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Why is everything on your Facebook feed so happy?
Facebook has made no secret of its desire to mature into a content delivery system, positioning itself to replace paper boys and traditional news sites as the way most of us get our news. But this...
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Craigslist scam lures students to Mexico with fake job offers
With phony job offers on Craigslist, scammers are enticing young people to Mexico, where gangs of criminals wait to strip the victims’ car and maybe worse.U-T San Diegotells the story of 18-year-old...
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The Ada Initiative sounds off on the Adria Richards backlash
The technosphere is reeling over #Donglegate, the firing of an unnamed programmer after Adria Richards called him out via Twitter for uncomfortable sexualized jokes he made at a programmers'...
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Why did it take Facebook so long to take down child porn?
A video allegedly showing a young girl being sexually abused by an older man proliferated rapidly across Facebook last night, sparking outrage. It took eight hours for Facebook to delete the clip, by...
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Video of man gunning down horse shocks YouTube
Animal activists across the United States are up in arms this morning after a video showing an employee at the Valley Meat Company in Roswell, N.M., shooting a horse in the head was posted onto...
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9-year-old girl raises $15,000 to make a video game
Finally, some good news concerning females in technology. In the same week that people lost their minds over the Donglegate and upon learning that a woman is behind the popular Facebook page "I...
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Reddit's Men's Rights Activists rally behind "big dongle" joker
In the wake of the #donglegate saga, redditors are rallying behind the man who was fired over the incident. Why? "It's our middle finger to feminists." At the PyCon programming conference last...
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Wil Wheaton shares the week's biggest heartwarming tearjerker
In a week where it seems like geek culture has served as a setting for endlessfacepalming, it's nice to have a reminder that geekdom is also constantly inspiring and enriching us. This week, the...
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How Anonymous gamed Twitter to shed light on a hidden massacre
Genocide in Burma (Myanmar) is, unfortunately, nothing new. The country is consistentlyfeatured in Worst Human Rights lists. But with the recent democratic reforms—including the freedom of former...
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It took just an hour for this man to find a kidney donor on Facebook
With his kidneys failing and facing a years-long wait on the donor list, Eddie Beatrice turned to Facebook—and found a match in under an hour. Beatrice, of North Reading, Mass., underwent rotator cuff...
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InterActs tackles the problems with DMCA
The Daily Dot is pleased to present InterActs, a series of roundtable discussions exploring digital creation, in partnership with the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC). InterActs...
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Mom who locked infant in car gets valuable parenting advice from Facebook
A mother who locked her newborn baby in her car while she went grocery shopping has learned an important lesson in child-rearing after an outpouring of outrage from strangers on Facebook: Don't lock...
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The story of Easter, if Christ himself livetweeted it
When the events you're livetweeting took place 2,000 years ago, there's only so much you can do. One priest in Devon, England, is tweeting the story of Easter in "real time" through sunrise on Easter...
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10 Weird Twitter feeds too cool for Time magazine
The self-proclaimed "Garbage Pail Kids version of Zooey Deschanel," Mary Charlene (@iamenidcoleslaw), only had two words for Time magazine after finding out she wasn't listed as one of their 140 Best...
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Alexis Ohanian pleads with geeks to stop sexist trolling
It wasn't Reddit’s r/creepshots section. It wasn't a thread that called for rapists to share their stories. It wasn't the objectification of a 15-year-old girl on r/atheism, nor the mocking of a rape...
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#SafetyTipsForLadies is a feminist hashtag masterpiece
Someone is sexually assaulted in the U.S. every two minutes, and more often than not the public (and sometimes the media) will place the blame with the victim. Amid the backlash from #donglegate,...
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New app warns you when your tweets might get you fired
If you've complained about your boss or job on Twitter, watch out for a warning from a new app called FireMe!. Ricardo Kawase and his team at the University of Hannover, Germany, created the tool,...
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This anonymous gambler is betting it all on Bitcoin
One Reddit user has put it all on the line for Bitcoin, the digital currency that saw its value increase by 70 percent over a two-day period last week thanks to an banking crisis in Europe and a...
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How marriage equality conquered Facebook
If you've been on Facebook at all today, you've probably noticed that several of your friends have changed their profile pictures to a red box with a pink equal sign inside of it. But what does it...
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Racist Kickstarter comic shuts down after offending basically everyone
When a Kickstarter project is cancelled, it’s usually because it didn’t get funded—not because the creators realize that, in retrospect, their project was a very, very bad idea. But that's what...
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