Articles tagged "reddit"

Zhu Ling's story begins with her poisoning in 1995, and ends with the Boston bombing, high-ranking government officials, and calls for someone's head.

The original meaning of a troll is found in Scandinavian mythology, in which trolls are “creatures bent on mischief and wickedness.”

Reddit has no more reason to apologize for misidentifying suspects than Twitter, 4Chan, or Facebook does. Then again, some of its loudest users do.

A persistent hacker wants to make Reddit miserable. The question is, who?

Is amateur sleuthing as bad as internet vigilantism?

The new Explain Like I'm Five web series is a hit with bloggers, and Reddit hopes it sparks a trend.

Reddit's PR problem spilled out of the web and gave the geek festival something to talk about.

The billionaire got really hip this week, however, when he showed up on Reddit to host an AMA and be the butt of a bunch of Internet geeks' jokes.

Mars touchdown, Bjork, gauge symmetry, Occupy reborn. 2012 really happened.

The former Wired editor-in-chief, founder of hobbyist drone firm 3D Robotics, and subject of Motherboard's latest documentary, Drone On, will be taking questions on DIY, leaving the magazine to focus on civilian drones full time, and any other burnin…

Obama got reelected, so a bunch of rich assholes say they have no choice but to fire their employees. There are now "reports trickling in":http://twitchy.com/2012/11/08/layoff-bomb-detonates-large-corporations-join-small-businesses-in-announcing-mass…

How Obama targeted his voters.

Pick Obama, vote for Romney.

Terrible infomercials are a dime a dozen, but hilariously shitty infomercials aren’t so easy to find. That’s why I’m such a big fan of r/wheredidthesodago, a subreddit dedicated to GIFs of infomercial disasters.

The worst part of the Internet are people like Violentacrez, who dedicate themselves to digging up, promoting, and creating that filth so that it’s on display to offend and freak out as many people as possible.

Motherboard's weekly dissection of the beautiful and the heinous.

Walking through an urban college campus can be an extremely claustrophobic experience. With ever-increasing enrollment are one factor, there are the young and eagerly participatory students, destined to have you join a club or support a cause. "Buy a…

The "front page of the Internet" chooses between r/creepshots and being a media player.

President Obama did a half-hour 'Ask Me Anything,' and the internet loved it. Here's the whole thing, from beginning to end: Hi, I’m Barack Obama, President of the United States. Ask me anything. I’ll be taking your questions for half an hour sta…

Reddit talks about rape, and it doesn't go totally as you'd think.

Reading YouTube comments is a hell of an adventure. The delightful mix of misspelled insults and expletive laden vitriol probably wouldn't be possible if the site weren't so liberal with its anonymity policy. For whatever reason, though, YouTube now

Currently at the top of ye olde Reddit Is a GIF of a dog that artist lewzerkid says is representative of how he or she feels when browsing Reddit. Cute, right? But wait a second. The rhythm of that dog's gait is familiar somehow. How do I know it? OH…

According to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman, in the early days the Reddit crew just faked it ‘til they made it.