Leicester Mercury published Racing car builder to leave its county base

Source: This Is Leicestershire

A racing car builder is pulling out of Leicestershire, taking 65 jobs with it. CRS Racing currently makes the £325,000 McLaren 12C GT3 at its factory in Bardon Hill, near Coalville. In the past 12 months, it has built 25 of the cars – beating an original ...
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Interesting Top Gear Test Track Infographic

Source: Final Gear

Boost Labs has put out a nice detailing the results of the lap board over time. It’s quite a cool piece and worth checking out. Episode 2 The boys are given ÂŁ5000 each to go out and buy 4-door saloons that could ...
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Game Of Thrones and the paradoxes of adaptation

Source: Joystiq

This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on "Western" role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their insanity, and their inanity. The role-playing game ...
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The Question: Diablo III's Auction House, good or bad?

Source: Destructoid

Inconsequential, IMO. Unless people crunch numbers and find out that Blizzard is truly withholding gear to drive people to the Gold and RMAH, we won't know for sure. Either way, it's there if you need it; if not, the people who actually put ...
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How Bethesda's taking the Elder Scrolls online

Source: Edge Magazine

The cover of our next issue, which hits newsstands on June 6, features The Elder Scrolls Online, the game that marks the first time Bethesda's 18-year-old RPG series will open the gates of Tamriel to the world as an ...
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Early History of the Massively Multiplayer Online Game

Source: N4G

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs) are virtual persistent worlds that allow 100′s to thousands of players to simultaneous play and be part of the same game world. All MMOs have the leveling treadmill type of gameplay common ...
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NASA satellites feed forecasters information as Bud becomes a hurricane

Source: PhysOrg.com

NASA's Aqua satellite captured this visible image of now Hurricane Bud off the southwestern coast of Mexico on May 23 at 2035 UTC (1:35 PDT). Notice that the outer fringes of Bud's clouds are brushing the Mexican coast, de ...
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NASA's TRMM satellite sees some heavy rainfall in Typhoon Sanvu

Source: PhysOrg.com

This TRMM image of rainfall from Typhoon Sanvu was taken on May 24, 2012. Sanvu's heaviest rainfall was occurring in its northeastern quadrant where some intense storms were dropping rainfall at a rate greater than 50mm/hr (~2 inches/hr). TRMM ...
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Relatively speaking: Researchers identify principles that shape kinship categories across languages

Source: PhysOrg.com

Different languages refer to family relationships in different ways. For example, English speakers use two terms grandmother and grandfather to refer to grandparents, while Mandarin Chinese uses four terms. Many possible kinship cat ...
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