Google has turned Street Views, the virtual street level tours, from a fun diversion to a useful feature by combining them with driving directions. The new features mean that when you’re searching for driving directions in one of the 42 U.S. cities that have Street View images, you can now preview each intersection in your [...]

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I run Linux on little VIA machines. They make great home servers because they’re so small and low-power. You can tuck them in almost anywhere. VIA also does some cool innovating. PadLock is an encryption engine built right into the hardware, which dramatically accelerates tasks requiring encryption, as well as random-number generation. SSL and SSH [...]

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Lest VIA be the only one, a host of prominent hardware manufacturers are talking about open-source hardware drivers too. At the second annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, the big OEM vendors all said that they support open-source drivers.

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Tesla Motors opened its first dealership in Santa Monica, Calif., on Friday, attracting a gaggle of reporters. The location of the site in the tony Westwood neighborhood reflects the high-end shopping experience it intends to create for the flashy $109,000 Tesla Roadster. The next store, slated to open in San Carlos, Calif. in a couple [...]

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Both Ubuntu and VMWare recently released upgrades — Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” is available for download and VMWare Fusion 1.1.2 is also out. The problem is that the two don’t play well together. It turns out that some changes to the Linux kernel — Ubuntu 8.04 uses Linux 2.6.24 — have introduced some issues that [...]

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