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• 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

• 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

• 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