The retail industry is undergoing a dramatic shift: E-commerce is capturing a larger share of sales than ever before. 

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We remain convinced that the best way to explain anything is through maps. They combine the frenzy over data with an instantly recognizable visualization for how all that data fits. 

With that in mind, we've put together a new edition of the 27 maps that explain America.

You'll find pretty much everything in here: eating and drinking habits, pet ownership, ethnicity, language, and more.

Check it out.

Predilection for passports, by % ownership. Mississippians don't get out too much.

The most overrepresented job in every state. About what you'd expect. Illinois has an inordinate number of groundskeepers.

The most educated states in America. Denver stands out in the West.

For women, sexual harassment is still an issue they face in the workforce. Even female employees at high-profile companies like Yahoo and startups like Tinder have reported harassment from their coworkers.

Whisper is the 2-year-old app that allows users to share their secrets. In the past it's been used for everything from spreading celebrity rumors to letting Iraqis communicate during the country's social-media blackout.

Now people — often women — are turning to the app to share their awful stories of harassment at work. The anonymous nature of the app lets users, who may feel like they have nobody to talk to, share their stories. 

Whisper helped us put together a collection of posts to illustrate how widespread the issue really is. 

Life-long New Yorker David Allee has spent his summers in rural Connecticut for as long as he can remember. Every year, on his drive up to his family's country house, he would pass by the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, a massive complex that dominates the upstate New York town of Wingdale.

Originally slated to be a correctional facility, the hospital treated patients suffering from severe psychological and psychiatric issues from 1924 until it closed its doors in 1994.

The campus has sat abandoned for 20 years, giving it an unnerving atmosphere. But it's about to undergo a major transformation. It was recently purchased by Olivet University, a west coast-based evangelical Christian college that was founded by controversial preacher David Jang, who was rumored to have helped fund International Business Times' acquisition of Newsweek.

Allee made a dozen trips to the complex to capture it in its abandoned state, photographing the buildings and surrounding area. The Morgan Lehman Gallery, which represents Allee, has shared a selection of the photos with Business Insider. See more of his work on his Facebook page.

The hospital is made up of 80 buildings on more than 800 acres of land. The massive complex has sat empty for two decades.When it was opened in 1924, the prevailing approach to psychiatric care was to remove patients from the stresses of daily life.The center, about 65 miles north of New York City, was originally built to ease overcrowding at nearby institutions. Because patients became dependent on asylums, they rarely left. Hospital populations continually grew, often leading to poor living conditions.At its peak, in the mid-1950s, the hospital had more than 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees, according to Hudson Valley magazine.The campus was so large that there was even a 9-hole golf course that doctors could play on. Patients were often encouraged to be caddies.It had its own bakery, a bowling alley, ice cream parlor, and one of the biggest dairy farms in the state.The complex produced its own energy via a dam and hydroelectric power plant.The trend towards treating mentally ill patients in "complete institutions" where they lived and worked fell out of fashion in the 1960s, as overcrowding and underfunding led to wide abuses at hospitals.A real estate company purchased the abandoned asylum a decade ago, but gave up on plans to turn it into a housing and retail complex before the housing market collapsed, according to The New York Times.Olivet University paid $20 million for about half the property in 2013.It's an ideal space for a college campus: A Metro-North railway stop on campus connects it directly with New York City.Olivet has already begun to clean up the former asylum, mowing lawns, stripping brush, and clearing land for sports fields.While Olivet's plans are still not totally clear, it appears that the college intends to use the existing buildings. Allee, who used to be an urban planner, doesn't think that's a good idea."It's become a hazardous waste site. The buildings were so full of asbestos and mold that I'm shocked anybody thinks they could rehab them," says Allee.Wingdale residents are actually excited about the arrival of Olivet, according to the New York Times. Residents expect that the college will draw new jobs and commerce to the town.UPDATE: Olivet faces $2.3 million in fines from OSHA for knowingly exposing workers to asbestos and lead at the hospital. site. 

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If you're an avid Android user, your phone's software is about to look a whole lot different in the next few months.

Google is billing the redesigned user interface as the key feature in its next major mobile software update, Android L. 

With Android L, Google is introducing some aesthetic tweaks as part of its Material Design overhaul.

Material Design is a sleek, neat, and colorful new interface that's meant to make the user experience seamless across devices on all screens — whether you're using a smartwatch, phone, or tablet. 

In addition to a leaner overall look, Material Design adds a few subtle nuances that make the Android experience seem more interactive and visually pleasing. 

Google says it studied paper and ink to achieve the shadowed and textured look you'll find in Android L. 

Here are some of the best visual components Android users have to look forward to. 

A big part of Material Design is the way colors are portrayed. Google developed a color palette specifically to highlight shades and tints, which adds more life to user interface elements.

Notice how the generic form above is highlighted in purple and looks slightly larger than the rest. That effect is meant to draw your eye to information that's more important, such as the title in this case. 

App icons in Android L are based on geometric shapes, which make them pop and appear more symmetrical.

Google says that Material Design is based on the same design principles as paper. This means app icons are designed to rise up when you tap them rather than sink down.

When it comes to Steve Jobs, there's the "Good Steve," and then, there's the "Bad Steve," says biographer Walter Isaacson.

His mammoth personality could inspire those around him just as easily as it could tear them down.

Here are 16 examples of when it did the latter.

A different kind of FDA.

Isaacson describes how Jobs handled himself when one of Apple's partners wasn't performing adequately:

VLSI Technology, a chip company, was having trouble delivering enough chips on time. Jobs stormed into a meeting and started shouting that they were "f*cking d*ckless assholes." The company ended up getting the chips to Apple on time, and its executives made jackets that boasted on the back, "Team FDA."

"You guys don't know what you're doing!"

When Apple was about to reveal the "Bondi Blue" iMac, he berated his good friend and ad partner, Lee Clow, over the phone. Jobs said Clow's team was getting the color wrong for the print ads. He shouted, "You guys don't know what you're doing. I'm going to get someone else to do the ads because this is f*cked up."

Eventually, Clow sat Jobs down and made him look at the original photos versus print ads. Clow was right — there had been no mistake. Jobs backed down.

His five-star hotel room wasn't up to his standards so he immediately left.

Jony Ive went to the trouble of finding a boutique, five-star hotel room for Jobs to stay at in London. As soon as Jobs got to his room he called up Ive and said, "I hate my room. It's a piece of sh*t, let's go." Jobs grabbed his things to leave, stopping at the desk to tell the clerk what he thought of the hotel.

It can be downright horrible to be a woman working in the tech industry these days. It's an industry that can't seem to cure itself of sexism. 

Then again, it can be absolutely wonderful.

There's a huge push these days to encourage more girls to learn to code and to hire more women engineers once they graduate. The tech industry knows it can't fill all the jobs it has while discouraging half the population from joining the industry. It also knows that it can't do a good job of designing new tech products for women if women aren't part of the design process.

Because women are vastly outnumbered by men in technical jobs (about 3:1), they are even harder to find in leadership roles. But they do exist.

And once a year, we like to give a shout-out to these women. 

No. 22: LinkedIn, Sarah Clatterbuck

Name: Sarah Clatterbuck

Job title: Senior manager, web development at LinkedIn

Why she's powerful: LinkedIn would be nothing without its website and Sarah Clatterbuck sets the technical standards for web development and leads several web development teams.

She's a big believer in Web Accessibility, too, making the web easier to use for people with disabilities and leads the company's task force on that. Clatterbuck is also a mentor for girls learning to code in the Bay Area.

No. 21: Box, Divya Jain

Name: Divya Jain

Job title: Staff data scientist and engineer lead at Box

Why she's powerful: Jain joined Box in 2013 when Box bought the technology behind dLoop, the company she cofounded. (Box is careful not to say that it acquired the whole company.) dLoop is a data analysis tool that helps enterprises discover information and insights.

Now she's leading a project that will help Box's customers search and analyze documents.

Jain previously held roles at EMC, Kazeon Systems (acquired by EMC), and was senior software engineer at Sun Microsystems. She holds a graduate degree in data mining and analysis from Stanford.

No. 20: Citrix, Ashi Sareen

Name: Ashi Sareen 

Job title: Director of product development for the mobility team at Citrix

Why she's powerful: Citrix is a $3 billion company with 7,000 employees. Its flagship product helps enterprises run apps over the network on any device.

Ashi leads product development for the company's important mobility product called XenMobile. She runs a team of about 33 people, six managers, each of whom manages their own teams.

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U.S. oil production remains at its highest level since the mid-80s, and it's all thanks to incredible developments in hydraulic fracturing.

Marathon Oil has a great animation on the basics of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking."  We found it thanks to Mark Perry's blog.

Intended for novices, it explains how horizontal drilling works and explains the roles of water and sand.

Not surprisingly, the video doesn't spend much time on the controversies surrounding the environmental risks.  That discussion is for another time.

For now, check out these key points from the animation that will help any novice speak more intelligently about fracking.

Note: Ben Duronio, who no longer works at Business Insider, contributed to an earlier version of this.

Fracking is used to extract oil and gas from shale reservoirs more than a mile below the surface. The first step involves drilling down into the hydrocarbon reservoir.

When the drill reaches the reservoir, a specialized drillbit is used to allow the wellbore to shift horizontally. This allows for access to multiple wells from one drilling pad.

Once the drilling is finished and concrete casing has been installed, a perforating gun is installed that fires through the casings and into the reservoir.

Luis Hernan was always curious about how wireless technologies like radio are transmitted through the air.

So after finishing up his studies in architecture, computer science, and design, Hernan decided to research these invisible signals through a PhD at Newcastle University.

"I was very curious about this idea of the invisible signals that surround us all the time so I wanted to explore that," Hernan told Business Insider. "I was really interested in how they would look if we were able to see them."

Hernan set up a system that turned the wireless signals around him into colorful, ghostlike images using long-exposure photography, allowing people to see the strength of the signals around them. He custom-built a device that translates WiFi signal strength into colors and then leverages long-exposure photography to create the results, which are all documented in his project called "Digital Ethereal."

Hernan's thesis says there are different ways in which we can see or imagine different technologies.

His goal with the project is to make the invisible visible.

The first thing Hernan did was create a device that measures the signal strength of Wi-Fi and translates it to a sort of heatmap of colors.

If we're being honest, London hasn't always been known for its five-star dining options. But a recent culinary revolution has made it a standout destination for gourmands everywhere.

We've come up with this ultimate list of the best restaurants in London. To create it, we looked at notable restaurant rankings compiled by food critics, diners, and experts, and gave each restaurant a numerical rating based on our own formula.

The rankings we used were the National Restaurant Awards 2014, The World's 100 Best Restaurants, Zagat's Best Food In London 2013, OpenTable's 2013 Best Restaurants in the UK, TimeOut London's Top 50 Restaurants, The Michelin Guide Great Britain and Ireland 2014, and The Square Meal's 3-Star Restaurants.

You can read our complete methodology and see numerical scores here.

35. Social Eating House

58 Poland Street

Chef: Paul Hood

At Social Eating House, the surroundings are as vibrant as the food. Exposed brick walls, whitewashed copper ceilings, and weathered leather banquette seats create a relaxed and humble setting.

Guided by celebrity chef Jason Atherton, chef Paul Hood developed a diverse and contemporary bistro menu.

34. Chiltern Firehouse

1 Chiltern Street

Chefs: Nuno Mendes and Dale Osborne

Once London's first purpose-built fire station, the Chiltern Firehouse is quickly becoming "the place to be seen" for A-list celebrities like Kate Moss, Ellie Goulding, J.J. Abrams, and Cara Delevingne.

The Manhattan-style brasserie, owned by hotelier and nightlife guru André Balazs, boasts high ceilings and shockingly low prices.

33. The Wolseley

160 Piccadilly

Chef: Lawrence Keogh

A café-restaurant in the grand European tradition, The Wolseley occupies a 1921 car showroom turned Barclays Bank branch. The towering pillars, arches, and stairways have a haute menu to match. The veal Holstein and chicken soup with dumplings are runaway favorites as are the changing plats du jour. 

Deep in Brooklyn’s interior lies Green-Wood Cemetery, one of the largest and most prominent burial grounds in the United States.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Green-Wood was a premier final destination, housing the remains of New York City’s elite in fields as varied as business, art, industry, and politics.

Among the most notable eternal residents are corrupt politician William “Boss” Tweed, toy store founder F.A.O. Schwarz, piano manufacturer Henry Steinway, and business magnates Charles Pfizer and William Colgate. More recent arrivals include famed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and composer Leonard Bernstein. 

The 400-acre grounds, built in 1838, are a stunning example of the rural cemetery movement, with Green-Wood often looking more like a beautiful city park than a graveyard. 

We took a tour of the grounds with Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman, who let us in on all the stories hidden behind the monuments and gravestones.

This is the entrance to Green-Wood Cemetery, which lies at the edge of Park Slope. The gates were designed in a Gothic Revival style.

The cemetery occupies 478 acres of rolling hills, dales, ponds, chapels, and crypts. The cemetery was part of the rural cemetery movement, which believed in creating park-like cemeteries, as opposed to small plots attached to churches.

Source: Wikipedia

It lies on the last of the terminal moraines (debris formed from Ice Age glaciers) that form the hills in Brooklyn and Queens.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is responsible for some of the world's most significant scientific and technological breakthroughs.

DARPA has had a hand in milestone inventions like GPS, the internet, and stealth aircraft. And it's always developing new technologies — military or intelligence-related systems that could end up having a huge impact outside the battlefield as well.

We've looked at some of DARPA's active projects, and found some of the more astounding systems that are currently in the works.

Bullets that can change direction in flight

Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) are the military's first smart, self-guided bullets. 

EXACTO bullets are able to change their path during flight to correct for the movement of a target or any other factors that might have driven the bullet off course.

The bullets feature optical tips that can detect lasers on a target. Tiny fins on the bullets then guide the bullet towards that laser. 

The Pentagon just successfully conducted a live-fire test utilizing these rounds. 

High-energy lasers

The High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) program is an ambitious DARPA project aimed at neutralizing surface-to-air missile threats that aircraft may encounter. 

Generally, surface-to-air missiles are faster than a target plane, making it difficult for an aircraft to evade fire. The HELLADS program attempts to use lasers to disable incoming missiles. 

DARPA is also planning on increasing the strength of the HELLADS laser in order to make it an offensive weapon capable of destroying enemy ground targets. 

Flying trucks

The ARES program, a Skunk Works extension of DARPA's Transformer program, is an attempt to develop an actual flying car. 

ARES will be a dual-mode vehicle capable of both driving on the ground and achieving high-speed vertical takeoff and landing. Twin tilting fans will allow the vehicle to hover and land. The vehicle can also configure itself for high-speed flight. 

DARPA hopes that the ARES will be especially resistant to IEDs — while also being able to evade aerial threats, like air-to-air missiles.

With more than 122,000 followers, the Transportation Security Administration's Instagram account is documenting the bizarre items confiscated at airport security across the country. 

The Instagram account, created in June 2013, show items ranging from fireworks to ninja stars. 

Fireworks.

Caption: #TSATravelTip: Summer and fireworks seem to go hand in hand. These fireworks were a #TSAcatch from the Milwaukee Airport. Please remember that #fireworks are never permitted in carry-on or checked baggage.

Bear repellent.

Caption: #TSACatch - Eight ounces of bear repellent was detected in a carry-on bag at the #Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. While traveling can be a bear at times, bear repellent IS prohibited in the cabin of an aircraft. You can pack bear repellent in your checked bags if the volume is less than four ounces and it has less than a 2 percent active ingredient of either CS or CN. Most bear repellents exceed these limitations.

Batarangs.

Caption: These #batarangs were discovered in a carry-on bag at the #Newark Liberty International Airport. For more information on prohibited items, visit www.tsa.gov

A wave of innovation is driving a dramatic shift in the way we make payments.

In this presentation, we highlight the most important trends fueling the changes: the rise of payment apps, mobile registers, e-commerce, and the decline of cash and checks. We also show where the payments industry is headed. Many of the slides are based on charts exclusive to BI Intelligence. 

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Rory McIlroy is well positioned to become one of the world's highest-paid athletes for a long, long time.

At age 25, he has already won three of the four major championships and has a deal with Nike rumored to be worth as much as $200 million.

He also has the makings of a pretty fantastic lifestyle off the course, with a lavish house in Florida, a $400,000 car, and much more.

He earned $23.5 million last year, making him the 35th-highest-paid athlete in the world at age 25.

Source: Forbes

He made $20 million in endorsements alone.

Source: Forbes

His biggest deal: a monster Nike contract rumored to be worth $200+ million.

Source: USA Today

A menswear factory in Brooklyn has been "doing things the old-fashioned way" for more than 60 years.

Martin Greenfield Clothiers produces handmade men's suits, an impressive feat considering less than 3% of clothes sold in the U.S. is American-made. Most U.S. apparel companies outsource their labor to places where clothing is faster and cheaper to make. But Martin Greenfield isn't in the menswear business for the money alone.

Greenfield arrived at Brooklyn manufacturer GGG Clothes in 1947 from Czechoslovakia; it was his first job in the States. He carried unfinished garments from one station to the next. A poster boy for the American Dream, Greenfield worked his way up from blind stitcher to supervisor to vice president, and eventually bought the factory, renaming it in 1977.

Today, he continues the tradition of making suits by hand at his four-floor warehouse in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where his client list includes Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and Leonardo DiCaprio. "I see my suits being worn all over the world," Greenfield says. "I love to see the results."

On Varet Street in East Williamsburg, a 100-year-old brick building houses the last unionized men’s clothing factory in New York City with more than 100 employees.

The city was once an epicenter of apparel manufacturing, with more than 3,000 clothing factories rooted here. During the 1970s, fast and low-cost labor abroad forced U.S. companies to ditch the “Made in the USA” label for cheaper alternatives.

Today, 97.5% of apparel sold in America is made outside the U.S. Martin Greenfield Clothiers is the exception — a company thriving by doing things the old-fashioned way, and employing people rather than machines.

Source: The American Apparel & Footwear Association

The New York Post reported yesterday that New York City has approved developer Extell’s plans to build a separate entrance for its affordable-housing tenants at an Upper West Side condo.

Dubbed the “poor door,” the controversial approval was a blow to New Yorkers who believe the separate entrance to be classist and distasteful.

The 33-story luxury condo on 40 Riverside Drive will have 55 low-income units and 219 market-rate condominiums facing the Hudson River, according to The Post. The low-income units will be located on floors two through six with a studio going for $845 a month, a one-bedroom for $908, and two-bedrooms for $1,099.

Market-rate buyers, on the other hand, would be paying more than $1,000 per square foot. The building will be part of Extell's planned Riverside South dev elopement, which will stretch from 72nd to 59th Streets.

The building is a part of New York City's "inclusionary zoning" strategy for providing affordable housing to low-income families, itself a controversial program that gives developers more floor area and large tax breaks in exchange for building on- or off-site affordable housing.

The “poor door” is not the only one of its kind in the city. A few other large development projects also have separate entrances for renters and owners, and it’s not uncommon for mixed-income buildings to provide amenities for the building’s market-rate owners that they don’t provide for middle-income or low-income residents.

And not everyone agrees that the “poor door” is the main problem. Josh Barro, Business Insider’s former politics editor, made the argument last year that if New York City fully taxed these market rate apartments instead of giving developers tax breaks for building affordable housing on-site (it’s estimated the property tax abatements have lost NYC $2.9 billion in revenue), they could use that money to spend on building more affordable housing.

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Apple is known for the hit products it has released in the last decade: the iPod, the iPhone, and most recently the iPad. But the company hasn't always been a synonym for success.

Some of of its products, particularly in the 80s and 90s, were huge flops.

From the PowerPC to the Pippin game console, we recount the ill-fated products Apple probably wishes you forgot about permanently. 

The iPod Hi-Fi was built with Apple's sleek design aesthetic but ultimately failed to deliver the sound quality that 3rd party competitors could offer.

Apple's hockey puck mouse came out with the first iMac, but its shape proved very uncomfortable for users and forced Apple to reconsider its peripheral ergonomics.

Before the Apple TV was even a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye, Apple released the Macintosh TV in 1993. It was incapable of displaying TV on the desktop and sold only 10,000 units.