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Jalopnik has a U.S. map showing the most popular car in each of the 50 states. The pickup truck in the photo is the winner by a far margin: 22 states prefer the Ford F-150. It’s only logical that giant square states prefer giant square cars.
Starting today, you can pre-order Recon Instrument’s Jet for only $499. That’s a lot cheaper than Glass! [Recon]
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi had a great response when she was told about bigoted weirdo Michele Bachmann’s rambling nonsense about God and the Supreme Court today. Bachmann, a Tea Party congresswoman, is very upset that the Supreme Court didn’t interpret the centuries-old U.S. Constitution as being against gay marriage. “No man, not even a…
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was hanging out at a panel this morning at the Center for Technology Information, and while he was there he let an interesting little tidbit drop: Twitter is toying with a rewindable, DVR-type feature. It sounds awesome. During a big, live event is when Twitter gets it’s chance to really shine,…
Navy robotics engineer Bill Porter designed and built this fantastic Tetris-playing LED tie in a mere four hours to impress a roomful of eighth graders. But the wonderful LED light show that automatically plays Tetris on its own should impress anyone who’s ever had to kill time at work, and didn’t have access to Solitaire.…
The Nvidia Shield’s release date just got pushed back to some time in July. Nvidia found a minor mechanical problem and is addressing that before shipping anything. We’ll let you know when there’s a new firm date.
True Blood, HBO’s softcore vampire epic, doesn’t have anything to do with consumer audio, but that didn’t stop V-Moda from releasing a pair of their popular M-80 headphones with True Blood branding. As a result of this ill-fated crossover, you can cop a pair of nice cans for $70 off the normal price. These True…
Guys, come on, a little self-respect here. From the Design for Windows Phone session at Microsoft Build.
Here’s a fantastic photo of the F-35 receiving mid-air fuel from a Boeing KC-10, taken on June 19 in Patuxent River, Maryland. It looks so tiny (and so close) to that massive tanker. [Image courtesy of Lockheed Martin]
Windows 8.1 Preview is out, an update that solves most—if not all—of the complains from people who got the touch-oriented reboot of Microsoft’s flagship operating system. It’s not the final version but, apparently, it’s solid and worth the risk. And it’s free. https://lifehacker.com/download-the-windows-8-1-preview-now-586263475
Whether you’ve got to deal with a crotchety landlord or a dopey locksmith, we can all agree that replacing lost or stolen keys can be a drag. KeyMe, a new service launched this week in New York, seems to have found a solution by storing your keys in the cloud and making them accessible via…
New England Patriots’ star Aaron Hernandez has been charged with the murder of 27-year-old semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. According to the prosecution, the 23-year-old player “orchestrated the execution.” Lloyd was dating Hernandez girlfriend’s sister. https://deadspin.com/prosecutor-aaron-hernandez-orchestrated-the-execution-588065097 Latest Updates Monday, June 26, 2013 2:43PM—New England Patriots’ star Aaron Hernandez was taken to the Attleboro District Court…
One of the best parts of home ownership (I imagine) is having a place that’s all to yourself. Unfortunately, in the beautiful Wall House you’d have to share some space, but when that space looks like this, it’d be hard to mind it. Designed by architecture firm FARM, the Wall House is actually a two-family…
Google Now is getting two new cards today: Offers and TV. Offers will notify you when you’re near a store that you’ve saved an offer for, while the latter works like Shazam but for IMDB-like content. You’d think it would tell you when shows are on, but it doesn’t. Oh well. [Google]
Today was a historic day for equality, as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the misleadingly named Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Futurist thinkers have been imagining this day for years, and back in 1990 Newsweek gave hints about what marriage might look like in the world of tomorrow. DOMA was signed into law in…
If there’s any company on earth with an expertise in designing things that are easy to transport and assemble, it’s Ikea. So it makes perfect sense that the Swedish furniture manufacturer would team up with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees—or the UNCHR for short—to redesign the temporary shelters that millions of refugees around…
When Apple replaced built-in Google Maps on iPhones and iPads, people were justifiably livid. What had worked so well was suddenly a useless mess. Millions of people who depended on Google Maps for subway and bus schedules were abandoned. At least the incorrectly rendered 3D imagery is kind of pretty! A Stockholm-based project called MapGlitch…
Google Earth may give us a real, live view of what our blue marble actually looks like, but even reality could stand to be improved a bit now and then. So to make sure you get the beautiful summer you deserve—while you’re sitting inside a dark room hunched over your computer screen—Google has taken steps…
For years, one of Android’s biggest problems has been Android skins that weigh down the best hardware the platform has to offer. But now the two best Android phones in the world—the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4—come in pure, stock Google Editions. And after spending some time with both, we can confirm that…
We’re all familiar with the, uh, pitfalls of Apple’s iOS Maps app. But Peder Norrby, the founder of a Stockholm-based tech company called Trapcode, has managed to capture some of the most bizarre 3D mapping glitches in high definition—turning them into lovely, surreal vignettes. Norrby’s project is called Mapglitch, and it’s exactly what it sounds…
