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Enlarge ImageMovie villains can be extra-deadly if they're cybeetic. Click to enlarge chart. SolarWinds Villains in sci-fi movies have an advantage over your regular Joe bad guy from off the tough streets of New York. Sci-fi baddies can be cybeetically enhanced, with robotic and other parts adding to their general menacing aura. Darth Vader was kind of a big jerk as Anakin Skywalker, but add in his imposing and life-sustaining black armor and he's a force to be fled from. And Agent Smith in "The Matrix" seemed like a meanie when we thought he was a human, but he jacked up the scary level once we saw him twisting and dodging bullets and realized what he really was. SolarWinds, a provider of I...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryVolkswagen's comeback tour stars 30 electric vehicles and a whole lot of batteriesEnlarge ImageIf every electric VW resembled Budd-E here, I'd be okay with that. Antuan Goodwin/Roadshow To anyone who's been following the news since, oh, last September or so, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Volkswagen is not putting much future focus on its diesel vehicles. For the whole of 2016, the brand's increased its focus on electrification, and it has some ambitious plans for its vehicles.Volkswagen recently aounced its "TOGETHER -- Strategy 2025" plan, a hippy-dippy-sounding name that encompasses VW's plans for the next 10 years. A big part of that plan involves battery-el...