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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
There actually is an app for everything now. A Denver-based app called ‘High There’ is basically Tindr for people who smoke marijuana. People are matched by their preferences for getting high. We’ve seen it all now.
It emerged this week that some YouTube users are disguising porn on the site by giving their videos titles in Irish. None of these sexually explicit videos are actually as Gaeilge and the method appears to have backfired for these users. Yes, they evaded the website’s filters but very few people are searching for porn on YouTube using the Irish language and so no one is really watching them.
The Pirate Bay was back online after being down for nearly two months, Motherboard reports. However paranoid file-sharers believed it could actually be a trap operated by the FBI so they could track down people using the site.
In direct competition with Uber, Google is preparing to offer its own ride-hailing service to work with its self-driving cars, according to Bloomberg.
There are few things we like more here at TheJournal.ie than seeing our colleagues doing something that makes them look silly. This week, two of our staffers battled it out with the help of a new app – one that makes spinning in a circle into a competition. The results were pretty wonderful…
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Oh Dia,
Oh Dia,
Oh Dia,
Just doesn’t have the same ring to it while watching an auld bit of porn…
Tá mé ag teacht!! Tháinig mé!
High there is a genius idea, although I imagine its uses will go well beyond dating. All out? usual contacts are dry? well find a girl locally who might have a bit to sell. Far more personal than Silk Road, and you just might get the ride!
Vaporizers are the way to go
Magic Flight launch box is killer!!!
I never realised how multi-lingual those asian porn stars were.
Cunning linguists.
I can just imagine the High there app being used here in Dublin………..
“Story bud! you gotta lend of a fiddy bag til next tuesday, I`m bleedin`out i am”
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