Automotive
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824Here’s A Wild Idea To Keep Manual Shifting Alive
We all know that manual transmissions are becoming more and more rare, and outside of a few niche cars targeted at archaic...
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883Porsche Patent Shows Research On An Active Rear Diffuser
Porsches have had active aero elements since 1989, when the Porsche 964s were equipped with an electrically-activated rear wing, a feature nearly...
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1.0KTesla’s German Manufacturing Head Axed After ‘Clash’ With Elon Musk
Photo Credit: Tesla Grohmann Automation “I definitely did not depart because I had lost interest in working,” Klaus Grohmann, the head of...
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1.0KToday’s Best Deals: Wake-Up Light, Grid-It, Red Bull, and More
Bestsellers: Philips Wake-up Light HF3500Bestsellers: Philips Wake-up Light HF3500Bestsellers: Philips Wake-up Light HF3500 There is nothing worse than an alarm clock. Philips’...
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851I’m Pretty Sure I Know Where The Universe’s Highest Concentration Of V8 Engines Was
This is something I’ve been wondering about for quite a while, and something that’s caused a good bit of debate in the...
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1.1KUber’s Self-Driving Car Guru Takes a Backseat Amidst Ongoing Lawsuit Over Stolen Tech
Photo: Getty Travis Kalanick’s “brother from another mother,” Anthony Levandowski, has officially stepped down from leading Uber’s self-driving car division. Levandowski is...
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835Facebook Daddy Mark Zuckerberg Helped Build Some Ford F-150s Today
All image credits: Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook Facebook co-founder and gajillionaire Mark Zuckerberg visited the Ford Rouge plant outside of Detroit today and helped...
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872Comment Of The Day: Not That Kind Of Focus Edition
The cheapest jokes. Photo Credit: Ford, the lovely 2006 FoST pictured. I don’t know if this is exactly a forest-for-the-trees kind of...
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781It Turns Out The Google Glass Guy Is Funding A Secret Airship Project: Report
Inside the hanger next to where Brin is building his dirigible. This is the USS Macon back in 1934. Photo: U.S. Navy...
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875Here’s Some Of The First Pictures Sent Back From The Cassini Spacecraft’s Dive Between Saturn And Its Rings
The Cassini spacecraft has been studying Saturn and her moons for nearly 20 years, and is now finally running out of fuel....