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What the biggest companies are from each state in the US

Jun 24, 1:23AM

What the biggest companies are from each state in the US

The most popular brands in America are not always the largest companies making the most revenue. Brands that you know, stores that you go to and places that you associate with some states get replaced by faceless monoliths who basically repurpose oil, energy, technology, other people's money, etc. into more money.

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The Earth looks flat in this photo taken from space

Jun 24, 1:10AM

The Earth looks flat in this photo taken from space

Believe it or not, some idiots think that Earth doesn't rotate and others still think that Earth is flat. I'm sure the latter group would love this picture just taken by our space Captain America—astronaut Reid Wiseman. The angles on those two coasts converging make Earth's spheroidal surface look strangely flat.

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Relive Lady Mary's Hell With Downton Abbey Season Four on Amazon Prime

Jun 24, 12:00AM

Relive Lady Mary's Hell With Downton Abbey Season Four on Amazon Prime

Downton Abbey is a great show, especially if you like sadness. Season four, which opens with Lady Mary and the rest of the Crowleys recovering from yet another personal tragedy, is now streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime.

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Which actor would be the best—or the worst—Batman?

Jun 23, 11:50PM

Which actor would be the best—or the worst—Batman?

Here's an enjoyable animation bit from ADHD: they hilariously imagine different famous actors as Batman. All the impressions are great. You'll see Matthew McConaughey putting on his True Detective mask, Kevin Spacey doing his Frank Underwood shtick, Mark Wahlberg's everyman persona, Aaron Paul screaming bitch and more.

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3D-Weaving Turns a Single Thread Into Shoe Soles and Stab-Proof Vests

Jun 23, 11:30PM

3D-Weaving Turns a Single Thread Into Shoe Soles and Stab-Proof Vests

At first glance it looks like these shoes are shod with two strategically shaped Top Ramen bricks. Delicious, perhaps, but c'mon—too crunchy for underfoot! The flexible soles were actually made with a 3D weaving machine designed by a graduate at London's Royal College of Art, by layering a single, continuous thread in complementary patterns, one on top of the other.

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The Antidote to a Lifetime of Overplaying Semi-Charmed Life

Jun 23, 11:10PM

The Antidote to a Lifetime of Overplaying Semi-Charmed Life

Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind's meth-addled anthem of the 90s, came out 17 years ago last week. And for me, that has meant 17 years of playing the song to death—over, and over, and over again. Thankfully, North Carolina-based singer/songwriter Jackson Scott (the patriotic off-brand-Nerf-enthusiast you see above) has the cure to what ails me and (most likely) far too many of you.

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This Beautiful Watch Is Actually a Fitness Tracker

Jun 23, 10:33PM

This Beautiful Watch Is Actually a Fitness Tracker

If you've been waiting for a smartwatch that looks beautiful in a more traditional sense, your wait might be over. The new Withings Activité is a fitness tracker that can really hold its own in terms of style.

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This App Hides a Panic Button in Your Calculator

Jun 23, 10:20PM

This App Hides a Panic Button in Your Calculator

Amnesty International has developed a secret 'Panic Button' app that will send emergency alerts to pre-selected contacts. The app was created specifically for journalists and human rights activists who constantly find themselves in precarious situations and may need to communicate quickly and silently for help.

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Yes! You Can Buy a Waterproof Kindle Paperwhite

Jun 23, 10:00PM

Yes! You Can Buy a Waterproof Kindle Paperwhite

If reading really is all you're in for, the Kindle Paperwhite is hands-down the best little e-reader around . But how do you improve on (near) perfection? Apparently, you waterproof the hell out of it.

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Take a Wingtip Ride Aboard Russia's Baddest Supersonic Jet

Jun 23, 9:40PM

When foreign military aircraft stray too close to a nation's borders, they're often swiftly met by the local air force's fleet of interceptor aircraft—fast-moving dogfighters built to meet, greet, and then blow invading planes out of the sky. While the US relies on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-22 Raptor to defend its airspace, the Russian's field the equally-capable MiG-31.

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Gawker Should All Women Become Lesbians?

Jun 23, 9:27PM

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Why Brad Pitt's Nonprofit Is Building Homes for Native American Tribes

Jun 23, 9:20PM

Why Brad Pitt's Nonprofit Is Building Homes for Native American Tribes

Make It Right launched in 2007 to rebuild homes in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Now the nonprofit founded by Brad Pitt has moved on to other communities in need—and its next project will be building sustainable homes for Native American tribes in Fort Peck, Montana.

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Forget the Table, All You Need For a Foosball Game Are These Erasers

Jun 23, 9:00PM

Forget the Table, All You Need For a Foosball Game Are These Erasers

If you're not fortunate enough to find yourself working in one of those cool offices full of pool and foosball tables, Suck UK's foosball erasers will still let you hold your own mini-World Cup with nothing but an empty table and a couple of pencils.

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Halt and Catch Fire Episode Four: Donna Is Here to Solve Everything

Jun 23, 8:40PM

Halt and Catch Fire Episode Four: Donna Is Here to Solve Everything

Halt and Catch Fire has so far failed at delivering us the TV drama about the rise of the personal computer that we deserve. In episode four last night, we see a small glimmer of hope, as the one character who might be Cardiff Electric's saving grace has also become the show's lone redeeming quality. How meta!

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The Biggest Thing That Yo Got Right Is Hiring Its Hackers

Jun 23, 8:22PM

The Biggest Thing That Yo Got Right Is Hiring Its Hackers

Yo is a borderline-offensively useless (if amusing) app , but its founder Or Arbel made a shrewd decision by hiring one of the Georgia Tech students who hacked into the absurdly simple service last week.

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Google's Getting Ready to Sell You Domain Names

Jun 23, 8:13PM

Google's Getting Ready to Sell You Domain Names

Google just announced a new service called Domains. It does exactly what you'd imagine it would: Helps you buy and manage domain names. Google Domains also helps you build your site, set up email addresses, and manage hosting. In effect, you can run an entire website without ever leaving the Google ecosystem.

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Slingshot's Designers Say You're Using It Wrong

Jun 23, 8:00PM

Slingshot's Designers Say You're Using It Wrong

Facebook's new app, Slingshot, is confusing. The premise behind it is that you can send images to your friends—but they won't be able to see your image until they send one back to you. As a messaging service, it's flawed. But, according to the app's designers, it's not a messaging service. It's something entirely different.

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Wooden Vases Show Pencils Have Other Artistic Uses Than Just Drawings

Jun 23, 7:40PM

Wooden Vases Show Pencils Have Other Artistic Uses Than Just Drawings

Grade school is an opportunity for budding artists to finally shed their cumbersome crayons and try their hand at making a masterpiece using the subtle shades of a box of colored pencils. But artist Tuomas Markun Poika must've missed that class, since he instead uses pencils to create wooden vases with unique patterns made possible by the process with which they're made.

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There's Finally a Jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1

Jun 23, 7:16PM

There's Finally a Jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1

iOS 8 is just around the corner (and as all updates, potentially unjailbreakable), but for folks who have found themselves stuck on the more recent 7.1.1 and unable to jailbreak, there's finally an option. Thrown together by as-yet untested Chinese developers Pangu, the untethered jailbreak is Windows only, but works for all devices that can run 7.1.1.

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Five Best Chef's Knives

Jun 23, 7:15PM

Five Best Chef's Knives

Last week we asked you which chef's knife you thought was a cut above the rest, and now we've counted your votes and narrowed the field down to the five best blades. Head down to the comments and vote by starring your favorite, and respond to each entry with your cases for and/or against.

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Inside the Disaster Housing NYC Is Testing For City Emergencies

Jun 23, 7:00PM

Inside the Disaster Housing NYC Is Testing For City Emergencies

More than eight million people live in NYC. And when a natural or human-made disaster strikes, there's a good chance it'll leave some New Yorkers without homes. That's why this summer, NYC's Office of Emergency Management is testing out a fast, cheap, and comfortable solution: Meet the Prototype.

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The ISS Is Getting an X-Ray Machine That Works in Space

Jun 23, 6:40PM

The ISS Is Getting an X-Ray Machine That Works in Space

Human bodies are of course not built for microgravity. We've long known that astronauts lose bone mass, but studying the process in space is tricky. The International Space Station is getting its first medical X-ray to examine on-board lab mice and rats. But making a space X-ray machine was no easy task.

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If you take the plunge and trade in your MacBook Air for a Surface Pro 3, Microsoft will give you up

Jun 23, 6:32PM

If you take the plunge and trade in your MacBook Air for a Surface Pro 3, Microsoft will give you up to $650 for it. It's never been clearer that Microsoft is gunning for the Air , but whether or not it's a trade you need to make is a different question entirely .

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Tracking Brooklyn's Rapid-Fire Gentrification With Google Street View

Jun 23, 6:24PM

Tracking Brooklyn's Rapid-Fire Gentrification With Google Street View

Open any issue of The New York Times , and you're all but guaranteed to hit a passing reference to the mecca of all things gentrified and hip: Brooklyn, New York. But the real testament to the borough's changing face lies not in trend pieces, but in the nearly unrecognizable streets and buildings themselves.

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Report: The Genius Behind the iPod Is Now In Charge of Google Hardware (UPDATE)

Jun 23, 6:16PM

Report: The Genius Behind the iPod Is Now In Charge of Google Hardware (UPDATE)

If you're curious about the future of Google hardware, just look at Nest. That's according to the Verge and the Information, which published a piece today claiming that Nest CEO Tony Fadell has been put in charge of Google's consumer hardware division. Fadell, it bears mentioning, was the lead designer of the iPod. Fate is a funny thing, isn't it?

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