Aptera fresh out of greenbacks, closes up shop

Bummer for fans of teardrop shaped three-wheelers, as your favorite chariot, Aptera's 2e, will never see the light of day. Despite getting the ball rolling on a $150 million loan from the DOE, subsequent funding and time just weren't on the startup's side. An unfortunate prognosis, as CEO Paul Wilbur revealed the company had been working on a $30,000 mid-sized sedan that would have touted 190 miles of electrical range. He's still adamant the company had "never been closer" to realizing its vision, but hopes someone else can carry on Aptera's torch. Those nuggets and more await in what is possibly the company's final tell-all after the break.

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Don?t Blame The IQ, Blame The Carrier

eyevoYou couldn't swing a cat this week without hitting a story about Carrier IQ, which (if you have somehow avoided this information) is a bit of software installed on millions of phones that has access to a huge amount of user data. As developers hinted for months and eventually proved on camera, the software is aware of SMS content, secure web traffic, contacts, key presses, and more. Naturally there has been an outcry. Who are these people? What phones is the software on? How do you remove it? What can't it do? The surprising thing is that the ire has been directed at Carrier IQ themselves. Why? If someone runs you over in their car, you don't write a stern letter to Ford. Carrier IQ made and sold an invasive piece of software, certainly. But they didn't install it on your phone. Sprint did.

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Verizon-branded Galaxy Nexus runs impressive 4G LTE speed test on two bars (video)

How fast can the Samsung Galaxy Nexus run on Verizon's 4G network? Pretty darn fast, according to a freshly leaked video. Originally spotted by the folks over at Phandroid, the clip shows a Verizon-branded Galaxy Nexus performing rather admirably on a speed trial from Speedtest.net, reaching download speeds of 8.5Mbps, and upstream rates of 2Mbps -- all on just two bars of signal. It's worth noting that the clip hasn't received Verizon's official blessing, though it should certainly whet some appetites ahead of the handset's apparently imminent release. Check it out for yourself, after the break.

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Windows 8 to feature adaptive Aero colorization, get it now on Windows 7

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While we've still yet to see anything truly Earth-shattering, the tandem of Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott continues to churn out insight about interesting new features they've discovered in Windows 8 milestone 3. The latest discovery is that Aero in Windows 8 will be able to automatically adapt itself to match your current wallpaper image. It's a bit like what Windows 7 already does with your taskbar icons: if a program alert needs your attention, the icon will glow using the predominant color (e.g. Firefox should glow orange).

And yes, you can already make Windows 7 behave this way if you like. Over at CodePlex, there's a little program called Aura that parks itself in your system tray and automatically adjusts your window borders to compliment your wallpaper images. The effect is quite nice, and you can try it out by minimizing your windows and cycling through your theme's wallpapers (right click on your desktop and choose next desktop background).

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The Rest of Honda?s Tokyo Show Stand: A Tiny Box, an Electric Bike, and a Few Scooters

Honda, as you may know, makes more than just cars and SUVs. For one, it?s the world?s largest motorcycle manufacturer. The Big H also dabbles in solar cells, airplanes, personal watercraft, and humanoid robots. So it?s no surprise that the company?s Tokyo auto-show stand featured more than just cars this year. Honda?s latest foray into [...]

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Sonoma Chapter of Speedway Children?s Charities Distributes $273,000 to Youth Groups

Infineon RacewaySONOMA, Calif. (Nov. 30, 2011) ? The Sonoma Chapter of Speedway Children?s Charities will distribute $273,072 to 38 qualified youth organizations in Sonoma County for the 2011 season. The chapter’s Board of Trustees recently approved the distribution of funds at its annual meeting. Speedway Children’s Charities is the charitable arm of Speedway Motorsports, Inc.,...more»

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My Mac Windows Switch

eWEEK Labs Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant's year of using and covering Apple products in the enterprise has come to an end with a newfound respect for Mac hardware and the resistance of Mac OS X 10.6.3, code-named Snow Leopard, to hacks and viruses. For executives and high-value creative content users he sees Apple's appeal. But as we enter the cloud computing age, Sturdevant is less enamored of fat clients of any variety for routine office workers. - For just over a year I've used a variety of Apple devices from the Xserve and Mac Pro to the iPhone and MacBook Pro and even a Mac Mini as my primary work systems in a Windows-oriented IT shop. I made the switch because Apple PCs and iPhones and now iPads are coming into the enterprise. I wanted...


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Force India hails ?perfect? end to 2011

Force India labelled its performance in the final race of the 2011 season as a perfect way to complete a strong campaign on its way to sixth place in the standings, its best result to date. "Today's result is the perfect way to end what has been a tremendous season for Force India," said deputy team principal Robert Fernley after Adrian Sutil finished in sixth position and Paul di Resta in eighth. "Adrian and Paul drove brilliant races to add 12 more points to our tally and confirm our sixth place in the championship - our highest finish to date.

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