Time reports that McDonald’s is testing its potential restaurant of the future at a Missouri location. You can use self-serve kiosks to customize your burgers, and order all-you-can-eat-fries. Someone (or since this is the future, maybe some robot) will bring… Read More ›
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Ted Cruz iPhone Appeared To Be Getting Messages During CNN Interview
In a CNN Dana Bash interview in New York aired on Thursday, the iPhone tritone ring went off a few times during the interview. The ring is the default for received voice messages. We’re going to assume political reporter Dana… Read More ›
3 Slogans We Propose For The NFL On Twitter
Yahoo reports that Twitter has secured the rights to ten 2016 NFL Thursday Night Football games. Since we’re all about helping social media, here are: 3 New Slogans We Propose For Twitter Twitter: the perfect place to view the NFL… Read More ›
Trump Says Now Is A Lousy Time To Buy Stocks
Yahoo Finance reports that Donald Trump predicted a “very massive recession” on Saturday and said it is a lousy time to buy stocks. 3 Questions That Arise From This Story What does Donald Trump know about buying stocks? Anyone who… Read More ›
Google Practical Joke Goes Awry
Google pulled the plug on a Gmail April Fool’s joke, according to Arts Technica. Gmail users could press a button that would lead to a GIF of a minion “dropping the Mic” and ignoring all replies from the email recipient…. Read More ›
Microsoft Accidentally Creates Racist Chatbot
The Globe and Mail reports that Microsoft created a “chatbot” named Tay that learns language from Twitter users. The project didn’t work so well… From the article: “Another user asked, ‘Do you support genocide?’ Tay responded to @Baron_von_derp: ‘i do indeed.’”… Read More ›
Yahoo! For Sale
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! has given potential acquirers of it or part of its assets about two weeks to make a bid. Here’s three parts of Yahoo we’d like to buy: The exclamation mark after “Yahoo!” On… Read More ›
Facebook Announces It Will Abandon Blackberry 10
The Motley Fool reports that Facebook is going to drop support of its app from Blackberry 10 by the end of the year, and has already made a similar announcement for WhatsApp. 3 Questions That Arise From This Story WhatsApp?… Read More ›
Report: Google Car Hits Bus To Avoid Sandbag
The AP reports that Google has updated its driverless car software after a car driving around sandbags assumed a bus would yield to it. Nobody was hurt, making this a victory for sandbags everywhere. 3 Questions That Arise From This… Read More ›
We’re Sure Creating Chickens With Dinosaur Legs Will Work Out Just Fine
CBC reports that researchers in Chile have grown chicken embryos engineered to have dinosaur-like eggs. The reason? To try to learn more about how birds evolved from dinosaurs… As budding scientists, we have: 3 Notes About This Story Whatever results… Read More ›
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