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Fans pay homage to Drake by hurling themselves from moving cars

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2018 at 9:53 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables, Social Media

Remember the cinnamon challenge? Unknowing people on YouTube grabbed a teaspoonful of cinnamon and chugged it down before coughing up clouds of dust. It was stupid, but sometimes chuckle-worthy. Most importantly, it wasn’t dangerous. Those were simpler times. But as things often do, they escalated from there. There was the Kylie Jenner challenge. This one saw young girls grabbing a shot glass from their parents’ liquor cabinet before sucking forcefully to create a vacuum inside in hopes of getting fuller lips, a la Kylie Jenner. It never really went according to plan. Instead, many were left with horrifically disfigured faces…

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The Daily Caller’s doxxing of Sleeping Giants was a dick move

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2018 at 9:18 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Opinion, Social Media

The Daily Caller — a right-wing news site founded by Tucker Carlson — today published an article doxxing one of the people behind Sleeping Giants, a social media campaign asking companies to boycott advertising on alt-right website Breitbart. The article’s purpose, it would appear, is to expose the personal information of the founder of Sleeping Giants. However, its author is either ignorant or malicious – he also included the founder’s wife’s name, the name of one of her Facebook friends, their location, former employer, and a former school: everything a bad actor needs to wage a harassment campaign. Perhaps it wasn’t…

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How location data is used to manipulate airfare and car rental prices

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2018 at 8:13 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors

While the EU recently passed the GDPR into law to give users control of how their data is collected and used, the battle is unfortunately only half won. According to a new (and shocking!) study by TheBestVPN, you could end up paying almost double (or more) the actual cost of a product or service you are interested in depending on where you are accessing the website offering the product from. This concept is known as dynamic pricing — in which businesses charge consumers more or less depending on their ability to pay. It is also known as price discrimination, and…

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These are the Twitch games Amazon users get for free on Prime Day

Jul17

by Sindy Cator on July 17, 2018 at 8:05 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

If you’re a gamer who’s also an Amazon Prime users, you have a number of games available to you via Twitch. The livestreaming site, one of the many sister sites of Jeff Bezos’s giant baby, is offering free games to Twitch users who also have Prime. The details: The games are available either through a dedicated page or via the main website. Click on the crown symbol to get notifications about the day’s current deals. If you do decide to claim the games, be aware you’ll have to use Twitch’s built-in game portal on PC, rather than the platform of your choice.…