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How To Squeeze 830 Miles Out Of One Tank Of Fuel And Remain Sane…ish

I’m not going to lie: I’m pretty delighted that I (and my partner ) won Audi’s TDI Challenge, where nine Diesel A3s attempted to drive from Albuquerque to San Diego on a single tank of Diesel. Part of why I’m delighted is because winning means it’s over, since it was a pretty miserable process . Here’s how we did it. Read more…

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PopcornTime Defiantly Pops Back Up After Domain Gets Suspended

The most popular way of accessing the popular “Netflix for torrents” service PopcornTime abruptly went down last week when European regulators suspended the domain registration for Time4Popcorn.eu. In a message today, the anonymous devs behind the service say the service is back —and won’t be shut down ever. Read more…

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What the top 100 female porn stars look like in one fascinating chart

Data Looks Dope’s Max Einstein sent us his new creation: What the top 100 porn stars look like. At the top you can you can see the breast cup size. At the bottom there’s the top 100 actresses as ranked in Xvideos.com along with body measuring information according Internet Adult Film Database. Read more…

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Fake documentary shows terrifying war against the Martians in 1913

I’m glad the History Channel is producing mockumentaries like The Great Martian War. The real documentaries are not much different and science-fiction alternative history lines are always more interesting than our savage and grim historical realities. It’s also very well made. Read more…

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One Man and His Bot Have Written Almost 10% of Wikipedia

You’ve probably never heard of Sverker Johansson, but you probably should have. He is, afterall, the most prolific WIkipedia author on the internet—having written 2.7 million articles for the online encyclopaedia. Read more…

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Holy crap, the new Star Wars game looks incredibly realistic

Even while you can only see a few glimpses of the in-game engine of Star Wars Battlefront, the new game by Swedish studio DICE seems impossibly good. They say they are making the game that, as Star Wars fans, they always wanted to play. I think they may succeed. Read more…

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Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden

An anonymous reader writes “Peter Sunde was arrested today in a police raid in southern Sweden. The Pirate Bay co-founder was wanted by Interpol as he had yet to serve prison time for his involvement with the site. Sunde’s arrest comes exactly eight years after the police raided the Pirate Bay servers, which marked the start of the criminal prosecution against the site’s founders.” From the article: “While details are scarce at the moment, the Swedish newspaper Expressen reports that the arrest has been confirmed by the Swedish authorities. According to Peter Althin, Sunde’s lawyer, the news means that his client will most likely be sent to prison to serve his 8-month sentence. Sunde’s prison sentence was made final in 2012 after Sweden’s Supreme Court announced its decision not to grant leave to appeal in the long-running criminal case against the founders of The Pirate Bay.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Volvo Plans To Have Self-Driving Cars In Swedish Capital Gothenburg By 2017

Qedward writes “Volvo is starting a pilot project that aims to have 100 self-driving cars on Swedish public roads around the city of Gothenburg by 2017. The project is called ‘Drive Me’ and is a joint initiative between the Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park and the City of Gothenburg, Volvo said Monday. Together they will make an effort to eliminate deadly car crashes in Sweden, said Erik Coelingh, technical specialist at Volvo Car Group. In the next few years, Volvo will develop its Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) in its XC90 model. The goal is to have the first self-driving cars available to 100 consumers by 2017, Coelingh said. They will be able let their cars navigate about 50 typical commuter arteries that include motorway conditions and frequent traffic jams in and around Gothenburg, the country’s second largest city.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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