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Local Facebook really is something else. Here’s the saga of the barefoot runner and “I Love NE Minneapolis.” You might want to sit down for this. 

An irate “competitive barefoot runner” took to his neighborhood Facebook group to complain about the abundance of acorns littering the sidewalks. 

“This makes my training sessions very difficult,” he posted. “So this is just a friendly reminder to please keep your sidewalks clear of any acorns or other debris that might injure those whom are active members of the barefoot running community, including myself.”  Read more…

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Google thinks your crypto is a joke.  

The search and advertising giant released a new tool on Tuesday known as Call Screen, which helps Pixel owners screen unwanted calls. In a seemingly out of place move, the company used the product’s announcement as an opportunity to dunk on cryptocurrency. 

To promote the feature, Google released a short video starring The Daily Show’s Dulcé Sloan and Ronny Chieng. Meant to demo Call Screen in action, the minute-long ad depicts the two comedians — dressed as Google employees — screening calls from a scammer and the power company.  Read more…

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The porg on the carpet looked up at me, its watery eyes pleading, tiny wings flapping uselessly. It wanted a snack. Or maybe a toy? In the background, C-3P0 droned on, occasionally interrupted by a bleating Chewbacca. 

This was mixed reality experienced through the Magic Leap One, the long-long-long-awaited AR headset now available for the robust price of $2,295. Here’s what you get for your money: a surprisingly comfortable headset, a controller, and a small computer called a Lightpack, which resembles a thick hockey puck you can clip into your pocket or wear on a strap. 

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Are you holding anything? Put it down. Are you in a quiet place where you can turn up the volume and cry loudly? Grab tissues. 

Please take a moment to appreciate the most heartwarming video of this year: A man who was reunited with his pup after three years of searching. 

Jorge went missing in 2015, and 62-year-old Giorgi Bereziani has been looking for him ever since. According to ViralHog, opera house employees in Tbilisi, Georgia saw his posters and called him when they spotted a black and white dog roaming around the neighborhood.  Read more…

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More than 1,000 protesters, armed with torches, flashlights and smartphones, shone lights on the sails of the Sydney Opera House in Australia on Tuesday night.

Protesters sought to obscure a promotion for a horse racing event called The Everest, after the state of New South Wales’ government strong-armed its way into ensuring the projection on the building would take place.

SEE ALSO: Why putting crisp packs in mail boxes as an act of protest isn’t as effective as you’d think

The Sydney Opera House has a policy in which logos, corporate identities or colours are forbidden from being projected onto its sails, as to not undermine its heritage status. Read more…

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Welcome to Fat Bear Week at Mashable! Each fall, Katmai National Park holds a competition as Alaska’s brown bears finish fattening up for their long winter hibernation. This year, Mashable is getting in on the salmon-munching action. Check back with us all week as we follow the fat bear face-offs each day, and remember to get your votes in for each round. Happy fishing!

After consuming exceptional quantities of salmon this summer, Bear 409 “Beadnose” has triumphed as the 2018 Fat Bear Week champion.

She toppled a formidable contender in Bear 747, a dominant male bear whose enriched belly nearly scraped the ground. Read more…

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Dyson wants to curl your hair… with air.

Not satisfied with disrupting hair dryers, Dyson is applying its air-blasting motor tech to breathe new life into another area of personal haircare: curlers and stylers. The Dyson Airwrap can curl hair, add volume, or get frizzy hair under control. And it does so without the extreme heat that can sometimes cause damage, instead using jets of air to grab and style the hair, one shock at a time.

The Airwrap is the second product Dyson has made for the personal-care market, the first being the Supersonic hair dryer. Like the Supersonic, the Airwrap uses a tiny version of the company’s V9 motor that run at 110,000 rpm’s to blast air at high speed. Read more…

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Get your best beauty blogging face on, folks, because The Sims is about to get extremely 2018 with its latest expansion pack, Get Famous.

Since apparently Simoleons weren’t enough nonsense currency for the popular life simulator, the made-up value of social media influence will now become available with the new expansion releasing on Nov. 16.

The trailer announcing the fame-seeking pack dropped earlier today, showcasing a traditional path to stardom: an acting career. But the press release revealed that in the digital age, there’s another path to getting the attention, luxury, and following of an A-lister. Read more…

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Brand Twitter is at it again. 

Twitter user @vinandwesson caught Little Caesars committing the cardinal sin of trash pizza chains: getting cozy with the competition.

A viral video shows a Little Caesars employee guarding a shopping cart packed to the brim with … DiGiorno. 

There has to be some secret pizza police investigating this, right?

DiGiorno was also perplexed, and responded with this passive aggressive emoji. 

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