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Bathurst Provides GT Excitement For All

At the conclusion of 12 hours of racing around Australia’s famed Mount Panorama Circuit, Ferrari took their first ever overall victory in the 13th running of the Bathurst 12 Hour. The team of current V8 Supercars driver Craig Lowndes, former …

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Coke Steals Super Bowl Talk

A lackluster and utterly disappointing Super Bowl 48 provided the stage for a 60 second ad to become a national conversation. The Seattle Seahawk’s blowout victory over the Dallas Broncos opened the door for talk to focus on the spectacle …

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Rolex 24 Provides Controversial Start to 2014 Racing Season

After 24 hours of racing at the Daytona International Speedway, racing fans came away from the 2014 Rolex 24 with a somewhat-sour taste in their mouths. Despite a late charge by Wayne Taylor Racing’s Max Angelelli, Action Express Racing’s Joao …

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From Game-Boys to Game-Changers

Think back to the first handheld electronic device you’ve ever powered off on an airplane. If you’re my age, it was probably one of the greatest inventions of the 90’s: a large, grey, yellow-screened, poorly-pixelated Nintendo Game-Boy. This groundbreaking device …

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Expectations of the Past’s Future, 2012

As I effortlessly type on my lovely 2011 Toshiba laptop, I can only imagine what computers were like twenty years ago. Around the year I was born. The HD-projected, user-friendly, light-weight piece of machinery is probably incomparable to the first …

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A Decade of Being Able to ‘Google’

Before I turned fourteen in 2004, the year Google was first released to the public, I remember life being somewhat different. In the Pre-Google era, information wasn’t a “click away”– it was more like two-hundred clicks away and it usually …

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