The sport of running continues to grow in popularity across Canada. But when it comes running races, including marathons, completion times have slowed by 20 minutes over the past 20 years.
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Robert Kubica embarrassed by slow, bad-handling Williams F1 car
BARCELONA — Robert Kubica took part in a Formula One race weekend for the first time in more than seven years on Friday, and the Pole’s considered verdict provided little comfort for fans of his struggling Williams team. The former world champions are last in the constructors’ championship with a car whose handling is the […]
NYC Is Redesigning Its Slow, Old, and Unpopular Bus System
It’s also introducing double-decker buses and all-door boarding. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ade58f0d6f7d02c2d3fd0ca/master/pass/FINALMTAelectricbusfinal240938522044_d7f745d0e5_o.jpg
Trump blasts the FBI and DOJ for ‘slow walking’ their response to a Republican subpoena
Mark Wilson/Getty Images President Donald Trump launched another salvo at the Department of Justice and the FBI Saturday, after the DOJ missed a deadline to respond to a document subpoena from Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. Trump accused the DOJ of “slow walking” its response to the subpoena and suggested the agency had something […]
Watch The Slow Mo Guys crash two box vans into a bridge
It’s been a while since we posted something on the infamous 11-foot-8 bridge in North Carolina. The low-slung bridge has claimed scalped or halted 130 victims as of April 2018. Don’t worry, there will be more. YouTube channel The Slow Mo Guys, known for recording slow-motion video of everything from water balloons exploding to a […]
When slow downloads hit an app developer, only Comcast customers suffered
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) App developer Panic Inc. knew it had a network problem when customers began complaining about trouble downloading and updating Panic apps. “Geez, your downloads are really slow!” was the common complaint that started coming in a few months ago, Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser explained in a blog post titled, “The Mystery […]
Microwaves across Europe are 6 minutes slow due to a Serbia-Kosovo grid dispute
Enlarge / Grumpy? Maybe it’s because you’re 6 minutes late to macaroni time. (credit: Getty Images) In a press release on Tuesday, Europe’s electric transmission lobby said that ovens, microwaves, and radios across continental Europe could be running almost six minutes slow due to a power grid dispute between Serbia and neighboring Kosovo. Power-connected clocks […]
UK to let Brits tear up broadband contracts over slow speeds
There are so many factors that can affect home broadband speeds, the “up to” figures providers like to throw around are tantamount to guesswork. UK telecoms regulator Ofcom isn’t a great fan of inaccurate claims, so it’s forcing ISPs to change how they communicate speeds to potential customers. Companies have a whole year — until […]
Medics may slow biological time to save soldiers’ lives
Battlefield medics frequently only have a brief window of opportunity to treat an injury before it’s fatal or causes permanent disabilities, and it’s frequently so fleeting that there’s not much they can do. DARPA is exploring an unusual solution to that problem: slow the biological processes to give medics more room to breathe. Its new […]
Charter appeals court loss, still claims it can’t be punished for slow speeds
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Anders Clark | EyeEm) Charter Communications is appealing a court ruling that said the ISP must face a lawsuit alleging the company falsely promised fast Internet speeds that Charter knew it could not deliver. Charter claims that federal regulations, including the recent repeal of net neutrality rules, preempts the lawsuit […]
