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• Someone let a GPT-3 bot loose on Reddit — it didn't end well

  A GPT-3-powered bot has been caught posing as a human on Reddit after more than a week of rampant posting about some seriously ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Reddit acquires Dubsmash and enters the short video market

  We probably wouldn't have survived 2020 if not for those funny and entertaining short videos on many platforms like TikTok. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Amazon's self-driving Zoox vehicle spotted ahead of next week's reveal

  The first vehicle from Amazon-owned self-driving startup Zoox has been spotted on the streets of San Francisco ahead of its ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• MIT AI analysis of Reddit shows anxiety levels are sky-high since pandemic

  The first wave of COVID-19 increased discussions about anxiety and suicide on Reddit, according to a new study by MIT and ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• This app guesses your Myer-Briggs personality based on your Reddit history

  Enter the MBTI analysis tool, an app that parses your post history to determine your Myer-Briggs personality type based on ...

  • Mix

• Facebook algorithm 'actively promotes' Holocaust denial content, study finds

  Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a counter-extremist group, found Facebook’s algorithm recommends ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Pixel 3 batteries are swelling up — and that could spell trouble for Google

  Oh, no, is Google about to have its Galaxy Note 7 moment? Many Pixel 3 and 3XL owners have reported damage to their handsets ...

  • Mix

• Botched iOS Lightroom update irreversibly deleted users' photos and presets

  An Adobe blunder just cost numerous Lightroom users years of work they'll never get back — and all the company has to offer ...

  • Mix

• This site lets you stack multiple subreddits in a single screen

  Tweetdeck has been a great tool for Twitter power users totrack and follow different timelines through lists and other functions ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Reddit now supports up to 20 GIFs or images in a single post

  Till now, you've had to rely on Imgur whenever you wanted to post more than one image in your Reddit post. Thankfully, you ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Indian Army asks its personnel to delete 89 apps including Facebook and Tinder

  The Indian Army has asked its personnel to remove 89 apps from their phones including Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Tinder ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Google will host a Reddit AMA to answer developers' questions about Android 11

  Google wants to give developers a better idea of what they can expect from Android 11 — so it's hosting a Reddit AMA session ...

  • Mix

• Reddit bans r/The_Donald and 2000 other hateful subreddits because it was about time

  Reddit's r/The_Donald has long been a thinly veiled breeding ground for racism, misogyny, homophobia, and all-around bigotry ...

  • Napier Lopez

• URL bug lets you skip YouTube ads and paywalls by adding an extra period

  Some people go through all sorts of trouble to avoid ads and paywalls on the internet, whether that means installing ad blockers ...

  • Napier Lopez

• OpenAI to sell its headline-grabbing text generator as an API

  OpenAI once withheld its text generator for fear of misuse, but now the company will sell the tech as an enterprise product ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Reddit names its first black board member, Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel

  Reddit has just named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian's replacement on its board. This comes after Ohanian's ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Reddit's co-founder resigns, asks to be replaced by black candidate

  Reddit's Alexis Ohanian is stepping down from its board, to clear the way for a black candidate and to dedicate time to fighting ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Devious Call of Duty pranksters are building shitty guns to fool players in Warzone

  A bunch of pranksters made a subreddit to celebrate the most awful of Call of Duty: Warzone loadouts — and trick players ...

  • Mix

• Reddit's CEO shared the 5 subreddits he checks every day

  In the series “Staying inside with…,” we pick the brains of experts and interesting people in tech to find out their ...

  • Flavia Pollastrini

• Reddit's greediest traders debate shorting Tesla ahead of Musk's Joe Rogan interview

  Stock traders aren't sure what to do now that Elon Musk paid another visit to the wildly popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast. ...

  • David Canellis

• Reddit has chatrooms now — what could go wrong? (Updated: Rolled back)

  Update (01/05/2020): Just a day after launching the feature, Reddit has pulled it back due to immense pressure and criticism ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Jeff Lowe says 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic made sex tapes with zoo animals

  Warning: Tiger King spoilers ahead. Jeff Lowe, a prominent figure in the “Tiger King” docu-series on Netflix, held ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The internet is obsessed with redesigning the new PS5 controller

  It's been less than 24 hours since Sony unveiled the DualSense, the controller for the new PlayStation 5, and the internet ...

  • Mix

• Daily Distraction: Kicking Monday away

  What what? The weekend is over? I didn't get that memo until my alarm rudely woke me up today. I mostly spend the weekend ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Learning during the quarantine: You can read JSTOR's Open Access content without an account

  Yesterday, JSTOR, the famous digital academic library, tweeted that 6,000 of its eBooks and over 150 journals are open for ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Reddit partners with an SMS hotline to help users expressing suicidal thoughts

  Reddit's new partnership with Crisis Text Line will offers users a way to help each other, as reported users will now receive ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Reddit CEO says TikTok is ‘spyware’

  Reddit CEO Steve Huffman expressed his dislike for rival social media app TikTok, which he called "fundamentally parasitic." ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Reddit is down right now [Update: It's coming back up]

  Nope, you're not the only one. Reddit is currently experiencing technical difficulties, with swathes of users reporting being ...

  • Mix

• You can now bother Google for tech support with #AndroidHelp

  No, it's not a scam: Google is now officially providing tech support for Android-related questions over Twitter. Just use ...

  • Mix

• Don’t update Twitter for Android — it crashes (but you can fix it)

  Twitter has advised users against downloading the to the latest version of the app on Android because it crashes. Here's ...

  • Mix

• Leaked trailer offers a new look at Godfall, the first game announced for PS5

  We already saw a teaser in December, but there's now leaked footage of Godfall — the first announced game for PlayStation ...

  • Mix

• 9 things I learned building my first PC (that I wish I knew before)

  It's been a month since I built my very first PC and I couldn't be happier. Here are a few helpful tips I wish I knew before ...

  • Mix

• Alleged Bitcoin extortionist extradited to US for ties to 'Dark Overload' hacker crew

  An alleged member of “The Dark Overload,” hacking group — which demanded Bitcoin ransom payments from victims — ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• All I want for Christmas: A custom username for each subreddit

  Reddit is unveiling our shameful and nerdy hobbies, I beg Santa Claus to fix it as soon as possible!

  • Már Másson Maack

• [Best of 2019] The most popular social media networks each year, gloriously animated

  It's hard to remember a world without social media, but it existed – as did a lot of other networks. We tracked their evolution. ...

  • Callum Booth

• CHEAP: Game your ass off with 43% off HyperX Flight wireless headset

  You'll struggle to find a better deal on a wireless gaming headset than this $60 discount on the HyperX Flight — yep, they're ...

  • Mix

• Horrible Chinese game asks players to beat up Hong Kong protestors

  There have been plenty of games and apps that have sprung up as a result of Hong Kong protests. Now, a rather distasteful ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Reddit's DataIsBeautiful is sick of bar chart races — so it's banning them

  The moderator team of Reddit's DataIsBeautiful community has been getting an avalanche of spammy race charts, so it's temporarily ...

  • Mix

• Incels and AI: Can machines fill the void?

  For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are down — go back to work

  Yep, it's not just you: Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger are all down right now — and nobody knows why. Find something ...

  • Mix

• A cacophony of self-pity drowns out r/The_Donald's message as Reddit extends quarantine

  Reddit's taken r/The_Donald's teeth away. The once proud community was, in its heyday, the vanguard for the MAGA movement. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Re-live the golden days with this boss repository of macOS screensavers

  I remember being obsessed with screensavers as a kid. I've spent hours flicking through an array of animated backdrops, trying ...

  • Callum Booth

• Alexis Ohanian and Serj Tankian team up to help build a social network for Armenia

  Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian are teaming up on a project to build a social ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• YouPorn now lets you create an account without an email

  YouPorn now lets you open an account without entering an email, just like Reddit. It's also introducing a light theme that ...

  • Mix

• Reddit and Gab's most toxic communities inadvertently train AI to combat hate speech

  A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Intel took thousands of conversations from the scummiest communities on Reddit ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Try this brain-melting 3D game that was built entirely in ASCII

  A resourceful developer has built a browser-based online 3D game that is entirely rendered in ASCII — and it also has ...

  • Mix

• Redditor repurposes a broken MacBook Pro into a neat iPad-Mac hybrid

  Most MacBook Pro machines with busted screens end up in a junkyard. But a Reddit user made the best use of it by hooking ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• How to access deleted threads and comments on Reddit

  There's a fix for the dreaded [removed] sign. Here are a few tricks on how to access deleted Reddit threads and comments. ...

  • Mix

• Reddit tests live broadcasting with a Public Access Network

  Reddit today revealed it's testing its own livestreaming service, called RPAN or Reddit Public Access Network. It'll be running ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This subreddit documents the most delightful fuckups on Google Maps

  Google Maps Shenanigans is a wonderful Reddit community which has been collecting some of the most unusual events caught ...

  • Mix

• How to build Reddit custom feeds (also known as ‘multis’) like a pro

  Here is how to build up custom feeds (otherwise known as multis) on Reddit, and avoid mixing business with pleasure like ...

  • Mix

• TikTok is testing a WhatsApp shortcut to let you share videos with your best friends

  TikTok is testing a bunch of new features, including a new Discover tab, account linking with Facebook and Google, and a ...

  • Mix

• Reddit's r/technology goes dark as part of #SocialMediaStrike

  Reddit's r/technology subreddit has gone dark on Independence Day as part of a social media strike organized by Wikipedia ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Third person accused in Bitcoin-powered fake ID ring case pleads guilty

  A woman accused of running a Bitcoin-powered fake ID ring pleaded guilty on Tuesday after authorities busted the operation ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• You can't offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you're on r/TheDonald

  Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency on Reddit, followed by Ethereum and Monero

  Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency on Reddit with an average of 3,600 comments about the digital currency being posted ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• This AI-powered bot is learning how to tweet like Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin

  Meet Vitalik Boterin, a new form of artificial intelligence that mimics Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin with alarming ...

  • David Canellis

• Reddit’s CTO: Designers should know these two things

  At TNW2019, Reddit’s Chief Technical Officer, Chris Slowe, shared some behind-the-scenes insights into what makes the message ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Yes, there's a subreddit that skewers those targeted Facebook t-shirt ads

  Facebook ads are usually weird and funny when they're not showing off spooky knowledge of your life and hobbies. Those targeted ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Redditors are pissed (and delighted) about the temporary shutdown of its r/games subreddit

  Usually, being a gamer on the first of April is good fun -- jokes, memes, pranks about Half-Life 3. But the moderators of ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• This app collects wallpapers designed to hide Samsung Galaxy S10's camera

  The Hidey Hole app for Samsung's Galaxy S10 collects hole-punch wallpapers from Reddit – so you can easily hide that hole. ...

  • Mix

• Here’s why you’re having issues with Reddit and Wikipedia in the EU

  The final vote on the EU's controversial Copyright Reform will take place on March 26. If it's passed it could have disastrous ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Reddit operates exactly as it was designed -- and that’s a problem

  After carefully selecting a semi-automatic weapon from the trunk of his car, one of at least three, a 28-year-old gunman ...

  • Bryan Clark

• ISPs are reportedly blocking Reddit in India

  Facebook and Instagram might be up for people around the world after a long outage, but for several people in India are not ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Novel ways to find what book to read next, curated by a huge word nerd

  We've all been lost for what to read next, but this guide will banish that feeling forever. So, hop on in and find your next ...

  • Callum Booth

• 'The Gyllenhaal Experiment' shows where redditors go wrong in spelling celebrity names

  In more than 600,000 attempts at spelling actress Scarlett Johansson’s name, fewer than one-in-three were successful. In ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Video

  Meet the wholesome man making Pornhub's sexiest genitalia-free videos (SFW)

  • Callum Booth

• Reddit's r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be

  The threads start as they would anywhere else online: a contentious topic, the type that adds fuel to debate before engulfing ...

  • Bryan Clark

• 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

• Reddit kicks off a game of whack-a-mole in shutting down soccer streaming subreddits

  Soccer (forgive me, football gods) is arguably one of the most popular sports across the globe and has loads of fans tuning ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• The best new social media features of 2018

  Social media sites and apps have changed a lot since the beginning of the year. Here are a few of our favorite changes from ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Memes are taking the alt-right’s message of hate mainstream

  Think of an internet meme and you’ll probably smile. The most memorable viral images are usually funny, from Distracted ...

  • The Conversation

• Redditors work out player counts to over 100 PS4 games

  Gamers on Reddit have seized on trophy data provided by Sony to calculate just how many people are playing which PS4 games. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• All #TNW2018 talks are now podcasts for your aural pleasure

  All the talks from this year's TNW Conference have been turned into podcasts, so you can listen rather than watch. We're ...

  • Ailsa Sherrington

• Redditor spots murderers on NBA trading card

  A perceptive Redditor recently realized an NBA trading card from nearly 30 years ago contained infamous characters in the ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter, Pornhub and other platforms ban AI-generated celebrity porn

  'Deepfakes', the latest trend in online pornography is about to take a hit as Twitter and PornHub are banning its distribution ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Reddit bans Deepfakes community that made AI-generated celebrity porn

  Following in the footsteps of Twitter, Gfycat and Pornhub, Reddit has banned the Deepfakes forum to stop the spread AI-generated ...

  • Mix

• Reddit's data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr's NSFW content

  After Tumblr announced, on Monday, that it was invoking the nuclear option to expel NSFW content on the platform, the internet ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Oh my god this leak of a Harry Potter RPG has blown my tiny muggle mind

  Leaked footage from a Harry Potter RPG has appeared online. And, well, it looks like it might be an amazing video game. We ...

  • Callum Booth

• A subreddit called StopGaming offers help for addicts over objections from skeptics

  While the debate rages over whether gaming addiction is a true disorder, a subreddit is lending a helping hand to those who ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• People are turning to subreddits in lieu of traditional counseling

  When they can't find help for their problems in person, those in need are turning to support groups in an unlikely place: ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Apple runs into another embarrassing issue with the new MacBook Pro

  A series of embarrassing gaffes in Cupertino are leading many to question whether Apple has lost its eye for detail. Just ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Everything you need to know about Reddit's recent security 'incident'

  Reddit recently learned that a hacker managed to access multiple employee accounts and walk away with "some" current email ...

  • Bryan Clark

• This decentralized Reddit copycat lets you buy upvotes with Bitcoin

  ThunderMessage is a decentralized take on Reddit powered by the new Lightning Network - where votes are funded by Bitcoin. ...

  • David Canellis

• Reddit rolls out subreddit chatrooms – what could possibly go wrong?

  Social media giant Reddit has begun rolling out a new chatroom feature across its site with an aim to increase user engagement. ...

  • Callum Booth

• Tech savvy drug users are relying on Apple Watch and Fitbit to keep them safe during cocaine binges

  Apple and Fitbit both like to tout the potential health benefits of their wearable devices. For a few hundred bucks, users ...

  • Bryan Clark

• A ring that lets you feel your partner's heartbeat is trolling at level 10

  The HB (heartbeat) ring lets you feel your partner's heartbeat while they're away. It's a sweet idea, until the internet ...

  • Bryan Clark