The set features six of the world’s most recognizable tracks: Laguna Seca, Monaco, Nürburgring, Road America, Spa, and Watkins Glen. Get them here.

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For businesses and other organizations today, open-source software (OSS) is transformative in terms of its ability to allow organizations to write software very quickly and to leverage innovation very aggressively.

OSS component-based development has reached a strategic tipping point, having moved from a cost-effective solution to a competitive advantage capable of delivering rapid and substantial return on investment for organizations that use it.
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When it comes to automating aircraft controls, there has been a significant amount of progress in the fields of science and military. It’s possible for an unmanned aircraft to take off, to fly, and to touch down. But when it comes to actually moving on the ground, humans still need to have direct control. That may not be the case for much longer.
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The exhibit will be featured from March 16 until September 30th before taking a 10-stop national tour. More info here at the Smithsonian’s website.

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Hone your intraoffice battle tactics with the Air Strike Catapult ($15). Arriving with its own set of six spiky foam balls, it can fling its projectiles up to 40 feet, or more than far enough to hit the annoying guy five cubicles down.
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Michael Snyder knows his body better than anyone in history.

For two-and-a-half years, he’s had regular blood samples drawn, and tracked the ebb and flow of 40,000 different molecules within his cells, from hormones to blood sugar, to the proteins of the immune system and mutated genes. Snyder also watched as his genetic vulnerability to diabetes turned into actual disease.

In a paper published today in the journal Cell, Snyder, a genetics professor at Stanford University, and his collaborators recount 14 months of living a Truman Show& … Read More → "An unprecedented study shows how personalized medicine could help head off disease"

DNA origami: NIST researchers made three DNA origami templates designed so that quantum dots would arrange themselves: (a in the corners, b) diagonally (three dots), and (c in a line (four dots). The researchers found that putting the quantum dots closer together caused them to interfere with one another, leading to higher error rates and lower bonding strength.

In recent years, scientists have begun … Read More → "NIST probes the promise of nanomanufacturing using DNA origami"

We now have yet another indication that neutrinos cannot travel faster than the speed of light after all, provided by a neighbor of the OPERA detector that set off the fuss in the first place. OPERA’s detector sits deep underground at Gran Sasso in Italy, where it receives neutrinos from a beam generated at CERN, 730 km away on the French-Swiss border. Because the neutrino beam spreads out over the intervening distance, it& … Read More → "Not so fast: more evidence neutrinos aren’t defying Einstein"

Welcome to the future of trying on jeans: instead of stepping into a dressing room with a pair you think will fit, you’ll instead enter the fitting room of tomorrow, equipped with a ring of eight Kinect sensors. They’ll see your body from every angle and, after mapping your contours in mere seconds, knows exactly what pair of pants will fit you best.

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