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Los Angeles pilot program offers up to $2,000 off EV charging stations

“Last week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a pilot program to ease the burden on plug-in vehicle owners by providing charging station rebates of up to $2,000. The value of the rebate will depend on the type of charger and equipment installed and is apparently limited to the first 1,000 applicants. To qualify for the rebate, customers must participate in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP) Residential Time-of-Use Rate, which provides a significant discount for charging your electric vehicle during “off-peak” hours.” — source Read More → "Los Angeles pilot program offers up to $2,000 off EV charging stations"

The physics of clown cars

Clown car physics:  “How many clowns go in car is a mix of Clown Politics (CP), Clown Size (CS), Clown Flexibility (CF), General Survivability (GS), and the critical Maximum Clown Hilarity (MCH) quotient.”

“How many clowns (X) that can be stuffed into any Clown Car (CC) can be expressed in this simple equation:

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The LayerOne hacking conference is just around the corner

They’ve announced their speaker line-up which includes talks on home monitoring, lockpicking, mobile malware and more. Anaheim, California on May 28-29.

LayerOne this year includes a full fledged Lockpicking Village and Hardware Hacking Village, both of which will have demonstrations and training for those interested in picking locks, cracking safes, making blinky lights, or learning how to surface mount solder. This year will also be LayerOne’s first Tamper Evident Contest where teams compete to see who can best defeat mechanical, adhesive, and electronic tamperindicating technologies while leaving no … Read More → "The LayerOne hacking conference is just around the corner"

Portal 2: For fun, for everyone, for science

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cnet got to chat with one of Portal 2’s writers, Erik Wolpaw (8-minute interview embedded below) about the process of creating the highly anticipated sequel and how Stephen Merchant was brought on as the voice of Wheatley, one of the game’s new characters.

Read more at cnet

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