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Credit: Media Whale Stock/Shutterstock What would you do to get more likes or shares on your favorite social media platform this April Fools' Day? Would you blast an airhorn in your partner's ear while they're sleeping, record and upload their reaction online? Would you put hot chili in their food, then film and share their…

Ryan Cohen  took control of GameStop Corp. in 2021 vowing to transform the faltering videogame retailer into an e-commerce juggernaut.Meme-stock investors loved the idea. Ordinary consumers, it turns out, did not. E-commerce sales didn’t take off—they declined. Losses grew, and a succession of online-sales executives Mr. Cohen brought in left.  Last year, to little fanfare, the billionaire investor reversed course and slammed the brakes on the e-commerce push to refocus…

In a post on Instagram, the artist formerly known as Kanye West has said he “likes Jewish people again” after watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street.“Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made me like Jewish people again,” wrote Ye in the caption for the post, which included the DVD cover of the 2012 comedy. “No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people. No Christian can be labeled antisemite knowing Jesus is Jew. Thank you Jonah Hill I love…

As memes have become increasingly popular online, meme coins have also emerged. In order to achieve success, Dogecoin chose an internet meme as its iconic mascot. There is now a new cryptocurrency featuring the dog theme. There is no doubt that Dogecoin and Shiba Inu will remain very popular, but Dogetti will give them a run for their money. Especially with its new 50% launch offer code DON50. Dogetti Puts The Family Ahead Of Everything Dogetti (DETI) may look like a pack of menacing hounds, but this family has a heart…

Karnataka has sought to relax its factories law to provide for extended working hours to drive investments in electronics manufacturing and help existing units such as Wistron expand further, as well as attract the likes of Foxconn to set up shop.The state’s legislature last month passed a Bill to amend the Factories Act, 1948, proposing to increase the time an employee can work on the shopfloor in a day to 12 hours from nine, with breaks. Without a break, it can be up to six hours in a day.The amendment has retained the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tweet about greed. That's what U.S. politicians ought to do if they want to gain likes and retweets on Twitter, according to new University of British Columbia research. The work is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers from UBC's department of psychology analyzed every tweet…

Image via Marvel There’s plenty of great suit-up scenes thus far in the MCU. From Thor to Spider-Man, we’ve just about seen it all. But Marvel’s best suit-up scene might actually be the best scene that doesn’t necessarily occur within the MCU. The scene in particular is from the 1994 animated Iron Man series. And while the show itself wasn’t massively successful (at least not as much as the Spider-Man cartoon from the same era), it does have a few hidden gems throughout. One such gem is a clip of fan-favorite…

Image: Joe Scarnici (Getty Images)Spotify announced it is changing its user interface by replacing the universal heart icon and the “add to playlist” button with the plus symbol. The change will allow users to not only save music, but to add a song, playlist, or podcast to a specific destination with the two-in-one combo button.Company research reportedly found that users were overwhelmingly pleased with the new layout and it “helped save time and gave users the ability to add to multiple playlists at once,” Spotify said…

Photo via Warner Bros. Will DC’s latest superhero movie turn out to be yet another embarrassment at the box office? What does The Flash have in common with this 2022 blockbuster that may prove it’s worth all its hype? And finally, are the writers of Joker: Folie a Deux really going to change this key part of Harley Quinn’s identity for her new “origin?” Shazam! Fury of the Gods may have a lower opening weekend than Black Adam Photo via Warner Bros. According to the analysts, it doesn’t look like Shazam: Fury of…

A shocking new inside report claims that Elon Musk demanded his engineers fix Twitter's algorithm in his favor or risk losing their jobs after a Super Bowl tweet by Joe Biden got more likes than his own. Platformer (opens in new tab), a reliable outlet with proven inside knowledge of Twitter's dealings, reports that Musk's cousin James Musk pinged engineers with an urgent message at 2:36 am on Monday. "When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Musk’s tweet…