Your Feeble Skills Can’t Handle This Amazing Sports Car

SCUDERIA CAMERON GLICKENHAUS

Think of the world’s fastest cars and a few names come to mind. Ferrari. Lamborghini. Porsche. Glickenhaus.

Glickenwhat?

That would be Jim Glickenhaus. He made an ungodly amount of money in films and finance and has a thing for cars. The kind of thing that leads you to build a bazillion-dollar custom Ferrari because, you know, a Ferrari isn’t extreme enough. So now he’s building cars. Crazy fast supercars. He’s the Glickenhaus in Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, an American boutique automaker rolling into the Geneva auto show with the SCG 003S. Yeah, there’s nothing at all graceful about the name, but who cares. Just look at the damn thing.

Now, the supercar game is all about superlatives — most horsepower, highest top speed, that sort of thing. And the Glick aims for the highest honor in this arena: fastest lap at the Nurburgring. The ‘ring is the stuff of legend, a 12.9-mile track so nasty that F1 champion Jackie Stewart dubbed it the Green Hell. It is not for the weak or the stupid, and Glickenhaus wants to lap it in 6 minutes and 30 seconds. That would set a record for a production car.

For those of you who are shrugging, maybe this will get your attention: Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus claims the 003S will hit 60 from a standstill in less than 3 seconds and top out at 217 mph.

Johnny Depp, Will Smith, George Clooney on 'overpaid' Forbes list

A combination photo showing actors Johnny Depp (L) posing during premiere of ''The Danish Girl'' in Los Angeles, California, November 21, 2015 and Will Smith attending the premiere of the film ''Suicide Squad'' in New York, August 1, 2016. REUTERS/Kevork Djansezian, Andrew Kelly/File Photos

Johnny Depp and Will Smith topped a list on Wednesday of Hollywood's most overpaid actors, an illustration that star power does not always bring in dollars at the movie box-office.

Fan favorite George Clooney also found himself on the annual Forbes list after the limited commercial appeal of films like "Hail Caesar," "Money Monster" and the 2015 flop "Tomorrowland."

Depp led the list for the second straight year after his movie "Alice Through The Looking Glass" brought in just $300 million at the global box-office after costing about $170 million to produce.

Forbes compiles the list by comparing the estimated pay for a lead actor in his or her last three movies with the estimated production costs and box-office gross of those movies.

It calculated that Depp, whose 2015 movie "Mortdecai" also bombed, returned just $2.8 dollars at the box-office for every $1 he was paid.

Inside Oculus’ Quest to Design an Invisible VR Controller

This prototype embodies a trifecta of roads not traveled: it's worn rather than held; it employs a centered thumbstick and no buttons; and rather than a conventional trigger button, it opts for a rotary scroll wheel. JONATHAN SPRAGUE

the perfect time for getting some last-minute things done at the office, maybe finishing up holiday shopping. If you’re feeling particularly brave, you might even fight your way through airport crowds to visit your family. On December 22 in 2012, though, Nirav Patel was in China. A couple of months before, the young engineer had left Apple for a little company called Oculus, and now he was checking out production facilities that could help manufacture his new employer’s virtual-reality headset. Nirav being Nirav, he had a pocket notebook with him, and on this particular Christmas Eve Eve Eve, he sat down and started drawing.

Soon, he had sketched out two different views of the same object. From the top, it looked like a lima bean. In profile, it was the spitting image of a cyborg walrus with a tiny chef’s hat on. Scribbled around the drawing were annotations describing the various buttons and shapes festooning the object—“jog/scroll,” “vibe motor,” “piezo element,” “clicking analog”—and at the top of the page, in a space marked Project, Patel wrote the word “Controller.” As long as Oculus was making a VR headset, he reasoned, the company might as well think about the best way to play games in that headset.

Nearly four years later, Oculus has produced a pair of devices that share some key features in common with Patel’s sketch. But the Oculus Touch, which goes on sale today, is much more than a set of controllers—they are, in effect, your hands. And by being your hands, they provide the first glimpse of what virtual reality is fast becoming: a social universe.

Oculus engineer Nirav Patel’s 2012 sketch of what a VR input device might look like.

A New Level of Immersion

Patel’s 2012 sketches proved to be a bit premature. For the next year, pressure to make the Rift headset a reality would turn the controller into something Patel and other employees worked on during off hours—“not like a side project,” the company’s VP of product Nate Mitchell said to me in spring of 2014, “but that’s all the time people could find for it.” The company had outsourced early exploration work to Seattle firm Carbon Design Group. It was only in early 2014, after Facebook bought Oculus, that work on the controller began in earnest.

J.K. Rowling Loses Her Billionaire Status Because Of Being Too Generous

J.K. Rowling was one of the richest people in the world in 2011, but since then her fortunes have decreased to such an extent that she is no longer a billionaire. Forbes announced their yearly list of the World’s Billionaires, but the Harry Potter author’s name was noticeably absent.

She was one of 129 people to be removed from the list that year, but her reason for leaving is a little different to the normal reason. The 51-year-old author’s departure was due to her sizeable donations to charity, as well as the high British taxes she is asked to pay.