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It's not easy picking a senior quote — how can only a few words encapsulate your whole high school experience? 
Some students take yearbook quotes seriously, quoting actual life lessons they've learned in their four years of high school. Others opt for more lighthearted sayings or clever ways to slip profanities past school officials. One even went as far as thanking Satan in her senior quote. 
SEE ALSO: For your entertainment, a long list of the funniest yearbook quotes
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Apple today admitted that some iPhone 7 and 7 Plus models running iOS 11.3 or later may have a bug that disables the microphone during phone calls, MacRumors spotted through a leaked document. The few users with the affected devices may see their speaker button grayed-out when making calls or video chatting through FaceTime. The issue seems to only affect phones running that version of iOS or versions after 11.3.
Some users on Reddit and Twitter have reported experiencing such microphone issues

Who better to put in charge of our children's health than a man who believes apple juice is loaded with arsenic?
Well, everyone's weirdest dreams have come trueOn Friday, President Trump announced he had appointed television doctor Mehmet Oz to serve on the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. While celebrities have served on the committee in the past, they tended to be of the 'in touch with reality' type (think: Arnold Schwarzenegger). 
The Council will advise Heath and H

Night owl? Good news — there’s an historic rocket launch early tomorrow morning that you can catch while the rest of the country is sleeping. NASA’s InSight Mars lander is scheduled for takeoff at 4:05 AM Pacific, weather permitting. You can watch it live at the links below.
InSight is launching atop an Atlas V rocket with a Centaur for the orbital stage, operated by United Launch Alliance. After a six-month trip through space, the mission is to discover the secrets lying deep

There may never be a social network that can match Vine’s post-to-meme ratio again. So after Dom Hoffman, one of Vine’s co-creators promised the network would return, the web shed a collective tear of joy. Now those tears have grown saltier. V2, as the project was dubbed, has been “postponed for an indefinite amount of time.” the v2 project is postponed https://t.co/H0e9e0BTdg pic.twitter.com/mN5wIbdQsf — v2 (@v2app) May 4, 2018 Hoffman says V2’s legal fees a

Ross Douthat, a man who is somehow regularly published by The New York Times, recently shared an editorial in which he responded to the growing phenomenon of men murdering women because they don’t feel like they’re getting laid enough by thoughtfully stroking his goatee and conducting a thought experiment about the “redistribution of sex.” Among the non-incel factions of the internet, it has not gone over well.
Although he never says “to men” in the piece, th

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Iconic American alt-rock band Smash Mouth, has somehow maintained internet popularity since their 1999 hit, "All-Star." They can probably thank Shrek or, like, every meme.
Smash Mouth leads a pretty normal internet life on social media, making slightly-odd graphics to celebrate various holidays and promoting their upcoming appearances.
Oh yeah, they're also passionate champions of cunnilingus.
SEE ALSO: Smash Mouth totally nailed International Women's Day with this very mediocre art
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Today is the day Googlemakes good on a lot of its 2017 I/O VR promises. The company just announced that it will be open sourcing Seurat, a tool designed to reduce complexity in high-fidelity mobile VR scenes, improving performance considerably.
This launch arrives alongside the release of the Mirage Solo, the first headset on the Daydream VR platform to make use of Google’s WorldSense positional tracking system. The headset is standalone and runs on a mobile chipset so it’s a lot mor

The hybrid two-seat helicopter SureFly from the electric truck company Workhorse made it off the ground this week.
While a few feet of hover might seem insignificant, the passenger drone startup is hailing the untethered lift-off with a pilot outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, as a huge success. For the hybrid gas- and battery-powered vertical take-off and landing vehicle (known as VTOL), this means the copter is on its way to flying with passengers inside. Once airborne, the craft will have a 75-mile

The apartments from Friends — especially Monica's purple habitat — are among the most iconic in television history. This is partially because everyone loves to talk about how expensive they'd be in real life. (The answer? So expensive that I no longer want to think about it!)
But people also love the Friends apartments because, frankly, nostalgia is a powerful beast. No doubt aware of this, the interior design startup Modsy has reimagined Monica's, Rachel's, and Joey's apartment

A self-driving vehicle operated by Waymo was involved in a crash in Chandler, Arizona, on Friday afternoon, according to local news stations. Images of the crash scene showed a Waymo minivan with its side caved in and another vehicle with a smashed front end. There were minor injuries reported at the scene.Chandler police said the Waymo van was in autonomous mode with an occupant behind the wheel at the time of the crash, but it was not the “violator vehicle,” according to ABC 15 Ne

There’s never been a better time to get into 3D printing. There are tons of models to choose from, countless 3D designs available online, and (most importantly) prices that keep dropping.
SEE ALSO: It took around 45 hours of 3D printing to build this 1,076 square-foot house
Buying your first 3D printer can be a little intimidating. There’s a lot to consider, from price to compatibility to safety concerns. To help you make the leap, we looked into which 3D printers have are best suite

"This country is a mindfuck," one character says early in Dear White People Season 2.
In its first 30 minutes alone, Dear White People Vol. II makes good on that highly relatable statement, with Sam (Logan Browning) arguing with the internet and trying to convince people out of their point of view before realizing that that almost never works. 
Season 1 was written as President Obama's second term drew to a close, when racism was supposed to be over, before there was any concept – or

A healthy relationship is marked by good boundaries and an attachment to a real person you've actually met.
Over the past two years, far too many people have developed a codependent relationship with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Their fixation is eminently understandable. Like him or not, that sullen piece of limestone rock is the only person capable of saving us from President Trump/nuclear holocaust.
What started for many of us as a light crush has since matured into an unhealthy fixation,

The volume of data particle physicists have to sort through at the Large Hadron Collider is staggering, and it’s about to increase by an order of magnitude. To cope with this torrent of data, CERNis turning to machine learning, offering prizes for AI models that can cut through the clutter and help make the next breakthrough.
Inside the massive detectors that dot the rings of the LHC, protons accelerated to near light speed smash into each other with incredible energy and produce a fountai

May the Fourth, for many fans, isn't the one true Star Wars Day. May 25, the franchise's birthday (and this year, the day Solo flies into theaters) is a better candidate for that.
Still, the pun-based holiday appears to have settled down into a fun routine of clever jokes in unusual locations (nice one, London Heathrow). In contrast to the situation a couple of years ago, it seems, brands have finally learned how to speak Star Wars.
SEE ALSO: Have We Reached Peak Star Wars Day?
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LG refreshed its midrange phones at Mobile World Congress this year. And while we were all distracted with its flashy flagship devices this week, one of those affordable phones — the K30 — became available at T-Mobile. It’s a rebranded K10, which LG announced in February this year. It features a 5.3-inch HD display, 32GB of storage, a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, and a 2,880mAh battery. T-Mobile doesn’t even list the phone’s R

It used to be that buying good headphones meant finding a pair that represented a sound you like. Some headphones are neutral, some emphasize the midrange, others the bass. Finding your perfect match was about as easy as meeting your soulmate. A recent audio fad has started to change this mentality: headphones that can be tuned to your specific hearing profile have hit the market left and right, claiming to go beyond what you could do with a simple equalizer. The Nuraphone – a $

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel are building a tic-tac-toe game to help patients with their rehabilitation exercises. The game is played on a grid of boxes and includes “embodied” and non-embodied play. Embodied play means a robotic arm will grab and place a marker – in this case a small cup – and non-embodied play includes bright lights that light up to mark the computer’s spot.
The system uses a Kinova arm and cups. The cups are part of

In April 2017, when the first season of Netflix’s acclaimed Dear White People premiered, many critics and viewers remarked on how “timely” it was. After all, the half-hour series — which deeply explored topics such as racism, black identity, and the myth of the “post-racial” society — debuted just a few months after Donald Trump was sworn into office. Season 2, which premiered on Friday, May 4th, focuses largely on the resurgence of white supremacists,

GoogleAssistant is gaining some new capabilities thanks to a deal with Fandangothat should make ordering movie tickets a quick and easy process. Simply tell Google Assistant that you want to buy some movie tickets and you’ll see what’s playing nearby; you can dial in the specificity to find out just what’s playing at a specific theater or at which theaters a particular flick is going to be.The deal is going live on May the Fourth in honor of the Star Wars marketing holiday and

Google has partnered with Fandango to offer movie ticket purchases from Google Assistant. To buy tickets, just say “buy tickets,” or you can say, “Hey Google, get me tickets for...” with the name of the film you want to see. If you’re not sure what you want to see, just say, “showtimes near me,” and Google will bring up a selection of films playing at theaters located near you. You can find out more about a film by asking “who stars in it?”

Google is giving Google News a redesign that will bring in elements from its Newsstand app and YouTube, according to sources who spoke with AdAge.
The redesign is expected to debut at Google I/O next week, and the sources say that Google has been in talks with publishers as of late about the impending changes, which will consolidate many Google features into one product. ”There are a lot of Google services where you find news,” one publishing executive said, “and what they&rsq

Domain registrar GoDaddy has taken down white nationalist Richard Spencer’s site Altright.com, saying the site “crossed the line” in promoting violence. BuzzFeed reported the news yesterday, noting that Spencer had also been kicked off Facebook a few weeks earlier. Altright.com is currently offline, and GoDaddy told BuzzFeed that Spencer had 48 hours to transfer to a new registrar.
When a site “crosses over to promoting, encouraging, or otherwise engaging in specific act

YouTube is preparing to release a revamped music streaming service that will combine Google Play Music and its own music offerings. It is unclear how the current iteration of YouTube Music will be integrated into the new service, but Reddit user c2fifield has posted images of a redesigned version of the YouTube Music app, which YouTube has since confirmed is real to The Verge.“We’re always working to improve YouTube Music and ensure it’s the best possible experience for users.

Warning: spoilers ahead for Avengers: Infinity War
For someone who claims he just wants to help the whole Universe, Thanos certainly is out to destroy a lot of it. In Avengers: Infinity War, the villain’s helpful strategy is genocide. As soon as he collects all the Infinity Stones and becomes omnipotent, he kills half the people in the Universe. Suddenly, bystanders in New York — and half the movie’s superheroes — turn into gray mush and disappear. But why is Thanos so c

Tomorrow, NASA’s next robotic explorer is beginning its deep-space voyage to Mars. The lander InSight is set to take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in the wee hours of Saturday morning, the beginning of a six and a half month journey to the Red Planet. Once there, the little spacecraft will listen for quakes to figure out what Mars is made of.
NASA has a long history of launching to Mars, but this trip to the Red Planet is a bit different: It’s the first interplane

After a distributed denial-of-service attack knocked some servers offline during a local election in Tennessee this week, Knox County is working with an outside security contractor to investigate the cause. The attack took the Knox County Election Commission site displaying results of the county mayoral primary offline during Tuesday night voting. The county resorted to distributing printed results during the outage.
“Tonight, Our web servers suffered a successful denial of service attack,

Shenzhen-based home robotics company UBTECH announced this week that it has closed a massive $820 million Series C. The round, led by Tencent and a whole slew of other investors, follows a $100 million Series B and $20 million Series C.The bipedal robotics maker certainly isn’t a household name here in the States — though the company’s taken a few baby steps over here, including a walking Stormtrooper robot released alongside The Last Jedi. It also debuted a “robotic butl

Texture, the magazine subscription service that Apple purchased back in March, plans to shut down its Windows app at the end of June. Users were informed of the discontinuation this week through emails and a note inside the app, which said that after June 30th, “this app will stop working and will no longer be available in the Microsoft Store.” Texture’s Android, Amazon Fire, and iOS apps will still be supported.
While this might sound like a case of Apple immediately cutting

There will be no “Vine2” — at least for now. Trying to take on the giant social networks without external funding proved too tall a task for six-second video app Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann. “I’ve made the very difficult decision of postponing the V2 project for an indefinite amount of time. There are several reasons for this, including a bit of ‘sequelitis’, but I’d like to explain the biggest one, which is due to financial and l

Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann announced today that his planned sequel to the popular and now-defunct short-form video app, tentatively called v2, will be postponed for an “indefinite amount of time” while he figures out funding and logistical hurdles. The announcement, made on the v2 forums and reposted this morning by the official v2 Twitter handle, is a disappointing but understanding turn of events. Back in January, Hofmann suggested the app may launch as soon as this summer, which