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Twitter's new feature makes sure you never miss that big tweet
Afraid you’re missing something while you’re not logged into Twitter? Don’t worry, the company has you covered with its new “While You Were Away” feature. First mentioned back in November, the new...
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The Black Lips are America's hardest-tweeting band
BY ADELAIDE MOTTThe Atlanta-based garage band Black Lips stirs up controversy both on stage and online. They’ve urinated, vomited, and made out with each other at gigs. Founding members Jared Swilley...
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Nintendo has an Amiibo problem
Nintendo appears to be milking every penny from its latest, sorely needed hit—highly sought-after Amiibo figurines.In case the word “Amiibo” sounds alien to you, let me get you brought up to speed:...
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The weird hug between Jerry Jones and Chris Christie goes viral
Last night's playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Detroit Lions was a nerve-racking affair for everybody involved. In a game dramatically affected by penalties and an unsteady Dallas offense,...
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A bunch of teens trolled the media by pretending not to know Paul McCartney
Right as we rang in 2015, Kanye West released “Only One,” a keyboard ballad about his wife, Kim Kardashian, and daughter, North West, cowritten with Sir Paul McCartney. And, in an outpouring of...
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LinkedIn says Taliban militant's networking profile was likely a hoax
Everyone loves it when a terrorist uses the Internet like a moron, which is why the media rushed to report this weekend that a one-time Taliban figurehead had been caught “networking” on LinkedIn....
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Is Malia Obama repping a Brooklyn rapper in this mysterious photo?
Malia Obama is a cool teen (First Teen?) and she recently secured her status as underground rap influencer by sporting a Joey Bada$$ shirt. The shirt reps rapper Bada$$’s Brooklyn hip-hop collective,...
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Twitter timelines freeze up across platforms Monday
Twitter users experienced massive outages Monday night for roughly 90 minutes. The Web and mobile versions of its timelines either loaded incredibly slowly or did not at all, ditto the mobile apps and...
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Intel closes its Russian developer forums to escape Kremlin censorship
Russia’s infamous "blogger's law" claimed a new victim this week following a decision by Intel to shut down its Russian-language developer forums.Intel, the latest American tech firm to fall into the...
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Outrage erupts over lack of media coverage of NAACP office bombing
One day after the FBI called an explosion outside a Colorado NAACP office building "deliberate," #NAACPBomb is a top worldwide trending topic on Twitter. Almost all of the hashtag's thousands of tweets...
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Jesus Christ, can we stop blaming technology for killing our relationships?
Can we officially call for a moratorium on thinkpieces about how technology is killing our ability to interact with one another? I'll even be generous and still allow for the occasional "Everyone at...
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The 6 dumbest things about Jeb Bush's political action committee
Except for a handful of wonks suffering from midterm election withdrawals, nobody was happy to see former Florida governor Jeb Bush kick off the 2016 presidential race by announcing that he would...
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Dad arrested for throwing teen daughter a boozy, Playboy-themed birthday party
Tarnishing the good name of lawyers everywhere, father Jeff Lake of Poway, Calif., threw his 18-year-old daughter Liv a massive, booze-soaked, Playboy-style birthday party on Friday night—an act of...
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Meet Michel Houellebecq, the troll-novelist in the shadows of the Charlie...
The terrorist massacre that left 12 dead at the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris Wednesday morning may well have been a jihadist plot, with various reports claiming that the masked...
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When a Twitter parody account isn't just a parody
I’m the last person in the world to decry a good Twitter parody account. The Mayor Emanuel Twitter handle, launched during Rahm Emanuel’s election bid for the mayorship of Chicago, was a lesson in...
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Meet the real illustrator behind Banksy's viral Charlie Hebdo tribute
Because the Internet is fueled by false rumors about and misattributions to the pseudonymous street artist Banksy—just one of the perks of underground fame—someone was able to steal another artist’s...
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The complete list of words that should actually be banned
From the war over “trigger warning” to the siege on “feminist” and the alleged prohibition of “bae” and “bruh,” the Internet hardly if ever stops fighting about who’s allowed to say what, and when, and...
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Bill Cosby reportedly jokes about rape during Canada standup
Bill Cosby returned to the standup stage this week in Ontario, Canada. Thursday, Cosby reportedly made a rape joke to one specific woman in the audience. The audience then paused, and roared with...
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Why teachers shouldn't be friends with their students on Facebook
Of all the things you should never do, sending a video of yourself masturbating to your students is pretty high on the list. A 57-year-old soccer coach in Connecticut learned that the hard way when he...
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An alleged rapist might be a 'nice guy'—but that doesn't make him innocent
For every woman who comes out to accuse Bill Cosbyof rape—there were three more this week—another character witness comes out of the woodwork to defend him. After Jill Scott reached out to support him...
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