There sure was plenty of tech involved in Obama’s election campaign—including millions of virtual elections which were used to predict the future—but until now the team behind it has gone uncelebrated. More »
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama was re-elected, which means, of course, that Mitt Romney lost. But if Romney had won, the president-elect would have needed a website. It makes sense that his staffers would have prepared one. But if the fool who accidentally published it wasn’t already out of a job, well, he should be fired. More »
Wow, this Nate Silver guy sure is something. His relentless statistical simulations called the election perfectly, like months before it even happened, and he stuck to his guns while right-wing pundits dismissed his models as voodoo from their televised mountaintops. More »
You might not be able to find King Kong atop the Empire State Building this time around, but yesterday, many New Yorkers would have been able to track the voting results in real time by seeing the top of the Empire State Building lighted up with bar graphs – displaying electoral votes for President Barack Obama in blue and Gov. Mitt Romney in red. The graphs will appear on the newly installed LED panels, and these displays are more than capable of showing moving scenes in addition to 16 million different colors.
The lower part of the Empire State Building will feature red, white and blue stripes, while the “bar graph” will appear on top of that. The moment President Barack Obama’s votes showed that he will be in the White House for another term, the lights changed all to blue. Now that the elections are over, the LED panels can be used to display patterns which are programmed using computers, and these lights were also tipped to be more energy efficient compared to its predecessors, reducing the building’s energy use by 20% – now how about that?
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Twitter was overrun with hashtags and drunk punditry as the returns form presidential election came in last night. We were there, and so was pretty much all of America. Or you’d think so when you look at the freaking numbers. Reuters reports that democracy-loving tweeters fired off some 31 million election related messages last night. More »
Twitter was overrun with hashtags and drunk punditry as the returns form presidential election came in last night. We were there, and so was pretty much all of America. Or you’d think so when you look at the freaking numbers. Reuters reports that democracy-loving tweeters fired off some 31 million election related messages last night. More »
After the networks gave the presidential victory to President Barack Obama, his Twitter account sent out a few tweets talking about the victory. One of those tweets has been retweeted so much in the past hour that it’s very probably the most popular tweet of al time. More »
We all know that Air Force One transports the President around but what about the presidential candidate? Well for Mitt Romney, he used an airplane from a small airplane company in Michigan who will get it back now and have to “de-Romneyize” it: strip the logos, change the seats and clean it up. More »
If there’s ever an occasion to have a one night stand on Twitter, this is it. It’s the night of the 2012 Presidential Election, and a few key people are sure to have something to say as the evening unfolds. Here’s a look at the names we’ll be checking over the next few hours. Try them out, and—who knows—you might just stick with them for the next four years. More »
Time to switch off G4 and MTV Jams—it’s Election Night, and that means you’re about to freebase news for the next several hours. What’s your flavor? More »
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