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  At a time when many South Florida residents have lost confidence in mass transit, a little-known public transportation system is drawing renewed interest.Shuttle bus or circulator routes that carried more than eight million passengers last year in 27 municipalities are the services riders and public officials alike praise as successful transit programs.Last month, for example, the Miami city commission approved expansion of its bus shuttle system, known as a trolley service, into Wynwood, Coconu..

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• Cypress Bay places fourth as Marco Guarente wins two swimming...

  Cypress Bay senior Marco Guarente won two individual golds to lead his team to ninth place Saturday in the Class 4A swimming and diving championships.Guarente came from the sixth-seed to win gold in the 200-yard individual medley, and followed that up with a win in the 100-yard breaststroke, which he went into as the favorite.Gainesville-Buchholz easily won the girls team title, while Sarasota-Riverview boys easily defended their team title.Cooper City freshman Kathleen Golding won gold in the 2..

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• Kendall Hammocks cheerleaders win Miami Xtreme competition

  

  The Kendall Hammocks Warriors cheerleaders finished first in the Pro Division Large, first in the Prep Division Extra Large and third in the Pee Wee Division Medium at the Miami Xtreme Cheerleading Competition at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.The Warriors also won the award for the best total score in the competition. The three Warriors teams will compete in the Orange Bowl Cheer & Dance Championships.The Warriors program, sponsored by the Optimist Cub of Kendall Hammocks, is led by ..

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• Piden donaciones para celebrar La Gritería en Sweetwater

  

  Durante la primera semana de diciembre en los pasados dos años un tramo de la calle 107 del suroeste, en Sweetwater, ha sido el lugar de celebración de una tradición nicaragüense quese ha establecido en el sur de Florida: La Gritería o La Purísima.Las aceras se llenan de altares y decenas de personas vienen de todos lados a celebrar a la Inmaculada Concepción de María, la santa patrona de Nicaragua, en la ciudad que sirvió albergue a cientos de nicaragüenses que se refugiaron en Estados Unidos e..

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• Olanchanos se corona en la South Florida

  

  Atlético Olanchanos se coronó campeón del torneo abierto, Cricket Cup, de la South America al derrotar al Chelsea F.C. 4-3 en definición por penales.Nuevo torneo en el Parque Amelia en Hialeah. Teléfono (305) 335-9464.▪Pruebas en el Miami FCEl próximo fin de semana se realizarán los tryouts, abiertos para todos, en Barry University (11300 NE 2nd Avenue Miami Shores. Inscripciones:www.miamifc.com.▪Liga El CampínEl sábado 21 de noviembre se iniciarán las finales en la Liga El Campín del sur de la ..

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• Steam Machines are slower gaming systems than Windows PCs

  

  The whole point of aSteam Machineis to get PC-like gaming in your living room, but do you actually get PC-like performance? Not so much, if you askArs Technica. It recentlyran benchmarkscomparing the performance of SteamOS andWindows 10on the same hardware, and it's pretty clear that you're taking a speed hit in the name of couch-based convenience. The two operating systems are very close in synthetic tests, but SteamOS lags well behind Windows when it comes to real gameplay: depending on the..

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• Paris terrorists suspected of using PlayStation 4 to communicate

  

  The horrific terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday saw 129 people killed, well over 300 people injured, and 99 of those remain in a critical condition in hospital. France, and the world in general, is still coming to terms with what has happened, but the authorities are hard at work trying to piece together who specifically planned and carried out the attacks.Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for targeting these innocent people at locations termed as “soft” due to their lack of poli..

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• How T-Mobile's new data plans stack up

  

  Figuring out the best deal on a wireless plan is no easy feat these days.T-Mobile is adding a new wrinkle today asnew plans announced this past weekgo into effect. It's doubling the data offered in its plans while in some cases raising prices. It's also throwing in a promotional twist just for families.The changes to Bellevue, Washington-based T-Mobile's service plans are just the latest in a long line of promotions and tweaks as the carriers attempt to one-up each other.While the wireless wars ..

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• Police stop Google self-driving car for going too slowly

  

  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — A car built by Google that drives itself around city streets had a brush with the law for driving too slowly.A police officer in the tech giant's Silicon Valley hometown pulled over the prototype car Thursday because it was going a traffic-tying 24 mph in a 35 mph zone.The officer spoke with the person in the dri..

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• Pornhub Says Its Gaming Audience Dropped 10% The Day 'Fallout 4' Came Out

  

  Let's do it like Deathclaws. Image via Bethesda. Monitoring Internet traffic has become a way of reading the tea leaves of modernity, something that captures the seismographic yearnings of modernity. Research firm SimilarWeb reports Bernie Sanders' ...

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