The Honda CR-Z has not gotten a good review ever since launched by Honda. But if you belong to the camp that believes there’s nothing wrong with the Honda CR-Z hybrid hatch that couldn’t be cured with an extra few doses of power, Mugen is cooking up something special that may be just what your tastebuds ordered.
If current speculation holds true, the Mugen-modified CR-Z will put out around 200 horsepower, drop 110 pounds of pudge from its standard curb weight and see improvements made to the base car’s brakes, wheels and tires. Sounds tasty, no?
Naturally, there’s a body kit bolted in place that includes a new fascia, rocker panels, rear wing and what appears to be a carbon fiber hood. Inside are Recaro seats and plenty of white-faced gauges. Finally, as you’ll see – or rather hear – in the video after the break, it also boasts some aural improvements courtesy of what we’re guessing are substantial changes to the exhaust system along with the welcome addition of a supercharger.
The technology would allow drivers of electric cars to simple swap discharged liquid fuel with charged liquid fuel literally in minutes.
According to the MIT, the batteries are powered by semi-flow cells, which use charged particles that are floating in a liquid electrolyte between two containers–one for storing energy and one for discharging energy. This separation apparently results in a 10-fold improvement of energy density, which could provide much greater ranges for electric cars or cheaper and much smaller units. Because of this high energy density, the system does not need to rapidly to deliver its power. “It kind of oozes,” said Yet-Ming Chiang, a professor at MIT.
There is a good chance that we will be seeing this technology in the real world soon. MIT professors Chian and Craig Carter have founded 24M, a company that licenses the technology from MIT. 24M has received $16 million in funding to bring Cambridge Crude to market. Reduced=-scale prototypes for electric cars are expected to be available before 2014.
After three suspects tied to the Anonymous “hacktivist” group were arrested on Friday, the Anatolia news agency – based out of Turkey – claims that local authorities have arrested an additional 32 individuals allegedly linked to the notorious international hackers’ group. The suspects were apprehended on Sunday after Ankara police conducted raids across a dozen cities on suspicion of “illegally entering the communications system.”
The news follows Anonymous’ retaliation against the Spanish Police on Saturday with a DDoS attack against the Spanish National Police website. The group claimed in a message that the three arrests on Friday would have little impact on the organization’s continuing hactivist efforts. Read more…
The company stated that it will be able to increase its production efficiency especially for the iPad in the second half of the year, which, we assume, will result in more iPads being produced.
Foxconn also believes that these investments will make the company much more profitable again. The contract manufacturer recently cut its sales growth forecast, but remains very profitable. The company posted a net profit of more than $2.7 billion for its most recent fiscal year.
Apple’s business problems currently are pretty much limited to the fact that it cannot make enough products and that it could sell more iPads and iPhones than companies such as Foxconn can assemble. Apple sold more than 7.3 million iPads in the Christmas quarter and about 4.7 million in the first quarter of this year. The company also sold 16.3 million iPhones in the fourth quarter of last year and 18.7 million in the first quarter of this year. Analysts from IDC believe that Apple will be able to sell about 166 million iPhones in 2015 – if its contract manufacturers find ways to produce them.
EA boss John Riccitiello has directed a fresh barrage of taunts at Activision in the aftermath of the Battlefield 3 showing at E3, declaring the conference “the beginning of the war” between Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3.
In reality, the war started months ago. Riccitiello and Kotick have been at each other’s’ throats since late last year. The latest exchange was started by Bobby Kotick’s comments on the Battlefield 3 E3 showing, which also sum up his feelings on the PC as a platform. Read more…
ZTE employee Wang XiaoKang was so inspired by the Iron Man movie that he built his own replica outfit and wore it to work one day.
The Chinese man spent about 3,000 yuan (US$460) and three months of his free time to build the superhero outfit. The suit has its own custom arc reactor, LED lights and a cooling fan that is powered by batteries hidden within the frame of the suit. It weighs a whopping 110 pounds.
After applying the last coat of paint, XiaoKang stunned his colleagues and upset the security guards with his impromptu showing at the ZTE campus in Shanghai. He was so pleased with his work on this Mark I outfit; XiaoKang is now working on a Mark III replica.
Hitman: Absolution was shown behind closed doors at E3 this year. Joe public had to make do with the official E3 trailer and a couple of screenshots, until now. CVG have found some leaked in-game footage of the game in action. It’s spliced into the CG trailer, and there’s a subliminal glimpse of the terrible Hitman movie in there somewhere. Fight through all that and you’ll see the first moving images of Absolution’s new engine, along with the new cover system, hostage taking and a cruel KO manoeuvre starring a bust and the back of a policeman’s head. Read more…
A hacker group has threatened to attack the www.malaysia.gov.my website. The group, which calls itself Anonymous, said it will launch the attack at 7.30pm GMT on Wednesday (3.30am Thursday Malaysian time) and has named it “Operation Malaysia.” It posted the threat in a graphic on this website, http://i.imgur.com/PTFWh.png.
Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at the F-Secure Corporation – a computer security software company based in Helsinki, Finland – tweeted about the threat at 4.42am Malaysian time. No other details were available at this time. It is also not known why Anonymous has targeted the Malaysian website.
But there has been an uptick in “hacktivism” these past weeks, where hacker groups have targeted various organizations for political purposes. Hackers have attacked the International Monetary Fund and Sony PlayStation Network, as well as the networks of aeronautics company Lockheed Martin Corp and Citibank in North America, amongst others.
Anonymous was blamed for the hack into the PlayStation network but a spokesman for the group has denied involvement, saying that its aims are political. Spain, however, has arrested three suspected members of the hacker group for that attack.
Anonymous apparently comprises a vast number of hackers in various countries, who have been organized into cells that share common goals. They operate anonymously but in a co-ordinated fashion. Thus far 3 suspects have been arrested in Spain, and 32 more in Turkey.
On June 12, 2011, there was a DDoS attack on the website of the Spanish Police, starting at 21:30 GMT. Anonymous claimed responsibility the following day, stating that the attack was a “direct response to the Friday arrests of three individuals alleged to be associated with acts of cyber civil disobedience attributed to Anonymous.” www.policia.es was down for aproximately an hour as a result of their efforts.
Greetings, Malaysia, We have seen the censorship taken by the Malaysian government, blocking sites like The Pirate Bay, and WikiLeaks. Malaysia is one of the world’s strictest governments, even blocking out movies, and television shows. These acts of censorship are inexcusable. You are taking away a basic human right. The internet is here for freedom, without fear of government interference. Do not think that no one else notices. Your structured government has done the talking, and we hear loud and clear. Let this be an announcement to all your people. This is a sign, a warning, and an opportunity to listen to ideas above your own. In a way you are being stubborn. But how will this help anyone or your country. We fear that if you make further decisions to take away human freedom. We are obligated to act fast and have no mercy. For rules were meant to be broken. And corruption was meant to be washed away and forgiven. Now we will wash your corruption away so be prepared. Take this as a favor.
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