The game was simple and received criticism online. A fictional teenage girl created to warn young people about extremism is now being used online in a very different way. What began as an educational ...

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Before PlayStation, Xbox, and modern gaming consoles existed, one man quietly changed entertainment forever. Ralph H. Baer is widely known as the father of video games, creating the first home gaming ...

Part of a good joke is people getting it. If nobody does, who is going to laugh at it? The same applies to memes. However, some of them are so niche, you need to have a Ph.D. in internet culture to ...

While it's fairly common knowledge to enthusiasts that the first jet fighter was the speedy Messerschmitt Me 262, introduced in 1944, the invention of the turbine jet itself may not be as widely known ...

Google Photos will now let you make memes with your own images. On Thursday, Google introduced a new generative AI-powered feature called “Me Meme,” which will allow you to combine a photo template ...

On the first Thanksgiving weekend of President Donald Trump’s second term, the Washington Post published a serious scoop about the administration. The Post reported that US military forces, after ...

The crown for the first global meme of 2026 goes to anime studio Mappa for its work on Jujutsu Kaisen season 3, specifically what the internet has dubbed the “Naoya Hair Flip.” In the two-episode ...

The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single ...

The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos In certain corners of the internet, on niche news feeds and algorithms, an ...