Googler loads Ubuntu on an ARM-based Samsung Chromebook, gives solace to the offline among us

[josh] Love it! Still rocking my Cr-48 Chromebook, BTW (dual-boot with Ubuntu, of course)!

Googler loads Ubuntu on an ARM-based Samsung Chromebook, gives solace to the offline among us:

Samsung's ARM-running Chromebook is barely out of the starting gate, and it's already being tweaked to run without as much of an online dependency. By a Google employee, no less. Not content to rely solely on Chrome OS, Olof Johansson has loaded Ubuntu on the Chromebook by partitioning an SD card, mixing OS components and booting from USB. The technique unsurprisingly requires being more than a little comfortable with a Linux command line as well as playing fast and loose with the warranty. It also won't be cheap or quick -- commenters note that you'll ideally have a partitioning-friendly SD card, and running a desktop OS from a slower kind of flash storage creates an inherent bottleneck. Anyone who likes the Chromebook's $249 price, but isn't as enraptured with the cloud as most of the team in Mountain View, might still want to try Johansson's step-by-step process for themselves.
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Ouch! That's Hot! Food Scientists Invent Strips To Heal Pizza Mouth Burn — Food News

Ouch! That's Hot! Food Scientists Invent Strips To Heal Pizza Mouth Burn — Food News:
Did that slice of pizza just burn the roof of your mouth off? That's what happens when you take a bite of something that just 30 seconds before was in a 500-degree oven. If we can't be relied on to use our own smarts when it comes to searing-hot pizza, at least science can step in and help us. Introducing pizza burn healing strips! More


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Incredible CSI-Like "Enhance!" App Fixes Your Unfocused Photos

Incredible CSI-Like "Enhance!" App Fixes Your Unfocused Photos:

Remember all those movies and TV series in which a FBI agent turned a completely blurred photo into a focused image by clicking one button? Remember how you sneered? Well, soon you will not be able to laugh at it anymore. This app lets you deblur any heavily blurred image just like that. More »

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Video: Courb C-ZEN impresses with looks, test drive

Video: Courb C-ZEN impresses with looks, test drive:
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Let's just say the Courb C-ZEN had a bit of a home-court advantage when Technologic Vehicles got to test drive the two-seat electric vehicle.



The French EV was put through its paces at the Paris Motor Show recently, and the little car was apparently impressive. Technologic Vehicles said the Courb was "very comfortable," had a "high-quality finish" and an "impressive" trunk that holds 400 liters (14.1 cubic feet).



The C-ZEN, which will also come in a pick-up version called the C-TOP, will start deliveries next year with a lease price of about 300 euros ($392 US at current exchange rates) per month and a purchase price of more than 25,000 euros ($32,690).



The car, which uses battery packs from Valence Technology, was first unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. Back then, it was said the car would have a single-charge range of 125 miles and a top speed of 68 miles per hour. Technologic Vehicles didn't get a chance to test both those numbers out, but you can watch the 85-second test-drive video below.
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Google adds 25 million new building footprints to Maps

Google adds 25 million new building footprints to Maps:

When I opened Apple Maps in iOS 6 for the first time, I was struck by how basic the actual maps are. Zooming in shows the roads, and road names, but it’s all very simple. By contrast, when you zoom into Google Maps you often get to see the buildings on either side of the roads, which can help to get orientated and locate important landmarks.
Google today boosted this subtle but incredibly handy navigation feature by adding a further 25 million new algorithmically-created building footprints to the desktop and mobile versions of Maps.
The additional buildings appear in various major metropolitan regions of the United States, including Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and the San Francisco Bay Area, and were generated using aerial imagery and computer vision techniques to automatically determine the shapes and heights of the buildings.
In the blog post announcing the new additions, Google states that this expansion is part of its "ongoing effort to provide you with maps that are as comprehensive as possible". Unlike, say, those provided by a certain rival company…

Another Truck Spills Millions Of Cranberries Across Wisconsin Highway [Car Crashes]

Another Truck Spills Millions Of Cranberries Across Wisconsin Highway [Car Crashes]:

For the second time in less than a week, a truck carrying thousands of pounds of cranberries cracked open on a Wisconsin highway. The spill covered half a mile. This cranberry menace is getting out of control. More »