Sentences with phrase «high of speed»

Patrick Melrose ping - pongs between crazed highs of speed and depressingly morbid lows of heroin like a demonic pinball machine.

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But the elder Rosenthal is more than just a figurehead: He remains an active participant in all facets of Raleigh's business and is a close observer of the technologies and trends that could shape the organization's future, name - checking everything from Instagram to Elon Musk's proposed Hyperloop high - speed transportation system.

The point of the store, besides being a high - profile proof - of - concept, is speed.

High - frequency traders were using superior connection speeds and access to exchanges to suss out his orders and get ahead of them in the market.

Instead of investing in highways, ports, high - speed rail projects, and modern utilities, the U.S. has for decades continued putting new coats of paint on the same cracked wall.

Running speed was reduced for both groups of phone users in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely music performed at a higher speed and intensity than any of the other groups.

In addition, Musk teased the use of the space vehicles as part of a high - speed transportation system around Earth.

While the wireless broadband technology is being tested, cable companies are rolling out even faster and higher - capacity fiber optic wired connections to homes and businesses, cutting into the promised speed and cost advantages of 5G.

We ran a series of ads one time for high - speed internet delivered over cable that sang the song «99 bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall,» and it went on and on.

Virgin Hyperloop is «way ahead» of other companies focused on the high speed transportation technology, Richard Branson said.»

In many cases, rural households don't have the necessary speeds to stream high - definition video or they're saddled with low monthly usage caps that don't play well with the heavy bandwidth demands that HD content such as House of Cards have.

The apartment rental site depends on high - speed Internet download speeds for its high - resolution photographic and video tours of its offerings.

Problems with one of the 2013 models led BRP, in February of this year, to issue recall notices for 5,165 units due to excessive heat and a potential fire hazard when rolling at low speeds in high heat.

Around the same time as his graduation from engineering at the University of British Columbia, he sold the company — a system that uses high - speed imaging to scan for defects in packaging — he'd founded as a student.

Rudd's $ 43bn fast web gamble The global recession has forced Kevin Rudd to scrap plans for a high - speed national broadband network funded by the private sector and wager at least $ 21.9 billion of taxpayers» money to fund his election pledge to bring internet speeds into the 21st century.

Outside of factories, these sensors have been used by high - speed train drivers to prevent accidents.

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

Western Australia's retail sector recorded the highest growth in the nation in October, further evidence of the two - speed national economy, economists say.

You can try to scan everything in - house but, unless you have a high - quality scanner capable of high - speed scanning, it's probably better to just outsource everything.

High - speed charging networks often grab the most attention, because they address the fear of running out of battery half - way through a long - distance journey.

With the West's infrastructure falling apart, we envy their vast network of high - speed railway lines — more extensive than in the rest of the world combined — never mind the 5,000 kilometres to be laid over the next two years alone.

In November, the big three German makers, along with Ford (f), joined forces to roll out a $ 1 billion high - speed charging network of their own.

A Chinese - led consortium looks poised to win a $ 3.75 billion contract to build a high - speed train system, sources with knowledge of the plan say.

ChargePoint's 33,000 charging spots across — which include both high speed and regular chargers — are spread among 7,000 sites that span a full range of single and multi-family homes, and parking lots at office and retail locations.

TNR's high - speed aluminum security door, for example, boasts a photoelectric sensor to detect vehicles and can open at a rate of 54 inches per second.

High - Speed Lift Anderson and Sand decided to follow the example set by one of their major competitors.

Harvey arrived on the shores of Texas as a hurricane Friday night, packing sustained wind speeds as high as 130 mph.

The AIF covers half the cost of the project, which includes high - speed baggage systems and moving walkways.

Its offices house the guts of a high - speed data network, as well as a recruit - inspiring indoor basketball court with the company's logo painted on the hardwood floor.

If you compare high - speed memory devices at four gigs for $ 19.99, we're actually on the low end in terms of pricing.

Musk also is CEO of electric car maker Tesla Motors and has made headlines for his vision of a high - speed transportation system that would shoot passengers through elevated tubes from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

The second - highest risk of death is trauma from hitting a tree, boulder, or another stationary object at a high speed.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

«In some sense I feel like music training lead to the high - speed legacy of Google for me,» Page said during a recent interview with Fortune.

Most daunting of all, Rutan and Scaled had never built a rocket motor — the source of fully half of all space - launch failures — and had never had to deal with the nightmarish heat and extreme forces generated from reentering the atmosphere at high speeds.

For the power technology, he licensed a prototype and focused on developing software to keep the 6,831 lithium ion batteries cool at high speeds (thus avoiding the fate of an overheated Dell laptop).

It narrows in times of high spirits, when steady winds speed an already smoothly - sailing economy, the indicators look great, and stock prices advance consistently, sans lurching jumps and slumps.

Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg believes that it's unlikely that the kinds of smaller satellites that companies like SpaceX or rival OneWeb are looking to deploy in low orbit will be able to offer Internet speeds that are as fast as the bigger satellites in higher orbit.

That compares with typical speeds of 110 to 300 mph for high - speed rail travel.

Elon Musk released plans for his Hyperloop high - speed transit system on Monday, following days of speculation on what it was and how it would work.

It holds a number of government contracts, including for the construction of a high - speed rail link and for the maintenance of roads.

Facebook Vice President of Product Fidji Simo has overseen a period of explosive growth at the social networking company, and one of her biggest successes was the high - speed rollout of Facebook Live — the company's live video - streaming platform.

The US Navy released footage of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) making high speed turns in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hyperloop One, one of the companies looking to create the high - speed rail that Elon Musk outlined in 2013, on Tuesday released a video that shows what it might look like to travel by Hyperloop.

Other rivals — and trading partners — of Circle's desk include Cumberland Mining, a subsidiary of the high - speed trading firm DRW in Chicago; Genesis Trading, a New York — based spinout of SecondMarket, the private - company stock exchange; and Octagon Strategy, in Hong Kong.

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

Once the carrier reaches high enough altitude and speed, it releases the Unity, which can then travel at 3,000 mph to the lower reaches of space.

Still, Hyperloop One has probably made the most strides of any company looking to build the low pressure, high speed tubular system first proposed by Elon Musk in 2013.

The tunnel would support a Hyperloop, a high - speed transit system that's still in the early stages of testing.

Transportation policy experts say that high - speed transit in the United States has been stymied not so much by technological challenges as by the challenges of acquiring rights of way and getting enough money for the required infrastructure.