MTV News chats with Depp, who reveals his inspiration behind Tonto.
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CSR Racing isn't your standard racing game requiring lots of fine motor skills to steer and navigate a track. It instead focuses on building up your car collection by street drag racing, focusing on proper use of car upgrades, accelerating and shifting to win races. With a deep story line taking you through an RPG-like experience and high-quality graphics, there's a whole lot of content here to enjoy playing through.
Hang around after the break to take a better look at CSR Racing and learn how you could win a Nexus 7 in the process.
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This week on TechCrunch TV's Ask A VC show Resolute.VC founder and investor Mike Hirshland is in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and we?ll ask them during the show.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lqmc020lJFw/
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If you have eaten at Subway, you have probably noticed that the sandwich-makers behind the counter follow a well-established pattern. As with any fast-food restaurant, the preparation methods are designed to ensure efficiency and consistency on a huge scale. But how do chains like Subway arrive at those routines?
And how do they evolve??
Slate contributor and Sporkful podcast host Dan Pashman recently visited with
Chris Martone, the executive chef of Subway, and they built a sandwich together.
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A sign on the back of a truck advertises job openings at a truck stop Tuesday in Atlanta. New federal rules demand that truckers cut back on the number of hours they can spend behind the week -- to 70 hours a week from 82.
The federal government thinks long-haul truckers like Bryan Spoon need more rest.
But with the Department of Transportation's new rules forcing drivers to take longer breaks and cut back on hours behind the wheel, Spoon thinks the government has created a solution looking for a problem.
"I wish the government would just quit trying to fix something that's not broken," Spoon said on a recent rest stop in Columbia, Mo., after hauling a load of construction materials on the 48-foot Great Dane flatbed behind his 2009 Volvo 780.
"If I get any more breaks out here I won't be able to make a living," he said.
Starting Monday, drivers like Spooner will have to stick to a schedule that requires taking a 30-minute break in the first eight hours of driving, cut the maximum workweek to 70 hours from 82, and "restart" those 70 hours with a 34-hour break once a week.
The rules are part of a program by the Obama administration to make U.S. highways safer by reducing the number of truck accidents and fatalities. The program also includes a safety rating system that shippers can review when they choose a new carrier, with the goal of prodding the trucking industry to further improve the safety of its drivers and equipment.
"The updated hours of service rule makes three common sense, data-driven changes to increase safety on our roadways and reduce driver fatigue, a leading factor in large truck crashes," Anne Ferro, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which issued the rules, said in a statement.
Ferro was not available for an interview.
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Truck driver Jimmy Mayes holds his chihuahua, Coco, while waiting to pick up a load at a truck stop in October in Atlanta. Federal rules for truckers have changed to include more rest time and breaks, which has upset the trucking industry.
But the trucking industry?which has sued to have the rules reversed?is warning that they will mean more highway traffic and high shipping costs for consumers.
The industry also argues that it's already doing a good job of reducing accidents, and that government data supports that position. The number of people killed each year in large truck crashes has fallen by almost 30 percent, to nearly 4,000 in 2011 from 5,282 in 2000, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
"This isn't the trucking world of old," said Spoon, 40, a third-generation trucker who has been driving full-time since 2000. "When the lay person who doesn't work within the industry thinks of trucking they think of 'Smokey and the Bandit.' That's just not the way it works. We run safe, we run compliant."
But the federal safety administration counters that nearly 4,000 truck crashes a year is still too many. The new rules, it maintains, will prevent about 1,400 crashes and 560 injuries, and save 19 lives each year, according to its analysis.
"There has been progress on reducing the number of fatal truck crashes," said Marissa Padilla, a spokeswoman for the federal safety administration. "But we know that fatigue is still a serious challenge. The bottom line is that our analysis shows that these new rules will save lives, prevent crashes and prevent injuries."
The latest example surfaced last week after a federal probe into the March 28 crash that killed an Illinois State Police trooper revealed that the driver of the semi-truck that slammed into his cruiser had been working more than 14 hours and had fallen asleep at the wheel.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday that federal records show the driver and United Van Lines have been fined for violating rules requiring drivers to get adequate rest.
The newspaper reported that the 26-year-old driver worked for Barrett Moving and Storage, an agent of United Van Lines. He has not been charged in connection with the March 28 crash in Chicago's northern suburbs. Trooper James Sauter of Vernon Hills died in that crash.
The Department of Transportation contends the new rules would also save money. The department's analysis found that in 2009, large truck and bus accidents cost about $20 billion in medical and insurance costs, infrastructure damage, lost wages and productivity. The analysis also estimated $470 million in benefits from reduced driver mortality.
The trucking industry disputes those figures.
"We are extremely skeptical based on their analysis," said Dave Osiecki, head of policy and regulatory affairs at the American Trucking Associations. "We've dug into their documents over and over again and there's good reason to be skeptical."
Researchers concede that it's tough to draw up detailed estimates of the broad economic and health impact of changes in rest patterns for long-haul truckers. But most agree that the link between fatigue and highway accidents is well established.
"There are a lot of research and papers, and science really drove this policy," said Richard Hanowski, director of the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. "I think that's what we want: Regulation that's well-informed and that's based on all of the research that's out there."
No one disputes that the rules also come with a cost to the trucking industry. More breaks and time off the road means it will take more drivers?and more trucks to move the same volume of goods. That cost impact won't be felt right away because shipping volumes tend to slacken in the summer months and pick up again in the fall.
So don't be surprised if you end up paying a little more for shipping when you do your holiday shopping online this year.
"The direct cost of operating a trucking company is more expensive come July 1," said Derek Leathers, chief operating officer of Werner Enterprises, an Omaha-based carrier that operates a fleet of more than 7,250 trucks. "So our costs will go up, and therefore our prices will go up."
(Read More:Analysis: Thrifty US Truckers Wary of Pricey Natural Gas Vehicles)
Industry estimates vary, but the overall productivity impact is expected to be relatively small?reducing the average carrier's capacity by roughly 3 percent.
The impact, though, will be concentrated for certain types of shipments. The transportation department?s analysis shows that more than 85 percent of drivers will see little to no change in their schedules as a result of the rule. But time-sensitive shipments?like refrigerated produce?may have to be handed off, pony express style?to avoid delays.
That means carriers would have to find more qualified drivers at a time when the industry already is having a hard time filling openings. It's not hard to see why. Trucking is not an easy way to make a living. Drivers spend days?sometimes weeks on the road?working irregular hours for a median wage of $39,700 a year or about $19 an hour. Driver turnover last year topped 100 percent, according to industry estimates.
The new regulations may have the unintended consequence of putting more traffic on the nation's already congested highways, according to some truckers. The new rules require drivers to "restart" their week with two consecutive rest periods between 1 and 5 a.m. The goal is to encourage drivers to get a full night's rest, according to the DOT.
But that new mandatory start time coincides with the start of the morning commute.
"So you're going have a much higher percent of trucks entering the road around rush hour," said Werner's Leathers. "Traditionally we like to get into and out of cities in the early morning hours before the motoring public is on the roadways."
Drivers say they're resigned to adjusting to the new rules, but those rules could be rolled back.
In March, the American Trucking Association presented oral arguments in a lawsuit asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to overturn the new rules. It's not clear when that ruling will be handed down.
?By CNBC's John W. Schoen. Follow him on Twitter at@johnwschoen.
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Dreamfall Chapters could come to next-gen consoles, the most likely being the PS4 and the least likely being the Wii U.Dreamfall Chapters - the final in the Longest Journey trilogy - has been Kickstarted and will be coming to PC whenever it's ready, but it might also come to PS4 and Xbox One.
Speaking with Eurogamer, Ragnar Tornquist said, "We are preparing to go to consoles. Without officially announcing anything. We are keen on getting this game to as many people as possible.
"We're building a game that has cross-platform technology anyway, so I think the chances are extremely good that we'll land on one or both of the next-gen consoles."
Despite recent criticisms surrounding Microsoft's closed wall system - and the barrier that presents to indies - Tornquist revealed that he has been in talks with all three console manufacturers.
"We have started dialogue with Microsoft, yeah," he said. "The Xbox One and Microsoft, they get a lot of flack, but it's still an extremely interesting platform for us, obviously, and it's going to be huge.
"I've officially also said that Sony is a lot more inviting and welcoming to indie developers, so it's a lot easier for us to start that dialogue and get support. It is a bit harder with Microsoft but it's not like we're excluding anything."
Tornquist added that the PS4 is "definitely an interesting platform for us right now" suggesting that, if anywhere, it'll be on the PS4 where Dreamfall Chapters appears outside of the PC.
While Nintendo is accommodating, the problem here is the technical capabilities of the Wii U.
"We are also in dialogue with Nintendo," said Tornquist. "We're going to be looking at it. We can't make any promises because the Wii U, it's underpowered compared to the next-gen consoles and PC obviously - I don't think that's a secret or Nintendo would get upset at me.
"We're going to look at getting the game running on Wii U and then we'll make decisions depending on how that goes and what we see the market possibilities are doing. Like I said, we don't want to exclude anything, so we'll try anything."
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Should have seen this one coming.
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