This isn’t your typical Nascar racing machine. For 75 years, American stock-car competitions unfolded to the star-spangled tune of roaring, gas-guzzling V8 engines. When this prototype took to the course at Nascar’s Chicago Street Race for demonstration laps, it left the starting line in a cloud of tire smoke, scrambling …
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A lot can happen in 150 milliseconds. Light will have traveled around the Earth’s equator (and then some). A honeybee’s wing will have flapped 30 times. The M13B pulsar located in the constellation of Hercules will have rotated more than 42 times. All this in the blink of an eye—which, …
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When I was a kid, I always gravitated toward racing games in arcades. I especially liked when they had force feedback in their controls, allowing me to imagine some semblance of the virtual road through the wheel. When I rediscovered these things as an adult with a gaming PC, I …
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Every Formula 1 race weekend is essentially a pop-up event in a different city around the world, bringing 10 teams, their cars, and their entire mobile infrastructure to Australia, Singapore, Monaco, and beyond. This weekend's Las Vegas Grand Prix is especially unscripted, though, because the event is Formula 1's debut …
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