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If you ever think there’s nothing to dance to, you aren’t looking hard enough. 

Lil Kida (@LILKID8) and Jabari Timmons (@JABARITIMMONS) proved that you can dance to anything by shaking their way through the Wii’s Mii Channel theme song and kicking off the #WiiChallenge. 

They combined popular moves to the infamous tempo without missing a single beat. 

While the tweet earned a huge number of likes and retweets, it isn’t the first time Kida The Great received media attention. Read more…

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Jenna Weaver is a mother of two with no formal training in art. Yet she creates hypnotic works of art as if she has a fine art degree. Read more…

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There’s no better way to celebrate what would be the 100th birthday of Betty Ford than with a bit of dancing history. 

The First Lady was a dancing enthusiast and a new exhibit will open April 10 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum that honors her legacy — and passion for dance. To celebrate the exhibit and Ford’s birthday, a bevy of museums, galleries, archives, and dance fans hopped on Twitter to share historical dance photos (and GIFs) throughout history under the hashtag #ArchivesDanceParty. 

The tweets include dancing anecdotes and photographs of everyone from dancing legends Barack and Michelle Obama to professional students of dance to kids breakdancing on a sidewalk.  Read more…

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There’s something oddly satisfying about watching things melt. 

After a suggestion from a commenter, YouTuber The King of Random decided to see what would happen when he put gummy bears in molten salt. 

The result: a volcanic looking blob of melted sugar. It’s definitely not edible.

You probably shouldn’t try this at home. Read more…

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You can’t stop Michael B. Jordan right now.

The Black Panther star is the lead in HBO’s telemovie adaptation of the classic Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451.

Set in a dystopian future, Jordan plays Guy Montag — a fireman hired to set fire to the possessions of people who read banned booksThe Shape of Water’s Michael Shannon continues his streak of playing wonderfully evil characters as bad boss Captain Beatty.

HBO’s Fahrenheit 451 is set to premiere on May 19. Read more…

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It was a small but passionate group at the entrance to Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters midday Thursday. Armed with signs demanding, “Facebook transparency now” and Facebook-esque “dislike” signs, a handful of privacy activists spoke out about the social media giant’s recent data scandal.

One woman was in full wizard garb with a sign that read: “Facebook privacy settings should not need a computer wizard.” 

The roughly half-dozen protesters from the activist group Raging Grannies gathered fittingly at Facebook’s massive “Like” sign before Facebook security moved the group across the street. At the entrance to the massive company the organizers talked about privacy concerns on the platform in light of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing mess. Read more…

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You’d think maybe Logan Paul learned his lesson the last time he exploited a person for views. Nope.

The disgraced vlogger now infamous for filming the body of a man who died by suicide and including it in his vlog has been spending his birthday week disturbing the peace at Yosemite National Park. In addition to receiving multiple citations from park rangers, Paul also filmed the aftermath of a car crash. Then he uploaded it to his vlog, teasing it at the front of the clip for views.

At about 7 minutes into the vlog, Paul exits a river after falling out of a kayak when he hears a loud crash. He runs to the scene of the crash where it appears that a pickup truck t-boned a cargo van filled with people. Read more…

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Apple and Qualcomm have finally agreed on something in their messy legal battle.

No, they haven’t reached a settlement (or anything close) but they have settled on a date for Apple CEO Tim Cook to be deposed.

In a new legal filing, first spotted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the two sides agree that Apple’s top executive will give a deposition on June 27, 2018.

News of the deposition is the latest move in an increasingly messy legal battle between the two tech giants. 

Apple filed a $1 billion suit against the chipmaker more than a year ago, alleging the company was overcharging for royalty payments. A few months later, Qualcomm hit back with its own suit, alleging Apple shared proprietary code with one of Qualcomm’s top competitors: Intel.  Read more…

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