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Porsche has all but confirmed they will be showing off their new Porsche 911 GT3 RS track focused supercar at the Geneva Motor Show next month. Now the company has announced that they will show off two track focused Porsche sports cars in Geneva, one will be the new Porsche Cayman GT4 which was announced recently. Porsche have not confirmed what the second car will be but, it is pretty much given that the company will launch their new 911 GT3 RS at Geneva next month. The second new model is another exceptional Porsche that sets new standards on the racetrack. The world premiere will take place during the Porsche press conference at the Palexpo Arena in Geneva at 11:30 (CET) on March 3, 2015. A live webcast will be available in German and English on: http://porsche.gomexlive.com/. This vehicle confirms the sports car manufacturer’s commitment to high performance sports cars that manage to make a very special link between everyday driving and motorsports. As soo

Anyone who has wanted to build a very own virtual helper might be interested in a project that has been published over on the Instructables website by user Janw that shows you how to make a Raspberry Pi personal assistant. The project to create the Raspberry Pi personal assistant was inspired when its creator found half of a 1950s bakelite Televox intercom, which has now been modified and refitted to provide a very unique and retro styling to the project. Watch the video below to see how the Raspberry Pi personal assistant is able to answer your questions in a Siri style way using a Raspberry pi model B with Raspian Wheezy operating system installed. “Last summer, in a small store, I found half of a 1950s bakelite Televox intercom . I thought that it would make a nice cast for a project and I bought it as it only cost $9. It sat on a shelf until I bought my first raspberry pi. After I had played with the pi for some days, I was struck by the idea that the intercom would be

Brooklyn resident Michael McWatters has shared a story this week via Twitter which explained how whilst walking to his car his six-year-old twins spotted an iPhone embedded in the snow and ice on the ground. After further investigation and carefully excavating the iPhone from the ice, he discovered that the Home button was completely frozen solid, and due the smartphone not being protected by a case he thought the worst for the iPhone. “I looked down at the pile of ice (that was previously snow),”-“and saw the iPhone. I got [my son] in the car, opened the trunk, and used a shovel we keep for digging the car out to scrape the phone out.” Once Michael had arrived at work including the iPhone to a charger and after 30 minutes was surprised to see that the phone had been lost and the phone number that he should call to return it to its original owner. “About half an hour later I checked and sure enough I got the default message saying this phone was lost with a phone number

Mercedes Benz has been teasing their new Mercedes AMG GT 3 ahead of its official unveiling at the 85th Geneva International Motor Show next month and now the company has revealed more information about their new GT3. The Mercedes AMG GT3 will come with a modified version of the 6.3 litre V8 that was previously in the SLS AMG GT3. The Mercedes-AMG GT3 will blaze new trails in customer sports with its intelligent vehicle concept. The excellent racetrack performance of the standard GT already provides the best possible basis for this. “We are entering a hard-fought and hotly contested competitive environment with the new Mercedes-AMG GT3. The high technological standard and fair race rules are spurring us on to push to take pole position with our new customer racing car. You can only give credible proof of your ambition to lead if you’re beating the very best in the game,” commented Tobias Moers, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-AMG GmbH. We should have

We had previously heard a rumor that the Verizon Nexus 6 would be launching on the on the 26th of February, although the device has yet to be made available with the carrier. Now according to a new report the Verizon Nexus 6 will launch on the 12th of March and the handset will come with Android 5.1 Lollipop. Android 5.1 Lollipop will apparently bring support for Enhanced 4G LTE Mode on the Verizon Nexus 6 which is Advanced Calling of VoLTE. The details were discovered after Verizon published a video about the nexus 6 on their official YouTube page, the video has now been removed. As a reminder the Nexus 6 comes with a quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor and 3GB of RAM, the device also comes with a 5.96 inch display that has a Quad HD resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. Other specifications on the handset include a choice of 32GB or 64GB of storage plus a 2 megapixel front facing camera and a 13 megapixel rear camera. As soon as we get some confirmation tha

Feedly the awesome RSS reader service that has been developed to offer an alternative to the Google Reader service that shut down many months go. Has this week announced they have now passed the 50,000 Pro user milestone with a big thank you going out to its users and community. Feedly has also revealed what they have planned for the future explaining a little more about the short term projects which are going to benefit from Pro user funding : 1. We are going to continue to invest in the feedly Cloud so that the service remains reliable and fast despite the growing number of users and the growing number of stories we deliver each day. 2. We are working on a new version of feedly for Android which reflects some of the Material Design changes Arthur highlighted in his design review (thanks for all the awesome feedback!). 3. We are working on a new iteration of the collection sharing feature. Our goal is to integrate the great feedback we collected during the beta and op