You might have read over Thanksgiving weekend a piece by friend-of-the-blogger Martha Irvine of The Associated Press, who wrote about the continually recession-proof industry of youth sports, an economic engine that shows no sign of burning out thanks to ever-more parents throwing bigger and bigger piles of money into stove to stoke its fire.
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Selloscope, the new SaaS, data crunching recommendation engine out of Dallas, is an aptly-named guide to this religion and CEO Jeb Stone is both fun and a source of insight on what we do when we buy.
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The day ended early for BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica, who appeared to suffer an engine failure as he accelerated out of the hairpin at Turn Seven - sending thick white smoke into the Abu Dhabi night sky.
Subscribers not interested in upgrading yet can find similar functionality tied to Spotify's library with the EchoFi tool, but this venture represents the service's debut of an "all-new intelligent recommendation engine" meant to dig the tracks you want out of its millions-deep library.
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Perhaps more interestingly, Automatic can also suss out the reason behind a check engine light along with an appropriate course of action.
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The team at BioWare has made the most of Unreal Engine 3 and built out their own technology to enable players to live through an epic journey that stands alongside some of the greatest Hollywood science fiction franchises.
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He says the tension it relieves by allowing pilots an opt-out of flying in poor conditions makes it a safe alternative to other single-engine planes.
So gamers are getting an offline SimCity experience, but missing out on over a decade of technological advances and the new Glassbox engine.
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For the Ford F-150, the most popular vehicle on American roads, they take out the inevitable V-8, and replace it with a four-cylinder engine, an average of 22-kilowatt-hour battery packs, and two 60-kilowatt electric motors.
And opposite a particularly Heath Robinson piece of machinery, complete with foot-long levers and dials like the engine room of the Titanic, I spot an old circuit diagram on the wall, mapping out each of Britain's national newspapers.
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