Review: 'Need for Speed,' 'Forza' hit the gas
Holiday-season TV ads would have you believe that lots of people get brand-new cars for Christmas. With giant bows on top.
Software
Dec 6, 2012
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News tagged with speed limits
Protest shuts alpine transit route in Austria
A major alpine transit route through western Austria was partially shut to traffic on Friday, as part of a protest against excessive heavy transport and resulting pollution.
Environment
Sep 28, 2012
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Google merges online and offline worlds in Maps
Google on Wednesday took another step in its quest to merge the Internet with the real world with Maps and put itself at the heart of mobile gadget lifestyles in the process.
Internet
Aug 8, 2012
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Smart highways to avoid traffic jams
(Phys.org) -- Traffic lights on highway access ramps can help prevent traffic jams. Swiss engineers are testing this approach to increase the capacity of Swiss highways.
Engineering
May 21, 2012
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Faster than light neutrinos? More like faulty wiring
You can shelf your designs for a warp drive engine (for now) and put the DeLorean back in the garage; it turns out neutrinos may not have broken any cosmic speed limits after all.
General Physics
Feb 22, 2012
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Researchers predict locations for deer vs. car collisions
University of Alberta researchers have produced a map of Edmonton predicting the most likely locations where vehicles will collide with deer. These collisions can be fatal for drivers and their passengers. The hot spots for ...
Environment
Jun 30, 2011
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When will runners and swimmers reach their physical limit?
Running and swimming records are broken again and again at almost every international athletics event. But, can human performance continue to improve indefinitely? Will runners continue to accelerate off the starting blocks ...
Other
Dec 22, 2010
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Data from savvy cabbies to help improve online mapping
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft is planning to tap into the intimate knowledge taxi drivers have of their cities to improve their online mapping systems and help drivers navigate to their destinations faster.
There's a speed limit to the pace of evolution, biologists say
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how quickly an organism will evolve using a catalogue of "evolutionary speed limits." ...
Evolution
Nov 2, 2009
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Computers Faster Only for 75 More Years? Physicists determine nature's limit to making faster processors
With the speed of computers so regularly seeing dramatic increases in their processing speed, it seems that it shouldn't be too long before the machines become infinitely fast -- except they can't.
General Physics
Oct 14, 2009
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