Fewer Brits are using social media, according to study
Not feeling too fussed to check your Facebook news feed, or tweet that picture from last night? You're alone, as social media use in Britain has actually fallen over the last year.
Police To Publicly Name And Shame Drink-Drivers On Twitter This Christmas
To combat the rising number of drink-drivers around Christmas, Sussex and Surrey police will share the names of people convicted on Twitter.
Return Of Kings: For Masculine Bigots
It's sad to see websites publish content that devolves humanity in some vain attempt to capture more of an audience and appear closer to the top of Google.
Anti-Sex Trafficking Campaign Matches Tinder Users To Abused Victims
I never thought Tinder would be a place for a disruptive campaign, creating awareness around sex trafficking in Ireland. But that's exactly what has happened, as advertising agency EightyTwenty has worked on behalf of the Immigration Council of Ireland by creating several fake profiles of actresses portraying women forced into sex work.
Internet Porn Comments Depicted By Lego
When it comes to porn, it's fair to say the comment sections can be a source of hilarity. So when Alex Eylar decided to re-enact some of these comments in a more innocent context using Lego, the comedy value is drastically increased.
Jamaican Bobsled Team Crowdfunding To Reach Sochi Olympics
Jamaica's two-man bobsled team has successfully qualified for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, bringing back the glory days for Cool Runnings fans the world over. However, bringing the unfortunate side of the aforementioned film's plot into the 21st century, it's going to take a lot of money to get them there, which they do not have. That is where you come in.
Scientists Search For Time Travellers On The Internet
Have you come from the future? If you want your secret to be preserved, be sure to not Tweet about it. Physicists from Michigan Technological University have started searching for signs of time travellers on Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook and Cornell University Team Up To Predict When You're Getting Dumped
Websites such as match.com often employ algorithms to judge how compatible you might be to someone for a romantic relationship. Typically these involve typical things you might expect such as common interests, opinions, hobbies etc. Facebook is no stranger to this game, and carries the pretty large advantage of having 1.1 billion people to average their data across.
Watch The 30-Year-Old Trailer For 'The Empire Strikes Back.'
Over thirty years ago, audiences were getting excited about the original Star Wars saga, and now the official Star Wars YouTube channel has uploaded the classic trailer for The Empire Strikes Back .
Watch The Original 'Star Wars' Teaser Trailer. "A Billion Years In The Making" From 1976
This teaser trailer for Star Wars from 1976 has surfaced on YouTube, showing you just how George Lucas had to sell the film to his audience before it became a cultural phenomenon. The results are weird, or as the trailer describes "a spectacle light-years ahead of its time."
'Remember The 13th.' Will NASA Announce A Historic Discovery?
A website has been launched teasing NASA's "biggest discovery that will shake the Earth, it will never be the same again." Set for November 13th, but brought forward to October 6th due to a "change of plans", questions have been raised about its legitimacy.
'The Faces Of Facebook' Puts All 1.2 Billion Users On One Page
This is what it would look like if you put all 1,261,587,836 (and counting) Facebook users together in one giant mosaic web page.
Ultimate Geek Literature - Minimalised
Nicoloas Baeujouan’s latest endeavour - a collection of twenty three classic books summarised in a poster format is an intriguing though not an original idea; the republishing of books with new covers is common practice with classics. Penguin are the masters of this particular type of re-branding. Their English Library collection and Classics Deluxe editions are indescribably gorgeous.
'Breaking Bad' Prank Reminds Us To Not Post Your Phone Number On Twitter
Actor Aaron paul, who plays Jesse in Breaking Bad, asked his Twitter followers to let him know any thoughts on the recent episode by saying “Let me talk you thru it. Number, please.” With this has come a brilliant prank by ZeoStorm, and a lesson to everyone: don't post personal info online, even if an actor tells you to.
Slam Poet With OCD Tells A Heartbreaking Story About His True Love
"The first time I saw her, everything in my head went quiet." Poet Neil Hilborn performed a powerful piece about falling in love, and its effect on his Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder at the 2013 Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam.
The Daily Mail Caught Plagiarising An Entire Article From Cracked.com
The Daily Mail has been caught copying an article from comedy website Cracked.com. Plagiarism is never a good idea, especially if it's committed by one of the most well known news publications in Britain.
Instagram 4.1 Adds Ability To Import Videos From Your Library
Instagram may have lagged behind Vine in providing a short video-sharing service, but they are moving ahead of the competition with one very sought after feature: importing video from your camera album.
Star Wars Vs. Game Of Thrones Subreddit Compares Two Rather Similar Universes
When separate, the differences seem vast; but compare them and the similarities become clear. That is exactly what's happened in the 'Star Wars Vs. Game of Trones' Subreddit, which spars these two major media properties in some of the funniest memes we've seen lately.