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The green and copper exterior of this 1941 Chrysler LeBaron Thunderbolt convertible was far less understated than most of the older cars at the Concours d'Elegance.

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This grille is the business end of a 1930 452 V-16 Cadillac Fleetwood Sport Phaeton's engine, which has a displacement of 452 cubic inches.

The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance event Sunday f

Berkley noted that one of the leading causes for the demise was publishers not wanting to pay to use its technology, which had previously been offered for free. He also said that the VC community was not willing to “bet” on the company, despite it picking up a $4 million Series A funding in late March last year.

Between becoming a social TV service, and its start as a CMS for enterprise users, one of the company’s most interesting products was its consumer

Exploding iPhones are so earlier this week, people. The new scary consumer electronics product that might explode and kill you and your family is the cheap Durabrand DVD player exclusive to Wal-Mart. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of the device, saying the players can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers.

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I should have bought the $31 DVD player.

So far 12 out of approximately 1.5 million units

Microsoft is, however, taking no chances. It has released nine new ads designed for you to not be ashamed of being seen in public using the new operating system.

Casting is a very difficult art, and especially in the “Your PC. Your Life” film, I wonder if the man who sings about waiting for his spaceship to fly (and what can that possibly mean?) doesn’t look a little too polished to be a truly raw exemplar of cool.

And what’s the b

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On the services side, some areas, like Yahoo Mail, Flickr, and Messenger, are clearly where Yahoo is unlikely to take its foot off the gas pedal. Same for Yahoo’s mobile strategy, a part of the Internet that is very much up for grabs, unlike the more mature PC-oriented Internet experience.

“It’s where people find relevant and contextual information,” Bartz said in May at the D: All Things Digital conference, clearly having envisioned a post-search Yahoo. “It’s news, it’s sports…

MIT also plans to create prototypes of robotic salamanders and manta rays.

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The robot fry follow other creatures in MIT’s mechatronic bestiary–Charlie the Robotuna, created in 1994 and consisting of nearly 3,000 parts, and Finnegan the robot turtle, a study in biomimetic propulsion from 2004.

Actually, MIT engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado aren’t aiming to replenish fisheries. They want their robot swimmers to be used for

This quadrocopter can find its way around interiors.

Just when you were getting used to the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles patrolling the skies over your city, they’re beginning to enter buildings.

It’s a good thing MAVs still sound like a thousand mosquitoes due to rotor noise. Otherwise they might start putting spies out of business.

The Pelican is a micro air vehicle (MAV) with a quadrotor design, using four propellers on a carbon-fiber fram

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who earlier Tuesday sent out an e-mail to customers arguing for “the new efficiency” driven by software, is slated to speak shortly at the event being held at the at the University of California, San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus.

The gathering of invited corporate IT users here is designed to serve as the beginning of the business push for Windows 7, which is already available to larger businesses and goes on sale to consumers and small businesses on

Certainly, GM will continue to sell SUVs, trucks, and large sedans–highly profitable product categories that flourished when gasoline was cheaper than now. But GM’s designers have sharpened their focus on smaller fuel-efficient cars and crossovers, betting that rising gasoline prices are inevitable.

Meanwhile, its Buick lineup will feature a smaller crossover, a new compact sedan, and a plug-in hybrid crossover, which will all be available over the next two years.