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Conan Gray greets an admirer at VidCon. At 19, the YouTube musician was now famous enough to earn an official meet-and-greet at the conference, his movements controlled by security protocol to prevent a mob.

YouTube is the new way to get famous; at VidCon, the tweens want to be next in line

December 12, 2018 at 8:20 p.m.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - The fans who approached Conan Gray wanted to give their whole selves to him in a moment. He handled the crying, shaking ones with warmth and patience,...

Meet the woman who coined ‘Me Too’ 10 years ago — to help women of color

June 1, 2018 at 8:47 p.m.

Tarana Burke was watching as #MeToo became an internet phenomenon Sunday. Soon, she started to panic. By the time celebrities were tweeting #MeToo, encouraging every woman who had survived sexual...

Why you are only now seeing the Stanford sex offender’s mugshots

June 11, 2018 at 10:12 p.m.

The media paid attention when a California judge sentenced a committed sex offender to just six months of jail time last week after prosecutors asked for years in state prison....

Best lines from Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech

May 17, 2019 at 11:55 p.m.

President Barack Obama's last speech at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Saturday night was, like his previous years, packed with jokes. Targets included the media, the 2016 presidential...

Artificial-intelligence software designed by Microsoft to tweet like a teenage girl has been suspended after it began spouting offensive remarks, according to the company Thursday, March 24, 2016.

The Internet turned Tay, Microsoft’s fun millennial AI bot, into a genocidal maniac

June 11, 2018 at 4:27 a.m.

It took mere hours for the Internet to transform Tay, the teenage A.I. bot who wants to chat with and learn from millennials, into Tay, the racist and genocidal A.I....

Karman Willmer, left, and Shelby Messenger rally against SB 277, a California measure requiring schoolchildren to get vaccinated, outside the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on June 25, 2015.

The Internet’s favorite conspiracies don’t make mathematical sense

June 11, 2018 at 6:09 a.m.

If NASA really faked the moon landing in 1969, about 411,000 people would have worked together to keep that information from the public, and the whole thing would have been...

Vine star famous for inventing gun meme arrested on gun charges

December 17, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

As the police approached the home of Bryan Silva, the viral Vine star angrily ranted and cursed into a camera and invited the approaching police to admire his Mercedes Benz...

Kanye West poses as he arrives to attend Dries van Noten's Fall Winter 2015 /2016 Ready to wear fashion collection as part of Paris Fashion Week in Paris on March 4, 2015.

All the things that Kanye West insults in his new single

June 9, 2018 at 2:38 a.m.

Kanye West released a new single for New Year's, "Facts," which is essentially an extended ode to West's hate for one prominent athletic shoe company. See, West used to be...

Migrating snow geese arrive by the tens of thousands at the Middle Creek Wildlife Area in Lancaster County, Pa.

‘Basically, they just fell out of the sky’: 2,000 snow geese found dead in Idaho

June 23, 2019 at 4:08 p.m.

About 2,000 snow geese migrating from Mexico to their Alaskan nesting grounds were found dead in Idaho, the state's Department of Fish and Game announced Monday. Although testing is still...

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