Tech and Amusing Stuff

Green cars are officially sexy. No longer are they small, ugly, plodding electric commuters - they’re speedy, exciting, desirable sports cars. Inhabitat has compliled a list of the 5 sexiest models, which makes for an interesting read.

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Loyal FLD viewer ‘mcshin’ submitted an EXCLUSIVE picture of the 4-door Porsche Panamera sedan cruising the streets of Marina Del Rey, California. This is a first for Porsche as they’ve never developed a proper 4 door sedan before!

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WOW

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10 cars — funky, fun and each the fastest for its power source, from an American-built ethanol-fueled roadster that runs like the wind, to a three-seat urban buggy from France that runs on the wind.
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“It’s been a year since the folks at Google successfully knocked off WiFi in Mountain View California. Transmitting all those great 802.11 b/g signals to the grateful residents, businesses and visitors at absolutely no charge at all. They are still trucking along on the San Francisco wireless deal with EarthLink and the city to give all residents free connections to the internet, but who knows when that will all be resolved.

Nevertheless, Google is on a mission to provide top notch WiFi networks, but what exactly does it take? Well, in Mountain View there are over 400 mesh routers that cover 12 square miles and 25,000 homes, with 15,000 unique users per month. Traffic over this free network has risen 10% every month and handles 300 gigabytes of data each day and 95% of the routers are being used every single day.”

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Sharp objects on the wall should be first hint to leave right away.

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This is the largest supercomputer in Europe, and 9th largest in the world, very nice implementation with the sleek hi tech and the old but stunning walls of the chapel

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Amazing, I want one……
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This park in Beijing sure has a lot of things you can’t do…

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Nice….

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“Get ready for another in crescendo orgy of Apple rumors, because according to Jacquie at Infinite Loop —Ars’ Apple blog, not The Mothership’s address—the iPods are coming. “Specifically” she says, in a special event on “September 5, according to our sources within the company.”

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An AT&T employee has just informed me that the HTC Kaiser will be coming to AT&T on the 18th of sept.

More info as it develops

UPDATE : My sources were wrong here is the official release date, and here’s the first hands on pictures