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Why Did CNN Just Buy A Totally Useless App?
This morning, CNN announced that it had acquired Beme, YouTube vlogger Casey Neistat’s middling, authenticity-obsessed social media app. Neistat, co-founder Matt Hackett and the app’s team will all join CNN’s ranks, where they will “launch a new media brand dedicated to timely and topical video content powered by bleeding edge mobile technology”.
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Donald Trump: Maybe Humans Did The Climate Change After All
In a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Times today, Donald Trump finally admitted that, well, OK, maybe — maybe! — human activity might have something to do with our ever-warming planet.
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This Chimpanzee Wearing A VR Headset Should Make You Very Uncomfortable
This week, Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, the founder of The Institute for Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, posted an Instagram video of a chimpanzee wearing an HTC Vive virtual reality headset. There’s no sound, but the brief clip shows the chimpanzee sweeping its hands across the headset and reaching out to grab at the air in…
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Twitter Just Banned A Bunch Of Alt-Right Mouthpieces
On the heels of its very, very late foray into anti-harassment measures, Twitter has now suspended the accounts of several high profile alt-right figureheads, including Richard Spencer, Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn and John Rivers.