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Now China has a special mobiles-only pavement lane
A street in the Chinese city of Chongqing has designated a pavement lane for chatters, texters and tweeters (or Weibo-ers, more likely), according to Engadget. A local publication first flagged up the innovation, which has a sign announcing 'First mobile phone sidewalks in China'. And we probably shouldn't be surprised, given that China is now…
Hello Kitty isn’t a cat, she’s a British girl & 7 other lies that’ll blow your mind
Today the earth was shook to its very core when news broke that Hello Kitty (that's right, we wrote KITTY) isn't actually a cat. That's right. Hello Kitty (again, KITTY) isn't actually a cat. We'll give you a minute to process that one... According to Buzzfeed, anthropologist Christine R. Yano was curating a Hello Kitty…
Better Together ad starts Twitter storm, spawns meme: meet #PatronisingBTLady
This week the lid was lifted on a new ad created by the team behind Better Together, a campaign dedicated to keeping Scotland as part of the UK in the upcoming referendum. (You can watch the ad for yourself here.) The ad is clearly targeting female voters, as it features a woman pondering over some…
Will Facebook getting rid of click-bait make your News Feed any better?
You may have heard at the weekend that Facebook is planning on reducing the amount of click-bait headlines on your News Feed, but will this really make any difference to our experience of the social network? In case you don’t know what click-bait is, it refers to those articles with really enticing headlines (usually involving…
Bio-bean is turning coffee grounds into energy and fuel
When thinking of coffee shop waste, we always tend to think of piles and piles of cups, but the average coffee shop throws out around 22 pounds of coffee grounds a day too. With so many coffee shops (sometimes three or four all within the same square mile) that adds up to A LOT of…
Is David Cameron the only person alive still using a Blackberry?
In shocking news, David Cameron has confessed his reliance on his BlackBerry smartphone, claiming he can run the government from it, while on holiday. We don't know whether we're more shocked at the fact that there's a person out there still using a Blackberry, or the fact that the Prime Minister has actually confessed this.…
It’s official: US Copyright Office declares animal selfies can’t belong to humans
Remember the macaque selfie saga that's been raging for the past year or so? Well, the quick and dirty story is that a macaque stole a photographer's camera. She then took a load of selfies. They were the best selfies anyone had ever seen, so sites like Wikipedia published them. But the photographer who owned…
Watch CGI transform a model’s face in this mesmerising video
Many of you will probably have seen some amazing displays of CGI and projection mapping on YouTube or even in the flesh (here are some great examples if you're none the wiser). But most of these are on the sides of iconic buildings or store fronts. What about if you took this clever tech to our…
Wikipedia and the Macaque selfie saga: Who REALLY owns the right to our images?
See update from 07/08/2014 below. Remember the Disney movie-like story of the macaque who stole a camera and decided to go ahead and take a bunch of selfies? Well, who knew that this beautiful tale of primate posing would cause such an uproar. British photographer David Slater, who owns the camera the cheeky monkey (geddit?)…
9 Situations when it’s totally not OK to take a selfie: burning stuff, plane crash & jail
A huge controversy stirred up the media and Twitter masses earlier this week when Louisa Foley's social media faux pas, which we'll be referring to as 'the burning bikini selfie', went viral. But social media uproar aside, it's got everyone wondering: When is it totally OK to take a selfie? And when is it totally…
