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This three-minute video from College Humor dares you to sit still and watch it. All of it. Can you make it to the end?

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Fantastic career. “When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.”

Cars have long used GPS and mapping features to help drivers detect speed cameras, but Hyundai’s latest vehicle goes one step further to ensure you truly avoid them. The Hyundai Genesis combines GPS and braking technology to slow the car down if drivers are speeding when they approach a speed camera. "It knows there is a speed camera there, it knows where the speed camera is and it will adopt the correct speed," explains Hyundai’s Guido Schenken in an interview with Australia’s drive.com.

The speed camera detection system will also alert drivers 800 meters in advance and sound a signal if the car is speeding ahead of a camera. Fixed-speed cameras and average-speed cameras are detected by the car, but the system will obviously not work...

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Toyota may be the maker of the most iconic hybrid vehicle of them all, the Prius, but the Japanese company refuses to go all-in on electric and is instead focusing on hydrogen fuel cells for powering its future cars. The first among them will be a 2015 sedan that has today been priced at ¥7 million (roughly $70,000) for its launch market of Japan. That's right in line with Tesla's Model S, which will be its most direct competitor in the developing market for alternative energy vehicles. Toyota claims a cruising range of 430 miles for its hydrogen-fueled car and a refueling time of just three minutes — both numbers underlining the key benefits of its technology over standard batteries.

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Sri Lanka's Mawbima holds the distinction of printing "the world's first mosquito-repelling newspaper," according to Core77. With the help of advertising agency Leo Burnett, the publication carried out a multi-step campaign in an attempt to help combat dengue, a mosquito-borne disease. Mawbima began by placing large posters at bus shelters throughout the country. Each of these notices was coated with citronella, a natural insect repellent. Following that, Mawbima published a week-long series of educational articles detailing ways to combat the disease, before finally printing a special edition of the newspaper on World Health Day. The ink used was mixed with citronella in hopes of dissuading the deadly mosquitos from feeding on readers.

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Google is finally laying out its grand plans to bring Android, the world's leading mobile operating system, to your car. It's called Android Auto. Think of it as the software you're already familiar with, but redesigned and reimagined for the car. Google says Android Auto is contextually aware, bringing you the information you want when you need it. And it's been optimized for voice, which means you'll never need to take your hands off the wheel to use it. Google said that was a priority in their approach to developing Android Auto, with Patrick Brady pointed to alarming accident statistics during his presentation at I/O. "There has to be a better way," he said. Google’s car ambitions are rooted in Android L, the latest version of its...

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Google today announced a new feature coming to Android that will make it easier for companies to deploy Android devices to their employees. The new data separation feature lets both corporate and persona applications coexist on a the same device, without having their data shared between them. Companies will be able to deploye apps in bulk and manage data on devices remotely.

A number of companies have developed similar, third-party systems for Android already, with Samsung's Knox platform being the most common. Google says that Samsung actually contributed a lot of its technology to Android to make this new feature possible, though this new service isn't limited to just Samsung devices. The data separation app will be available for...

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Today at its annual Google I/O conference, the company finally found a way to make its mobile office solution sensible. It announced several pieces of the Office puzzle that finally make its productivity suite something that's comprensible to the average consumer and a legitimate competitor to Microsoft's Office suite on mobile.

The first is that Google's presentation software, Slides, is now available on mobile. It will be available today on Android and will also come on iOS once it receives App Store approval. Like Docs and Sheets, it's a standalone app that sits apart from Google Drive, which is mostly focused on storage now — though all four apps are still tightly integrated. More importantly, Google has finally made it so those...

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Great summary from Mat Honan at Wired.

Sadly, "Hat_Dogs" is not an addon for Watch Dogs or Team Fortress 2, but an impressive piece of editing by STBlackST of TF2 characters hacking each other and teleporting bread. Gotta pause the clip a lot to catch all the puns.

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The lightest contact with Ryu's eyebrows from Gaming Heads new line of poseable Street Fighter plushies can probably render a normal human unconscious. What hidden powers do Ken and Chun-Li possess?

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Yeah, that's pretty much the most improbable restaurant opening of 2014 right there.

So it's on a street in landlocked Ramallah, not the seafloor in Bikini Bottom, but an enterprising Palestinian company called Salta Burgers has almost certainly without permission re-created the lobster trap where the underpaid and overworked SpongeBob and Squidward Tentacles churn out Mr. Krabs' Krabby Patties. The menu remains a bit of a mystery, but given its rigid authenticity in other departments, patrons should prepare for egregious price-gouging. [Reddit via IBT]

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Zayna's Flaming Grill in Redondo Beach: Still open!

In the end, Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares went out with a humble blog post, not with a bang, and in any case the chef's farewell announcement earlier this week marks the end of an expletive-filled era and slaying comments like, "Chimichangas? Chimi-chuck it in the bin." There were a few lawsuits along the way and various claims from proprietors that the show wrecked their businesses, but in all, while some spots have scintillating Yelp! reviews now, Kitchen Nightmares saved less than half of its featured restaurants, and a few even closed before their episodes aired. Grub didn't delve into the track record of Ramsay's original U.K. show of the same name, but we looked at everywhere Ramsay went in the contiguous United States: Here's a breakdown of all the restaurants that bounced back from the brink of failure, and the others that weren't so lucky.

Grand Totals
Number of participating restaurants in seven seasons: 77
Number still open: 30 (38.86 percent)
Number that have closed: 47 (61.84 percent)
Approximate number of restaurants closed within one year of (or before) the episode air dates: 23 (29.87 percent)

Season One (2007)
Episode 1: Peter's, Babylon, New York. Closed (December, 2008)
Episode 2: Dillon's, New York, New York. (Renamed Purnima during the show.) Closed (2009-2010)
Episode 3: The Mixing Bowl, Bellmore, New York. Closed (2009)
Episode 4: Seascape, Islip, New York. Closed (2007, five months after filming.)
Episode 5: The Olde Stone Mill, Tuckahoe, New York. Open
Episode 6: Sebastian’s, Toluca Lake, California. Closed (January, 2008)
Episode 7: Finn McCool’s, Westhampton, New York. Closed (March, 2012)
Episode 8: Lela’s, Ponoma, California. Closed (By the end of the episode)
Episode 9: Campania, Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Sold (2010) then closed (January, 2011)
Episode 10: The Secret Garden, Moorpark, California. Open

Season Two (2008-2009)
Episode 1: Handlebar, Mount Sinai, New York. Sold (2010) then Closed (2011)
Episode 2: Giuseppe’s, Macomb Township, Michigan. Closed (July, 2009)
Episode 3: Trobiano’s, Great Neck, New York. Closed (October, 2008)
Episode 4: Black Pearl, New York, New York. Closed (2008, four days after the episode aired.)
Episode 5: J Willy’s, South Bend, Indiana. Closed (February, 2009)
Episode 6: Hannah & Mason’s, Cranbury, New Jersey. Closed (February, 2010)
Episode 7: Jack’s Waterfront, St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Closed (December, 2010)
Episode 8: Sabatiello’s, Stamford, Connecticut. Closed (October, 2008)
Episode 9: Fiesta Sunrise, West Nyack, New York. Closed (September, 2008)
Episode 10: Sante La Brea, Los Angeles, California. Closed (June, 2011)
Episode 11: Café 36, La Grange, Illinois. Closed (2009)

Season Three (2010)
Episode 1: Hot Potato Café, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Closed (2011)
Episode 2: Flamangos, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. (Renamed The Junction during the show.) Closed (2011)
Episode 3: Bazzini, Ridgewood, New Jersey. Closed (Between 2010-2011)
Episode 4: Mojito, Brooklyn, New York. Open
Episode 5: Lido di Manhattan, Manhattan Beach, California. Open
Episode 6: Le Bistro, Lighthouse Point, Florida. Open
Episode 7: Casa Roma, Lancaster, California. Open
Episode 8: Mama Rita’s, Newbury Park, California. Closed (2011)
Episode 9: Anna Vicenzo’s, Boca Raton, Florida. Closed (Between 2010-2011)
Episode 10: Fleming, Miami, Florida. Closed (October, 2010)
Episode 11: Sushi-Ko, Thousand Oaks, California. Closed (August, 2009, before the episode aired.)

Season 4 (2011)
Episode 1: Spanish Pavillion, Harrison, New Jersey. Open
Episode 2: Classic American, West Babylon, New York. Closed (2013)
Episode 3: PJ’s Steakhouse, Queens, New York. Closed (May, 2009, a few weeks after filming.)
Episode 4: Grasshopper Also, Carlstadt, New Jersey. Closed (October, 2012)
Episode 5: Davide, Boston, Massachusetts. Closed (January, 2014)
Episode 6: Down City, Providence, Rhode Island. Closed (December, 2011)
Episode 7 Tavolini, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Closed (December, 2011, a few weeks after filming.)
Episode 8: Kingston Café, Pasadena, California. Open
Episode 9: La Frite, Sherman Oaks, California. Open
Episode 10: Capri, Eagle Rock, California. Open
Episode 11: Zeke’s, Metairie, Louisiana. Closed (October, 2012)
Episode 12: Ocean, New Orleans, Louisiana. Open

Season Five (2011 to 2012)
Episode 1: Blackberry’s, Plainfield, New Jersey. Closed (March, 2013)
Episode 2: Leone’s, Montclair, New Jersey. Open
Episode 3: Mike & Nellie’s, Oakhurst, New Jersey. Closed (January, 2012)
Episode 4: Luigi’s D’Italia, Anaheim, California. Open
Episodes 5 and 6: Burger Kitchen, Los Angeles, California. Closed (February, 2012)
Episode 7: The Greek at the Harbor, Ventura, California. Open
Episode 8: Michon’s, College Park, Georgia. Closed (August, 2013)
Episode 9: El Greco, Austin, Texas. Closed (December, 2011)
Episode 10: Park’s Edge, Atlanta, Georgia. Closed (July, 2013)
Episode 11: Spin A Yarn Steakhouse, Fremont, California. Open
Episode 12: Charlie’s, La Verne, California. Closed (2012)
Episode 13: Café Hon, Baltimore, Maryland. Open
Episode 14: Chiarella’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Open
Episode 15: Zocalo, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Closed (December, 2012, before the episode aired.)

Season 6 (2012 to 2013)
Episodes 1 and 2: La Galleria, Boston, Massachusetts. Open
Episode 3: Mama Maria’s, Brooklyn, New York. Open
Episode 4: Ms. Jean’s Southern Cuisine, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. Open
Episode 5: Barefoot Bob’s, Hull, Massachusetts. Open
Episode 6: Olde Hitching Post Restaurant & Tavern, Hanson, Massachusetts. Open
Episode 7: Levanti’s Italian Restaurant, Beaver, Pennsylvania. (Renamed Levanti’s American Bistro during the show) Closed (November, 2013)
Episode 8: Sam’s Mediterranean Kabob Room, Monrovia, California. Closed (January, 2014)
Episode 9: Nino’s Italian Restaurant, Long Beach, California. Open
Episodes 10 and 11: Mill Street Bistro, Norwalk, Ohio. (Renamed Maple City Tavern in December 2013) Open
Episode 12: Yanni’s, Seattle, Washington. Open
Episode 13: Prohibition Grille, Everett, Washington. Open
Episode 14: Chappy’s, Nashville, Tennessee. Closed (June, 2013)
Episode 15 and Season 7, Episode 1: Amy’s Baking Company, Scottsdale, Arizona. Open

Season Seven (2014)
Episode 2: Pantaleone’s, Denver, Colorado. Open
Episode 3: Old Neighborhood Restaurant, Arvada, Colorado. Open
Episode 4: Kati Allo, Queens, New York. Open
Episodes 5 and 6: Mangia Mangia, Woodland Park, Colorado. Open
Episode 7 and 8: Zayna Flaming Grill, Redondo Beach, California. Open
Episode 9: Bella Luna, Easton, Pennsylvania. Closed (November, 2013. Three-and-a-half months after filming.)

Related: Gordon Ramsay Announces End of Kitchen Nightmares

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 If you travel frequently in the New York-metropolitan area, you’ll be happy to hear that the Port Authority is expected to approve a new deal with Boingo Wireless today, which would offer free Wi-Fi for up to 30 minutes. Read More

For the less fortunate, a library may be the only reliable way to get online. But what do they do after hours, or when they can't make the trek? That's where a pair of Knight Foundation grants may prove vital. Both the Chicago Public Library and New...

"Made from scratch."

Biscuits are manifestly not doughnuts, so of course it makes sense that Carl's Jr., a place with apparently loads of biscuit batter lying around, might want to hole-punch one, slather the top with icing, then smash sprinkles into it in pursuit of a potentially best-selling mash-up food — they're all over, after all. The chain has apparently been inflicting them on poor fast-food-lab-rat Californians since last month, but not everyone is falling for the pastry hybrid magic: "The bisnut from Hardee's really is just a biscuit with icing and sprinkles," says one such lackluster review. [Brand Eating, Related]

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Toyota has finally unveiled its FCV hydrogen fuel cell sedan and its Japanese price. We won't have to wait too long to see the first of these revolutionary vehicles on the roads. It will go on sale in Japan in April 2015 and will come to the US and Europe later that summer.

In Japan, the FCV will be priced at roughly 7 million yen before taxes ($68,810 at current exchange rates). However, Toyota makes it clear in the press release that we shouldn't try to extrapolate US MSRP from that figure, saying that official pricing for the US and Europe has not yet been determined. As will be the case in the US, sales in Japan will be limited to parts of the country that already have a hydrogen refueling infrastructure (that means you, California).

The production version of the FCV looks almost identical to the concept from last year's Tokyo Motor Show. There is a new vertical strip of LEDs at each corner of the front air intake and real sideview windows, instead of the nubs on the prototype. The weird squiggles from the rear trim are also gone in favor of a more production-ready look, but the taillights survive the changes mostly intact.

The automaker is keeping most of the specs about the FCV a secret for now as well, but it is confirmed a few key details. It promises performance for the sedan on par with a gasoline engine and a cruising range of about 435 miles, according to the Japanese government's testing procedure. In our test drive of the prototype, we found the performance was gas-sedan-like with some EV aspects. The official range in other regions will differ. Toyota is promising that it takes just three minutes to top up the sedan's hydrogen tanks, highlighting one major advantage hydrogen has over electric vehicles: refueling time.

Scroll down to read the entire release and watch a brief promotional film from Toyota. Also, check out the gallery for all of the angles.

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Investigators spent a year determining that California Whole Foods stores were overcharging customers. [ more › ]

Coffee retailer Starbucks tells USA Today that it plans to offer designer artisanal soft drinks, and is launching three flavors of Fizzio Handcrafted Sodas. Read the rest

Absolutely wild.

Buffalo Wild Wings stock is apparently through the roof thanks to what investors may one day refer to as "the Great World Cup Bounce of 2014." CNN Money reports it hit a record high yesterday — up 6 percent to $166 — after Sunday's USA-Portugal match filled locations to capacity, some with hour-long waits, mostly, one supposes, because soccer is best watched in a bar. (Unlike the other football, whose Super Bowl merely warrants 50-piece McNuggets runs.) CNN is pretty bullish; it advices investors to go ahead and buy stock because "June for bar and grills is relatively a quiet period," and the chain "really doesn't have any competitors." [CNN Money]

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This study on salad and visual perception in Flavour Journal is by far one of the most excellent papers to be released in 2014. Read the rest

A federal judge has ruled that the current process for managing the federal no-fly list is unconstitutional. In her ruling, Judge Anna Brown called the DHS TRIP system "wholly ineffective," making it nearly impossible for the plaintiffs in the case to challenge the evidence that had placed them on the no-fly list and effectively barred them from air travel in the US. As a result, Brown concluded that the process did not meet the standard for due process, and was unconstitutional in its current form.

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We all want different things from our infotainment systems. But there's been one resounding request from almost everyone: make our smartphones play nice with our dashboard, no matter what device we use. Well, it's here. It's awesome. And, per usual, automakers are stalling.

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Google's Chromebook Pixel is expensive. The $1,449 LTE version is even more pricey, but when it launched last year, Google threw in a bonus that took away some of the sting: two years of complimentary Verizon LTE connectivity. The limited-time offer gave buyers 100MB of free data each month; not enough to accomplish much, but perfect for those situations where you're briefly stuck without a Wi-Fi connection. Unfortunately for the people who took advantage of that deal, Verizon isn't meeting its end of the bargain. The company is reportedly cutting off its free data services just one year in, leaving Chromebook Pixel LTE buyers enraged.

Computerworld was first to pick up on the controversy, and today it's revealed that Google is doing...

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Heck, thanks to the new video editor in Mario Kart 8, you can even dodge blue shells with extreme style now.

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[All photos by Nick Solares]

On July 17, 2012, Ivan Orkin, perhaps the only Long Islander to become famous for running a duo of Tokyo ramen joints, hosted a one night pop-up at Momofuku Noodle Bar in Manhattan's East Village. The doors unlocked at 5:30 p.m. and shortly after 6 p.m. I was told there would be no more Ivan-brand ramen left because half the city, apparently plagued by a mid-summer flu pandemic, thought it would be smart to order hot soup on a 91 degree day. Sure, the sell-out was part hype (and part damnation of strict seasonality), but it also showed that New Yorkers wanted better Japanese noodles — and more of them.

Now, two years later, the Big Apple is well into the throes of a ramen revolution and helping to lead the charge is Orkin himself, with a sit-down restaurant on the Lower East Side and a leaner pay-before-you-eat outpost on the Far West Side. And amid our glut of good gluten, you can pretty much walk into either without a wait, though we'll revisit that statement come December.

This is all good news because the full-service Ivan Ramen on Clinton Street, at just six weeks old, is already slinging out some of New York's most enjoyable noodles as well as a slew of righteous small plates. Case in point: Orkin lets diners wrap sheets of nori around morsels of slow cooked pork, roasted tomato, and sushi rice. Believe me when I say that if the $450 per person Masa ever wanted to drum up more business it could do so by putting these umami grenades on the menu. They cost $6 for two.

But before we get too involved with all this deliciousness, it's worth dwelling on the awesomely short queue a bit longer because really, waiting two hours for ramen makes about as much sense as booking a spot at your local slice joint a month out. Ramen, however underpriced it might be — a $15 entree whose complex components require a heck of a lot more effort to make than a $59 steak — is still spur-of-the-moment "I'm hungry" food. And given the vast quantities of salt and fat you're ingesting, sometimes a three-hour tasting menu's worth of calories in a single bowl, perhaps it's best not to think too much about it at all.

Though it can be hard not to. Take Orkin's outstanding spicy ramen, a mix of dashi, chiles, and chicken broth, all studded with bits of pork and toothsome rye noodles. It sounds simple and the texture is rustic but it has the depth of flavor you'd expect from a fancy French sauce that some guy spent half his life learning to make. And then there's the heat, which lights your GI tract ablaze like a Roman candle going off in both directions. I dare you to eat it on a first date.

Or consider the triple-garlic mazemen, a style of whole wheat ramen where the ratio of broth-to-noodle is closer to Italian pasta than a can of Campbell's. Orkin roasts and distills his garlic to such a level of sweetness that Mark Ladner could sell this perfectly al dente dish at Del Posto for twice as much and no one would blink an eye. But since the world deems this delicious product to be cheap, Orkin charges just $15.

No, none of this is terribly revolutionary, not here at least. While Orkin rose to fame in Tokyo by breaking the rules, he's now competing in a city that excels in just that, where great traditional noodles co-exist with very good Americanized ramen. There's Dassara in Brooklyn, which spins a gnarly "deli ramen" out of what's essentially matzoh ball soup. There's Ippudo in the East Village, which produces a tonkotsu so milky I'm certain each bowl results from putting an entire wild boar's worth of fat through a commercial juice press. There's Benkei on Delancey, where the chef won't let you order his fine seafood ramen (or anything else) until well after midnight. And of course there's Momofuku Noodle Bar, where David Chang sells a vegetarian chickpea creation that might just be the single most revolutionary ramen dish in New York right now.

So what makes Ivan Ramen vital in this competitive environment for starch and soup? Its ability to bridge the gap between the new and the old and deliver on both sides of that coin with solid service. Orkin can slay you with his shio (salt) or shoyu (soy sauce) ramen just as much as he can with that garlic mazemen, a flavor so distinctive it should be eligible for the same trademark protection as a Cronut.

The best seats are at the counter, where you'll see the cooks working away. Look above them for a backlit comic strip, with a woman, a cowboy, and a happy monster all slurping up noodles. There's also an outdoor garden and it can fill up quickly — New Yorkers won't be denied their al fresco eats even if it means sweating into their soup.

The ramen takes time to come out (as it should) so start with something cold and sour. Chinese broccoli with sweet soy pickled garlic will get the job done just fine, as will XO pickled daikon, with spaghetti-like strands of the radish coated in scallop chile oil and bits of dried shrimp. The flavor profile is fresh but it should also be salty and funky, which it is not, and that brings us to one of the quirks of Ivan Ramen: Orkin has an occasional tendency to dial down strong flavors.

Thousand-year-old eggs, a Chinese dish where eggs are preserved in ash and lime for months, are traditionally valued for their pungent, sulphuric aromas. Here at Ivan, the delicacies are deviled and taste as neutral as that suburban American staple. Fried chicken livers and hearts are a fine study in crispy, snappy textures, but the meat is bland; there's no irony punch here. The milder approach works better for scrapple, a Pennsylvania Dutch breakfast meatloaf known for its restrained organ-meat overtones. Orkin nails that flavor profile dead-on, pressing pork shoulder, chicken liver, and buckwheat into a savory, offaly waffle, with bits of apple and maple mayo keep the richness in check.

Things get more turbo-charged with the ox tongue, whose assertive, rated-R beefiness needs the accompanying hot mustard and soft broth to keep things PG-13. Fried shrimp, often an ode in taste and texture to Amazon.com's packing materials, is 100 percent maritime bliss at Ivan Ramen, with the squirty heads still attached for sucking, and shrimp powder added on for oompf. And kudos to Orkin for amping up the oceanic aromas to 11 with his ankimo dirty rice, a gorgeous platform for the gentle sting of scallion and the high-tide tang of warm monkfish liver. It's a brilliant study in surf and earth.

Now it's time for the noodles. One of my well-fed dining companions, a musician who refers to himself as a "ramen whore" perhaps said it best: "The shio and shoyu are classic and can be taken down in a heartbeat." I pass along that comment because you might see certain ramen experts with no concern for their blood pressure slurping down two bowls at once in 10 minutes flat (to enjoy the broth at its hottest and to avoid overcooking the noodles) — I'm more of a half-a-bowl in 20 minutes type of guy. If anything, I'll argue the shio tastes better when cooler, as it allows the bonito it's made with to shine through more clearly.

Shoyu, in the earlier days, had the color of molasses and all the daydream-inducing complexity of the soy sauce it was made with. But Orkin now uses a lighter product with a shallower flavor. It's not bad, just not as good. Triple garlic, shio, and spicy chile ramen are the smartest moves here, while the four cheese mazemen is a fine Japanese carbonara of sorts, with nutty asiago and rich pork.

Orkin tells me lunch will debut in July and that he eventually has plans to roll out some of the more expanded selections of noodles he offers in Tokyo — like a variety of tsukumen dipping ramen. There's no dessert here — Orkin says he's still "tossing around" that idea — and the lack of sweets of course helps him turn over tables more quickly. In the meantime, a friendly waiter recommends you saunter over to il Laboratorio del Gelato, where the wait, incidentally, might be longer than at Ivan Ramen; I suppose that makes a certain amount of sense in June to normal people, if not to food people.

A note on the ratings: Ryan Sutton awards gold stars on a scale of zero (disappointing) to four (exceptional). His main focus is on mid to high-end new and established restaurants. His colleague Robert Sietsema awards his own set of (different colored) stars. Email Ryan at sutton@eater.com and follow him @qualityrye.

Teachers looking for ways to convince their students that math isn't a boring slog have a convincing new set of visuals: GIF makers are using mathematics to craft hypnotic moving images. Even outside a classroom, they're fascinating.

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Android Police, on the “100 MB of free Verizon cell service for two years” rip-off for Chromebook Pixel owners:

For their part, Google seems to be dealing as best they can with Verizon’s stonewall. Customer support agents at Google don’t have any sway over Verizon, though they say that they’ve escalated the matter. The text describing the free data for the Pixel LTE listing on the Play Store previously read: “includes 100MB/month of mobile broadband service from Verizon Wireless, free for 2 years.” That’s been removed and replaced with the following: “This Pixel LTE is currently not eligible for any free Verizon data plans.”

How is that “dealing the best they can”? Verizon didn’t sell these Chromebooks with the promise of two years of free service — Google did. You buy Chromebook Pixels directly from Google’s own Play Store, and until recently, when you did, they were sold with the promise of two years of free 100 MB per month data service from Verizon. Google can and should make this right by paying Verizon whatever it costs to fulfill this promise.

Update: Now Google is offering Pixel owners who were promised two years of LTE service $150 on prepaid Visa gift cards. That’s better.

With the stoppage time rule, soccer, a timed game, actually ends only when the referee decides it has ended.

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