‘Hunger Games’ star Amandla Stenberg calls out Kylie Jenner over cornrows photo
In a recent Instagram post, Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the Kardashian family, shared a selfie of her wearing cornrows. In response, 16-year-old Amandla Stenberg, known for her role as Rue in...
View ArticleSony responds after fans launch #BetterPSN on Twitter
A major point of contention between PlayStation and Xbox fans has been the quality of each console’s respective online network services. Minus DDoS attacks, it’s pretty obvious that Microsoft has been...
View ArticlePorn star Mia Khalifa exposes NFL star Duke Williams' shady DMs
Drake learned the hard way that one should not slide into porn star Mia Khalifa’s DMs. And now, football player Duke Williams is learning that same lesson, after Khalifa exposed his shady Twitter...
View ArticleNeil deGrasse Tyson's #PlutoFacts want to teach you about the iconic dwarf...
With the New Horizons probe at the precipice of the Pluto flyby, scientists and science enthusiasts are tweeting facts about the dwarf planet with the hashtag #PlutoFacts. Astronomer, science...
View ArticleTwitter is hostile to new users—just ask my mom
"I'm fed up with know-it-all, self-righteous people," read a frustrated text I received from my mom, Donna Larson, on Monday. As a casual Twitter user, my mom had just run into her very first...
View ArticleEscaped drug lord threatens Donald Trump on Twitter for racist remarks
When Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico last weekend, the drug lord, whose empire has played a large role in violence on the Mexico-U.S. border, sparked Internet...
View ArticleCongressional Republicans are thirsty for love from Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is in our nation’s capital this week to perform in front of thousands of adoring fans at Nationals Park, and no one is more excited about it than members of Congress—in particular,...
View Article‘Mockingjay Part 2’ was the most-tweeted movie of San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con may be over, but so much happened at the convention that it’s not surprising that people will be discussing it through the end of the week. While everyone catches up on the...
View ArticleBefore ISIS recruited on Twitter, the U.S. worried about jihadists on Myspace
In the fast-moving world of social media, 2008 seems like an eternity ago. That may be why a report created at the behest of the U.S. military by the Urban Warfare Analysis Center, a now-shuttered...
View ArticleEscaped Texas cobra resurfaces on Twitter
After reportedly biting its owner and causing his death, a killer cobra snake is on the loose in Austin, Texas.And as is to be expected, that snake now has joined Twitter to 1) let panicked people know...
View ArticleYour Twitter hashtag is probably useless
If you’re planning to hire a new employee for your social mediamarketing team and wondering whether a particular applicant is right for the job, you may want to start by taking a look at her Twitter...
View Article5 facts about your mom and social media
A new survey from the Pew Research Center contains some surprising findings about parents' use of the Internet. While young people tend to think of their parents as low-tech squares, Pew's findings...
View Article#IfIDieInPoliceCustody trends amid mysterious deaths of Sandra Bland, Kindra...
This week, two young black women were found dead in jail cells thousands of miles apart. In Waller County, Texas, on Monday, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was allegedly found hanging from a noose made from...
View ArticleDonald Trump mocks John McCain's military service, draws ire from both parties
If there's one thing you can say about Donald Trump, it's that he doesn't mind attacking his own party members just as much as the political opposition. Today, however, his comments weren't just...
View ArticleNicki Minaj's boyfriend, rapper Meek Mill, on Drake: 'He don't write his own...
Twitter is the best app money can buy, and it’s free. After Nicki Minaj spent her Tuesday on the platform calling out structural racism in the music industry, her boyfriend decided to take shots at her...
View ArticleThe 5 biggest beefs on Twitter
On Tuesday, the world of Twitter erupted in a series of celebrity fights. Everyone yelled at everyone, from Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift duking it out over racist MTV Video Music Awards snubs (yes,...
View ArticleMeet Tomi Lahren, the breakout millennial conservative pundit of the year
Tomi Lahren is 22, blonde, conservative, and photogenic. Lahren is fast becoming the poster woman for American public political discourse—she's a troll, in other words. Her videos, which have gone...
View ArticleScientists are making hilarious jokes about the hysteria over gene hacking
A biological technique for gene editing known as "Crispr-Cas9" (or more colloquially as "Crispr") hasn't always gotten great press. Reporters and pundits often focus on a potential dystopian...
View ArticlePut the 'Gram' in 'Instagram' for Gorgeous Grandma Day
We literally owe our grandmothers our lives, and that is certainly something worth celebrating. That’s why Gorgeous Grandma is among the more important totally fake holidays.Today is a day set aside to...
View ArticleNo, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown didn’t cause these flowers to mutate
Sometimes, a rose is just a rose, and a two-headed daisy just a two-headed daisy.The Internet is aghast at a photo of some daisies reportedly found near Fukushima. The flowers appear to be the mutant...
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