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  • MIT students developing electric car that can be recharged in about ten minutes

    MIT students developing electric car that can be recharged in about ten minutes

    Students at MIT are building an electric car capable of being recharged in about ten minutes. Granted, the kind of power that’s necessary to do that would be enough “to blow the fuses on 20 residential homes at once,” according to project team member and MIT student Radu Gogoana. Thankfully, the car — a modified Mercury [...]

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  • i-Real: Toyota updates its futuristic tricycle

    i-Real: Toyota updates its futuristic tricycle

    Formerly known as iSwing, Toyota's single-seat personal mobility cars gained worldwide attention back in 2005 when TIME magazine called it one of the ”coolest inventions” of that year. But now Toyota has decided to update the vehicle (by reworking the 4-wheel car into a 3-wheel "chair"), give it a new name (i-Real) and let the Central Japan International Airport near Nagoya test a total of four units on a daily basis.

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  • MacBook Slow? SATA interface in MacBook Pro drops from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit

    MacBook Slow? SATA interface in MacBook Pro drops from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit

    Bad news, sports fans. It looks like Apple has downgraded the speed of the SATA interface in the newest revision of the MacBook Pro. While the previous MacBook Pros had a 3.0 Gbit SATA interface, benchmarks show that the current MacBook Pro only clocks in at 1.5 Gbit.

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