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Save yourself from Twitter embarrassment with this small tweak
Last week, President Obamasigned into law a bill that makes it legal to unlock your phone. The ruling opened up new possibilities for what your phone can do beyond what’s found in the App...
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Commuters unite to free man stuck between train and platform
An Australian man who had a slight mishap boarding a rush-hour train got a helping hand—well, quite a few hands, really—from dozens of commuters whose travel he delayed. Mind the Gap !!, Stirling...
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Twitter is about to make it very easy to drain your wallet
Whoever is in charge of Twitter’s Android app might have just let the cat out the bag with regards to the social network’s future plans for payment integration. Several eagle-eyed Android users have...
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A Facebook outage is an emergency—but not for the reason you think
It started at around 3pm, although it’s hard to pin down the precise time, because it was a Sunday and I’d been reading quietly on the couch instead of glued to the Internet. I went to Instagram a...
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Read the completely true account of a woman who flew to Mars on a DIY rocket
On Aug. 2, 2014, history was forever changed. Well, history changes every day, but on this particular date, a woman known as Evghenia became the first human to touch down on Mars. i look out window...
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Russian students celebrate Obama's birthday with racist laser show
President Barack Obama turned 53 on Monday, and you know what that means: a handful of Russians staged massive artworks comparing the leader of the free world to a monkey. Apparently annoyed with how...
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What the divide between Israel and Palestine looks like on the Internet
BY GILAD LOTAN It’s hard to shake away the utterly depressing feeling that comes with news coverage these days. IDF and Hamas are at it again, a vicious cycle of violence, but this time it feels much...
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#FeministsAreUgly does not mean what you think it means
A hashtag called #FeministsAreUgly started trending on Twitter this week. Assuming that the hashtag was created in earnest, presumably by a misogynistic troll, many feminists on Twitter decided to...
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The U.S. announced it's bombing Iraq via Twitter
If you were looking for a reason to join Twitter, finding out about America (re)joining the war in Iraq could be the bump you needed. Instead of a press conference that would interrupt a TV show, the...
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'Women Against Feminism' gets the Twitter parody it deserves
Where the burgeoning #WomenAgainstFeminism movement is concerned, we have two options: we can engage with its supporters on their own terms, or we can openly ridicule them. Taking the latter tack is...
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown blasts media's take on Mike Brown slaying
As the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced it would investigate the death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown, killed by police gunfire in suburban St. Louis on Saturday night, Twitter users...
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The real story behind the research on 'Twitter psychosis'
BY MIRI MOGILEVSKYThe perils and pitfalls of social media—getting fired from your job, having bad self-esteem because of all your friends’ selfies, fear of missing out—are probably familiar to most of...
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Mom arrested after helping her teenage son make a 'fire challenge' video
When we first reported on the so-called “fire challenge”—which involves shortsighted teenagers dousing themselves in flammable liquid and setting themselves ablaze—many commenters wondered where the...
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Twitter admits it's gone to the bots
Twitter just gave us the most accurate guess to date at how many of its active users aren't users at all. As Zach Seward of Quartz notes, Twitter's latest filing of Form 10-Q (a financial document...
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The 'Wolf of Occupy Wall Street' has hijacked a popular activist Twitter account
A Twitter account affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement was compromised last Friday when a contributor changed the account’s password, retaining sole access.Activists booted from the...
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Online harassment forces Robin Williams's daughter offline
Zelda Williams is taking a break from social media after trolls sent her gruesome Photoshopped images of her father, Robin Williams, following his death on Monday.She and the rest of her family have...
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Palestinians teach Ferguson protesters how to deal with tear gas
With the world looking on through livestreams, the streets of Ferguson, Mo., transformed on Wednesday night, from the site of a passionate but peaceful protest to a military-style occupation zone. The...
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The 5 types of Robin Williams trolls you'll meet on the Internet
While Avenue Q may claim that “the Internet is for porn,” we all know who it’s really for: trolls. And while they circle endlessly, like sharks, they really come out in force when they sense blood in...
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Tech CEOs are drenching themselves in ice water for charity
Here’s something you never expected to see: Mark Zuckerberg dumping a bucket of ice on his head because Chris Christie told him to.The 30-year-old Facebook founder posted a video on his Facebook...
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Twitter to improve policies following harassment of Zelda Williams
In the wake of Robin Williams’ death earlier this week, Williams’ daughter, actor Zelda Williams, took to Twitter to share her memories of her father with her followers. But she left shortly after two...
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