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Motor City Online was a racing massively multiplayer online video game released by Electronic Arts on May 11, 2001. The point of the game was to buy classic cars (mostly American muscle cars) ranging from 1930s to 1970s models, tune them up, and race them against other players. The game went offline on August 29, 2003 so EA Games could focus on their current online game at the time, The Sims Online. EA, however, developed a new online racing game, called Need for Speed: World. Many fans of Motor City Online consider Need for Speed: World a Spiritual successor of Motor City Online, although EA has denied any direct link between the two games.
Originally conceived as part of the Need for Speed series under the title Need for Speed: Motor City, all single player elements that may...

Scientific American – The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million “Apollo Project of the Brain”

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Intelligence project aims to reverse engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans. Now the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), a research organization for the intelligence community modeled after the defense department’s famed DARPA, has dedicated $100 million to a similarly ambitious project. The Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks program, or MICrONS, aims to reverse-engineer one cubic millimeter of the brain, study the way it makes computations, and use those findings to better inform algorithms in machine learning and... IARPA has recruited three teams, led by David Cox, a biologist and computer scientist at Harvard University, Tai Sing Lee, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University,.

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NASCAR Pulls Into NVIDIA SHIELD in Real Racing 3 Update

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The jewel in NASCAR’s crown is the Daytona 500 event and that’s what we’re getting in this update in Real Racing 3. Daytona 500 in the form we see here provides an opportunity to win a range of iconic NASCAR stock cars including the Stewart-Haas... The track has a long history of delivering spectacular racing experiences (it was first opened in 1959) thanks to its long straights and steep banked corners that enable racers to hurtle around the oval at over 200 mph. If you’re completely new to Real Racing 3 you’re probably unaware of just how comprehensive a racing experience it is. With the addition of the new NASCAR vehicles there are now in excess of 140 cars in the game all fully licenced and ready for...

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[03/10/16, via The FINANCIAL]
Entry-level model with turbocharged four-cylinder engine: Porsche Macan The online services Google Street View® and Google Earth ... vehicle functions remotely from a smartphone and access data such as the car’s fuel level. All Porsche model lines are now perfectly connected The new generation of PCM was first introduced ... [...]

[03/09/16, via Quadrangle]
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[03/09/16, via TLF Car]
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[03/09/16, via WLTZ 38 News]
With a new episodic model, 'Hitman' game aims for everyone Nowadays, most games are released in their entirety online or on a disc for about $60 ... While it's a novel way to release a game, it's a business model that's not dissimilar to the way some mobile games operate or the season-pass structure of franchises ... [...]

[03/09/16, via The Next Web]
OOCar is the personal trainer for your car After 48 hours online, he learned that the port can emit real-time information on the car’s performance and health ... In an industry emerging from opacity and moving to a service (vs. sales) model, he also saw a way to bring drivers and their service ... [...]