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A heartbreaking photo of an elderly man pushing a popsicle cart triggered a flurry of goodwill after the image was posted to Facebook. 
While driving in the Little Village area of Chicago, Joel Cervantes Macias noticed a man struggling to push his cart full of paleta, a type of popsicle. After snapping a photo of the man, Macias says he  bought 20 popsicles for $50. He later posted the photo to Facebook and received such a positive response, he knew he had to do something more. 
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Some Facebook users encountered a major glitch Monday.
Early in the morning, a technical problem prevented people from posting articles via the share buttons on a number of websites, including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Reuters.
A Facebook spokesperson blamed the technical difficulties on an issue with a spam filter, ZDNet reported. That filter is designed to prevent the spread of malware on the social network, but it produced "Message Failed" dialog boxes for some people sharing leg

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman is the latest Silicon Valley mogul to put some of his personal fortune on the line this election season with a promise to donate $5 million to veteran affairs groups if Donald Trump agrees to release his personal tax returns.
SEE ALSO: Trump’s cozy relationship with Breitbart gets even cozier with big hire
Hoffman is taking his cue from a crowdfunding campaign launched by U.S. Marine veteran Pete Kiernan, who is hoping to raise $1 million for the same purpos

Twitter is about to make a big change to the way that tweets work, The Verge can independently confirm. Beginning September 19th, the company will begin making changes that no longer count media attachments (images, GIFs, videos, polls, etc.) and quoted tweets toward the platform's 140-character limit. The extra room for text will give users more flexibility in composing their messages.
Twitter first announced plans to stop counting extras like photos, videos, and user polls toward the limit bac

Hopefully the neighborhood birds have an appreciation for art.
Reddit user __PETTYOFFICER117__ shared gorgeous photos of a tiled pool designed to resemble Vincent van Gogh's iconic "The Starry Night" painting from above.
SEE ALSO: That huge new Banksy exhibition? It doesn't have the artist's consent at allImage:imgur__PETTYOFFICER117__ wrote on Reddit that his friend's father is a contractor who worked on the home, and he took the photos with a drone.
While from a swimmer's perspective the pool

The day that "fish will fly" has finally arrived.
Over Labor Day weekend, Lisa Lobree was walking through Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when a rotting mysterious object fell from the sky and smacked her in the face. While most park injuries involve twigs or branches, this object was, in fact, an enormous dead catfish.
SEE ALSO: Big dog takes his smaller dog friends for a wagon ride
"I think it might have been head, face and neck because I smelled so bad afterwards," she told CBS

"Promises, I hope I never break them," said Drake on "HYFR" in 2011.  
“I’ll buy the neighbors house if they complain about the noise," claimed Drake on "Where Ya At" in 2015. 
In 2016, he followed through. According to Trulia, Drake purchased the $2.85 million home next to his mansion in Calabasas to create a sprawling compound. 
SEE ALSO: Drake just ignored Jonah Hill's email about yogurt
The ranch-style home has five bedrooms and a guest room to help Drake accommoda

The Fast and the Furious popularized underground racing, drifting and Paul Walker's hairHomemade Movies has included all this and more in our ambitious recreation of the final race between Dominic (Vin Diesel) and Brian (Paul Walker) from the original film. 
This is also what happen's when adults play with Matchbox cars, toy trains and a miniature set that makes even Mr. Rogers jealous. 
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The new AirPods are ugly, you say? They look like electric toothbrush heads sticking out of your ears, you say? Afraid of spending $159 on your new headphones and losing them immediately, you say? What if I told you there was a way to make them look like the totally acceptable EarPods? What if I told you there was a way to secure the AirPods around your neck? What if I told you that you could attach the two headphones together?Enter Spigen, and its $10 AirPods Strap that will be h

Robots might be decades away from taking over the world, but they’re now a step closer to officially taking over Messenger. Today’s update, for both iOS and Android, brings tighter integration that offers users new ways to explore, interact and share their favorite bots. Starting with a new welcome screen for bots and pages, Facebook is now letting you start a thread with a bot (within Messenger) by viewing a welcome screen to provide some context about what exactly it does. Inside

The government has recommended euthanizing all 45,000 unadopted wild horses in its holding facilities because the numbers are getting out of control and upkeep is too expensive. The wild horses used to live on public land, but were removed through the years to make space for cattle.
The order was made by the Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board (burro is a type of horse), which is an agency with the Department of the Interior. The BLM has been running th

Broadband caps are a thorn in the side for internet power users and cord cutters everywhere. Netflix wants them to disappear — for good. In a comment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Netflix called data caps “an unnecessary constraint on advanced telecommunications capability.” The company also takes issue with so-called zero-rating, a scheme providers use to offer free content that doesn’t count against the data cap, but only from some services. Dozens of

Mercedes just teased a new car on its AMG Instagram page that looks an awful lot like a roadster version of its AMG GT sports car. The new car will debut at the Paris Motor Show in a few weeks. (AMG is the sports-car division of Mercedes, like BMW’s M.)
The car, which will reportedly be called the Mercedes-AMG GT C Roadster, will likely churn out 456-horsepower from the 4-liter twin-turbo V8 brought over from the standard AMG GT coupe. It looks like it’ll have a fabric roof, too, rat

There's an entire category of films my husband has written off as personal poison. He calls them "bad-choice movies," and he hates the genre so much that he won't go see a film if it even looks like it fits the description. The example that defined his personal hate-genre is Very Bad Things, Peter Berg's 1998 black comedy about a bunch of yahoos who go to Vegas for a bachelor party, accidentally kill a stripper (ha ha on her, I guess?), and try to cover it up, with disastrous results that just k

 Blavity, the new media and lifestyle site for the young and black in America, takes on meaningful subjects like the Black Lives Matter movement, NFL player protests and discrimination from Airbnb. The site, which showcases BuzzFeed-like content such as “15 times athletes joined Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest,” reaches about 7 million unique visitors per month and… Read More

I want to express a personal belief of mine that’s been honed in my handful of years covering film: superhero movies are supposed to be fun. They can be smart, serious, and even thoughtful examinations of life and its modern concerns, but they should be, on some intrinsic level, fun. So really, it’s a sad thing to see the industry move away from that concept in favor of more "grown-up" stories to stave off the creeping sense of genre fatigue. That’s not to say the recent run of

Jack White has teamed up with French director Michel Gondry for his new video for "City Lights." The track is off White's recent album, Jack White: Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016, a collection of B-sides and rarities from both The White Stripes and White's solo career. It was originally written for The White Stripes' 2005 album, Get Behind Me Satan, but never made the cut, according to Billboard.
The video for "City Lights" is a single shot, and turns a steamy shower door into an Etch A Sketch of

This past August was the hottest one since record-keeping began 136 years ago, according to a monthly analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The new record continues the streak of record high monthly temperatures that began nearly a year ago.
The hottest month is usually July, but the most recent August tied with July for the warmest month ever recorded. That’s 0.29 degrees Fahrenheit (0.16 degrees Celsius) hotter than the second-hottest August on record, which was i

Much like Anne Hathaway's character in The Devil Wears Prada, who gets ripped to shreds for thinking high fashion has nothing to do with her bargain bin life, I am a trickle-down consumer who cannot be bothered.
I've never considered a single tech press event to be relevant to my life. My first smartphone was an already-outdated iPhone 5C in the summer of 2014; the most expensive pair of headphones I've ever owned was $19.99; and I didn't know how to make a GIF until I got hired at The Verge. It

The introduction of bots to Facebook and other platforms has been overhyped — and the bots themselves often aren't very good, Facebook Messenger chief David Marcus said today. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Marcus made some of his first public comments about bots since Facebook launched the platform in April. "It got really overhyped really, really quickly," Marcus said. What's more, he said, many of the first bots to hit the platform weren't near

After studying the chemical makeup of lunar rocks, scientists say they have found new evidence that disproves one of the leading theories of how the Moon formed. The evidence hinges on the presence of just one element: potassium, and it suggests that the planetary collision that formed our satellite was extremely violent — an idea that’s very different from what was previously thought. Continue reading…

I was getting a little worried as I trudged through the tutorial to Pac-Man Championship Edition 2, the second sequel to one of my favorite games of all time. 2007's Pac-Man Championship Edition is a legitimate arcade classic — it rebooted a legendary title that I was never particularly fond of by bringing it right up to date as a slick, fast-paced high-score attack designed to be played in a few minutes. Its design was minimalist through and through, putting nothing between you and the pi

The odds of you using Cardboard Camera, Google’s simple app for creating 360-degree VR images, just got significantly higher. The tool, which has so far only been available on Android, is now available on the iOS App Store. And both versions now include sharing features that realize the app’s raison d’etre: showing your friends and family the cool places you’ve visited. Where the old app made users share images through the generic Android photo gallery, the new one will s

Between 1990 and 1994, the Buffalo Bills went to four consecutive Super Bowls but never won. In the years that followed, the Bill’s rival, the New England Patriots, installed themselves atop the division, where they have stayed, going to seven Super Bowls, of which they won four. The Bills meanwhile became something of a punchline, and fans were left to imagine what could have been.
I believe that Nick Viall is the Buffalo Bills of reality television.
Nick Viall is a character / human on t

TiVo unveiled the newest product in its Bolt lineup today, the Bolt+. Like the original Bolt, the Bolt+ can stream and record 4K content. But unlike the first Bolt, TiVo’s new plus version comes with 3TB of storage (compared to 1TB in the old Bolt) and six tuners (as opposed to four). Who doesn’t want more tuners? Now viewers can record a lot more footage and actually have the room to store it; TiVo says the Bolt+ can hold 450 hours of HD content.
TiVo describes the Bolt+ as a "strea

Several human rights organizations will soon launch a campaign urging President Obama to pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, coinciding with the premiere of the Oliver Stone biopic based on his life. Motherboard reports that the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other groups will formally announce the news on Wednesday, although a largely password-protected website is already online. The project will involve a "mass signature campaign around the

Hillary Clinton’s health is in the news after she stepped out of a September 11th memorial service early after feeling overheated. The presidential candidate was diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia and put on antibiotics.According to her physician Dr. Lisa Bardack, Clinton is now "recovering nicely."
But that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theories about Clinton’s failing health, continuing from just a week ago when the focus was on her coughing attacks — despite official recor

For the past five years, XOXO Fest has ended with a warning that there might never be another one. The event — an annual gathering of 1,200 or so creative types in Portland — promotes the work of independent artists and makers, and has evolved into a world-class showcase of indie games, short-form video, art, and the open web. Then, at the conclusion of this year’s festival on Sunday, the end arrived: amid tears and hugs, the organizers said XOXO Fest would not return in 2

Prepare for Titanfall… the card game.
Later this year the mech shooter series will make its debut on mobile with Titanfall: Frontline, a free-to-play spinoff coming to both iOS and Android. It’s described as "a strategy card game where players, assuming the role of brigade commanders, will face off in head-to-head combat with other players in real-time." It looks a bit like other digital card games such as Hearthstone, but with towering robotic mechs and gun-wielding pilots in place

 A San Diego startup called Portfolium has raised $6.6 million to help college students get jobs where they are likely to succeed. Portfolium CEO Adam Markowitz said he was inspired to build what he calls the “largest student talent showcase,” after his own job-hunting success. A former rocket scientist, he was able to land a dream job working on NASA’s space shuttle… Read More

PRESS RELEASE:Seattle-area startup launches a fun, interactive online simulation for real estate agents seeking to renew their licenses.SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 12, 2016– Real Estate Game Works (REGW), a Seattle-area startup, has developed an entertaining online simulation for real estate agents to meet their continuing education requirements. The software employs a concept called “gamification” to convert dry, boring subject matter into a 21st Century lear

Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled the name and look of the company’s future rocket, which will be capable of launching payloads — and people — into orbit around Earth. The rocket is named the New Glenn, after John Glenn — the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth. And if the animations of the New Glenn are to be believed, the rocket is going to be a behemoth, bigger than both SpaceX’s future Falcon Heavy rocket and the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV H

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc and Pandora Media Inc are planning to launch new versions of their streaming music services in coming weeks, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing several anonymous people with knowledge of the matter.
Pandora could announce its plans this to expand its $5-per-month platform this week, with possible features including skipping more songs or storing several hours of playlists, the newspaper said. The company plans to launch a full-fledged on-demand platfor

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi SA and Alphabet-owned Verily Life Sciences LLC are investing $500 million in a joint venture that will address the global diabetes epidemic. The new company, called Onduo, will be led by Joshua Riff, previously an executive at UnitedHealth.
Onduo will initially focus on Type II diabetes, which affects 90 percent of those with the disease. This form of the disease develops when the body cannot properly use the insulin produced by the pancreas. It is usually trea

Show a human any photograph and they’ll able to predict what happens next with pretty decent accuracy. The woman riding her bike will keep on moving. The dog will catch the frisbee. The man is going to have a pratfall. And so on. It’s such a basic skill that we don’t consider the vast amount of information that is used to make these predictions — concerning gravity, inertia, the nature of pratfalls, etc. — and teaching computers to do the same is proving to be a key

Almost four years since his return from Central America, much remains unknown about John McAfee's time in Belize, and why the cybersecurity expert went into hiding after the still unsolved murder of his neighbor, American expat Gregory Faull.
Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nanette Burstein, the stunning new documentary Gringo: The dangerous life of John McAfee, suggests that the millionaire founder of the McAfee antivirus empire is not only directly responsible for Faull's murde

Berlin’s IFA consumer trade show wrapped up last week, drawing big crowds and generating a lot of buzz.
Naturally, organizers were trumpeting the event as a big success, and it certainly seems to be getting a lot of attention. Still, it got me wondering: How does IFA compare to CES, the big daddy of consumer gadget shows?
Here’s a look at the official numbers released by CES from its last edition in 2016 and from IFA, following its latest conference last week. Worth noting: CES had s

If you have a smartwatch, chances are you’re fairly protective of it, preventing it from getting too wet, too beat up, or too knocked around. Afterall, a smartwatch is little more than a computer on your wrist that costs several hundred dollars. But the new Nixon Mission, a $400 Android Wear smartwatch that’s available for preorder starting today and will be shipping on October 10th, is designed to get wet and get knocked around and keep on going.
With its rugged design, the Mission