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When life gives you lemons, make a video of it rolling down a hill and get 4M views on Twitter
When life handed Mike Saskasegawa a lemon, he did what anyone would do: made a video of it rolling down a hill. For context, Mike was walking home from after a run and saw a lemon rolling down a hill. He grabbed his smartphone and began to film it as it continued its journey down ...
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Twitter suspended over 70M accounts since May. Here's a better solution.
Twitter has gone to war with fake and suspicious accounts -- for real this time. According to a report from The Washington Post, the world's most toxic social platform has suspended more than a million accounts per day -- some 70 million in total -- since the beginning of May. ...
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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 day's work and take over your life. That's what happened to me this week when my colleague sent me along the following video: In the clip, a woman gets ...
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You can now put music on Instagram Stories
Instagram Stories – everyone's favorite Snapchat rip-off – has launched a feature that lets you put music over your visual creations. We reported on this potentially happening around two months ago, but it's set to roll-out to some users shortly. Over 400m people use Stories ...
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Facebook is testing a keyword snooze button
Facebook today introduced a feature that allows users to snooze certain keywords. When you don't want to see posts about a current event, or a show, or even just something you don't want to look at for a while, you can simply snooze posts which contain words related to that topic. First ...
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Trump's anti-Muslim tweets may have caused an increase in hate crimes, study finds
A recently released research paper shows the age-old adage about saying something nice is true, even in the modern era, and especially with an unconventional president. University of Warwick researchers Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz found evidence that suggests Donald Trump's ...
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LinkedIn is a hellhole and this Twitter account proves it
Nuke LinkedIn.
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Sorry Instagram, I don't want a vertical YouTube
At first glance, a YouTube competitor that lives within Instagram seems like a smart idea. It's not. Or, it might be. I don't know. The move makes a lot of sense. Facebook-owned Instagram, according to a recent Pew Research survey, is trailing only YouTube in use among teens. Some ...
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The evolution of 'woke' emoji
Some eight years ago, a collection of expressive little icons -- emoji 😎 -- showed up in our smart devices and now it’s ...
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The EU’s disastrous Copyright Reform, explained by its lovers and haters
The EU’s extremely controversial Copyright Reform -- which might introduce upload filters, ancillary copyright, and restrictions ...
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You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was ...
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Trump's getting the Cambridge Analytica band back together
Donald Trump's 2020 campaign will feature some familiar faces: former employees from the now bankrupt data company Cambridge ...
