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Rapper Sheck Wes hired the production company Ridge Production to shoot a music video for his song “Gmail.” Now, Ridge alleges that Sheck Wes didn’t like the completed video and stiffed them on their work — so, naturally, they’re trolling him into oblivion.

On Thursday, Ridge uploaded a YouTube video called “Sheck Wes Didn’t Like Our Music Video, So We Made This.” It’s the “Gmail” video, but the song has been replaced with troll-y narration making fun of Sheck. (Listen for highlights like “I’m outside; kiss my gun” and “kick sand.”)

The video blew up on the subreddit r/videos, where people were 99 percent on Ridge’s side.  Read more…

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Sorry, Ariana. 

Although Ariana Grande probably meant well, her  botched tattoo tribute to her single “7 Rings” — which was mistranslated in Japanese to “BBQ grill” and then “fixed” to “BBQ grill finger” — is a meme now. 

People are writing their favorite phrases in different languages on their hands, and then horribly mistranslating it, like calling the constantly advertised Shen Yun performances. 

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After my college boyfriend and I broke up in the winter of 2011 (my senior year in college), I began to suspect he had a new flame, in large part because of the photos that started to appear on Facebook. 

“That was taken from the perspective of his bed,” I remember thinking about one. “What would *she* be doing on his bed?”

These investigations caused occasional bouts of anger, or acceptance, or acting out on my side of the net. As others have chronicled before me, social media makes letting go of a relationship even harder.

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It turns out that Kit Harington does know something after all. And he’s spilling.

While putting in an appearance at U.K.’s Kiss FM breakfast show on Friday, the actor told hosts Daisy Maskell and Tom Green that he revealed the ending of Game of Thrones‘ long-awaited final season to wife Rose Leslie last year.

“She wouldn’t talk to me for about three days,” he said. “And she’d asked.” 

So basically anyone who’s suffered through a Game of Thrones spoiler can deeply relate to Leslie.

Harington and Leslie met while shooting the drama, in which she played his love interest Ygritte from Seasons 2-4. They married in July 2018. Read more…

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The laser-based camera will shoot 3D and help the 2D camera better capture depth of field. Read more…

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Robots! They may take your job tomorrow, and they could be beating you at Jenga sooner than that. MIT researchers have taught a robot the basics of the classic table-top game, along the way making it understand physics and the sense of touch. Read more…

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Facebook’s questionable research tactics has led Apple to remind them who’s boss.

After TechCrunch revealed Facebook misused Apple’s Enterprise Developer Certificate program to spy on consumer phone and web activity through its “Research” app, Apple pulled the plug.

Facebook relies on Apple’s program to run internal apps on iOS devices, from simple things like bus schedules to communication tools like Workplace and Messenger.

That led to plenty of frustration within Facebook’s workplace, as employees were unable to get work done due to the shutdown, as reported in the New York Times. Read more…

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Facebook may have just been caught spying on teens’ phones under the guise of “market research,” but the company isn’t about to apologize for it.

In a company memo published by Business insider, Facebook’s VP of Production, Engineering, and Security Pedro Canahuati, attempts to explain the company’s ongoing drama with Apple that resulted from news of its “research” app being made public.

Apple earlier revoked Facebook’s Enterprise Certificate, which allows companies to distribute apps internally outside of its App Store. Thousands of Facebook employees rely on these apps for day-to-day work. On Thursday, Apple granted Facebook a new Enterprise Certificate, but the company now has to rebuild “a few dozen” apps, as Canahuat explained in his memo to employees. Read more…

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Google is joining Facebook in iOS hell.

Apple has now revoked Google’s Enterprise Certificate, breaking all of the search engine’s internal apps, according to The Verge.

A source familiar with the situation informed the news outlet that pre-release beta versions of Google’s iOS apps have stopped working as of Thursday.

These apps include new builds of Gmail, Google Maps, and Hangouts. Apps meant for internal company use, such as the search engine’s cafe app and Gbus transportation app have also ceased working.

“We’re working with Apple to fix a temporary disruption to some of our corporate iOS apps, which we expect will be resolved soon,” said a Google spokesperson in a statement provided to Mashable. Read more…

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