UPDATE: June 14, 2019, 10:23 a.m. AEST Instagram announced that the platform is “fully recovered” and that “[we] apologize for the disruption.” 

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There must be a glitch in the Matrix because Instagram appears to be down.

Beginning around 2 p.m. PT on Thursday, Instagram feeds stopped loading and refreshing for some users. Some received a gray bar saying, “Couldn’t refresh feed.” Instagram also displayed a red box with the message, “We’re sorry, but something went wrong. Please try again.”

According to Down Detector, the problem is affecting the East and West Coast in the U.S., as well as parts of Europe and South America. Read more…

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In this economy, we all live under the ever-present threat of layoffs and unemployment. That’s even true for iconic video game characters, like the polarizing Mr. Resetti, an infamous character from the first Animal Crossing game.

In an interview with Mashable during E3 2019, Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ project lead Aya Kyogoku officially announced that Mr. Resetti lost his job at the Reset Surveillance Center due to  the upcoming Switch title’s new auto-save function.

“I think this will be a positive thing for the player, because in New Horizons you can stop playing in the middle of your game and it’ll still save,” says Kyogoku. “But unfortunately because there’s no necessity to reset the game or reset button on the Switch, Mr. Resetti had a hard time. He was laid off from his position.” Read more…

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If you’ve recently wondered when that whole Harry Potter thing is going to blow over, signs still point to Probably Never. 

On Tuesday, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando opened a new ride, and wait times have anxious park attendees spending nearly all day in line. 

Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure takes riders into the Forbidden Forest with the Hogwarts gamekeeper himself. It’s roughly a three-minute ride with people waiting hundreds of minutes to get on it.

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It can be hard to convey the danger of abstinence-only sex ed programs, but a new set of trading cards is hoping to do exactly that. 

The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), Advocates for Youth, and Answer, nonprofit organizations that promote comprehensive sex ed, have partnered to create a new campaign called #SRAisAbstinenceOnly. 

The campaign calls out the rise of sexual risk avoidance (SRA) curriculum to teach sex ed. While “sexual risk avoidance” may sound nice, it’s really just a rebranding of abstinence-only-until-marriage, which the new trading cards effectively illustrate. Read more…

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By 2023, Uber Air plans to be in Melbourne, Los Angeles, and Dallas. With the ability to fly to your destination in minutes, here’s what the future may hold for Uber Air.

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Encrypted messaging app Telegram said it was hit with a massive DDoS attack amid widespread protests in Hong Kong. Telegram claims the attack, which caused app interruptions, originated from Chinese IP addresses.

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With the U.S. prohibiting the company from purchasing parts in the U.S., Huawei was likely unable to finish work on their new laptops. This led to the cancellation of the release.

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Millennials, avocado toast, bad spending habits, blah blah blah. At this point, the dead horse has been thoroughly beaten and shipped off to the glue factory.

Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 knows all too well that millennials get a bad rap when it comes to all things personal finance — as if we *wanted* lifelong student loan debt, a housing affordability crisis, or a gig economy in which well-paying jobs with benefits are basically unicorns. 

… But we digress. The thing is, millennials are actually pretty savvy when it comes to money management and financial planning, or at least way more so than most people think. We budget and save almost as much as baby boomers do, and more than half of us have a savings goal. (The same can’t been said for older generations.) Plus, we can spot a bad value a mile away — sorry, napkins — and we know a scam when we see one. (See: the diamond industry, marriage.) Read more…

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If you can’t get enough of anything to do with Stranger Things, a mobile game is on the way.

A location-based puzzle RPG game based on the series is on the way in 2020, set to be released on iOS and Android devices.

Netflix announced the game during a E3 panel on Wednesday, and it’ll be partnering with Finnish game studio Next Games for the release. 

Detail is scant, but the game will feature Google Maps integration and allow players to explore The Upside Down on their daily commute and travels — hello, Pokémon Go.

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Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final is upon us and for the first year ever there might be more drama off the ice than on it thanks to the cast of *checks notes* off-air NBC comedy The Office.

Ever since stars John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer learned their favorite hockey teams — the Boston Bruins and the St. Louis Blues — would be battling for the cup there’s been trouble in paradise for Jim and Pam. Even Steve Carell picked a side.

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