Schumacher to drive Mercedes F1 car on Nürburgring Nordschleife

In advance of this year's 24 Hours of Nürburgring race, and as a "thank you" to German motorsports fans, Mercedes-Benz has arranged quite the driving demonstration at the legendary German track. Seven-time Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher will pilot a the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 W02 – the team's 2011 F1 car that carried the Silver Arrow name – around the Nordschleife. As far as we know, this will be the first time that an F1 car will have lapped the North Loop since Nick Heidfeld drove a BMW Sauber car around it in 2007.

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Schick - Evangelion figure razor stands - limited edition collection

Razor stands featuring the main characters of Evangelion are available through a special promotion with Schick. The limited edition set includes a figure of Lei and Asuka for the “Schick Hydro 5 Holder” and figures for EVA-01 and EVA Mark.06 for “Schick Hydro 5 Power Select Holder”.







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Yahoo Gets 38 Season Archive Of Saturday Night Live

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today that they have reached an exclusive agreement with Broadway Video, which brings the entire 38 season archive of Saturday Night Live on Yahoo. As part of this deal, clips from the current season will be available as well. Saturday Night Live is one of the oldest running shows, presented in front of a live audience in New York, the show is watched and loved by millions of people around the world. Saturday Night Live is hosted by all kinds of stars from the showbiz industry, including but not limited to TV and film actors.

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T-Mobile HTC One S finally gets Jelly Bean

It might be a bit hard to believe that a high profile device like T-Mobile's HTC One S still hasn't received Jelly Bean, but that is the rock and hard place users have been stick between for quite some time. We're not exactly sure what has taken so long, but the day has finally come for those users to get their own taste of sweet, hardened jelly. You're looking for build 3.14.531.11, and it's a hefty 675.5MB download. That means you're going to want to hop on WiFi for this one, and you'll want your battery charged up to at least 50% before you proceed.

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Woman unknowingly smuggles pot over border beneath her car

We've seen very creative ways to smuggle drugs across a border with a motorized vehicle (including faux rally trucks) but most don't involve innocent citizens. Giving all of us yet another reason to peer beneath our rides before we travel, innovative Mexican smugglers recently used powerful magnets to hold five-pound bundles of marijuana to the underside of an unsuspecting driver's car as she commuted to her job. The 33-year-old woman, who lives in Mexico and travels across the border to San Diego for work, became suspicious at the end of her early morning commute when two men approached her car.

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Digital TV Labs Becomes DLNA Independent Certification Vendor

Bristol, UK – 24th April 2013: Digital TV Labs, global leaders in specialised digital media conformance tools, test services and professional services, has today announced that it is now a DLNA accredited Independent Certification Vendor (ICV) for products wishing to comply with the increasingly popular home networking standard. Established in 2003 and having grown in importance since, DLNA – Digital Living Network Alliance – was set up to define interoperability guidelines to enable sharing of digital media between multimedia devices.

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Twitter Reportedly Testing Two Factor Authentication

It is being reported that Twitter is internally testing a two factor authentication security system which will be incrementally rolled out to users in the near future. Two factor or two step authentication safeguard accounts from hacking attempts in a far better way than just passwords alone. It is not clear when Twitter plans on rolling it out, but a sense of urgency is being reported, given the recent string of high profile Twitter accounts being hacked. Yesterday the Associated Press @AP account was hacked and a bogus tweet about bombings at the White House was posted.

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Toyota Me.We concept is a multifunction Tupperware car (video)

Not to be outdone by the Renault Twin'Z concept penned by Welsh designer Ross Lovegrove, Toyota has partnered up with French designer Jean-Marie Massaud to create the 2013 Toyota Me.We Concept. Unveiled at Le Rendez-vous Toyota in Paris, the Me.We Concept is an attempt to imagine a car that can be appreciated by owners across a wide variety of lifestyles while being courteous to the environment, too. Press Release:TOYOTA PRESENTS THE ME.WE CONCEPT.



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Tumblr iOS App Updated With New Social Features

This past week we have seen Tumblr make a number of changes to its mobile offering. Just a couple of days back it announced that ads will now be displayed in Tumblr's mobile apps. Yesterday the first ever Tumblr app for Windows Phone 8 was released and today their updated iOS app is available for download from iTunes App Store. The update brings a couple of new social features, users can now share directly to Facebook or Twitter from straight within the app.

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Pre-order the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 tomorrow

While other carriers — namely Sprint and T-Mobile – are having to face the music of announcing delays of their Samsung Galaxy S4, Verizon is resting easy knowing they have yet to provide a release date. With that, the carrier is taking this opportunity to let everyone know that they'll be able to pre-order their version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 starting tomorrow. Best Buy has already been accepting pre-orders, but we know some folks like to get their devices from the source. We wouldn't be surprised if many of you are looking to take Verizon up on its offer after reading our Samsung Galaxy S4 review.

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Sony begins Jelly Bean rollout for Xperia P, Xperia Go, and Xperia E Dual; more coming next month

Sony said they had some exciting OTA update news coming when it announced the Xperia Z would get AOSP support, and that news is finally here. The Japanese OEM announced that the Jelly Bean rollout for the Sony Xperia P, Sony Xperia Go, and Sony Xperia E Dual would begin today. The update is going out in staggered fashion, of course, and Sony says things will ramp up over the course of the next month. One small caveat exists for Xperia Go users — you'll need to use the PC Companion or Bridge for Mac apps to get the upgrade for your particular device.

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AMD details $999 Radeon HD 7990 graphics card, says it handles all top games at 4K

The positives are weighty: over 8 TFLOPS of raw compute power, which is more than double that of the Radeon HD 7970 andfour times that of the PlayStation 4's GPU. This grunt comes from a New York-sized population of 8.6 billion transistors - 1.5 billion more than in NVIDIA's Titan - which can handle pretty much any current game at 4K resolution and max detail settings, including Tomb Raider (with flowing locks enabled) and Crysis 3.Both these games happen to be bundled with card, along with Bioshock Infinite and five other big titles.



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Dragon's Crown Release Date Revealed

Atlus has finally revealed the release date for their upcoming action RPG video game ‘Dragon's Crown'. The game is scheduled to hit both PS3 ($49) and PS Vita ($39) on August 6th in North America.

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Flipperbot Intends To Save Turtles By Crawling Like Them

There were a few turtle robots that we talked about in the past, but I suppose that none of them had the kind of realism displayed like the Flipperbot. What you see in the image above is actually the Flipperbot in action, where it mimics the way recently hatched baby sea turtles, in all their cuteness, would scuttle across the sand to reach the 'promised land', which is the vast ocean where they would be spending most of their days in.

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Samsung exec: Waterproof and dustproof Samsung Galaxy S4 could arrive in the coming weeks

If there's one thing Samsung has always excelled at, it's blanketing the market with a variety of hardware configurations to fit just about anyone's needs. You want a 6.8-inch phone. You got it. You need something cheaper for your 15 year old kid. You got that too. But what about those that have been looking for a ruggedized Samsung Galaxy S4? Well, it looks like you might soon have that too.

Speaking at press event, President of Samsung Gulf Young Soo Kim may have let the cat out of the bag, mentioning Samsung's plans to introduce a water proof/dust proof in the near future. How near? Kim says in the coming weeks.

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Voi scooter taxi offers options for commuters in mega cites

TUM Create, a section of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, that has more than 100 technical types working on future solutions to mobility, worked with Singapore's Nanyang Technical University to come up with the Voi multipurpose electric scooter. The Voi – from the Vietnamese word for elephant – puts a rider behind an enclosed passenger cell that keeps proceedings narrow and can keep one of the occupants dry. What's more, that front cell can be swapped for other modules like an open seat, a cargo box or a mobile kitchen.



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Saints Row 4 Pre-Order Bonuses Are Filled With American Patriotism

Saints Row 4 is expected to be released on August 20 by its new published, Deep Silver, and as you would expect from the game's developer, Volition, they've cooked up some pre-order bonuses for those of you who plunk down your hard-earned cash prior to the game's release. Pre-ordering Saints Row 4 will get you the “Commander in Chief” edition, which you can get a feel for from the image in this story. The Commander in Chief edition will come with an Uncle Sam suit that has your character decked out in clothes only a true American could appreciate.

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60-year-old woman takes her 11-second AMG to the track

Like any form of motorsports, drag racing is a passion that never dies. Case in point, check out this woman, who is an admitted "60-some-odd years old," caught in this video taking her murdered-out Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG to the track for a little side-by-side action. As it turns out, drag racing is even a family affair, too, as her husband hits the strip in a second-gen Dodge Viper. She says that she's been racing since she was a teenager, and she's still logging some solid times in her "not totally stock" Mercedes-Benz, which she claims is laying down around 475 horsepower from a chipped computer and cold-air induction.



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Mazda6 Skyactiv-D racecar gets first win at Road Atlanta

Mazda has a long motorsports history, and one that is peppered with fascinating cars. The latest chapter in Mazda's racing story has just been written, as Joel Miller and Andrew Carbonell have driven the Visit Florida Racing Mazda6 Skyactiv-D to the car's first ever victory at the Rolex Grand-Am GX race at Road Atlanta. The win marks the first ever for Mazda's diesel-burning, production-car based Skyactiv-D racer, and the first win for a diesel-powered car in a Grand-Am event. In fact, it was a particularly good day for the Mazda Motorsports team, as a Mazda6 also picked up the third finishing spot at Road Atlanta.

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Egrips Non-Slip Strips review

Although I've written a lot of case reviews over the years, I personally prefer NOT to use one on my phone. I just don't care for the added bulk. Unfortunately my current phone, the Samsung Galaxy S3, is so slippery that I was forced to use a snap-on back cover to give it some extra grab action. I've been using the elago Breathe cover for months and although I have no major complaints about it, I decided I was tired of using it and went searching for an even thinner alternative.




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Deal of the Day - Dell XPS 14 Core i5 Ultrabook with Gorilla Glass and 900p display

Tuesday's LogicBUY Deal is the 14″ Dell XPS 14 “Ivy Bridge” Core i5 Ultrabook starting at $739.99.  Features:. 4GB RAM500GB hard drive, 32GB mSATA SSD, 3-in-1 card readerBonded Gorilla Glass14″ HD+ 900p display, 400-nit brightness, Intel HD 4000 graphicsWaves MaxxAudio 4miniDisplayport, HDMI, two USB 3.0 ports.
$1099.99 – $300 instant savings – $60 coupon code = $739.99 with free shipping.

This deal expires April 23, 2013 or sooner.

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Netflix Adding $12 Four Simultaneous Stream Family Plan Soon

Netflix subscribers are currently permitted to simultaneously stream two TV shows or movies on separate devices. This limit might not suit families who'd rather have one subscription take care of all their content streaming needs. Today the company has announced that soon it will be adding a new family plan that will allow four simultaneous streams on separate devices. This new family plan will cost subscribers in the U.S. $11.99.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells mentioned this upcoming family plan in a quarterly letter to shareholders that was released today.

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Audi R8 LMS claims first victory in SCCA World Challenge series

After starting on the pole but falling behind mid-race, James Sofronas earned back the lead position to take victory at the Pirelli World Challenge event held at the Long Beach Grand Prix this past weekend. Driving the No. 14 GMG/Mobil 1 Audi R8 LMS, Sofronas was near the front of the pack when the No. 9 K-PAX Racing Volvo S60, driven by Alex Figge, suffered a brake rotor failure near the end of the race and went into a wall. The No. 3 Cadillac Racing Cadillac CTS-V.R, piloted by Johnny O'Connell, jumped into the lead.

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Facebook Shuts Down Gun Shop Site That Is Giving Away A Free AR-15

Guns and the right to bear arms is an extremely touchy subject, especially for folks living in the US. The thing is, we have seen our fair share of tragedies borne out on TV because of mindless and senseless killings, where even teenagers were able to obtain firearms and run amok with them, be it at campuses or in a movie theater. Well, it seems that the Facebook fan page for Pittsburgh Tactical Firearm has been shut down by the powers-that-be at Facebook. The thing is, not only was the main page shuttered, but the second page which begun as a replacement for the first was killed off, too.

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