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The self-proclaimed “Apes” over at r/Superstonk, the main subreddit dedicated to discussions about GameStop stock, flooded the comments section on South Korean artist PSY’s 2012 superhit “Gangnum Style” on Tuesday. They were not there because they were PSY fans—although I’m sure some do like the song—they were because…

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Reddit users started complaining about major outages at around 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The complaints first started rolling in at about 2:45 p.m. with only 11 people reporting outages, but by 3:30 p.m., that number rose to more than 49,000.

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On Sunday, the world’s most famous celebrities will gather to clap at each other in Los Angeles’ theoretically beautiful Dolby Theater in an excruciating three-hour event known as “The Oscars.” The awards show is forced upon the world by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out gold-plated…

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Employees of one of the largest LGBTQ+ nonprofits in the country—The Trevor Project—are facing abuse from the Far Right, and they claim that the organization is not properly supporting its crisis hotline staff.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s pursuit of Google reached a new milestone this week after the company announced that its AI-powered Bing search engine had surpassed 100 million daily active users.

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DuckDuckGo launched a beta version of an AI search tool powered by ChatGPT Wednesday called DuckAssist. The addition to the company’s privacy-focused search engine uses ChatGPT and Anthropic’s language parsing capability to generate answers scraped from Wikipedia and related sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica.…

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A view of the a phone screen displaying a Eurovision Song Contest tickets page and a page on the Eurovision website displayed on a laptop screen, informing those wishing to buy tickets that all nine shows are now sold out.
A view of the a phone screen displaying a Eurovision Song Contest tickets page and a page on the Eurovision website displayed on a laptop screen, informing those wishing to buy tickets that all shows are sold out.

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The internet is full of Easter eggs and tricks, you just gotta know where to find them. Google is no stranger to its Daily Doodle, but Google also has some fun animations wrapped up in search results, but you’ll only see them with a few key search words.

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