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Mining data to find true love online
Online dating is a tricky business, until you do the math. That's what Amy Webb, a former journalist and the CEO of Webbmedia Group, a digital strategy agency, found out after she turned dating sites...
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Couple adopts a baby with a little help from Facebook friends
Is Facebook the new Kickstarter for babies? For a Louisiana couple, it sure is. On the waitlist for adopting a baby for months, Jake and Jessica Hance were given a few days’ notice that a child's...
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Notorious Hurricane Sandy troll returns to Twitter
A troll who spread misleading and potentially dangerous information as Superstorm Sandy nailed the East Coast has returned to Twitter. During the storm, Shashank Tripathi erroneously told his Twitter...
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How to remove whatever you want from your Facebook timeline
What on Facebook tends to really flip your lid? Is it the wedding photos, the Foodstagrams, the naked baby pictures? Be it those or any other of their annoying and off-putting ilk, Google Chrome now...
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Teenage girl gets death threats after Justin Bieber retweets her
A teenage girl received Twitter death threats from fans of pop star Justin Bieber after she posted a seemingly innocuous tweet about the singer. On Feb. 3, Courtney Barrasford tweeted, "Not a really a...
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A printed Wikipedia would weigh nearly twice as much as a car
YouTube channel Vsauce is the premier reference work for imaginative brainiacs who get drunk and start dropping wonderful questions across the Internet. How much would Wikipedia weigh? Is eating...
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Carly Rae Jepsen cancels Boy Scout performance via Twitter
Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen wrote on Twitter that she's not performing at this summer's Boy Scout National Jamboree because of the organization's homophobic rules. The “Call Me Maybe” singer...
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On patrol with the Internet's favorite mall cop
If you take one look at Darien Long at work, you might think he was dressed to fight in the zombie apocalypse. His bulletproof vest, handgun, taser, pepper spray, GoPro camera, and sleek Oakley...
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Friend or foe? Defense Distributed caught in the crosshairs
Cody Wilson is a 25-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Law. He's well-read, polite, and versed in literature and cinema, particularly the films canonized in the...
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Teacher shames student by projecting his tweets in class
If stealthily slamming your teachers was a class, one kid certainly would have gotten an F. The student complained on Twitter that his teacher Mr. Torrence scheduled a test for Wednesday, only to hold...
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Your Facebook audience is bigger than you think, study finds
Hey, Facebook users: do you ever feel discouraged by the paltry few likes or comments your posts tend to get? Do you wonder if maybe your friends just aren't seeing your posts, possibly due to an...
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The Internet according to The Oatmeal
.teaser img { display: none; } There are things to know about Matthew Inman—very few of them actually matter. He's 30, a resident of Seattle, Wash. He's a democrat who’s voted for Obama twice. He...
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Brazilian sex doll's virginity for sale in online auction
Look, wrangling a real-life, oxygen-breathing woman into bed has its difficulties, so a Brazilian website is making it easier for players without game. Sexônico (we're guessing that's Portuguese for...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger whips Reddit into shape with fitness advice
Actor. Governor. Tumor. Redditor. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to his fitness roots by paying a surprise visit to the r/fitness subreddit on March 6. Well before becoming famous for everything from...
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Meet the hero who could make an R. Kelly song the national anthem
The Daily Dot has shown no reservations in declaring our love for R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" or the We the People petition to make the song our national anthem. The story broke Monday—at which...
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How will Bradley Manning's pleas affect WikiLeaks?
A week ago, Pfc. Bradley Manning, the American intelligence analyst who provided WikiLeaks with secret military information, finally entered his pleas during at Ft. Meade. In a 35-page statement....
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Exploited McDonald's workers take protest online
Hampden Township in central Pennsylvania spent much of the past week protesting an apparent human rights violation at a nearby McDonald's. Thursday morning, one of the victims took his fight online,...
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SimCity and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad launch day
If you want to play the new SimCity game that came out this week, you can probably just keep on wanting. Electronic Arts-owned developer Maxis requires players to be connected to the Internet to play...
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Coca-Cola is #OutofOrder in Australia, thanks to Anonymous
It had to happen: in a move designed to strike terror in the hearts of every GMO producer, every mining conglomerate, every disposable consumer good corporation, the shadowy internet force known as...
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Having conquered space, NASA turned to Twitter and Facebook
On Jan. 21, four years after NASA's first Tweetup event, those who attended the in-person get togethers for NASA's fans on the Web commemorated the anniversary in style. Participants in the daylong...
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