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Taking public transportation in the winter can suck, especially when it comes to waiting for a bus or train out in the freezing cold. But a new Google Maps feature could make life a little easier for those without a car, provided they don’t mind taking a longer route.

Now, when choosing a route to travel via public transportation, users have three options: best route, less walking, and the new fewest transfers. So if you plan on taking the bus but don’t fancy spending long out in the snowpocalypse, this should come as a nice treat. All you need to do is select on options and then select fewest transfers. And the feature is live.

Via ReadWriteWeb

Now that the country’s two biggest carriers have the country’s biggest smartphone, the question is, who’s next? After years of rumors and speculation, Verizon yesterday announced that it is finally going to offer the iPhone.

So, what about T-Mobile and Sprint. Would they be interested in carrying Apple’s wildly popular handset? In a word, “yes.” T-Mobile USA’s new CEO Philipp Humm told The Seattle Times , “We would be interested in offering the iPhone, but ultimately it is Apple’s decision.” Apple, naturally, didn’t respond to a follow up question.

T-Mobile recently sent out a press invite for an upcoming event. Wishful thinking, perhaps?

Harness the power of nature’s winter wrath by turning it into your own PC cooling system. Hack-a-Day showed off a geek’s setup of his rig next to a window with, what looks like, a dryer duct enabling a seamless connection between the great outdoors and his tower. The computer system’s internal fan sucks in the cold air, which when mixing with the hot air inside the PC may cause unwanted condensation. Ultimately leading to rig death. 

While a brilliant showing of how to “go green” with an o-natural cooling system, it’s not a perfect system. Even though the outdoor portion includes a hood, damper, and some Scotch Brite pads as a filter, there’s always the factor of having your PC a little too cold. Though this could be the poor-man’s solution to keeping high-end heated components cool without a liquid-based system.

Apple has a tradition of distancing itself from CES. The company loves to stay out of the show entirely, only to steal away the spotlight with some big product announcement. The company used to do this by way of the Macworld Expo. After the company announced that it would no longer be giving the keynote at the event, the show imploded.

The company has still managed to take some of the wind out of CES’s sails, however. Last year it revolutionize the industry by announcing the iPad in late January. This year, with help from Verizon, the company pulled away focus. The wireless carrier announced a press conference that would be occurring in New York the following week–and we all immediately knew what it was for.

The company may have made another accidental splash, with the iPad 2 apparently become the unofficial 81st tablet to be unveiled at the show. A video is circulating claiming to be a dummy version of Apple’s forthcoming tablet, which was given to an accessory manufacturer for the purpose of creating accessories.

The new model has a front and rear facing camera and is noticeably skinner than its predecessor. Appropriately blurry photo after the jump.

Alright, folks — if you’ve already got a T-Mobile UK account in your back pocket, you can breathe a sigh of relief, because that ugly new data cap doesn’t apply to you. It took the operator just a day to realize that putting a hazy “fair use” restriction of just 500MB per month on existing accounts wasn’t going over too well with its customer base, so they’ve conducted a “further review” and decided that they’ll instead only be applying the rule to new and upgrading customers as of February 1 only. We wouldn’t call this an outright win by any stretch — the policy is still enormously restrictive, vague, and a pretty clear-cut disadvantage of the competition-reducing Everything Everywhere hookup, and it looks like they’ll still end up tagging you as soon as you try to upgrade your plan or your hardware anyway… but we’ll take whatever reprieve we can get.

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