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• Fans pay homage to Drake by hurling themselves from moving cars

  Remember the cinnamon challenge? Unknowing people on YouTube grabbed a teaspoonful of cinnamon and chugged it down before coughing up clouds of dust. It was stupid, but sometimes chuckle-worthy. Those were simpler times. But as things often do, they escalated from there. There ...

  • Bryan Clark

• The Daily Caller's doxxing of Sleeping Giants was a dick move

  Irony is when you attempt to harm an organization by doxxing its founder but only end up empowering it's hundreds of thousands ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Redheads finally get recognition with ginger emoji

  The Unicode 11.0 update brings 157 new emoji including the ginger emoji. Redheads will finally be represented but our smartphones ...

  • Cara Curtis

• This app allows you to send rejected emoji to your friends

  Declined Emoji: part 1 opens up a world of rejected emoji you never knew existed. Get ready for conversations full of inflating ...

  • Cara Curtis

• 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 ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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 ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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 ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• 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 ...

  • Callum Booth

• 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 ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• 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 ...

  • Bryan Clark

• LinkedIn is a hellhole and this Twitter account proves it

  Nuke LinkedIn.

  • Matthew Hughes

• 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 ...

  • Bryan Clark