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...
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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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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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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 ... [...]
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Maruti Suzuki cars to get expensive by up to INR 34494
Maruti Suzuki, however, exempted its smart hybrid models Ciaz SHVS and Ertiga SHVS from the price hike as both these cars are exempt from the infrastructure cess. Similarly, the highest increase will be Rs 34,494. These are over and above a cess of 1 per ... [...]
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Tesla to Reveal Shocking New Model 3 this Month [News]
Tesla has announced plans to reveal the new Model 3 on March 31st. In a tweet last month, CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla will begin taking reservations for the new car starting on March 31st in Tesla Stores. Reservations will also be accepted online a day ... [...]
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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 ... [...]
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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 ... [...]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty ImagesTesla lifted the prices of its Model 3 Standard Range Plus, Model 3 Long Range AWD, and Model Y Long Range AWD by $500.It also raised the price of its Model 3 Performance by $1,000, to $56,990.It's the fourth price change of the year for Tesla vehicles.See more stories on Insider's business page.Tesla can't make up its mind on how much its electric vehicles should cost.Electrek first reported Friday that Tesla had once again hiked up the...
The way we buy cars is changing. The internet has largely already replaced the years of scanning the classifieds in the local paper and scouring the showrooms – but now we’re going even further. While traditional car dealers still account for the majority of the car-buying market, aggregator websites, along with the rise of giant ‘car supermarkets’ and the breakthrough of digital propositions – where you can log on from your sofa and have a car delivered to your door – has afforded us more...
The coronavirus shutdown has forced car dealers and auto manufacturers to place a much greater emphasis on selling vehicles online. The process isn’t new to the COVID-19 crisis, but the current situation has compelled virtually every major automaker to expand their online offerings to the point that you can now research, select, test drive, negotiate for and purchase virtually any new car without leaving your home. Here’s what to keep in mind when buying a car.Last updated: March 9,...