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O que era especulação pode ser confirmado com a revelação de um flagra de uma unidade do futuro Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione GTA, que foi fotografado e descoberto pelo site especialista em carros italianos UnicaStrada.com.

Dessa forma, a versão mais apimentada do 8C Competizione virá com um motor mais potente, sofrerá um redução de peso, além de ganhar uma aerodinâmica mais refinada. Tudo isso para dar ao modelo ainda mais desempenho e caracteriza-lo como um legitimo GTA.

Seu motor V8 de4.7 litros deverá ter uma potência média de 500 cavalos e sofrer uma redução de peso de 150 quilos. Seu sistema de escapamento também foi revisto e, ao contrário das três saídas especuladas, o modelo visto tinha apena duas. Essas mudanças possibilitarão ao Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione GTA, fazer de 0 a 100 km/h em menos de 4 segundos e alcançar uma velocidade máxima de 322 km/h.

Além disso, seu chassi deverá receber novos ajustes, assim como sua suspensão que sera redimensionada pra sua nova potencia. Por fora podemos observar a inclusão de um extrator no para-choque traseiro, com a intenção de melhorar o fluxo de ar em altas velocidades. As noticias são de que o modelo terá um produção limitada de apenas 100 unidades, que serão vendidas na Europa por cerca de 232.500 euros.

Fonte: WCF

Today is the day where Lian Li, will be launching its PC-8FI tower series in red chassis, black, and silver and they look very different from the other chassis. Lian Li’s latest chassis is very soothing in the eyes and offers a lot of options for the hardware and gaming fans. Check out the specs it offers to users below:

• Anti-vibration rubber ring suspension hard drive rack
• 3 Optical Device Drive bays
• Eight included PCI mounting brackets all enabled CrossFireX
• Three-way SLI graphics card setups

The chassis now also have two 120mm @1200rpm intake fans that can be found on the front panel and the other one on the back panel both are having anti-vibration mounting features. The top panel has an extra space for another 140mm fan if you find it necessary.

The latest Lian Li’s chassis has a dimension of 210×460x490mm and can handle support video cards for your gaming experience as large as 285mm. It is also to disassemble the said chassis which makes it easier to clean the fans and air filters.

The product only costs $299 for the red color chassis and $189 for the other color chassis.

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Bill Ackman’s 13f filing is always a fun one because he keeps very few positions that he believes strongly in on his portfolio; he’s “activist investing.”

Last quarter, in Q1, Ackman’s Pershing Square fund sold out completely of a ~$80 million stake in Hyatt and a ~$5 million investment in Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

He picked up a huge new investment in Kraft, around $1 billion, which we knew about already because he made a big case for why he thinks the Kraft and Cadbury merge will be successful.

We also discovered Pershing’s ~$600 million investment in YUM brands (lots of delicious food brands are owned by YUM like, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and KFC – maybe Ackman knew the Double Down would be a hit?? ), which they made sometime in Q4 but only disclosed in a 13F amendment last month.

Marketfolly has a breakdown of how Pershing’s entire Q1 portfolio is made up:

1. Target (TGT): 32.79%

2. Kraft Foods (KFT): 29.89%

3. Yum Brands (YUM): 17.56%

4. General Growth Properties (GGP): 11.62%

5. Corrections Corp of America (CXW): 6.55%

6. Landry’s Restaurants (LNY): 0.84%

7. Borders Group (BGP): 0.55%

8. Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE): 0.20%

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So, you’ve been with us from the beginning, back when Ally first popped her head out into the wild, then during her adventures with Iron Man, and finally, with her full spec sheet leak.

You two have grown so close over the last month, that it seems that all you now need to achieve completeness is a video review.

Oh, hullo, looky here!

Phone Dog have just posted their 13 minute review of the device!

The basic gist is that it’s (obviously) no match for the Snapdragon-powered Incredible, but is a good, solid alternative to a messaging phone (albeit with a data plan attached).

The reviewer even recommends it over a Kin One or Two, even though he says the keyboard is “so so”.

Funnily enough, just like the Kin, there doesn’t appear to be a retweet option in the Twitter client. Bizarre.

But enough of me, why not hear it straight from the horse’s Phone Dog’s mouth?

On March 3 and 4, 2010, the ELI community gathered for an online focus session on mobile learning. This white paper is a synthesis of the key ideas, themes, and concepts that emerged from those sessions. The white paper also includes links to relevant focus session materials, recordings, and archives. It represents a harvesting of the key elements that we as a teaching and learning community need to keep in mind as we work to integrate mobile technology into teaching and learning in higher education. It is clear that while the application of mobile technology to learning is just now getting under way, the potential is enormous and we can expect that the rate of development will be very rapid indeed.

Last week, everyone is looking for someone to blame on the oil spill that happened in the Gulf of Mexico.

Last Tuesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and some other officials underwent questioning for what the government should have done and what should not have been done to prevent the oil spill that happened. Some of the questions also asked how to respond in the certain situations such as this one.

Scientists have already made some speculations that the oil will move into a so-called loop current soon. Scientists could not exactly know when or how much would be present in the loop. Once it enters the loop, approximately 10 days or longer before it can reach the Keys.

BP has been working for a month to prevent further leak of the oil spill. During the weekend, the oil company finally stopped a month of oil leak with the use of a stopper-and-tube combination to stop the oil that has been gushing out of the tanker, but they are afraid that almost already a million gallons of oil were already in the Gulf.

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With an eye towards its German competition, Infiniti is reportedly considering a coupe version of its M sedan. If given the green light, the M coupe would compete directly with the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe and BMW 6-Series.

According to Inside Line, Nissan officials are seriously considering a coupe variant of its M sedan for launch during the 2011 calendar year. The decision to produce and M coupe would likely pave the way for an M convertible, although that model would likely trail at least a year after.

If given the production nod, the M coupe would likely mirror the two-door styling previewed by the Infiniti Essence concept. The all-new Infiniti M adopted many of the Essence’s styling points, and it would seem safe to assume the coupe version would continue those themes.

Powertrain offerings would be carried over from the M sedan, so M37 and M56 coupe offerings seem likely. This strategy would also line up with Mercedes’ E350 and E550 models. However, Infiniti’s M range would trump the E-Class models in power, giving reason for a slightly higher MSRP.

Infiniti will have to make a decision on the project in the coming weeks, so stay tuned to this space for any updates.

References
1. ‘Infiniti M Coupe…’ view

Source: Leftlane

Michael Bay’s Transformers 3, which has started filming in Los Angeles, will be released July 1, 2011. Autobots are coming back and hopefully better than the sequel, shares Shia Labeouf who plays Sam Witwicky. Labeouf admitted he was not thrilled in the second movie because it seemed it got lost in the chase among machines that overshadowed the human element. Addition to the previous sequel were hip-hop twins Mudfly and Skids that Bay claimed added personality and besides they were included for the satisfaction of kids. “I purely did it for kids. Young kids love these robots…,” he retorted. However, they will not appear in the upcoming film he said. But there can be a lot of changes in a year’s time and Labeouf hopes it will not just be about fighting robots.

Transformers earned a whopping $246.1 million worldwide according to ComingSoon.net and its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen amassed $387 million in gross sales, indicates China Org. The pressure is on for Bay and the casts.

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FOR anyone from the ex-communist world with a medium-term memory, the frantic efforts under way to save Greece (and the other wobbly southern members of the euro zone) are rather puzzling.

For a start, what is so bad about default and restructuring? In the 1990s Russia restructured $32 billion worth of Soviet debt into PRINs and IANs (both are now stored in the Museum of Financial Archaeology and may be viewed on application to the curator). In 1998 it defaulted on those debt instruments. People said Russia’s financial credibility would never recover. One banker said he would rather eat nuclear waste than invest in Russia again. But within a couple of years, Russia was flavour of the month.

Continue reading at The Economist >

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The previous trailer (qjnet/games-for-windows/watch-two-very-different-spideys-in-the-official-shattered-dimensions-trailer.html) for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions seemed pretty cool. Activision follows it up with one more, showing both kinds of Spideys (qjnet/playstation-3/spider-man-shattered-dimensions-details.html) doing their thing.

Gamers kvetch about the walk of shame that ends with flopping a stack of used games onto the counter of GameStop or some other used game business for pennies on the dollar. Selling your stuff online via eBay or Amazon is another option, but that requires tenaciousness and responsibility.

Venture Beat profiles Glyde, a service that promises to streamline gamer-to-gamer sales. Glyde also lets you sell books, movies and CDs.

From the story:

With Glyde, you can start selling a video game almost immediately. You register once. Then you log in and click on selling. You start typing in the name of the game you want to sell. The autotext takes over and you can click yes if it guesses correctly. Then it suggests a price to you that is based on the average market value for that used game. You can set your price slightly lower than market if you want it to move fast. If the market value of a game drops below the price you’ve posted, Glyde sends you a notification so you can make an adjustment.

Then you’re done. You get an email if the game sells. Then Glyde mails you a package with the postage paid and address of the buyer. You stick the game in the envelope and drop it in the U.S. mail. When the buyer verifies that he or she got the game, Glyde will release the funds to you. It takes a 10 percent fee and a $1.25 fee for postage. On average, buyers can save 90 percent on prices for used games; sellers can get more than twice as much as they usually get by taking it into a store to swap it for store credit…

Please share your experiences if you’ve used Glyde or a similar service.

Glyde hopes to take used game market with easy web interface [VentureBeat]

I was going to write something up about Mount St. Helens, which erupted 30 years ago today. But then The Big Picture went and did an incredible retrospective of it, so I’ll just send you there. Here’s a taste:

If you’ve ever wondered what my nightmares are like, you’re looking at one.

I’ll add that a few years ago, when I still lived in California, I flew up to Seattle for a meeting. I literally gasped out loud when I saw the volcano out my window. I stared at it for as long as it was visible. The whole story was laid out clearly for anyone to read it: the side of the caldera was collapsed, and I could see the long run out from the lahar, the mudslide that followed the eruption. Even nearly three decades later the devastation was incredible. Over 3 cubic kilometers (0.67 cubic miles) of rock and ash blew out of the volcano that day.

You can read about the details of the event on the USGS site and on their 30th anniversary page. It’s a hair-raising story. [Edited to add: This NASA series of pictures is also way cool.]

And by the way? The volcano is still active. Have a nice day.

Image credit: USGS.

Shazam rates as one of Gizmodo’s favorite apps ever, so it’s not surprising to hear that the billionth song has now been identified—Gettin’ Over, by David Guetta featuring Chris Willis. This comes after their users rose from 50m to 75m in the past six months. [Shazam on iTunes] More »










Shazam – IPhone – Smartphones – Handhelds – Music

Were you thinking to yourself, “What I really need is another way to share what I’ve bought with my friends?” You’re not alone! At least I hope you’re not alone, given a useful social web service requires a healthy network of people to support it. And now we have yet another one: ShopSocially.

To be fair, ShopSocially has the unfortunate timing of launching shortly after two similar services, Blippy and Swipely. The way ShopSocially differentiates is that it is not automatic. Users don’t import their credit card and merchant accounts to share purchases wholesale or item by item. Instead, they manually enter new products they’ve bought (ShopSocially then locates the product info and a photo, and includes a link to where to buy it so as to collect affiliate revenue-sharing).

The idea is to be more casual and private, encouraging conversations on the site about what to buy and why. Users can share their questions to Facebook and comment threads there get neatly imported back. And of course, there are badges and rewards of being crowned a “shopping god” (aka a Foursquare-type mayor) to encourage participation.

One nice thing that ShopSocially does is invite users to “shout” to one another to ask for advice about buying products before they ever make a purchase. So you could query your friends, as ShopSocially CEO Jai Rawat did, as to where or not you should buy the new Flip camera to capture videos of your kids on the go.

Six-month-old ShopSocially is self-funded and has 10 employees in Sunnyvale, Calif. and Pune, India. It opens for public beta testing today.

Emma Caulfield American actress, star of television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” filed in the divorce papers after almost four years of marriage. The 37-year-old actress claimed irreconcilable differences between her and Cornelius, in documents submitted last Thursday in Los Angeles Supreme Court.

Caulfield and her husband Cornelius Grobbelaar had married in August 2006. Caulfield also starred in the years 1995 to 1996 in the television series Beverly Hills, 90210th In the years 1996 to 1997 she played Lorraine Miller in the series General Hospital. In 2008 she appeared in the medical series “Private Practice”.

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It’s sad for Germany’s captain Michael Ballack because he’ll not be able to play in the World Cup because of a broken ligament. The 33-year-old Chelsea midfielder was hurt during his club’s 1-0 FA Cup final victory over Portsmouth on Saturday, according to NBC sports. A scan showed damage to two ligaments but it’s expected to be eight weeks before he can resume training and Germany’s first match is on June 13. Ballack was injured after a challenge by Portsmouth’s Kevin-Prince Boateng. Ballack stated that the damage from the tackle made by Boateng was “clearly intentional” and even a video can testify to it.

“It’s bitter to get a diagnosis like that before the World Cup,” he said. Right, it is really a sad fact knowing that you will not be able to play on your most awaited game. Ballack might be feeling upset now because he will not be able to play with his team mates and fight for their goal which is the World Cup. Ballack also stated that there’s naturally a lot of disappointment, but despite all of this, we can see that he still looks on the positive side by saying “…that’s football. That happens. Life goes on.”

On the side of Boateng, he is the only one who knows what he intended with his foul from behind on Ballack. He may never tell, although some Portsmouth teammates say Boateng, who also missed a penalty kick that would have given Portsmouth the lead, was in tears in the locker room after the final, which Chelsea won by the only goal.

This coming World Cup can be interesting if the players will be fair and not use violence in eliminating their opponents. They should have the spirit of sportsmanship whereby, whether they win or lose, they will still accept it.

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The commerical campaign for the Peugeot RCZ wants you to know that there is no escape from the hardtop: not only does the car choose you, once it does, it owns you. We don’t know if it only chooses rakish chaps wandering the nicer parts of town at night, but we do know that the spot is as European as the car itself. Follow the jump to check it out.

Source: Peugeot UK]

Continue reading Video: Peugeot RCZ argues that stalking can be all in good fun?

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A Taliban operative driving a car bomb attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital today, killing at least six U.S. and allied troops and at least 12 Afghan civilians. The Associated Press:

The powerful blast occurred on a major Kabul thoroughfare that runs by the ruins of a one-time royal palace and government ministries. It wrecked nearly 20 vehicles, including five SUVs in the NATO convoy, and scattered debris and body parts across the wide boulevard. The body of woman in a burqa was smashed against the window of the bus.

That’s an immensely powerful blast if it’s able to take out five surely-armored NATO SUVs and still do damage to 15 other cars, motorcycles and trucks. Judging by the photos in this Washington Post gallery, I’ve driven down the road that the Taliban attacked, and it’s indeed heavily trafficked. The blast essentially welcomes home Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who firmed up his ties to the Obama administration last week in Washington.