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By now we're grudgingly accustomed to those Captcha code boxes popping up online to verify we're humans and not bots.

Ford --which is about to release an all-electric version of the Focus--just put out the above map of the United States with the cities it feels are best suited to electric car ownership. And with a few exceptions, it looks like the flyover states aren't making preparations for the messianic arrival of the electric car. What do you want to bet that in the next presidential election, we'll add "electric-car" to the litany of liberal-associative words like arugula, lattes, and sushi

The recession has highlighted the need for affordable, efficient, quick-to-build structures in urban areas. Because while many of us want to live in pricey cities like Seattle and San Francisco, few people can afford the steel and concrete structures that are nice to live in (and hold up in earthquakes).

B.J. was one of many fellow inmates with big plans for the future

Amazon's bid to earn money by making an Apple -like curated version of the Android Marketplace seems clever, if controversial , and a potential winner for Android users. But according to some, Amazon may be applying unfair restrictions to its software partners.

Tweets in Basque? Tweets in Polynesian? Tweets in Navajo?

TV and film industries treated 3-D like any other premium tech, pumping it full of marketing dollars. Everyone lost money

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. White iPhone Due Soon Apple 's legendary white iPhone will be ready for AT&T and Verizon in a few weeks, according "three people with knowledge of the plans." Twitter Rejected $10 Billion Offer From Google Twitter reportedly turned down multiple offers, including $2 Billion from Facebook and one from Microsoft . Crowdsourced Map Campaign Attempts Anti-Slave Momentum Demand the Brand, a State Department-supported project, allows users to upload photos of themselves with products to "demand" that they be made slave-free.

We have a space junk problem. Fragments from very small (a millimeter) to much bigger (several meters) are whirling around overhead at fantastic speeds, threatening satellites and astronauts.

01 / Nissan For creating the Leaf, the first mass-market electric car. 02 / Nike > > For its mix of sports, style, and yes, plastic bottles

Austin Peay State University is testing out a Netflix-like recommendation system for courses. Tristan Denley, the prof behind the tech, wonders: "If eHarmony works well, why not this?" As per credit costs for college courses spike , the impact of poor advice from a college counselor can mean a disturbing amount of misplaced time and money. So Austin Peay State University mathematics professor Tristan Denley designed a course-recommendation system for students to suppliment their regular college counselor visits

1. RIM's embargo on review editions of its PlayBook tablet expired this morning, so the news is full of expert opinion on the tablet PC RIM hopes will revive its future fortunes

While cities like San Francisco are awash in boutique bread shops and dirt-cheap farmer's markets, others (like Detroit) don't even have supermarkets. These so-called food deserts typically offer mostly standard corner-store fare like Jell-O, Ritz Bitz, or Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. So it's strange that Triscuit, another--albeit slightly healthier-tasting Kraft product--is now making a play to be associated with anti-food desert urban gardening projects

Zipcar Inc., the short-term car-rental service based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, launched its IPO this morning. Bloomberg reports that the IPO raised over $174 million, selling 9.7 million shares priced at $18—well above an initial proposal that pegged the share prices at $14 to $16. The most recent SEC filing can be viewed here

Halle Tecco, who founded the new health-care startup incubator Rock Health, is bringing in visionaries like the founder of Guitar Hero to help creative, innovative, and--dare we say it--fun health-care startups get off the ground.