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• Back with the Ex is definitely Netflix's worst original show

  With legions of data at its disposal, Netflix churns out original shows faster than anyone with a job — or a life — can consume. And while they’ve got a serious shot at the Oscars this year with Roma, Netflix has served us some real stinkers — and I’m here to save you from ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Why stressed-out STEM workers should learn to play music

  You could live your life without ever playing a musical instrument, but science tells us that would make you unhappy. And ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Can you gamify love?

  We gamify our children's chores, learning a new language, and our workouts. Why not gamify our love-lives by levelling up ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Video

  Still craving more Serial? HBO's got a documentary on the Adnan Syed case for you

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• I can’t wait to hate-watch Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘scientific’ Netflix show

  Fall can't come soon enough: in just a few months, Netflix will air a new show helmed by Gwyneth Paltrow, the brains behind ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• A look at Facebook.com's homepage over the last 15 years

  It is a statement of fact that Facebook turned 15 today. You might call that a birthday. Perhaps Facebook's employees are ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Teens are eating their own fingers to Evanescence covers on TikTok

  Have you ever heard of Evanescence, the Arkansas-originating metal band — when we say metal we mean more like the shiny substance melted over the buckle of a Hot Topic piano key belt — who brought us the 2003 classic, “Bring Me To Life”? I remember wailing this into ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Amazon just screwed over the indie filmmakers that made Prime Video great

  Amazon Prime Video Direct, once a haven for independent filmmakers is now a decaying monument to what could have been after ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Why does Google show mysterious art when searching two random 4-letter words!

  If you type in two strings of random 4-letter words (like "fjdu apld"), Google Images shows some mysterious art. We tried ...

  • Callum Booth

• The #AmazonShitCarShow is some of the best crap on Prime

  Amazon's hit car show "The Grand Tour" was recently called an expletive-deleted show by a marketing team working for one ...

  • Tristan Greene

• What Miley Cyrus’ birthday tweet to her hubby has to do with EU’s upcoming Copyright Reform

  This actually isn't as far-fetched as it seems, the highly contested Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Reform might block ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Hollywood's making 'Just Dance' and DDR movies, but why?

  Hollywood is turning back to video games, this time mining dance video games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Just Dance ...

  • Tristan Greene