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Good news for all the bicycle junkies like myself. Google Maps now has added bicycle directions on top of the car, walking, and public transit options. Not only that, but Google Maps also features bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly roads. Google has partnered with Google Rails-to-Trails “to provide information on bike trails in more than 150 cities.” Thanks to Google, there won’t be any excuse for you not to bust out that two-wheeled piece of hardware.

[Press Release]

Razer has announced a new product…if you can call it that. The Razer Salmosa Pro-Gaming Edition is a very limited run (50 units total) of a shrunken-down Salmosa. Other than that, it’s exactly the same hardware, color and price; $39.99.

It’s a very confusing and underwhelming announcement considering the Salmosa isn’t a very popular mouse, so wouldn’t it make more sense to give the Diamondback or Lachesis a new, improved and/or limited edition release? At any rate, the new version of the Salmosa is only available to North American buyers while the limited supplies last.

[Announcement]

As expected, Codemasters announced this week that their next upcoming racing game is F1 2010, which (according to Codemasters) will be the first F1 game on the PC in 8 years. The game is planned for release this September on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. Read the full press release after the break.

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Epic Vid of the Week is a new weekly series that showcases an awesome video that we or our readers discover. Some you may have seen before and others you may have not. If you’ve discovered any videos that are worthy of an Epic Vid of the Week title, let us know!

I’m sure we’ve all seen a clip or two of Jimmy Kimmel’s Unnecessary Censorship and I guarantee you’ve at least seen the one where The Count likes to do naughty things to anything he comes across. This specific Sesame Street montage is one that many people haven’t seen, and it’s by far one of the best.

For the first two months of 2010, Gigabyte is said to have sold between 3.1 million and 3.3 million motherboards, which is up to par with the 3.2 million to 3.3 million of Asus’ sales. However, Asus won’t go down without a battle. It’s said that they are looking to slash prices of their motherboards to increase sales. The company thinks they’ll be able to ship 5 million motherboards for the first quarter.

via [DigiTimes]

Image Credit: Mike Babcock

Personally, I thought I’d never see this coming, but seeing the swarm of modders fitting their netbooks with HD decoders has persuaded Asus to go ahead and put their own HD decoder in their upcoming 1005PR Eee PC. Other notable features include the new Atom N450, a 10.1″ 1366×768 display, 11 hours of battery life, 250GB HDD, up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Bluetooth, WiFi, USB 2.0, Ethernet, 0.3MP webcam, multitouch trackpad, and the Broadcom BCM 70015 HD decoder, which will be able to play full 1080p HD video without a hiccup, something older netbooks can’t brag about. Sadly, no official word from Asus yet on pricing and availability.

[Asus via Hot Hardware]

Redmond’s newest operating system, Windows 7, has sold 90 million licenses since its release in the Fall of 2009. This makes Windows 7 the fastest-selling operating system of all time. The announcement came early last week at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference by Microsoft CFO Peter Klein.

[Windows Blog via MCV]

While most of us are doing the smart thing by utilizing torrents, stragglers still using LimeWire will be thankful to know that AVG will be heading their way to make the LimeWire file sharing client more secure. Using licensed AVG Antivirus SDK, LimeWire will scan files that are downloaded to the user’s PC and let them know if they grabbed a virus on accident. One of the downsides is that the integrated AVG will only be available to LimeWire Pro users. The rest of you using the free version will have to continue doing virus scans of your downloads the traditional way.


via [Download Squad]

Instead of bloating this post with filler, I’ll just get right to the images. You’re welcome. Follow the break.

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In such economic turmoil, who will you turn to for the best cheap games? Well, Tech Olive’s Bargain Bin, of course. Every week, we’ll pick a nice game for under $10 that you should check out. This week, we’ve got a horror title: Penumbra Black Plague; the newest game in the Penumbra series for the paltry sum of $4.97 (with shipping, my total was about $8).

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