s development cycle for iPhone OS 4 is staying true to major releases that came before it, we should be quickly approaching the final build. Apple rarely exceeds 6 or 7 Beta releases — so chances are, we’ll see OS 4 ship out to everyone within the next month or so.
Folks much smarter than yours truly are hard at work tearing apart this latest Beta for all the hidden morsels, so we’ll let you know if we hear anything.
A BMW divulgou nessa terça-feira (18) a confirmação do modelo Série 3 híbrido entre sua gama em 2010.
A marca vem tentando desde o ano passado, montar modelos com um preço de custo mais baixo e que seja mais “verde”. Com esse propósito a marca vem disputando um mercado que deverá começar a ser explorado ainda este ano.
Além disso, a BMW é uma das marcas que está oferecendo modelos híbridos com o preço mais em conta no mercado.
O modelo Série 5 também deverá estar disponível em versão hibrida a partir do ano que vem. Em quanto isso a marca não revelou o preço que o modelo será vendido mais é algo em torno de 130 mil euros.
Fonte: Auto Portal
Findings published in an upcoming edition of Nature Geoscience show that the rapidly melting ice in Greenland is causing the land mass beneath to rise as the weight is lifted off the rock. According to scientists at the University of Miami, the ice is melting so quickly that the land underneath is rising at an accelerated pace, moving up in some areas by nearly one inch per year.
If the current speed with which the land rises continues the figure could be as much as two inches per year by 2025 and see Greenland become the world’s largest contributor to sea level rise. (more…)
Blake Lively makes her blockbuster action flick debut alongside Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern, set to hit theaters on June 17, 2011.
The comic book movie role is quite a departure from what Lively is used to playing blonde bombshell Serena van der Woodsen on the tube, but Blake admits she has selfish reasons for wanting to take on the high-octane action scenes in the upcoming feature:
“All I want is to be a hero to my nephews and nieces,” Blake said in an interview with the June 2010 issue of Vogue. “I’m going to be the coolest aunt ever.”
She continued: “I’m 40 feet in the air, spiraling around. That’s the best workout you can ever do because it’s all core. You do that for ten minutes and you should see your body the next day! It’s so exhilarating, so thrilling—and nauseating.”
