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In the video below, Google demonstrates its new Google Maps Navigation app, which turns any Android 2.0 phone into a turn-by-turn GPS unit.

Yesterday, we brought you a selection of the top 5 social media car apps available for the iPhone, but today's app is a killer, and it's not available on Apple-based devices. It's still in beta testing, and it's coming to Verizon's Droid phone first, available today. The app is richly featured, the better to take on somewhat fumbling apps available for the Apple iPhone.

With features like voice search, "plain English" text search, traffic view, the ability to search along your route for businesses, POIs...

General Motors is washing its hands of the joint venture it operates with Toyota in California--the NUMMI plant in Fremont, Calif., where the companies teamed to build the Pontiac Vibe, and where Toyota builds the Tacoma pickup and Corolla sedan.

We've been telling you for months that GM probably has more money to make selling off its NUMMI factory in the San Francisco area, than it does in going ahead with another joint-venture with Toyota. That sentiment probably lingers at GM today, as the company confirmed it will put the NUMMI plant into the "old GM" and ostensibly, will sell it off as it sells other pieces of its empire.

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Driving under the influence of booze and/or dope is an awful, dangerous thing. However, we're not entirely sure about the Pima County Sheriff's Department's plan to embed deputies at fast-food joints so they can arrest slurring drivers. And we're even less sure about the project's name: Operation Would U Like Fries (aka Operation WULF). Apparently, being around all that junk food has made the deputies high-fructose corny. 

[FoxNews]