Topic: CARS - on July 30, 2013 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
BMW's New Electric Car Is Just Like a Tesla, Only Much, Much Worse
I was ready to love BMW’s new electric car, the i3. Maybe I will, once I get the chance to drive it. I'd really like to love it, if only so I can stop raving about the Tesla Model S all the time and rave about a different car for once. But at first glance: yeesh. It has the range of a Chevy Volt and the looks of a Pontiac Aztek. And those aren’t even the most disappointing things about it.
The i3 is a big deal, or at least it was supposed to be, because it was designed from scratch to be an electric car, like Tesla’s Model S was—and because it’s a BMW, which implies that it’s well-built. It had been hailed, in fact, as BMW’s answer to the Model S. But it does not seem to be that.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 30, 2013 at 5:32:00 PM CEST
Bradley Manning trial: judge to read verdict – live coverage
Judge to rule on the case of Bradley Manning, accused of 'aiding the enemy' by leaking military secrets to WikiLeaks
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 30, 2013 at 5:05:00 PM CEST
Steinbrück to Students: Pot Should Be Decriminalized
Peer Steinbrück, the center-left Social Democratic Party's (SPD) candidate for chancellor, went all out to appeal to young voters with a recent visit to a student flatshare in Kreuzberg, a trendy district in the German capital. Not only did the party leave 48 bottles of beer in its wake, Steinbrück made an unexpected comment.
According to the daily B.Z. newspaper on Tuesday, no topic was off limits. Apparently, the student schmooze saw a jovial Steinbrück pull out the stops in an attempt to mobilize young voters -- by advocating the decriminalization of cannabis.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 30, 2013 at 4:53:00 PM CEST
Creating a $99 parallel computing machine is just as hard as it sounds
Ten months ago, the chipmaker Adapteva unveiled a bold quest—to create a Raspberry Pi-sized computer that can perform the same types of tasks typically reserved for supercomputers. And... they wanted to sell it for only $99. A successful Kickstarter project raised nearly $900,000 for the so-called "Parallella," and the company got to work with a goal of shipping the first devices by February 2013 and the rest by May 2013.
As so often happens, the deadlines slipped, but Adapteva has done what it set out to do. Last week, the company shipped the first 40 Parallellas and says it will ship all 6,300 computers ordered through the Kickstarter by the end of August. Anyone who didn't back the Kickstarter can now pre-order for delivery in October.
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