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• Watch people do stupid things with fireworks to celebrate Independence Day

  Independence day in the US means thousands of people are going to do stupid things with explosives. Don't be one of them. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Scroll through the weird shit folks found digging a metro line in Amsterdam

  Thousands of years worth of crap.

  • Callum Booth

• Fake news tools helped us unravel a viral infidelity video

  Viral videos are a funny thing. Thousands are uploaded every day, yet one good one has the ability to unravel your entire ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• After The Rock’s headphones, what other products should celebs release?

  THE ROCK – the world’s most charismatic steroid user – has just released a product he described on Instagram as “the ...

  • Callum Booth

• Screw Mario Kart, our homemade version is much better

  The Labooth is clearly the superior technology.

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• Fast food is the best use case for technology

  Today, I want to talk about air sausage. Earlier this week, our team was made aware that respected hot dog creator, Oscar ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• I built a bot and now I know why bots are so dumb

  🤖 Grab the code for this project. As of December, it's estimated that there are over 4 billion internet users. Of that 4 billion, at least half are bots. You read that right  --  half of the internet is bots. You know all about bots. They spam your inbox with nonsense. They ...

  • Burke Holland

• This high-tech pillow lulled me into the trippiest sleep of my life

  Ever since I was a little girl I’ve had trouble falling asleep. 7-year old me didn’t mind though, and was perfectly happy ...

  • Guðrun í Jákupsstovu

• Instagram no longer snitches when you screenshot Stories

  Instagram has updated its app to stop notifying users anytime you take a screenshot of their most embarrassing stories – ...

  • Mix

• Stanford researchers taught AI to make dank memes

  Stanford researchers trained AI on arrows to the knee, grumpy cats, and all the other meme-agery it could jam inside of a ...

  • Tristan Greene

• This gift guide will help you find out what kind of dad you have

  There are only seven types of Dad. This is a fact.

  • Callum Booth

• Dear social media companies: Here are some ideas for your next products

  All these are surefire successes and I'll give them to you for a low, low price.

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