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Red Bull Racing takes to the beach

Red Bull Racing pulls off another spectacular feat by driving a Formula 1 car on the sand at Juanillo Beach Cap Cana in the Dominican Republic.

In this Web video, team manager Tony Burrows explains the modifications that were made to the RB5 to run it on the sand.

No strangers to extremes, Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Sebastien Buemi, in January, drove a Red Bull Racing showcar on the frozen waters of northern Quebec.

Making and spending money on phones

Buying things with your phone can be difficult. Even on modern day devices like the iPhone and the G1, you're still required to have your credit card information on hand, or use a service that lets you skip that step like PayPal or Google Checkout. Three mobile monetization companies presenting at Wednesday's Under the Radar conference are trying to change that with solutions that could make it easier to make and spend money on mobile devices.

Both Billing Revolution and Toro are trying to change the way people pay or access payment information with their devices. Billing Revolution'… Read more

Where we're not even gonna talk about Miley Cyrus until she's 18

EPISODE 88

Randall Bennett is out today playing his copy of Grand Theft Auto IV. It's for "work purposes." He promises. Meanwhile, Phil Ryan joins Jeff Bakalar and Wilson G. Tang to talk about the New York Times' interesting GTA IV review. Also, Hans Reiser gets convicted of murder, Free Tibet flags made in China, overweight discrimination, iTunes is 5 years old, and The Dark Knight leaked trailer online. All that and more on this jailbait free edition of the 404.

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Where the Hobbit movies will be better than LoTR

EPISODE 27

From rainy New York City--today we talk about how the new Hobbit movies won't suck because Guillermo del Toro will be behind the camera, this weekend's movies, reactions from last night's Lost premiere, and the whole Microsoft and Yahoo! merger thingie. Plus, we'll recall TV shows we miss and the time when MTV wasn't awful.

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