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A 900-hp race car can climb Pikes Peak in 10 minutes, a sports car such as the Audi TTS can make it in 17 minutes in the hands of an expert driver, and Audi’s self-driving TTS completed the 12.42 miles to the summit in 27 minutes. With nobody driving. In less than a decade we’ve gone from self-driving DARPA Challenge vehicles having trouble navigating the desert to a modified production car with autonomous driving tweaks that averaged almost 30 mph climbing one of America’s most treacherous roads.

We’re hoping he wasn’t speaking out of turn here, but for what it’s worth, Palm developer advocate Josh Marinacci has said on stage at webOS Developer Days today in New York that webOS 2.0 will be coming to “all” Palm devices in “the coming months.” Now, we’re going to go ahead and assume he’s not talking about your Treo 650, your Palm III, or your LifeDrive, but we’re taking that to mean that Pre, Pixi, Pre Plus, and Pixi Plus owners on all carriers around the globe can expect official upgrades for their phones — and hey, considering how mild of an upgrade the Pre 2 is (and the fact you can’t get it on some of the older devices’ launch carriers), that’s fantastic news. Follow the break for Marinacci’s full presentation from the event.

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This article was written on February 27, 2008 by CyberNet.

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We knew that Microsoft was getting ready to crack down on Vista piracy even more so than it did in Vista SP1, and that day is upon us. All Vista users will see a new update that is classified as important, and once you proceed with the update it will check to see if your system has been activated using a known exploit.

We once again wanted to see how well this works, and so we set up yet another virtual machine running a pirated copy of Vista. This time around we used the OEM BIOS crack that we knew isn’t detected by Vista SP1, and after about an hour-long preparation period we were finally able to install the update pictured above. Immediately after the update was installed we were presented with this dialog:

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Yep, it looks like Microsoft adjusted the detection technology to pick up the other activation exploits. However, this is just a notification and didn’t deactivate the system that we were running it on. You are given an option to go online and learn how you can remove any installed exploits, but I’m fairly confident that a lot of the pirates out there won’t be doing that.

The good news is that users running a legal copy of Vista won’t ever see a prompt like this. You’ll still be pushed to install the update, but on all of my legal machines the update didn’t trigger any prompts like the one you see above.

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Still have your hopes up about a Windows Phone 7 slider from Sony Ericsson? Then you might want to dial back those expectations, at least according to Sony Ericsson France CEO Pierre Perron. He recently told French newspaper Les Echos that while Sony Ericsson has indeed been in talks with Microsoft about Windows Phone 7, the company is not likely to pursue it because it would “run the risk of standardizing our smartphones,” adding that (roughly translated), “we would be obliged to fight only on design and price, which we want to avoid.” Perron also seemed to outright dismiss the idea of a tablet from Sony Ericsson (be it Android or otherwise), flatly stating that the company doesn’t want to be the “24th” tablet on the market. Of course, it could well be a different story a few months or a year down the line, but it certainly doesn’t sound like Sony Ericsson will be straying far from its current strategy at the moment.

Sony Ericsson France CEO says Windows Phone 7 handsets aren’t likely, neither is a tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Attention humans: the Engadget Show is back in a big way tomorrow, November 20th at 6:30pm! Join us in New York City, where we’ll be interviewing Sprint’s product chief Fared Adib as well as Google TV product manager Salahuddin Choudhary, plus we’ll have the usual mix of raucous editor roundtable, insane giveaways (somebody is leaving with an EPIC 4G and more!), crazy segments, and mind-bending chiptunes music from exileFaker! You don’t want to miss it! Remember, giveaways happen at the live show only, so make the trek and join us at The Times Center in person. We have a new ticketing policy, so if you’re coming to the live show, be sure to read about it below. If you’re geographically incapable of joining us in New York City, just tune into the stream right here on Engadget.

The Engadget Show is sponsored by Sprint, and will take place at the Times Center, part of The New York Times Building in the heart of New York City at 41st St. between 7th and 8th Avenues (see map after the break). Tickets are — as always — free to anyone who would like to attend, but seating is limited, and tickets will be first come, first served… we still had a few tickets left at the beginning of the last show and we’ll be updating the site if we run out, so come join us! Here’s the updated info on our new ticketing policy that you need to know:

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