Fake porn videos featuring face-swapped celebrities, often referred to as “deepfakes,” have been banned from Twitter. 

The social media platform has become the latest to ban the videos, in which celebrity women like Gal Gadot, Taylor Swift, and Maisie Williams have been face-swapped with porn performers using AI that makes it all look way too realMotherboard first reported the ban on the porn “deepfakes,” which has since been confirmed by Twitter.

Twitter told Mashable that the videos violate the company’s policy, which states, “You may not post or share intimate photos or videos of someone that were produced or distributed without their consent. Read more…

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OK, seems like you can combine the classic board game Connect Four with most ball sports.

It certainly goes pretty well with golf, as evidenced in a custom game put together by Australian YouTubers How Ridiculous. 

While you might be good at putt-putt, it’s a little trickier trying to hit the ball up a hill — you might prefer the group’s other board game-related creation, Connect Four basketball. Read more…

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Elon Musk is always one for a nice surprise. 

Just after SpaceX launched the first flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday, lofting a red Tesla Roadster to deep space, Musk revealed a little secret hidden within the cosmic car. 

Musk posted a photo on Instagram displaying a message for any space-faring civilization that may come across the car in the future. The words “made on Earth by humans” are printed on the Tesla’s circuit board.

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Known for his fiery, overly aggressive approach to business, ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick seemed laid back and calm, if maybe a bit nervous while sipping on a water bottle, when he testified in a San Francisco court on Tuesday.

Kalanick appeared in U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s courtroom as part of the ongoing legal battle between two of the largest autonomous vehicle developers: Waymo and Uber. 

After Kalanick resigned in June, he’s been elusive, releasing only a few statements. But Tuesday afternoon in the U.S. District Court he spoke — or at least responded to questioning — for nearly an hour. He was by no means effusive, but while wearing a suit and tie, he promptly answered all questions and didn’t come across as defensive or evasive.  Read more…

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Your relationship with bar soap is probably a simple one: it sits in your shower and you use it to clean yourself.

Per Shortlist, Instagram users have found another use for this basic household item and it’s incredibly mesmerizing. It’s a new trend known as “soap cutting,” and, uh, it’s pretty self explanatory: just take a bar of soap and cut it up.

This trend isn’t as weird as you might think. In fact, it just the latest in a long-running internet trend of… cutting stuff up. This includes candle-carving, make-up-destroying, and bath-bomb-slicing.

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The internet may have broken on Tuesday with news that Game of Thrones show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going to write and produce Star Wars films (that’s the third Star Wars series in development, if you’re counting).

Twitter was quick to make jokes combining the two epic franchises, and to criticize this particular employment decision from Disney and Lucasfilm.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX did the unimaginable on Tuesday — it successfully completed its first test launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the company’s most powerful rocket ever. And while many questions remain about what the launch means for SpaceX, there is one question we can’t stop obsessing over: 

Who Is Space Bae?

During the Falcon Heavy launch telecast, SpaceX invited a host of engineers to take us behind the scenes at Cape Canaveral, with each engineer providing more info about the company’s groundbreaking test flight. One of those hosts was a fine (pronounced “fione”) human who I have dubbed Space Bae, because that’s what he is. A bae. Who is teaching us about space. While looking like an absolute snack.  Read more…

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This Girl Scout knows her customers well. 

The young entrepreneur set up shop outside of Urbn Leaf, a recreational and medical marijuana dispensary in San Diego. According to local news outlet Fox 4, the girl sold more than 300 boxes in about six hours. 

Urbn Leaf posted this photo on Instagram, encouraging its clientele to grab some “Girl Scout Cookies with your GSC.” (GSC is a strain of weed named after girl scout cookies, and is known for its “sweet and earthy” flavor.)

“I think our customers loved it,” said Savannah Rakofsky, a representative for Urbn Leaf. “They went out and bought boxes.”  Read more…

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Just like watching for iconic commercials and hating on the Patriots, Pornhub’s annual data analysis has become something of a Super Bowl tradition. The adult site has been posting its stats from the big game since 2014 and the analysis includes most searched terms and changes in traffic during the big game.

According to Pornhub, its most searched term was, unsurprisingly, “Super Bowl.” Other notable searches include Tom Brady, Janet Jackson, and touchdown. 

The post says, “We’re afraid to see if any porn videos actually end with either partner shouting “touchdown!” Read more…

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Well, that was weird.

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump shared an awkward moment on Monday before boarding Marine One. 

A clip, captured by NBC News, shows Melania wearing a long yellow jacket over her shoulders, with arms and hands inside the coat, not inside the sleeves. As the two round the corner, Trump can be seen attempting to grab Melania’s right hand, and failing. Reporters fire off questions and Trump suddenly stops, catching Melania off guard.

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