Hope you have tissues nearby. The Bishop Vesey's Grammar School rowing club found a rose attached to the locked gate at a nearby lake, with the most heartbreaking note accompanying it. "Please can someone throw this in the lake for me?" the note says. "My late husband's...
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We've all seen what can happen when nefarious interests weaponize a social media platform like Twitter. Now imagine how much worse it would be if some foreign agent actually got a job at the company. That's what happened in 2013, apparently. In a sprawling Saturday New...
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Poor sweet, tired, angel-devil.Image: Nicole Rivelli/NetflixBy Proma Khosla2018-10-20 19:07:14 UTC Marvel's Daredevil on Netflix has been known since its debut season for expertly-choreographed and visceral fight sequences. Season 1's three-minute hallway scene went viral. In Season 2, the show pushed itself further with a five-minute...
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The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is at a record-high right now, and people are coping with their slim chances of winning by making jokes. Nobody claimed the winning numbers on Friday night, so the Mega Millions jackpot is now the largest lottery prize in U.S. history....
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An explosive report in The New York Times this weekend sheds new light on the apparent targeting of some accounts by “state-sponsored actors” more than three years ago. It comes in the wake of the confirmed death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Friday,...
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It's not just you: A lot of TED Talks sound the same. Comedian and writer Keaton Patti — who imagined what a White House written by a bot might sound like — just shared a new imagined bot script, this time parodying the language of...
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Facebook hopes detailing concrete examples of fake news it’s caught — or missed — could improve news literacy, or at least prove it’s attacking the misinformation problem. Today Facebook launched “The Hunt for False News,” in which it examines viral B.S., relays the decisions...
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Saudi leader Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is receiving some unexpected help from erectile dysfunction pill spammers. There's been an intense online campaign playing out over Twitter in the past week to control the narrative surrounding the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A combination of human...
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Twitter is trying out a small new change to Moments that would provide contextual information within its curated stories. Spotted by Twitter user @kwatt and confirmed by a number of Twitter product team members, the little snippets appear sandwiched between tweets in a Moment. Called...
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Welcome to the beautiful world of watching Rihanna vogue to various songs on Twitter. It's pretty straight forward: People have started editing a clip of Rihanna dancing during her ANTI tour to other songs like Azealia Banks' "Anna Wintour" or Lady Gaga's "Judas." Like the "Party...
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