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0-60mph in 3.5 seconds in first gear, 1/4 mile in 11.6 seconds at 125.7 mph!+Motor…

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0-60mph in 3.5 seconds in first gear, 1/4 mile in 11.6 seconds at 125.7 mph!+Motor Trend Magazine tries out the new 2013 Shelby GT500
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2013 Ford Shelby GT500 First Test – Motor Trend
Hammer the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 from a stop and the rush of torque is amazing, helping to move the GT500 from 0-60 mph in scant 3.5-seconds, on toward a quarter-mile time of 11.6 seconds at 125.7 mp…

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The only thing that bogs down +Motorola's Android phones is Motorola's blur interface. I've been running my Droid 3 with a series of ICS builds for more than 2 months and it has consistently performed better than it ever did with the stock Gingerbread with Blur.

As I've suggested with +Samsung Mobile, Motorola should offer a stock ICS build for its phones that users can opt to use if they want or stick with the original Blur'ed Gingerbread build.

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Motorola skipping Ice Cream Sandwich for some devices, worries it'll make them fat
Despite Motorola's Android 4.0 rollout schedule, not every one of the manufacturer's devices are ready for dessert — some, the outfit says, will

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Some tips for theists: 2

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Some tips for theists:

1) We don't believe in Hell, so you can nix the threats.
2) Saying "God Bless" doesn't make you compassionate, especially after #1.
3) We've read your bible. Amateur work with serious continuity problems.
4) Don't tell atheists we're immoral when we comprise 0.4% of U.S. prisons.
5) We think its cute when you point at other faiths and say, "That's so dumb!"
6) Frightening kids with threats of eternal agony is child abuse.
7) Think of what your offering of 10% might have done elsewhere.
8) God has his divine hand on your life? Then why spend so much on insurance?
9) Putting your 50-year-old pastor in ripped jeans does not make him "edgy."
10) Stay off our porches, out of our science books and away from politics.

That's all for now. Thanks.

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With CBS boss Les Moonves indicating that his network is planning to demand $4 million… 1

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With CBS boss Les Moonves indicating that his network is planning to demand $4 million for a 30 second Super Bowl ad slot (up from $3.5 million this year) it's no wonder that +General Motors has opted to say "thanks but no thanks."

I'm guessing that GM will actually make a series of Super Bowl style ads just as they did this year and in years past. The only difference is that they won't actually run during the broadcast of the game.

If you think back to the week leading up to the game this year and the last several years, most of the big ads had already been posted on Youtube and most people had seen them long before kickoff. There were almost no surprises during the game. GM's Super Bowl ads will get just as much attention during the pre-game period and without costing them a penny.
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Why GM spurned the 2013 Super Bowl
NEW YORK — Not long after announcing that it will stop advertising on Facebook, General Motors said Friday it would not be a sponsor in the Super Bowl in 2013 either. What's going on here? Deep-p…

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If you've been considering a buying a new hybrid vehicle you've no doubt… 3

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If you've been considering a buying a new hybrid vehicle you've no doubt noticed that there is a significant price premium associated with adding electric drive motors and big batteries to a vehicle. You will almost certainly have lowering operating costs thanks to the regenerative braking and electric assist, but several things factor into how long it will take for those savings to overcome that initial premium.

Over at FuelEconomy.gov they've put together a nice little calculator that estimates the payback period of a hybrid compared to its conventional alternative. Hybrids get most of their benefit from recapturing kinetic energy during braking, saving it in the battery and then returning it to propulsion through the motor. If you do most of your driving on the highway, the benefits of a hybrid will be limited, but if most of your commuting is stop and go urban traffic, the payback will be a lot quicker so make sure you adjust the slider for how much city driving you do.

In general for the average driver that does about 15,000 miles and 55% in the city, the payback for most hybrids is about 4-5 years.
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Hybrid Compare
These are some hybrid models that may pay you back quickly when compared to a similarly equipped non-hybrid model. Select a model to see how it compares based on your fuel prices and annual miles.

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Unless things change dramatically under Google ownship, I suspect that the Droid… 3

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Unless things change dramatically under Google ownship, I suspect that the Droid 3 I'm running right now will probably be the last +Motorola Mobility phone I ever buy. Motorola has reneged on their promise last year to unlock bootloaders on phones, and to provide operating system updates for at least 18 months.

They published an updated list today of devices that will get official upgrades to Android 4 and confirmed that the Droid 3 and X2 will stay on 2.3 Gingerbread forever despite having debuted less than 12 months ago.

What really annoys me is that D3 and every Moto phone since runs on the same TI OMAP4 platform as the Galaxy Nexus so it seems like this should be a no-brainer.

Frankly this is bullshit and the only saving grace is that there are now several very good independently developed ICS ROMs for the D3. I just flashed the May 16 build of AOKP last night and its running great. Still a couple of minor issues with bluetooth and the camera but very stable and faster than the stock rom ever was. At the very least Motorola should release all of the drivers for the D3 and X2 so that devs can get the final remaining issues worked out.

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The big question is why was this device not available from day one when the +Chevrolet… 2

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The big question is why was this device not available from day one when the +Chevrolet Volt and +Nissan Leaf went on sale? Had this been used to drain the active electrons out of the battery after NHTSA crash tested the Volt last year, there likely never would have been any of the battery fire incidents that happened weeks after the tests.

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Midtronics GRX-5100 simplifies servicing hybrid and EV batteries
As we move away from traditional fossil fuel-burning automobiles towards hybrids and EVs, we're presented with new challenges — namely servicing th

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