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Try not to giggle, but it's called the AthleTitti. Hopefully some enterprising folks will bring this stateside! 

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In a straightforward map, Seth Kadish shows the percentage of county residents who commute out of state, according to estimates from the American Community Survey.

Not surprisingly, the counties with the highest percentages are adjacent to state borders. Nine counties have greater than 50% commuting to a different state. In most cases, the flow is unidirectional. For example, people leave Phenix City, AL, to work in Columbus, GA, or they drive from Vancouver, WA, to Portland, OR. This may be for tax purposes, or simply because they prefer the lifestyle or affordability of a certain suburb.

Note that counties are colored by state of residence, so darker colors means more people flowing out of those areas in the morning.

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Perhaps Comcast's biggest justification for approval of their deal with Time Warner Cable is the fact that the two companies don't directly compete. One group fighting the merger claims that isn't entirely the case. Bloomberg reports that The California Office of Ratepayer Advocates has found evidence in government filings of a planned nationwide Comcast streaming service that technically would compete with Time Warner Cable in its footprint.

As such, the group claims, Comcast's deal would (in addition to other proposed leverage harms) hinder competition in the TV space. Comcast denies that any plans are underway:

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Finding the documents is an important and critical development that shows Time Warner Cable and Comcast must be considered as direct potential, if not actual, competitors, the Office of Ratepayer Advocates said...A Comcast spokeswoman, Sena Fitzmaurice, referred to the company s March 9 filing at the Federal Communications Commission that said the company has reviewed the prospects for such a service and has consistently rejected its business viability."

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Usually a company just won't comment if there's some legitimacy to a planned service claim, so Comcast's outright denial is notable. Comcast's also repeatedly made it clear they're wary of such an offering, because it might cannibalize the company's traditional cable base. The company's previous effort to offer something comparable to Netflix -- Streampix -- didn't see much interest, though that was offered to Comcast TV subscribers and not as a stand alone product.

Should such a service be in the works, it would help explain why reports this week suggested Comcast was playing hard to get in negotiations with Apple over a planned Apple streaming TV service. Either way, most critics argue the biggest impact of a larger Comcast isn't the direct reduction of broadband and TV competition, its the greater leverage an even larger Comcast will have over video content licensing and ad markets.
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Because who hasn't dreamed of having their kids crawling all over them like a human jungle gym (like they don't already), Atsushi Shiraishi designed the Athletitti, a rope vest that turns parents into pieces of climbable equipment. What a great bonding experience. Just be extra careful your kid doesn't kick you in the nuts or elbow a tit while they're trying to climb Mount Condombroke. Thanks to Marissa, who entertains kids the old fashioned way: PUPPET SHOWS.

A mysterious tech company called Magic Leap has been raising lots of money and working on something for a while now, but that “something” has been kept under wraps.

On Thursday, they uploaded a new video to YouTube titled “Just another day in the office at Magic Leap,” and it shows what appears to be a really cool new VR interface and video game where virtual objects and creatures interact with the physical world around you.

It’s a bit like Microsoft’s HoloLens but looks a lot more fun.

The game dubbed “Victory,” is a first-person shooter in association with the design company Weta Workshop and their “Dr. Grordbort” branded ray guns.

Robots jump out of various doors in the office which you quickly need to take out before they attack you.

“This is a game we’re playing around the office right now (no robots were harmed in the making of this video),” Magic Leap wrote in the caption.

The company raised $542 Million last October led by Google to help create “The World’s Next Visual Computing Platform.” According to MIT this involves “an itty-bitty projector that shines light into your eyes” to help make “fantasy monsters to appear on your desk alongside real pencils.”

It also hired sci-fi author Neal Stephenson as their “Chief Futurist” back in December.

“Magic Leap is bringing physics, biology, code, and design together to build a system that is going to blow doors open for people who create things,” Stephenson at the time.

CEO Rony Abovitz recently cancelled a TED talk and one of their game designers cancelled a scheduled Reddit AMA.

This video is supposedly what Abovitz intended to show off at the TED talk.

If it is real… shut up and take our money.

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According to the Wall Street Journal, as TV services shift from the traditional outlets (antenna, cable, satellite) to the internet big names like HBO, Showtime and Sony are worried about their services running into congestion and bandwidth caps. A p...

Just when you thought the net neutrality debate had died down, a band of content providers now want special treatment. The Wall Street Journal reports that HBO, Sony, and Showtime are asking internet service providers to be treated as "managed" services. In other words, they want dedicated bandwidth for their video content.

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