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    IMGUR Reveals Passwords and E-Mails Were Stolen in 2014 Hack

    IMGUR Reveals Passwords and E-Mails Were Stolen in 2014 Hack

    Popular image sharing social media platform IMGUR is revealing details about a security breach in 2014. This hack apparently resulted in user account information, passwords and e-mail addresses exposed. The revelation comes directly from the official IMGUR blog on Friday. According to the post, they were not aware of it…

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    Reddit Users Can Now Upload Their Images Directly

    For a long while, Reddit has become a forum for people to share their thoughts on everything. The problem users have often faced is that their stories and messages come with accompanying images, forcing them to upload the images elsewhere and then sharing a link to their image. This could all…

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    Super Mario Cluttered Chaos-Calculator Level Anyone?

    Creativity is never more alive than when the gaming community decides to invent whole levels based on various creative influences. The Super Mario Maker title has been an exciting and imaginative vehicle that aims to open up a range of possibilities for all kinds of creative mischief, one such level…

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    Spectacular Real Life Control Panel For a Computer

    When you think you have seen it all, some genius arrives with an innovative implementation which completely re-imagines a function. This is the case for a Redditor by the name of “Smashcuts” sounds like a cross between Mario Bros and a hairdressers, who has built a fully operational, DIY overhead…

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    Guy Tries to Pre-Order Fallout 4 With Payment of 2,000 Bottle Caps

    When the apocalypse comes, money will become obsolete and bottle caps will become our new tender. At least, that’s according to the Fallout games, and one industrious fan has sent developer Bethesda over 2,000 bottle caps as payment to pre-order forthcoming sequel Fallout 4. Seth, or GatorMacheteJr – his handle…

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    Imgur Goes Legit, Starts Banning NSFW Content

    I can hear the sobbing from reddit echoing down my Ethernet cable: Imgur, the image hosting platform favoured by meme-lovers, is cracking down on not safe for work (NSFW) material, banning risqué and pornographic content en masse, thus neutering the internet’s favourite visual playground. Imgur was founded in 2009 by…

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    Imgur Introduces New GIF Format

    The popular image sharing website, Imgur, has introduced its new GIF format. The company announced last year that it had a plan to reinvent the GIF, and now it has, sort of. The company’s format is called GIFV, which claims to provide much higher quality GIFs. GIFV is all part of the site’s…

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    Final Fantasy XIV Gamers Stage Vigil For Dying Player

    As Codex Vahlda, a 29-year-old Final Fantasy XIV player, lay braindead in the hospital, friends and strangers held a vigil within the game to pay their respects to the dying gamer. Codex, a level 50 bard, suffered complications from renal failure and was being kept alive on life support so…

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    Photographer Sues Pinterest Over Pirated Images

    Christopher Boffoli, a photographer in Seattle, is sick of his photos being used illegally. So sick, in fact, that he’s suing anyone who does so. He has already filed lawsuits against Google and Twitter, which were settled out of court, and now he’s turned his sights to image sharing site Pinterest.…

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    IMGUR To Give The Common .Gif an Impressive Upgrade

    The Gif format has been around since the late 80’s, now used extensively online for sharing animated clips, which is ironic given that the format wasn’t even intended to be used for animation. There are many issues and glitches that plague the out of date format, but until now there…

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    Reddit, Imgur and Twitch Join Forces as ‘Derp’ for Data Research

    Some of the biggest names in social media have joined forces to form The Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (Derp). Somehow I doubt that acronym is a coincidence. Derp will grant academic researchers unprecedented access to their respective sites data allowing for groups at Harvard, MIT and McGill to promote “open,…

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