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I’m here to alert the presses that yes, people who peel their chicken nuggets before eating them actually exist. Let the “cursed food opinion” comments roll. 

A photo of nude nuggets, freshly peeled, has been making the rounds on Twitter since late April, but it has recently incurred a fresh wave of delicious backlash. 

Like the infamous St. Louis-style bagel fiasco, people were left scratching their heads asking, “Do people even eat it like this?” The answer is yes. But the internet responded with please, god, no.  Read more…

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Mr. Fox was apparently not fantastic enough.

Google Maps began rolling out Augmented Reality directions on Pixel Phones this week. This was a feature it promised at last year’s I/O developer conference, and one that Mashable got to try out this February. 

The feature is pretty nifty: When you’re unsure about your next move, you can hold your camera up to the street and your surroundings, and Google Maps will be able to provide you with a range of helpful specifics, like how many feet there are to your next destination, or whether to walk forward or back, or turn left or right.

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According to Deadline, Boseman will star as Yasuke, the first African samurai in Japanese history.  Read more…

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Regardless of the web browser you use, we all rely on the back button to return to the previously visited page. But some websites abuse the back button to stop you leaving. It’s infuriating, but soon to be a thing of the past for Chromium-based browsers.

As Naked Security reports, the developers behind the Chromium open source browser, which Google Chrome (and the new Edge browser) are built around, are introducing new behavior to stop websites from breaking back button functionality.

There are two ways a website can currently break the back button. The first is by introducing redirects which sees a website first load another page that instantly redirects to the intended website. By doing that, clicking the back button simply loads the previous page which once again redirects back to the page you are attempting to leave. Read more…

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Kanye West, we love to see you smile.

The rapper made an appearance at the Met Gala on Monday, where all eyes were on the pink carpet, thanks to the outfits worn by the likes of Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Billy Porter, which understandably, consumed most of the chatter around the event.

Despite the attention mostly being elsewhere, Kanye was spotted by cameras smiling off to the side, although he doesn’t look too impressed while doing it. Of course, it’s since become a meme.

Now, Kanye’s somewhat reluctant smile can be used to mean all sorts of things, like when you’re forced to smile for random relatives, or running into people that you’d rather not. Read more…

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If you’ve ever wanted to control an episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, you’re about to get your fudgin’ chance.

Following four glorious Emmy-nominated seasons, the Netflix comedy will return for an interactive special akin to Black Mirror‘s groundbreaking choose-your-own-adventure episode, Bandersnatch.

Series creator and executive producer Tina Fey announced the special episode on Wednesday, marking its release date on Netflix for 2020. 

“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was one of the first original comedy series on Netflix, and now it will be its first interactive comedy event,” she said. 

“Fans will be able to make choices on behalf of our characters, taking different story paths with, of course, different jokes.” Read more…

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A family trip to Disney World came to a halt when a great-grandmother was arrested for carrying CBD oil, which her doctor recommended to ease her arthritis. 

Hester Burkhalter, 69, was arrested on Apr. 15 and charged with felony possession of hashish. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Burkhalter was stopped at a bag check just outside of Magic Kingdom that morning, and Disney security found her 1-ounce bottle of peppermint-flavored CBD tincture. In photos obtained by Orlando’s Fox 35, the bottle is labeled as 1000 mg of CBD and 0 mg of THC. 

“I have really bad arthritis in my legs, in my arms and in my shoulder,” Burkhalter told Fox 35. “I use it for the pain because it helps.” Read more…

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Google wants us to know it’s changed. While the company used to use the I/O stage to tout its “AI first” approach to the world, attendees of this developer conference heard a very different theme emerge.

Amid the talk of new products, research, and AI advancements, the company went out of its way to emphasize privacy. And, in an effort to show it’s more than just obligatory lip service, they announced a number of updates meant to make its products more private.

Among the changes:

• Google is moving much of the machine learning that powers its assistant and other features from the cloud to the actual devices. This applies both to phones and to its new Nest Hub Max, which keeps all its new facial recognition features locally.

• In two of its most popular apps, search and maps, Google is beefing up privacy with a new incognito mode.

• In Chrome, users will get more control over which websites can track their activity via cookies. Read more…

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You could argue that Chrissy Teigen is most well-known for being a personality who is constantly photographed. And then turned into memes. It would only make sense that her children take after her, right?

The Insta-star, model, and cookbook author has two kids with singer John Legend: Luna, a 3-year-old girl, and Miles, an 11-month-old boy. Teigen is a big fan of sharing her children’s silly behavior online, whether they’re eating spaghetti or hamming it up for the camera. Between her Twitter and Instagram accounts, there’s no shortage of wildly entertaining baby content. 

When Luna was photographed with Legend on the set of The Voice, where he’s a host, Teigen was quick to upload the picture with the caption “omg me” on Twitter.  Read more…

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent strongly worded thoughts on LiDAR laser sensors, which bring 3D imaging to a self-driving car’s computer, are still reverberating throughout the autonomous vehicle community. Waymo’s head engineers and scientists are now defending its sensor choices for the company’s self-driving taxi service.

At a Waymo event during the Google I/O developer conference at headquarters in Mountain View, California, the Alphabet-owned company’s CTO Dmitri Dolgov and other engineering leaders all but shook their heads when Musk’s recent comments about autonomous vehicles came up on Wednesday. Read more…

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