??? Preliminary reports from Tuesday's storm included one funnel cloud, one tornado, and severe thunderstorms, but now, a second tornado has been confirmed, thanks to a video sent into Action News from a viewer. The second twister was spotted near Danley Road in Colusa, just after 2pm, Tuesday afternoon. After reviewing the tape, Dan Keeton from the National Weather Service confirmed the event as an EF0 tornado. "Based on the video, and evidence we received from the reports that we saw, we can easily conclude that we had what we refer to as a land spout tornado. Than means it was not associated with any sort of strong thunderstorm activity."
??? Since the tornado was not associated with a thunderstorm, like the twister that touched down in Gerber, it was harder for officials to discover, and confirm. Which is why Keeton says technology is key in confirming these events. "In the olden days you had to rely on ground troops that you set up ahead of time. Now, with social media, it's pretty easy to find things out after they've occurred. Ya know, a video was brought to our attention, we looked at the radar, and could go ahead, and make the call."
??? The next step in confirming a tornado did touch down, would be a damage assessment, but since this twister was in a field, the experts had to go without. "Unless we have tree's or some sort of pattern of debris, or something, there's not much point in actually trying to piece it together. You can't really see anything," according to Keeton.
??? The Colusa twister was officially rated as an EF0 tornado, the weakest of it's kind, but Keeton says, there's really no such thing as a weak tornado. "Had this storm moved over an area, like a house, or a barn, or a field, or any place that's congested with people, it would have produced really significant damage."
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This is amazing. Not only has Google just opened up the pre-order program for Google Glass to 'creative individuals', it has also unveiled what the user interface looks like and how it works. It's... Nothing short of amazing. I'm throwing money, credit cards, my car keys, my house keys, my Surface RT, my cats, everything at my screen. I want this so bad. 
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After desktops and phones, Ubuntu is now bringing its Linux distribution to tablets. Coming Thursday, preview images for Google's Nexus tablets will be released, so we can all get a good long look at what Canonical is cooking up. They've published a YouTube video which details all that Ubuntu has to offer for tablets, and to be honest, it's looking quite good. 
BSD (Berkely System
Distribution)
was a research operating system based on the
original AT&T Unix, developed by the University of Berkeley, California. It has
been Open Source right from the beginning, and after the university lost
interest in developing it further, several community projects started up (the
very first ones were NetBSD and FreeBSD in the early nineties) to continue
developing BSD. Anyway, Linux was born roughly at the same time, but a pending
lawsuit about copyright infringements prevented the BSD projects to become as
successful as Linux (though you could argue about the exact reasons). 
De kogel is door de kerk: as we already talked about earlier, Opera is going to switch to the WebKit engine, leaving its own Presto rendering engine behind. We didn't yet know if they would the switch only on mobile or on the desktop as well, and they cleared that up too: both mobile and desktop Opera Browsers will switch to the WebKit rendering engine. 
Remember OS/2? Promoted as the successor to DOS in the late 1980's and early 1990's, the product wound up losing out to Windows and then slowly fading away. This article recounts what happened and summarizes OS/2 today. 
And there we are - the Surface Pro reviews are in. Reading through them all, there's clearly a common theme, and it's not particularly positive. We're a few months in now, so I think we can finally call it: Windows 8 and Surface are the wrong way to go. 
Many people think that all Androids are equal and it's a race to the bottom where the cheapest vendor wins. This could not be farther from the truth. For me, it all began half-a-year ago, when I bought the Samsung Galaxy S III and was absolutely stunned by it, then exploring and comparing it with other Androids. Now that Google has fired a shot across the bow with its low pricing for the unlocked Nexus 4, where does that leave Samsung and its flagship handset? 
It seems to have so far escaped OSNews' notice (if the top few hits for a site-search for 'Steam' is any indication) that Steam for Linux is now in Open Beta; you can get the Linux steam client from steampowered.com. So far, they appear to only be making an Ubuntu .deb available, and the client will require closed-source GPU drivers in order to work. 
