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Yahoo just scored an expensive touchdown: It’s paying the NFL $20 million to show one game in the fall, making it the first online company to stream a regular season matchup normally seen on broadcast television.Yahoo will stream the Oct. 25 game between the dreadful Jacksonville Jaguars and the quarterback-light Buffalo Bills across all of its platforms, including its website and app. The game will be broadcast only on local television in the two cities, making Yahoo the only way to watch it nationally or internationally....

Media Platforms Design TeamWhat Is It? 2010 Mazda CX-7 and CX-9 The Specs Mazda has updated versions of the CX-7 and CX-9 crossovers for the 2010 model year. The company will also show the feisty new Mazdaspeed3 sport compact sedan that debuted at the Geneva Motor Show just last month. The CX-7 receives a second, normally aspirated engine to join its turbocharged motor. The 2.5-liter four-cylinder should deliver improved fuel economy for the sporty crossover....

On-Sale Date: springPrice (base): $23,295Competitors: Chevy Equinox, GMC Terrain, Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Tucson, Mazda CX-5, VW TiguanPowertrain: 2.5-liter inline four, 168 hp, 170 lb-ft; 1.6-liter turbocharged I-4, 178 hp, 184 lb-ft; 2.0-liter turbocharged I-4, 240 hp, 270 lb-ftFuel Economy (city/highway, 1.6-liter): 23/33 (estimated)What’s New: Compact crossovers are a hot segment, and after an 11-year run, Ford’s Escape was due for a revamp. The 2013 Escape rides a version of the Ford Focus platform, dubbed C1, though it’s a good bit larger: The length is up by 3....

Media Platforms Design TeamHow do you think wind energy has changed over the past few years? Twenty years ago, the wind industry’s capacity to produce power was not as big as it is today. Now we have more capacity, but the challenge is moving the power from wind farms to cities. In other words, the challenge is building the infrastructure to transmit the power. There are just enormous wind resources that are available....

Media Platforms Design TeamBy 2030 biofuels such as ethanol could replace up to one-third of the gasoline consumed in the U.S., . Instead of burning irreplaceable fossil fuels, we’ll use reliable, renewable energy sources that are more environmentally benign. That’s the idea, anyway. In practice, integrating ethanol into gasoline has been a messy business. Critics claim ethanol additives are expensive for consumers, take too much corn out of the food supply, and provide environmental benefits that are marginal at best....

Whether you’ve got a crossover vehicle or a hot rod, one thing’s for certain: You love your car. But dependency on foreign oil and the consequences of global warming have cast a pall on vehicle ownership. Over the past year and a half, PM has crunched the numbers on biofuels, looked at hydrogen and nuclear energy as fuel alternatives, and spotlighted plug-in cars in an attempt to get to the bottom of all the hype (click here for all of our Drive Green coverage)....

Media Platforms Design TeamThe astronauts who blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the final flight of the space shuttle this morning weren’t alone—thousands of travelers are accompanying them. These passengers are a collection of microorganisms, and this morning’s launch was the beginning of a trip that could show the plausibility of an even more amazing journey: Microbes traveling from Mars to Earth billions of years ago to seed our planet with life....

Craftsman predates the Maker movement by a long shot. Founded in 1927, the storied brand of hand and power tools has been instrumental in introducing everything from laser miter saws to gas engine lawn mowers to the American public. That lineage translates into credibility, so it’s appropriate that the company would host a “Makecation” event this weekend in Brooklyn, N.Y. in which people from around the country get a trip to New York to learn great new skills....

Three hurricanes are currently brewing in the Atlantic ocean. As Hurricane Florence is expected to hit North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia as a Category 4, sparking a preemptive state of emergency, Hurricanes Isaac and Helene lie in wait. It’s a startling triple threat that’s not without precident. In fact, it happened only last year with Hurricane Irma barreling toward Florida, Hurricane Katia hammering Mexico, as Hurricane Jose was waiting in the wings....

Media Platforms Design TeamTaste Your Spices Before You Brew"Beers should be very seasonal, so when winter comes along, so do our heartier beers," says Tim Walker, head brewer and owner of Small Batch Beer in Winston-Salem, N.C. For Christmas, Walker recommends darker, heavier beers made with popular yuletide flavors.You might be tempted to go with nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, clove or even peppermint for your Christmas beer. However, he points out that you don’t want to overdo it with flavors that could conflict with each other....

What kind of ride would you want for a lunar road trip? NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing a hardy robotic vehicle that could serve as an all-purpose hauler for explorers. The robot can be controlled from Earth or driven by astronauts to carry cargo, including habitation modules, to far-flung destinations on the moon. The system, the All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer, or ATHLETE, rides on six wheels until it meets a boulder, then it extends its hinged legs like a spider to step over the obstacle....

View full post on YoutubeWhen he learned that Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza gained entry to the school by shooting out a glass door, Christopher Kapiloff of Kapiloff Glass wanted to do something to prevent further tragedies. That’s how he got the idea to create School Guard Glass, a lightweight glass that can withstand attacks from bullets for up to 10 minutes—long enough for law enforcement to arrive.School Guard Glass, which is about a quarter-inch thick, comes with a price tag of around $1000 per door....

Media Platforms Design TeamThe new Golf, which we get roughly next spring, promises to be not only a bit bigger, growing about two inches, but also lighter by 60 lbs. A bigger car that weighs less is typically tough to achieve; VW managed it by upping the use of high-strength steel from 66 to 80 percent. Ultra-high-strength hot-formed steel usage has jumped from six to 28 percent.The motor reserved solely for North America, the not-much-loved 2....

How Vulnerable Is U.S. Infrastructure to a Major Cyber Attack?Media Platforms Design TeamNational security officials say that cyberspies hacked their way into the U.S. grid and left behind software programs that could disrupt the system.Four Ways to Fight Back Against Cyber AttacksMedia Platforms Design TeamYour webcam, cellphone, Web browsers, and personal e-mails are all vulnerable to attack from thieves in cyberspace. This story gives four ways to fight back.Top 3 Threats and Countermeasures From the Coming Cyberwar: GlossaryMedia Platforms Design TeamSix cyberwar terms to know....

So much innovation happens every day in labs, hangars and two-car garages across the country that picking a handful of breakthroughs is a tough challenge. Rule No. 1: To beat out the hundreds of candidates we find each year and win a Breakthrough Award, an advance has to solve problems, expand horizons or engage the imagination of millions. It really has to matter. The visionaries on the following pages have made such strides – attacking the energy crisis with a better light bulb, saving lives with replacement organs, fighting Third World poverty with a low-tech peanut sheller, and more....

How does disaster strike for the Department of Homeland Security these days? A terrorist drives a car packed with explosives onto a major cable-supported bridge, parks it next to a crucial binding and detonates it. Splat! Paint, of all things, is everywhere–but the cable remains intact, and the span stays standing.Sure, stronger steel plates and trusses are primary concerns in the post-Minneapolis world of structural engineering. But as they ramp up high-tech protection against terrorism for hundreds of bridges across the country, government agencies and researchers are turning to more advanced–and quirky–solutions, from nanotech coatings to self-healing structures and, yes, blast-absorbing paintballs....

Media Platforms Design TeamTeam: RaceAbout AssociationCar: Electric RaceAbout (ERA) Class: AlternativeDrivetrain: ElectricEnergy Storage: Lithium-ion batteriesPM Says: High performance wedged into an economy run.Odds to Win: 12 to 1The ERA comes from the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and was developed by students and faculty advisers over the past nine years. Built with an electric motor for each of its four wheels—­totaling 268 hp—and using chassis bits from Audi’s R8 sports car, the ERA seems designed for racetracks, not for eking out every last amp of range....

Media Platforms Design TeamLast week, I headed 50 miles north of Seattle, to Arlington, Wash., the home of Glasair Aviation. I went to learn about the company’s revolutionary new build process for their high-performance Sportsman 2+2 kit-plane — and then to go for a test drive, to figure out what it was like 180 degrees from a midtown Manhattan office. To make like Jack London, and barrel across British Columbia and the Yukon Territory with three other men in two experimental aircraft, just to see what we see....

The first trailer for Steve Jobs starts with a challenge. “What do you do?” Steve Wozniak (played by Seth Rogen) asks of Apple other co-founder. “You’re not an engineer. You’re not a designer. You can’t put a hammer to a nail.“The real Woz never said those words—or so he told Bloomberg. But after seeing the trailer for the movie, Wozniak said it captured the spirit of the real him and the real Jobs, and he was excited to see the film when it debuts October 9....

If we were betting types, we’d say the odds that something called the Hyperloop will ever shoot paying passengers around the West Coast in tubes held at a near vacuum is still pretty low. That said, news yesterday that Aecom and Oerlikon are getting involved show that some people are taking the idea very seriously.The company to really pay attention to here is Aecom, a publicly-traded company with over 100,000 employees that did a shade over $19 billion in revenues last year....