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How 'Yarn Guy' instantly won over the Internet at E3
It's fitting that the most touching moment at this year's E3 came to us courtesy of a game that's all about human connections. Few attending the gaming industry conference knew much about Unraveled, a...
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'SNL' writer Colin Jost destroys Time Warner Cable in an impressive Twitter rant
You might think your cable company is bad. Heck, you might even dislike your cable company a whole lot. But Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost ratcheted things up to a new level on Wednesday night,...
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A porn star tells us why she sent this viral warning to young girls
A few years ago, Bree Olson was on top of the world. She was a Penthouse pet and the star of hundreds of adult movies. She'd made headlines for being one of Charlie Sheen’s live-in “goddesses” (though...
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10 awful comments about the Charleston shooting—and one that's painfully true
The way some people react on Twitter to acts of tragic violence has become eerily predictable. Practically everyone had a take on Wednesday night's deadly Charleston church shooting, and the sentiments...
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Sorry, today is both National Martini Day and National Flip-Flop Day
Here on the Internet, every day is a holiday. Why, just this week, people allegedly celebrated something called National Smile Power Day, National Stewart’s Root Beer Day (come on, man), and National...
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A hashtag says everything about what it's like to be a black woman in America
How does it feel to be a black girl? With the public fascination and media scrutiny around Rachel Dolezal, the white NAACP president who was pretending to be black, the question has more relevance...
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Cher says she will move to Jupiter if Donald Trump is elected
For decades, we've been hearing about where Americans will emigrate if this or that presidential candidate is elected. Time and again, whether it's a Bush or Obama who takes the Oval Office, we fail...
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Twitter's new Project Lightning could involve livestreaming major sporting...
When the NFL decided to make history this season by broadcasting one of its games solely on the Internet, Yahoowon the bid to live-stream the Week 7 contest between the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville...
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Why are we so obsessed with Rachel Dolezal?
Are you obsessed with Rachel Dolezal? If you have a Wi-Fi connection, of course you are. The former Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader broke the Internet last week following allegations that she lied...
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Social media campaign takes aim at Yulin's controversial dog meat festival
Today is Father's Day in the U.S., but for the Chinese province of Guangxi, it's the start of Yulin's dog meat festival, where approximately 10,000 dogs are expected to be slaughtered and eaten on the...
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A federal revenge-porn bill is expected next month
Revenge porn, according to University of Miami law professor Mary Anne Franks, is a misnomer. The correct term, she says, is nonconsensual pornography. That means taking someone's private, nude, or...
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We're all Internet trolls now
It’s easy to believe that the Internet is filled with vindictive barbarians with little concern for the people on the other end of their screens—especially after scanning the comments section of an...
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Why Politwoops mattered
On May 30, 2012, the Sunlight Foundation launched Politwoops, an ambitious program to archive American politicians’ deleted tweets. A few days later, Twitter contacted the Sunlight Foundation with a...
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11 reasons Cher is the best person on Twitter
Last week, Chershared in the eye-rolling frustration of Donald Trump's bit of promotional theatre disguised as a presidential run announcement by saying she'd move to Jupiter if he was elected. It...
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Tom Holland is your new Spider-Man
Earlier this week, former child star Tom Holland, known for playing the lead in the London musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, made a much bigger splash when he posted videos of himself doing...
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4 rules for using the Internet when you're in the hospital
The other day, I accidentally ended up on LinkedIn. This sometimes happens when I click on the wrong tab in Chrome. Most of the time, I just close it and go to the page I meant to visit. But this time,...
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In which we declare our undying love for a handsome gorilla
My dearest Shabani,I know it has been many months since my last letter. Please know that you are my first thought upon waking and my last upon bedding down at camp each night. Between this damned war...
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States Department takes to Twitter and answers your Cuba travel questions
The recent relaxation of travel rules for Americans who want to visit Cuba has inspired a big jump in interest and activity. In fact, the jump is so high that the tourism officials of other Caribbean...
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Meet the man who moonlights as Disney princesses on Snapchat
The wonderful world of photo-sharing app Snapchat is home to everything from guys drawing cartoons over their dongs to Rick Perry trying desperately to connect with the youth as he runs for president....
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What's next on our slide down the slippery slope?
In a landmark ruling that broke the Internet Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Courtlegalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Many people were very happy.But the decision also means that we've started...
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