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...from weather and road conditions to fuel levels and competitors' likely actions - and how they may interact to affect a car's performance, before and during a race. The program spits out possible options, and assesses their chances of success. Now that racetrack technology is coming to the equally fast-paced world of business. McLaren and its partner, British software company SmithBayes Ltd., are this week launching a business version of the team's "decision-engine" software. They believe that many companies, across a number of sectors, compete in environments not too dissimilar from F1 racing: countless variables and constant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rapid Response | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...Valley veterans - Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59 - who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save lives - through phone calls to health clinics, fast reporting of natural disasters, support for trading co-ops and better educational opportunities. So they designed a solar-powered Internet network that is inexpensive, easy to install and nearly maintenance free. At its heart is a regional hub from which wireless relay stations - some bolted to trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Tools For The Third World | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...distribution. So what's in it for the partners? For one, they get to avoid competing with Google, a good outcome particularly for companies without an alternative means of coaxing revenue out of their content. "It's easy to collaborate with Google," says MTV president Michael Wolf. "They move fast. We'd like to do even more with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Gets Friendly | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...American people. Rather than attempting to excuse his gross failures in office, Clinton tried instead to argue that he actually had fought terrorism while in office. Pathetically culling up obscure and discredited sources like former terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke and the 9/11 Commission, Clinton tried to pull a fast one on the American people by suggesting that he––a non-Republican––might have actually been tough about national security. Thankfully the Fox News viewing public wasn’t about to be led like sheep from a truth...

Author: By Paul R. Katz, | Title: Clinton’s Shame | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...monster numbers in the first two games, scoring three touchdowns in the first 18 minutes of last weekend’s victory over Brown. The problem for defenses tends not to be getting to Dawson, but rather tackling him. “He’s obviously a very fast player,” Lehigh coach Andy Coen said. “But if you watch him, he has a lot of yards after tackles, and we just have to make sure when we contact him [that we] put him on the ground.” All Harvard running backs...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Irvin at Helm, Squad Seeks Revenge | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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