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Apollo 13 expert livetweets entire mission on its 45th anniversary
The livetweeting of major news events is a media staple in 2015. No State of the Union Address or llama chase passes without a deluge of real-time social media coverage.But one Twitter user is using...
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Turkish mayor to outraged citizens: 'Respect the robot'
A Turkish politician and new personal hero is being sued by his citizens after blowing a big chunk of the city’s budget on building a giant robot, reports Unilad. Melih Gökçek, mayor of Ankara,...
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Pornhub gave this dude a free latop for the best possible reason
A young man named Denzel was recently faced with a difficult choice: destroy his laptop, which had frozen with pornography pulled up on the Web browser, or deal with the repercussions of his mom...
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Study says wealthy teens prefer Instagram and Snapchat to Facebook
Everyone knows the Rich Kids of Instagram account totally sucks. But it turns out that Instagram account reveals a kernel of truth about how teens are using social media. A recent Pew study shows that...
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Zayn Malik's new haircut is causing everyone to lose it
Former One Direction member Zayn Malik made his first public appearance at the 2015 Asian Awards since leaving the boy band sporting a new hairstyle—or just a general lack of hair.Here's his new...
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How Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson channels his spirit animal
I get through my toughest gym workouts by imagining I’m Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. In fact, I report my daily milestones to him, hoping in vain to get some validation from the man himself. It keeps me...
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'Conan' writer calls out Kimmel and Fallon's late-night clickbait
Last Thursday, longtime Conan writer Andrés du Bouchet tweeted out his thoughts about the state of late-night TV. They’ve since been deleted, but the folks at Uproxx had the foresight to strike while...
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These photos of scientists on the job will make you seethe with envy
Scientists took to Twitter on Monday to debunk the myth that science is boring by sharing the best photos of their field trips using the hashtag #BestFieldWorkPic. Here’s a photo of ecologist Michelle...
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Hannibal Buress, Bill Nye win big at the Shorty Awards
Comedian Rachel Dratch hosted the seventh-annual Shorty Awards Monday night—a ceremony honoring the "best producers of short content." Across platforms like Vine, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and...
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Woman dumps cheating boyfriend's Apple gear into a bathtub
Anyone in a committed romantic relationship knows that the worst possible thing your significant other can do is cheat on you. Cheating never ends well.A Japanese Apple fanboy learned that lesson the...
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Privacy supergroup aims to kill 5 cybersecurity bills at once
A coalition of digital-rights and civil-liberties organizations have founded a campaign under the hashtag #CyberFail that aims to shed light on five cybersecurity bills presently under consideration in...
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Robert Downey Jr. walked out of the most awkward interview ever
You don’t mess with Iron Man.One journalist learned this the hard way, when Robert Downey Jr. cut a promotional interview with Channel 4 News in the U.K. short after the interviewer began turning...
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Nintendo forgets to spell-check its tweet, promotes #WiggerWednesday
Every company wants its hashtag to go viral, but sometimes this thirst for attention backfires gloriously.That’s exactly what happened to Nintendo when the company accidentally asked fans to tweet a...
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Twitter heaps snark on Comcast and Time Warner Cable after failed merger
When it comes to the uniquely human phenomenon of schadenfreude, there’s little that can compare to the implosion of a $45.2 billion quasi-monopolistic merger between two universally reviled telecoms....
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An escaped herd of buffalo just charged into New York traffic
From the nation that brought you “llamas running around a southwestern urban environment” comes: “Buffalo running around in upstate New York.” Seems a dozen or so bison escaped from a farm in Schodack,...
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6 ways Jay Z could save Tidal
It comes as no surprise—save, perhaps, to its multimillionaire celebrity backers—that Jay Z’s would-be Spotify-killer, Tidal, hasn’t made a dent in the streaming music market. It’s the sort of thing...
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The Internet wasted no time tweaking Jared Leto's Joker photo
Last night, the Internet went absolutely crazy with a new photo showing Jared Leto as the Joker in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie. Unsurprisingly, the edgy, grill-laden, tattooed Joker isn’t winning...
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Tesla Motors' Twitter account was hacked
Tesla Motors' website and Twitter account were hacked and defaced on Saturday by an individual or group using the hashtag #RIPPRGANG, though it's not clear at all who is really behind the attack.The...
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Thousands gather in Baltimore to protest the death of Freddie Gray
Black America's frustration and anger over racialized police brutality ratcheted up another notch in a post-Ferguson landscape last night, as major protests ground Baltimore to a halt over the death...
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Twitter's algorithm didn't understand #FeministsAreUgly
Last Sunday, the hashtag #FeministsAreUgly started trending on Twitter. Although a quick search of the hashtag yielded a bunch of cute selfies from female users—many of them self-identified feminists...
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