We have covered a few cars before here on BGR that were heavily customized by KC Howeth and the team at Charlotte, North Carolina-based Underground Racing, but this is easily one of the meanest yet. Behold: a 2,000HP twin-turbo Lamborghini Huracan that can probably tear through a quarter-mile before you finish reading this sentence.
In a new video published on Underground Racing’s YouTube channel, we can see this beastly new build in action on the track.
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What happens when you put together a movie mashup crossing Avengers: Age of Ultron with characters from The Wizard of Oz? A film called Avengers of Oz: Age of Tinman. And trust us, it’s nothing short of amazing and creatively brilliant.
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As the sheer volume of data transmitted over the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds, there has been a lot of speculation regarding whether or not the fiber optic cables which form the underlying foundation of the internet will eventually max out.
Well not to fear. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego recently published a report in the journal Science detailing how they were able to increase the maximum power under which fiber optic signals can be transmitted and accurately decoded. In turn, optic signals can now travel for longer distances without seeing a degradation in quality.
“This advance,” the UC San Diego News Center writes, “has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable, wireless and landline networks.”
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There’s no disputing that YouTube remains the king of online video, but the Google-owned property is starting to see some heavy competition from an unusual place: Facebook.
Whereas most videos shared on Facebook used to come in the form of embedded YouTube videos, most videos on the site today are now uploaded to the social network via Facebook’s video uploader. More to the point, 70% of all new videos posted to Facebook are being uploaded directly. Back in February of 2014, this figure was just 25%.
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Earlier this week, a Reddit user named Ramiro Gomez put together the following chart detailing the top 30 most edited English Wikipedia articles of all time. In putting the chart together, Gomez, a software developer who hails from Berlin, queried which articles had seen the most revisions going all the way back to January of 2001 when Wikipedia first launched.
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Weight loss is an important yet delicate matter to people looking to shed some of that extra weight. There are many “miracle” solutions that don’t exactly work, and there are plenty methods to do it properly. Watching what you eat and exercising properly will certainly help, though it may take discipline and time to see results. However, people who want instant results should know there’s a new medical procedure that lets doctors eliminate some of your fat by freezing it.
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Here we are in the summer of 2015 and hardly a peep about a device that the media and public obsessed about for two years. So, what happened to Google Glass and where’s it going?
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AT&T’s lineup of affordable smartphones expanded on Friday with the unveiling of the ZTE Maven. This $59.99 device comes equipped with 4G LTE wireless service, Android 5.1 and, best of all, doesn’t require an annual commitment. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a cheaper phone with better specs from any of the major service providers.
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Apple’s next-gen iPhone has already entered production and, as previously rumored, will sport the same Force Touch functionality Apple originally introduced with the Apple Watch. The news comes courtesy of Bloomberg, which also adds that Apple’s iPhone 6s models will come in the same 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch form factors as the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
With production already underway, the report adds that volume production is slated to begin sometime next month. More than likely, Apple’s upcoming iPhone models will hit store shelves sometime in late September, with Friday, September 25 being an alleged release date we’ve seen floating around.
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Check out the photos of all the Fords we found having fun at the Nats, and make sure to see the video interviews we did with the folks from Ford and Shelby
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