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The cost of housing in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area is cripplingly expensive. But what does housing value look like across the whole of the country? This animated map wascreated by Max Galka. It breaks down the total housing value held within each country across the U.S. using data taken from…
Since before even the Roman Empire, a small town in Spain has played host to an annual ritual that sees young men and women wrestle wild horses into submission, then trim the flowing hair along their mane and tail. This year, we were there. All I could see in the darkness were the shapes of…
IBM has announced that it’s designed a new kind of ultra-dense chip, which squeezes in four times as much computing power as the best silicon currently available. The ability to squeeze ever more processing power into the same small processors is a result of shrinking the fundamental transistors that make up chips. Until recently manufacturers…
Back in 2011, illustrator Erica Glasier created this artwork for a Forbes article titled ‘The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity, Reputation’. For reasons that no-one can find out, that image now makes up one in every 120 images on Imgur, the internet’s leading photo repository. The phenomenon seems to have been first spotted by a…
If you needed further proof that 2015 is the Year of the Selfie, look no further than the latest beta of iOS 9, which among other things, has brought a dedicated selfie folder to your iPhone. The folder is tucked away in the regular Photos app, where it amalgamates any pictures taken with the front-facing…
If you’re a Chromecast user suffering from the terrible 21st century disease of poor Wi-Fi coverage, help is at hand: Google just released a clever $15 Ethernet adapter for Chromecast, which will let you hook it up to a wired network. Pair it with a powerline adapter, and say goodbye to crummy Wi-Fi extenders. [Google…
Pluto may be three billion miles away, but we can still imagine what it’d be like to stand on the icy dwarf world’s surface. That’s because it’s always Pluto Time somewhere. In fact, here on the East Coast, it’s Pluto Time this very minute. Pluto Time is a special moment of interplanetary kinship that happens…
The media, social media and some in the U.S. legislative branch went wild speculating about the tech failures that plagued the New York Stock Exchange, The Wall Street Journal, and United Airlines today. The confluence of events felt a little like a disaster movie, if you were watching from a Twitter seat. But how would…
For such a quaint shop that hasn’t advertised their headphones since 1964, Grado Headphones is a total powerhouse. Hypebeast took a tour to find out the story behind Grado and it’s fascinating to see how these old school makers of headphones compete with the excessive beaten industry of today. It’s also great to find out…
Getting on the Internet from your phone can still be next to impossible on New York subways, but now, even Mt. Fuji offers free wifi, up to 12,000 feet above sea level. Starting Friday, Japan’s iconic peak will give climbers wifi access at eight hotspots on the mountain, including three cottages on the summit, Asahi…
The novelty of Hyperlapse has worn off. Which is great. That means it’s time for you to get out there and make some art. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, film a Hyperlapse. The Challenge Film a Hyperlapse. You know, with the app. Then send us the Instagram link to post it. The Method My own…
A knife is the most essential and useful tool you can take with you into the outdoors. But, do you know how to get the most out of one? Let’s go over the basics and show you all the stuff a knife can do. Want to get started using a knife outdoors? The basic Mora…
FBI Director James Comey has some advice for the tech companies and great people of America: Work harder at coming up with custom encryption solutions for law enforcement, or the terrorists win. Comey appeared in a rare open session of the US Senate Intelligence Committee today to plead his case that law enforcement needs special…
Here’s a coping theory from a former Californian now suffering through the harshness of weather reality on the East Coast: though summer looks unbeatable in California, the truth is California looks like that year round. So summer isn’t appreciated as much! The rest of the country summers better than you west coast folks! Okay, that…
When I say “airport,” what do you think of? Pat-downs, overpriced Coors Light, screaming kids, broken sanity? In the near future, however, you could start associating air travel with robots: Airport halls may soon be filled with scuttling, helpful machines that’ll make flying less of a nightmare, and it’s starting at a major airport near…
Here’s the Hammel Red Giant Car Shredder tasting a few engine block appetizers before the beast machine moves on to swallowing whole cars. It’s fun seeing the direct view of the evil Transformer-sized machine at work, the teeth just roll together and grind away at any and every thing that gets thrown in. SPLOID is…
At a US Intelligence Committee hearing this afternoon, Sen. Barbara Mikulski confronted FBI Director James Comey with some real talk about the strange shitstorm of tech failures today: The New York Stock Exchange, United Airlines, and the Wall Street Journal all went down, citing technical difficulties. “I don’t believe in coincidences,” Mikulski said. “Is the…
The rich are taking desperate measures to keep themselves wet during California’s drought: keeping usage data hidden, wasting water in defiance, and even buying extra water to keep their acreage verdant. But stealing water directly from the city? Who would go so low? Tom Selleck, according to a complaint filed against the actor this week.…
Parents are outraged about the new Minions-themed Happy Meal toys at McDonalds. How could anyone be upset by those cute little guys from the new Despicable Me movie? Well, one of them appears to say “What the fuck?!” repeatedly. After reading reports of complaints about the toy, we tracked down a YouTube video of the…
Oh lord, Seamless. Do you want me to starve to death? That’s what a lot of people have been asking themselves since the popular food delivery service rolled out a dramatic redesign a few weeks ago. Nothing is where it was before. The new interface’s huge elements feels like a prison of clutter compared to…
