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Sometimes it can be difficult to make conversation with your hairstylist, but when your stylist is a one-year-old, she might just have important things to say.
A mother-daughter duo from San Antonio, Texas made millions of people smile after video of a conversation between the two went viral. 
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In the clip, one-year old Jayde repeats everything her mother, Kerry Robinson, says and has the perfect facia

Instagram users no longer need the app to upload photos. The company is now rolling out the ability to upload photos through its mobile website. You can’t upload videos, add filters, upload to Stories, or send a direct message. Photo editing in general is limited — you can only rotate them or toggle between the square or wide crop — but still, you could conceivably build a profile from the website.A condensed version of the Explore page is also now available on the mobile site.

At best, online jobs let you make money without requiring you to commute or even wear pants. At worst, these gigs trick you into giving up money and personal information. And, somewhere between these extremes, online work can waste your time.
Learn how to spot scams and fruitless assignments when searching for online jobs or receiving convenient — if mysterious — opportunities in your inbox.
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 If you thought the world didn’t need another prepared food distribution and delivery service, apparently you’d be wrong, as the newly minted startup Territory has managed to pull in $6.7 million for its healthier eating options. The company formerly known as Power Supply raised the money as it looks to expand to new geographies and consolidate its position in its current markets. Read More

13 Reasons Why ended Season 1 with plenty of cliffhangers that will no doubt take center stage in the now-forthcoming Season 2. The biggest by far was the fate of Alex Standall (Miles Heizer), who ends up in intensive care from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Fans speculated that Alex wasn't responsible for the attempt — that it was Tyler (Devin Druid) — but Heizer told The Hollywood Reporter that Tyler had nothing to do with it.
Of course, that doesn't mean that Tyler is

Normally, this would be a non-story. But given how awesome young Kristaps Porzingis is at basketball, and given that he's reportedly unhappy with the acutely dysfunctional New York Knicks?
Oh, now it's definitely a story — especially after Porzingis went with the oldest excuse in the book. 
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Porzingis just finished his second NBA season. Only 21 years old, he's seen as one of the league's brightest young s

Prey, Bethesda’s new survival horror shooter, has been out for less than three days. But that hasn’t stopped Twitch streamer DraQu from completing the 20–30-hour game in less than 20 minutes. DraQu managed to set a world record speedrun for Prey by completing it from start to finish in just 19 minutes and 34 seconds, according to Polygon.To be fair, DraQu does accomplish his feat by taking advantage of several environmental glitches to bypass entire sections of the game. The sp

Long live the photobomb. 
When you spot a bachelorette party in the street, you should do two things: First, congratulate the bride-to-be. Next, photobomb them in any way possible. 
SEE ALSO: Arnold Schwarzenegger gleefully photobombs tourists in ParisThankfully, this dude was around while these women celebrating a bachelorette party in ridiculously small hats posed for a photo on the street. He knew what to do.
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We haven’t heard much from Faraday Future since the troubled electric car startup’s big debut at CES in Las Vegas last January. But the company has helpfully reminded us that it has yet to go out of business by uploading a new video featuring the FF91, its first production car, in action.Titled “Emergence,” the video offers us the best look so far of the uncamouflaged version of the FF91 driving around like a regular car. The elongated, crossover-hatchback electric car is

Sometimes you just need to grind up some fresh herbs. 
Cooking enthusiasts looking for a new tool to grind herbs will find themselves in an inappropriate world if they search on Amazon. Thanks to the cannabis industry, an "herb grinder" has a very different meaning to some. 
Poor "A. Maddox" was searching for a grinder for her rosemary, but when she purchased the Ohuhu Spice Grinder for $9.99 on Amazon, it didn't quite work the way she wanted. 
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The latest Blade Runner 2049 trailer is full of stunning shots, as director Denis Villeneuve seems to be trying his hardest to surpass Ridley Scott’s original vision of a grim, dystopian future. But in the early moments of the trailer, one shot stands out: a car speeding down a road, flanked by glowing, skyscraper-sized Atari logos. It’s a striking image, but in the world of 2017, it’s hard to imagine a universe where Atari even exists in the year 2049, let alone on the scale B

A few mountain bikers had an unwelcome guest briefly joint their downhill run at the Malinô Brdo in Slovakia recently. 
YouTuber Dusan Vinžík was following his friend down the mountain when a huge brown bear jumps in front of Vinžík and starts to charge his buddy. Vinžík screams to alert his friend of the bear that's following him and the bear cuts off trail.
The biker in front stops, which was probably a good idea considering the trail ahead had a

Back in 2013, T-Mobile announced a “free data for life” deal that offered 200MB of cellular data per month to new tablet customers. But T-Mobile is now discontinuing the offer as of May 7th. The change was first spotted by TmoNews.
Anyone who activated the 200MB plan before this week will be able to keep it for the specific tablet they’d set it up on, but any new tablets activated after May 7th won’t be able to get the free data anymore. T-Mobile also won’t let user

Sit back, relax, and let creatures of the wild sipping water from a bucket soothe you into oblivion.
According to Storyful, John Wells of The Field Lab in Terlingua, Texas, had a simple idea for a video called "The Bucket." Wells left a camera at the bottom of a bucket of water in the desert near his lab to see if any visitors would come by to take a drink. 
What he discovered was a whole range of critters from bees to a rabbit to a donkey stopping by the bucket for a free taste. We've nev

We love a good Spongebob Squarepants meme. They just always seem to capture our moods, thoughts, and feelings so perfectly that, really, why would we ever use anything else? 
There was caveman Spongebob, surprised Patrick, spiraling Mr. Krabs, and now the internet has added another Songebob meme to its already gigantic arsenal. 
We welcome the Spongebob mocking meme - the copy-cat viral expression of annoyance that you'll use on all your friends next time they say something really, rea

"Please read carefully before scheduling showings," is the ominous, precedent-setting introduction to the most puzzling house listing you'll read all day (or all year).
If you're looking for your dream home in Cayce, South Carolina, and you have no reservations about possibly dead upstairs neighbors, look no further because this Zillow posting is ripe for the taking. Let's take a tour shall we?
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The new Amazon Echo, now with a 7-inch touchscreen, could be officially announced as early as tomorrow morning according to The Wall Street Journal. The device will support video calling as its new marquee feature in addition to Alexa’s current plethora of “skills” and compatibility with smart home gadgets and popular services. It will also be able to place phone calls in a manner similar to Microsoft’s Skype.
The Journal believes that Amazon will price its latest Echo at

In the aftermath of the 2016 election, several alums of the Bernie Sanders campaign came together with media entrepreneurs from The Young Turks to chart their path forward. Disappointed with the performance of a Democratic Party they felt had chosen a too-centrist position, they decided to seek out and promote candidates from the left using some of the distributed organizing tools that had helped the Sanders campaign punch above its weight.The group, called Justice Democrats, advocates for polic

One of the most dominant and far-reaching media companies in U.S. history just got even bigger, and there's a chance it could affect the way huge swaths of people get news — but there's a good chance you've never heard of it. 
This is why.
Meet Sinclair.
Sinclair Broadcasting just acquired Tribune Media Company for $3.9 billion (plus $2.7 billion in debt). The deal means that Sinclair now owns more than one-third of all local TV stations in the U.S., a dominance rarely seen before &md

Who knew that teaching actors about space science was part of NASA's mandate? 
Milo Ventimiglia — who plays Jack in This is Us and Jess on Gilmore Girls — begged NASA via Twitter on Monday to keep the Cassini spacecraft "alive" in orbit around Saturn. And, because Twitter is the great equalizer, of course the space agency replied. 
SEE ALSO: The sound of a spacecraft passing between Saturn and its rings is straight out of'Alien'
NASA's official Cassini account explained tha

Last night at MTV’s Movie and TV Awards ceremony, Emma Watson accepted MTV’s first gender-neutral acting award. This morning, Watson’s speech, which The New York Times called “a potent call for breaking down gender categories,” went viral on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.
The award has been hailed as a watershed moment for equality in entertainment. It’s certainly a step in a positive direction, and it’s nice to think about a future where acting categori

The latest rumor about the iPhone 8 could make audiophiles very happy and one-up its biggest rival — even if it raises the cost of the already potentially super-expensive flagship.
The deluxe 10th anniversary model of the iPhone might ship complete with Apple's latest, most-beloved iPhone accessory: AirPods. The current 7 and 7 Plus phones are packaged with basic wired EarPods with a Lightning connector, so having true wireless buds right out of the box would be another major upgrade. 

FBI Director James Comey admitted on Monday that, yeah, he's on Twitter. And, like perhaps every person who has ever used the app, he thinks it's both "wonderful" and "depressing."
"Sometimes it feels like I'm all of a sudden immediately in every dive bar in America, where I can hear everybody screaming at the television set," Comey said at the Anti-Defamation League conference on Monday.  
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Even so, he does scroll throu

Katy Perry's long-awaited followup to Prism will have a song inspired by a specific woman, but it's not Taylor Swift. "Bigger Than Me" is about Hillary Clinton and the blow of the presidential results. 
When asked directly if there's a response to "Bad Blood" on the still-untitled record, Perry denied it. "Well that’s not my question to answer — if it’s about me. I think [my new album is] a very empowered record," she told Entertainment Weekly. "There is no one thing that&

Under Paul Ryan's masterful healthcare bill, insurance companies will no longer be required to cover terrible people with pre-existing conditions — including the condition of having a vagina. 
Sure, the law doesn't technically use the word vagina (Mike Pence likely had a problem with it). But it will allow insurers to decide not to cover maternity care or birth control and charge more for sinners with pre-existing medical conditions that, pre-Obamacare, disproportionately affected wom

One post features Lionel Messi posing with fans. Another shows him seated at a table with a soccer ball in the foreground, presumably discussing the game he loves. In another photo, we see Messi dribbling down a street, looking focused in his blue and white Argentina jersey. 
Except that's not Messi in the photos at all — it just looks exactly like him. And the Instagram feed doesn't belong to the soccer star — it belongs to a 25-year-old Iranian man named Reza Parastesh, whose

The Trump administration is steadily removing and revising climate change-related resources on government websites. But some vital portals remain online and are worth checking out — while you still can.
Climate Explorer, for instance, is a treasure trove of downloadable maps, graphs, and tables of climate projections for every county in the mainland U.S. Visitors can search observed and projected changes in temperature, precipitation, and other climate-related variables from 1950 to 2100.

Activists are fearlessly taking on some of the biggest corporations in the U.S., calling them out for their ties to President Donald Trump.
A newly launched website called BackersOfHate.org breaks down how nine major corporations are affiliated with the Trump administration and the ways they will gain from the Trump agenda. The website also outlines current company policies that already negatively impact people of color, immigrants, Indigenous communities, and low income populations — simi

There's no such thing as the "White House Council," but that didn't stop Donald Trump from a morning tweet naming the nonexistent group.The president eventually deleted the tweet and replaced it a few hours later with the proper spelling of the homophone — so "council" became "counsel": Don McGahn is White House Counsel.
SEE ALSO: Twitter mocks Donald Trump for 'unpresidented' spelling mistakeAsk Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon

One of the biggest science fiction novels to hit bookstores in the last decade is Andy Weir’s The Martian. The story is about an astronaut stranded on Mars and his efforts to survive until rescue. Six years later, Weir has announced his next book, Artemis, and it’s due out this November.We’ve known for a couple of years that Weir is working on his sophomore novel, but until now, details have been scarce. Now, Nerdist has revealed the cover and plot of the book, while Weir talks

Silicon Valley is Mike Judge and Alec Berg’s biting comedy about the American tech industry, now in its fourth season. Every week, we’ll be taking one idea, scene, or joke and explain how it ties to the real Silicon Valley and speaks to an issue at the heart of the industry and its ever-lasting goal to change the world — and make boatloads of money in the process.
Spoilers ahead for the third episode of season 4, “Intellectual Property.”
What started as a silly and

Comcast and Charter announced this morning that they have struck a deal to avoid mergers or acquisitions in the wireless space unless both sides agree to the move. Both companies are planning to launch wireless offerings, piggybacking off Verizon’s infrastructure to act as a “mobile virtual network operator,” or MVNO. Left unsaid was the possibility that this duo might look to acquire or combine with T-Mobile or Sprint to create a company that can offer cable television alongsi

Creators has an interview today with Simone Barsky, the project lead of a new online video platform called Moodica. Moodica is a free library of videos created to relax, de-stress, and calm viewers. If you already feel adequately de-stressed (ha!) and don’t think you need such a platform, the videos are also just pretty nice to look at.
Talking to Creators, Barsky describes the platform as a “mental vacation.” Current offerings include a cat purring on a loop, a pair of hands s

Owners of Huawei’s original watch can now update their device to run Android Wear 2.0. The update is being rolled out to both the developer preview and the stable channel of the two-year-old smartwatch, according to Reddit reports and AndroidCentral. The update should be available through the watch’s settings, but if it’s not, the watch can be manually flashed.
Android Wear 2.0 optimizes the OS for a circular display with the ability to type directly on a built-in keyboard and

We’ve known for a while now that Google is working on a mysterious new operating system known as “Fuchsia.” Unlike Android or Chrome OS that are based on Linux, Fuchsia is built on a new, Google-built kernel called “Magenta” instead.It turns out Fuchsia has come a long way from the command line form it existed in when it was first uncovered last August. Google has since added an early user interface to its new operating system featuring a card-based design, as can b

For the last couple of years, NASA’s next big space observatory — the James Webb Space Telescope — has been carefully pieced together at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. But now the telescope has left its primary home in the Northeast and has been delicately shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the spacecraft will undergo extreme temperature testing to make sure it’s ready to be launched into deep space. It’s the

Blade Runner 2049 is the upcoming sequel to one the the most venerated sci-fi films ever made, and now Sony has released a new trailer with more footage from director Denis Villeneuve's followup to Ridley Scott’s iconic movie.
Our first look at the creator of replicants
The new footage, which comes after a long and wide-ranging Facebook Live conversation featuring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Villeneuve, features more footage of Ryan Gosling’s character, more of Harrison Ford&rsq

Few startup founders over the past decade have inspired as much mythology as Ross Ulbricht. In October 2013, the FBI arrested Ulbricht as he sat working inside a San Francisco branch library. When they grabbed his open laptop, they found what they had been seeking for more than two years: evidence that Ulbricht, a 29-year-old Texas-born Eagle Scout, was the mastermind behind a fast-growing dark web black market called the Silk Road.
To friends and family, Ulbricht was a good-natured if frustrate

Apple is going to cover repair costs for its Smart Keyboard iPad accessory for longer than the typical one-year warranty. Now, they’ll be free for up to three years. The company has discovered that some of the keyboards “may experience functional issues during use.” Both MacRumors and 9to5Mac reported on the extended service program.
In an internal memo sent to its retail stores and authorized repair providers, Apple runs through a handful of potential defects that some units h

Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai unveiled his plans to reverse net neutrality last month, and the proposal is expected to face an initial vote on May 18th. While net neutrality supporters have displayed their opposition to Pai’s continued stance against the 2015 ruling in a few creative ways, this weekend a campaign aimed to hit the chairman close to home — literally.
On Sunday, protesters from the Protect Our Internet campaign went around Pai’s neighborhood