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Brothers find injured Boston parents through Facebook, Reddit
The days following the Boston Marathon bombing have brought out the bestof the Internet, through temporary housing, donations, and more. Now the son of two victims has been reunited with his parents...
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Fake Twitter accounts spring up assuming bombers' identities
As the police manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev continues into the morning, at least 10 degenerates have flooded the Internet's airwaves, creating fake Twitter accounts in...
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YouTube activity potentially links Boston bombing suspect to Al Qaeda
A YouTube channel allegedly belonging to Tamerlan Tsarnaev reveals that the the 26-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect—shot and killed during a police standoff—was at least partially invested in...
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Here's the likely Twitter account for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—the fugitive Boston...
Though it doesn't have one of those blue verified badges reserved for celebrities, public figures, and official organizations on Twitter, there are plenty of reasons to believe that the @J_tsar...
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More than $1 million raised online for Boston victims
National tragedies may highlight the worst of humanity, but it also often brings out the best. Since the Boston Marathon bombings Monday, the Internet has rallied to offer help to the individual...
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Professional iPhone photographer Kevin Russ documents the world an Instagram...
.teaser img { display: none; } Right now Kevin Russ is sleeping in his car somewhere in central New Mexico, but by dawn tomorrow he’ll have hiked to the top of a nearby mountain where he’ll take a...
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Hope floats: Internet rallies to buy Watertown man a new boat
You may not know who David Henneberry is, but after Friday night's dramatic capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, you know his boat. Four days after Tsarnaev and his older brother...
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The Cinnamon Challenge may cause pulmonary fibrosis
A word of caution about the Cinnamon Challenge, kids: It might just kill you. A new study to be published Monday suggests that attempts to complete the Cinnamon Challenge—a YouTube-originating stunt...
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Murderer claims to have hijacked teenage victim's Facebook page
Friends grieving the loss of Parwhine Lucia Mejia Kaur logged on to find that the girl's Facebook account had been accessed by someone claiming to be the girl's murderer. Kaur, who was 18 and lived in...
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Fox tries to take down Cory Doctorow's "Homeland"
Just a week after Fox's lawyers took on fair use issues in copyright, they're learning the wisdom of not falsely issuing a takedown to one of the Internet’s most vocal and noted proponents of...
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YouTube video helps Denver police identify shooting suspect
A YouTube video documenting a shooting in Denver has helped police identify the likely individual behind the attacks. Shot by Denver local Brandon Morse, the video details the events surrounding...
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#freejahar: Boston bombing suspect has supporters online
Even suspected terrorists have their own Twitter hashtags. Mere days after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—one of two suspects in last Monday's Boston Marathon bombings—was apprehended by police, a new hashtag...
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Erotic novelist seeks sex "intern" on Craigslist
It may sound more like an episode of Girls than real life, but this novelist is advertising on Craigslist for a young female intern—specifically so he can have an affair with her. In 2011, Chad Leslie...
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Man exposes laptop thief's "plump" porn habits
A laptop thief and chronic masturbator with a penchant for "chubby" porn has "f**ked with the wrong nerd." The fap-man, a bald bloke with thick eyebrows and a shady grin, stole a laptop and set of...
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Alabama football star tweets: "Yea I took $ in college so wat"
A star football player from the most successful college program in the country just made a huge confession on Twitter."Yea I took $ n college so wat," former Alabama offensive lineman D.J. Fluker...
View ArticleToday is the 8th anniversary of YouTube's first video
The Daily Dot would like to extend a hearty happy 8th birthday to the first YouTube video of all time, a 20-second video of site cofounder Jawed Karim standing outside of some elephants at the zoo...
View ArticleWikipedia says its staffers are not vandalizing Wikipedia
To your average Wikipedia sleuth, it sure looks like staffers at the encyclopedia's parent organization, Wikimedia, have been caught vandalizing articles on their own website. Anonymous editors...
View ArticleBoston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a fan of Alex Jones's InfoWars
This is the snake eating itself. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a fan of conspiracy theory website InfoWars, according to an Associated Press story that looked into the suspected Boston Marathon bomber's...
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Game company ignores backlash, ships statue of bloody torso
When game company Deep Silver apologized in January for including a bloody, bikini-clad statue with the special “Zombie Bait Edition” of Dead Island sequel Dead Island: Riptide, it was assumed that...
View ArticleI F**king Love Science and Facebook's problem with content theft
There's high drama today in the world of populist science Facebooking. A Scientific American blogger has accused a rising star of building her Facebook empire on stolen images, then profiting from the...
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