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In a week when the Washington Post clarified that what a future congressman did to a Guardian reporter might be better described as a “choke slam” instead of a run-of-the-mill body slam, this also happened:
Mark Zuckerberg gave the commencement speech at Harvard, the university where he started Facebook in 2004 — leading him to drop out in 2005. “If I get through this speech today,” he said Thursday, “it’ll be the first time I actually finish something here at Harvard.”
President Trump is no laughing matter, at least not for the Web project that HBO was developing with political humorist Jon Stewart. They’ve scrapped their plan for an animated parody of a cable news network, blaming technical issues.
Twitter got ahead of the game on showing off the 239 emoji due to be released this year, but there’s a catch.
Mashable reported that for the moment, the emoji are visible only on Twitter’s website because most other networks and services don’t have them yet. See what happens when you go over 140 characters?
Humanity cannot pass Go anymore. A Google computer program, AlphaGo, beat the world’s best player, 19year-old Chinese prodigy Ke Jie, in a duel over the strategy board game near Shanghai.
A lawsuit alleging that Hershey is intentionally underfilling packages of Whoppers, Reese’s Pieces and other candy received approval to move forward in federal court.
Robert Bratton of Missouri claims that Hershey is being “misleading, deceptive and unlawful,” and is asking the company to pay back at least $5 million to customers.
When life gives you a prematurely born hippo, you make beer. At least that’s what happened at Listermann
Brewing Co., which is releasing a Team Fiona New England-style IPA in honor of the Cincinnati Zoo’s new hippo. The company says 25 percent of the proceeds will go to the zoo’s care team.