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<title><![CDATA[Twitterverse: 'King's Speech' will win Best Picture]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Spommaimmus</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
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<description><![CDATA[We all know that any single tweet has a much better than average chance of containing total nonsense, and that any individual Twitter user's Oscar predictions aren't worth their weight in ones and zeroes.But if you aggregate tens of thousands of users' guesses, you end up with what could be called The Wisdom of the Twitterverse, and in this case, the crowd has spoken: &quot;The King's Speech&quot; will win Best Picture in a runaway.Based on tens of thousands of tweets, Tweetbeat expects 'The King's Speech' to be the runaway Best Picture Oscar winner.(Credit:Tweetbeat)Since the announcement of the Academy Award nominations last month, a service called Tweetbeat has been collecting each and every Oscar-related tweet, and today it released its conclusions.With well more than 25,000 votes, if you can call them that, &quot;The King's Speech&quot; emerged as the clear winner, with the support of 31.4 percent. Next up was &quot;The Social Network,&quot; with 13.7 percent, &quot;Black Swan,&quot; with 10.9 percent, &quot;Inception,&quot; with 10.6 percent, and &quot;True Grit,&quot; with 8.1 percent. The five other Best Picture nominees, &quot;The Fighter,&quot; &quot;127 Days,&quot; &quot;Toy Story 3,&quot; &quot;Winter's Bone,&quot; and &quot;The Kids are Alright&quot; all had less than 8 percent.In the Best Actress category, Natalie Portman was an even bigger favorite than &quot;The King's Speech.&quot; The &quot;Black Swan&quot; actress garnered support from 54.5 percent of tweeters, while runner-up Nicole Kidman got 16.7 percent, Annette Bening got 11 percent, Jennifer Lawrence got 10.6 percent, and Michelle Williams came in last at 7.3 percent.Among the men, Colin Firth, the king in &quot;The King's Speech,&quot; did even better than Portman, raking in 56.4 percent of the &quot;vote,&quot; while Jesse Eisenberg was the favorite of 14.1 percent, and James Franco, Javier Bardem, and Jeff Bridges rounded out the field with 12.3 percent, 10.6 percent, and 6.5 percent, respectively.To be sure, these are entirely unscientific numbers, so please don't bet your kid's college fund based on them. But when you're talking about the collective impressions of many tens of thousands of people, it's hard to imagine Tweetbeat's predictions being off base. I, for one, think &quot;The King's Speech&quot; is a shoo-in to win, and that Firth certainly deserves the Oscar for his role as King George VI. I haven't seen &quot;Black Swan,&quot; so I can't weigh in on Portman's performance.Regardless, this is an interesting way to arrive at wisdom of the crowds-type predictions, and it will be very interesting to see if Tweetbeat has it right. If so, I'll be very, very interested to see what the Twitterverse has to say about the 2012 presidential election.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM's eAssist 'mild hybrid' to juice Buick mileage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Spommaimmus</dc:creator>
<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[General Motors today said it will bring hybrid technology to Buick models that will improve fuel efficiency by about 25 percent using what GM calls &quot;light electrification.&quot; The powertrain, called eAssist, uses a lithium ion battery with high power but relatively little storage capacity. Like a traditional hybrid, the battery will help propel thecar with up to 11 kilowatts of power from a stopped position and store energy from braking. With GM&amp;39's mild hybrid design, a lithium ion battery in the back of the car is charged when a driver brakes or the vehicle is decelerating. That stored energy is used when starting from idle and when cruising.The battery also runs the electrical systems when the car is idle, allowing the gas engine to turn off, and provides a boost during cruising to avoid shifting into a lower gear.This approach, called a mild hybrid technology, can significantly enhance efficiency at a relatively low cost. eAssist will be one of the options that GM will offer with a four-cylinder 2012 model of the Buick Regal which will be available later this year. &quot;We've done a lot of work at the high end with the Chevy Volt. We're also trying to lead with this more foundational approach,&quot; said Steve Poulos, GM's global chief engineer for mild hybrid and battery electric powertrains. &quot;There are many other places this same vehicle and power train is used so the bandwidth is there (to use it in other vehicles).&quot;This is the second generation of GM's mild hybrid design, which uses a Hitachi battery and is already used in the Buick LaCrosse. Poulos did not say which other models might use eAssist or what the added cost would be but said GM could supply it in high volume.With the 2012 Regal with eAssist, GM estimates the fuel economy will be 26 miles per gallon in city driving and 37 miles per gallon on the highway, which is a 25 percent improvement over the 4-cylinder 2011 powertrain. Controls in the car allow the driver to choose a more efficient air conditioning setting and monitor a real-time efficiency gauge.The battery itself is placed between the back seat and trunk, which removes about three cubic feet of trunk space. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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