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Publishing's gender bias becomes a cover story
Book covers—the thing you inevitably judge a book by, for better or worse—occupy a central and crucial role in the growing push for greater diversity in publishing. Now, thanks to one young adult...
View ArticleAre we becoming our avatars?
People get involved when they watch sports, almost as though they’re experiencing those things themselves. But what about when we’re observing something we know isn’t “real”—virtual reality, for...
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The Morning GIF: Love is evil
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
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"Gaming in Color" wants to tell LGBT gamers' stories
The stereotype that gamers are all straight, white men is slowly changing as other members of the gaming community risk criticism and harassment to make their voices heard. A new Kickstarter-funded...
View ArticleThe Internet connects a hardcore musician and a dying fan
Thanks to the power of the Internet, a terminally ill patient in suburban Philadelphia will get to interact with one of her idols. Marie Fowler is a 19-year-old twin from Oaklyn, New Jersey. According...
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Unemployed redditors might be forming a video game studio
Many people think of video games as epic projects born in the hallways of huge gaming companies like Nintendo and Blizzard. But could the next big game have its roots in a Reddit thread full of...
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10 vintage how-to tutorials for perfect etiquette
Deep Eddy Ruby Red Vodka is a premium grapefruit-infused vodka, handcrafted in Austin, Texas. You can learn more about Deep Eddy Vodka's distillation process here. Do you yearn for the days of Leave...
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Powerful short film forges suicide prevention message from personal trauma
Last June, in the wake of his sister’s suicide, Eric Lim didn’t know how to deal with the fallout: the broken pieces, the confusion, and lingering regret. He tried to write her a letter, something to...
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Click this button to gamble with your social media life
There's a new app that fulfills some of your darkest (or perhaps most liberating) social media fantasies. Social Roulette gambles with your Facebook life. Every time you play, there's a one in six...
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Kickstarter project gives Detroit an enormous RoboCop statue
After more than 60 homicides and 214 nonfatal shootings this year, Detroit police is partnering with federal law enforcement officials to do anything they can to get gun violence under control....
View ArticleDo not weep for the soul of this 70-year-old porn identification officer
Toupee-wearing 70-year-old government man Liu Xiaozhen hates porn. It gets him all red in the face, causes his heart to skip a beat. Yet the purity of his soul is but a small price to pay for the good...
View ArticleA Saudi Arabia telecom's surveillance pitch
By MOXIE MARLINSPIKE Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they’re working on in that country. Having...
View ArticleTwitter tool Twee-Q calls out sexism but doesn't know your gender
A tool aimed at figuring out gender bias on Twitter has trouble figuring out users' identities.Twee-Q, which just launched a U.K. version after starting last summer in Sweden, is an attempt to figure...
View ArticleMapping America's racist and homophobic tweets
Want to feel depressed about the state of humanity and kindness? Geography of Hate is a new project by Floating Sheep, a group of geography academics at Humboldt State University, that maps racist,...
View Article12 things Cmdr. Chris Hadfield taught us about life in space
The Internet's favorite astronaut is about to head home.Cmdr. Chris Hadfield has won our hearts (and the Internet) with his active social media presence throughout his mission aboard the International...
View ArticleBenedict Cumberbatch fans fuel Indiegogo campaign
What's the quickest way to crowdfund your independent short film without a lot of hassle? Make sure it stars someone with one of the most intense fanbases on the planet. If, before the U.S. opening of...
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3-D-printed Google Glass is super-cool, super-useless
When the iPad first came out, some poor woman got duped into buying a cardboard box she thought contained a shiny new Apple product. Now, thanks to 3-D printing and Google Glass, scammers have a way...
View ArticleSnapchat threesome pic gets high schoolers suspended
Three teens were suspended over an explicit photo showing two brothers having sex with a high school freshman. The photo of the girl and brothers, both star athletes at Edmonds-Woodway High School in...
View ArticleSexists care more about Angelina Jolie's breasts than her life
Angelina Jolie is being lauded by many today after openly discussing her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy after discovering she was at high risk of breast cancer. Her honesty in her...
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Is Reddit censoring openly racist users?
It looks like one of Reddit's most controversial subgroups is being targeted by the site administrators. On Friday, ChuckSpears, one of the moderators of r/n***ers, alerted members of the white...
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