Mario Aguilar

A State-by-State Map of How America Likes Its Porn

America loves porn. Everybody loves porn. And according to data from Pornhub, we are increasingly loving porn from mobile devices rather than desktops. How does you your state measure up? Pornhub has a map to help you find out. In all 50 states, we watch most of our porn on mobile devices, although it’s not…

Here’s a Trailer for a Vertical Movie Because Everything Is Terrible

Argentinian filmmakers Gonzalo Moiguer and Rodrigo Melendez have set about making a movie shot entirely in vertical orientation. GREAT. It’s vertical because a lot of people use phones to shoot vertical video! Clever? Maybe! It comes with good intentions at least. I asked the Moiguer why vertical, and amongst his reasons is an interesting comment…

Facebook Finally Lets You Search For Specific Posts

Facebook is getting some long overdue functionality to help you find not just people and pages, but also specific posts from the past. So as in the example above, if you search for your friend Jessica’s wedding, it’ll search full posts for keywords “Jessica” and “wedding” and hopefully return the result you were looking for.…

Apparently No One at CNN Has Ever Sexted Before

CNN is the latest publication to publish an alarmist guide to teen sexting. It’s full of nonsensical combinations of letters that no human would ever tap into a text. But to be sure, we took some of this absurdist lingo for a spin, just to make sure it’s totally bonkers. It is. “28 Internet acronyms…

Today,Vimeo is launching 4K video support—sort of. Pro subscribers will now be able to offer 4K downloads of their videos. (They have to be 4K videos to begin with, duh.) 4K streaming is “in the works,” according to Vimeo, but there are no concrete plans to launch a streaming option at this time.

Report: Sony’s PlayStation Store Goes Down Following Cyber Attack

Things aren’t getting any better for Sony. The Financial Times reports that Sony’s PlayStation online store went down for approximately two hours overnight following a cyber attack. Early reports seem to indicate that no passwords or sensitive information were compromised. While it’s clear that PSN did suffer an outage, the cyber attack hasn’t been confirmed…

Google Continues Its Pirate Bay Crackdown By Axing Apps from Google Play

TorrentFreak reports that Google has started removing Pirate Bay-related apps from Google Play. Given Google’s recent crackdown on the most egregious pirate sites, this isn’t remotely surprising. Google sent notice to the proprietors of several Pirate Bay apps, informing them that their apps violated the intellectual provisions of Google Play’s terms of service. According to…

7 Sonic Gifts For Your Favorite Music Nerd 

Whether you’re rocking Serial or the latest Taylor Swift banger we’re all listening to more sound than ever these days. Here’s a selection of audio kit that will make someone’s life sound a little better without necessarily breaking your bank. Sol Republic Relays Sol Republic’s Relays are the sweat-resistant answer for exercise nuts who want…

These Star Wars Face Hats Are the Nerdiest Thing New Era Has Ever Made

New Era is best known as the purveyor of apparel for professional athletes and fashion-forward trendsetters. They’ve really left the nerds behind, and that’s a huge missed opportunity embraced by these insanely loud fitted hats. The new $56Star Wars 2014 Big Face 59Fifty hats are embroidered with the faces of some of your favorite characters…

Who made the bestselling Christmas album of all time? Hint: Not Mariah

In the latest issue ofBillboard, the music industry rag tackles the all-time top earners of holiday music. The winner, of course, depends on what question you’re asking. Everybody’s talking about Mariah Carey’s terrible rendition of her otherwise incredible holiday song, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” It’s a legendary song from her legendary 1994…

Wire: A Wonderful Messaging App Missing the Only Thing That Matters

Wire is a beautiful new messaging app created by some of the key people behind Skype. The app is an effort to streamline some of the clunkiness that exists in virtually every messaging app out there. After trying it out this morning, I can say that the app succeeds. Whether anybody will use it or…

Microsoft Is Killing Clip Art Because Nobody Uses It Anymore

Microsoft will no longer offer Clip Art. As an alternative, the company is pointing users to use Bing image search instead. Which is fine, because that’s what everyone was doing anyway. Except maybe for the Bing part. For years, Microsoft’s Clip Art library was a way to get images when finding some quick art to…

Obama Calls For $75 Million In Funding for 50,000 Police Body Cameras

Today President Obama proposed $263 million in funding for law enforcement to help avoid another disaster like the ongoing mess in Ferguson, Missouri. The proposed three-year funding package contains $75 million for a Body Worn Cameras Partnership, which would help states purchase and store the new equipment. It’s important to note that the funding comes…

Modular PuzzlePhone Concept Would Last Up to a Decade

Smartphones will never be forever phones. They might last a bit longer than just a few years, though, if we could just replace the parts constantly break or fail. That’s the thinking behind the PuzzlePhone, whose designers say it could last up to 10 years. Following in the footsteps of Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone…

Police Body Cameras Are a Good Start, But Not a Cure-All

Last night, Michael Brown’s family renewed the call for all police officers to wear body cameras that record their interactions with people. This is smart, but like every other tool we give the police, cameras will only work the way they’re intended to if the cops don’t abuse them. In a statement following last night’s…

Can You Hear the Difference in High Quality Music? Test Yourself

Here’s a simple test that lets you toggle between an extremely high-quality file music file and a low-quality music file. Can you tell the difference? We’ve been hearing for years that MP3 encoding ruins music with its lossy compression. But can you really tell the difference? New streaming music subscription service “Tidal” is amongst the…

Ugh OK, Playing Your Own Music In an Uber Is Actually Pretty Neat

Earlier this week amidst an ethical and public relations catastrophe, Uber announced new Spotify integration that lets you play music of your choice on the ride-sharing service. Uber just let me take it for a spin, and it’s admittedly a nice touch for the Uber riders of the world. https://gizmodo.com/6-uber-alternatives-because-uber-is-a-bunch-of-dirtbags-1660063499 Here’s how it works. After…

Google Just Gave You a Good Reason to Quit Spotify

I signed up for Spotify three years ago, the day the service launched in the United States. $400 in subscription fees later, I’m still a member, and I’ve never regretted the money for a second. But for the first time since joining, I’m actually tempted to leave. YouTube Music Key might just win me over.…

Comcast Technician Tracker: Finally, No More Waiting Around All Day

Comcast is launching a new technician tracker through its MyAccount app, which lets you keep an eye on where the Comcast technician that’s supposed to be at your house actually is. Waiting around for the cable guy to show up is a total pain in the butt and a huge waste of time. I never…

Quirky’s Ohm Bluetooth Speaker Charges Wirelessly So It’s Always Ready

Portable Bluetooth speakers are awesome and convenient until, inevitably, you want to take yours somewhere and it’s out of batteries. This new speaker from Quirky is less likely to suffer this indignity because it charges wirelessly. On the surface, the $170 Ohm is a pretty standard Bluetooth speaker block that allows you to play music…