Instagram Sensation Grandma Betty Dies
Betty Jo Simpson, the Instagram sensation known as Grandma Betty 33, died on Aug. 2 of lung cancer. She was 80. Earlier this year, Zach Beldon, 18, of Jeffersonville, Ind., created an account on...
View ArticleHidden Cash Hits New York With $100 Bills Hidden In Pez Dispensers
NEW YORK (AP) — Pez dispensers buried on New York City beaches this weekend contained something even sweeter than candy: cold, hard cash. The backers of the popular Hidden Cash movement filled...
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Strut Your Stuff: 5 Apps That Can Help Build Self-Esteem
By Anneke Steenkamp The flashy smile of a politician, the strut of a supermodel, the trance induced by a gifted public speaker- there are some people that just ooze self-confidence. Deep down, many of...
View ArticleHere's What Really Happens When You Put Metal In The Microwave
Your mother probably told you that you should never ever ever put metal in the microwave. But is that old adage really true? For the answer, check out the video above. It explains what you can -- and...
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The Nastiest Computer Viruses, Transformed Into Trippy Artworks
If your beloved computer has ever fallen victim to a nasty virus, you've probably imagined what kind of monstrous technology could inflict such ugly damage. That being said, we doubt your humble...
View ArticleThis Video Explains The Actual Reason You Can't Put Down Your Phone
In our technology-obsessed world, it can be hard to feel connected to the people we care about without constantly checking our smartphone screens. Our networks are now more expansive and more...
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Framed 4chan Screenshot Sells For $90,900 On eBay
> be the media > be amused > $90k bids on a framed screenshot > seems legit > such wow > be not at all surprised when this turns out to be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by bots >...
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One of Pop Culture's Coolest Artists Empowers Girls
GLAM4GOOD asked Jon Burgerman, our favorite purveyor of some of the coolest doodles in the world and one of pop-culture's hottest artists, to create a series of fashionable social media heroines that...
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24 Drone-Created GIFs That Show You The World Like You've Never Seen It Before
Unmanned drones have gotten a bad reputation in recent years. And with good reason, especially when the U.S. government is using them to kill people in distant countries with arguably little...
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The "New" Media Landscape: CNBCUTWC, 21stCFTW, ATTDirecTV, T-Sprint
Over the next 18 months, proposed and pending mergers and acquisitions are going to completely change the media landscape. Even if only a few of them are completed, the impact will be felt across the...
View ArticleThe Internet Is Not a Water Pipe
We hear about disruptive innovation everywhere in the tech space. The words get thrown in as an argument, a goal, an ideal -- a sacred totem of sorts -- in almost every aspect of debate over technology...
View ArticleScrabble Adds 5,000 New Words To Official Players Dictionary
NEW YORK (AP) — To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. The word "te" as a variant of "ti," the seventh tone on the musical scale, is a hardworking little gem among 5,000...
View ArticleHeads Up, America!
Whenever I land at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, I play a little game with myself. I look around until I find the out-of-service supersonic Concorde that once flew between Paris and New York in a...
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90's Internet Nostalgia: "Who's on the Phone, I Can't Log on"
The 90's are back in a big way. Just peruse your Facebook feed to find the "The 99 Best Soundtracks of the '90s" to see the grunge decade is suddenly all the rage. Boy bands are reuniting, shows like...
View ArticleGoogle Reports Man Allegedly Sending Child Porn In Email
A 41-year-old man in Texas has been arrested and charged with possessing pornographic images of a child, thanks, in part, to the sleuthing of Google. John Henry Skillern was allegedly sending explicit...
View Article'Bomb Gaza' App Leads To Harsh Criticism Of Google Play Store
An extremely insensitive app has landed the Google Play store at the center of a controversy over what it allows developers to sell on its platform. 'Bomb Gaza' is an Android game for phones and...
View ArticleGoogle Pulls Game That Let You 'Bomb Gaza'
By Malathi Nayak SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A mobile game that simulates Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and invites users to "drop bombs and avoid killing civilians" has been pulled from Google Inc's...
View ArticleLinkedIn To Pay Workers $6 Million After Skimping On Wages
(Adds exact number of current and former employees, Labor Department comment on timing of the settlement payment, updates stock price) By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp...
View ArticleSpaceX Successfully Launches Falcon 9 Satellite Into Orbit
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Aug 5 (Reuters) - A Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 9 rocket thundered off its coastal launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday to...
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Kindly Allow These Fabergé Fractals To Melt Your Brains Into Goo
The images below are dazzling, to say the least. But be warned, once you gaze upon their intricately textured exteriors, landing somewhere between a Russian jeweled egg and dizzying digital geometry,...
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