The reduced weight and additional gear ratios helps drop zero-to-60 acceleration time for the naturally aspirated V8 to 6.5 seconds, down from 7.2 seconds.

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In addition the higher costs of flash memory versus magnetic storage will probably limit the use of these storage devices to acceleration applications for some time to come.

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Beginning in the 2013 season, all 19 MLS clubs will use the data-tracking technology from adidas, providing coaches, trainers and players with real-time performance metrics including heart rate, speed, acceleration, distance, field position and, for the first time, power.

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Rather, they are the acceleration of a series of societal adjustments that have been underway for some time.

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And it seemed very fitting to talk about big data, insight acceleration and real time analytics in the very place where mass and speed of light got combined for posterity, more than a century ago.

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