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Tested: How tires perform on track as they wear | Articles

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What happens to tires after our tests? We keep running them–and we keep learning. Our latest findings: Some tires get better the more you run them. Specifically, longterm testing of the Falken Azenis RT660 and the Bridgestone Potenza RE–71RS showed that tread depth, heat cycling and rotation can impact performance over the tire’s lifetime. When we first … Read more

You can now wear an Apollo Guidance Computer keypad as a wristwatch

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The following article was written by Tom Robinson, collectSPACE.com contributor. When NASA’s Apollo spacecraft launched to the moon, it had on board two briefcase-size computers that for their day would normally have required enough floor space to fill a couple of rooms. The compact devices were small, but had enough processing power and memory to … Read more