Shelby American will apply some of its founders' chili spice to the Ford Focus ST, creating an even hotter high-performance hatch. To be limited to 500 cars per year, the Shelby Focus ST is a bumper-to-bumper transformation of an already ...
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Chevrolet introduced the 2014 Corvette Stingray ahead of the action-packed Detroit auto show, revealing sharp-edged styling, more power, a better-dressed interior, and impressive materials technology. Corvette history is full of body and ...
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Jeep is giving Grand Cherokee customers some awesome options for the 2014 model year: "Would you like power or fuel economy? Or, perhaps boatloads of torque?" If you're a fan of extended road trips, as I am, the 2014 Grand ...
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One outcome of the prolonged housing slump has been that when consumers postponed renovating their kitchens and buying large appliances, manufacturers got busy redesigning small ones. The rosy results can be found in the housewares ...
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The lobby at last January's North American International Auto Show featured a Craftsman CTX lawn tractor touting an 8-mile-per-hour ground speed, a race car compared to the usual tractor, plus a feature more common to automobiles, traction ...
Tags: riding mowers, car features, lawn tractor, tractors
Until they saw Forrest Gump cutting his lawn,most folks who grew up on smaller properties hadn't heard of a rear-engine rider.But as charming as the film may be,the 1962 Snapper machine that the title character made famous has long been ...
Technology solution provider unveils fourth annual tech trends to watch study, reveals key topics on the minds of technology professionals. When CIOs and CTOs turn to social networks, what are they tech-talking about? Logicalis, an ...
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Day one of the Consumer Entertainment Show(CES)2013 in Las Vegas has seen a couple of reveals to potentially bend the rules of the existing mobile technology market. First up was the unveiling of Nvidia's Tegra 4 mobile chip,which the ...
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Despite the winter chill,the auto show season is heating up,revealing a number of exciting redesigns,new models,and refreshes coming up in 2013. We saw a few at the recent LA Auto Show and expect more to be displayed in Detroit in ...
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While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft's database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements. Microsoft's 10 biggest buys Microsoft System ...
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Inspired by the light trails left by cars in long exposure photographs, Volkswagen Canada's launch campaign for the all-new 2012 Jetta GLI shows performance in a whole new light. Forgoing Hollywood-style, computer-generated effects for a ...
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As the year winds to a close,it is natural to look back and recall the high points.But,it is also useful to remember the lows,including those cars that disappointed.Here,we commemorate the worst models in our ratings. These are current ...
Tags: lowest-scoring vehicle, Jeep Wrangler, Scion iQ, Smart ForTwo
New processors from AMD and Intel will provide the horsepower for next generation desktop applications, that could previously only run on specialist workstations. Integrated chips used to be the poor cousins of dedicated systems. PC ...
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A novel technique based on MapReduce could let hackers hijack computing resources used by cloud-based mobile browsers and use them anonymously, according to security researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of ...
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Seth Hulst, Engineering Manager, and Loren Kamstra, Design Engineer, Groschopp Inc. I. Introduction For electrical and mechanical design engineers in the process of developing applications, choosing a gearmotor can be a tricky and ...