Tag: Social Media

This First Transgender Doll Aims to Educate Kids About Gender Identity

To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...

This New Digital Urn Makes us Approach Death in a Radically Different Way

The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
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Inspiring ‘I’ll Ride With You’ Anti-Terrorism Campaign Took Over Twitter

The recent hostage crisis in Sydney in which gunmen took 17 people hostage in a cafe gripped the world last week. Heavily armed officers...

12 Life Lessons From Facebook Fails

There are a lot of dumb people in the world. Like, a LOT. Many of them happen to be on Facebook regularly posting dumb...

HBO Released ‘Game of Thrones’ Vines To Promote The Show’s Return

Trailers are so 2013 -- okay, yes there is still a trailer, but hold on -- HBO has released several Vines to help promote...

MapD is About to Mine the Hell Out of Twitter

A new software may be on your next PC, allowing for the processing of data up to 70 times faster than ever possible. The...

Facebook Ditches the ‘Thumbs Up Like’ Button

Yes, it's shocking but true, Facebook is doing away with its trademark thumb's up like button. Don't fret though, "likes" aren't going away, they're...

Influencers Reveal the Truth Behind Perfect Instagram Posts – and It Feels Good

Everyone is guilty of that feeling when perusing social media; that strange mix of FOMO combined with jealousy and guilt when you view a stunning...

Muslim Activists are Destroying ISIS’ Presence on the Internet

For a long time, ISIS has had a disturbingly competent online presence. They have a glossy online magazine that teaches subscribers how to make...

As the #MeToo Hashtag Floods Social Media, Some Stay Awfully Quiet: Men

The number of tweets, Facebook statuses and Tumblr blogs posts using the #MeToo hashtag to give accounts of sexual harassment, violence and abuse is...

A Notorious Website Has Found the Way to Stop Hate Speech Online

The self-proclaimed 'front page of the internet', Reddit, has had a problem for a while with hate speech on its 'subreddits', the name given...

Anti-Immigration Group Mistakes Empty Bus Seats for Burqas

Internet trolling is just getting to be too easy these days. Case in point, the latest example of idiotic group mentality that occurred when...