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Pornhub just took five years off a lot of people's lives. 

The porn site played a pretty mean and also hilarious April Fools' Day joke on its users. 

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Anyone who clicked on a Pornhub video on Saturday got this message: 

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How kind of them! "No need to manually share your video to your friends and family ever again." 

Of course, the "thanks for sharing" feature was a joke... Читать дальше...

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk may not be the best comedian among tech moguls, but he's pretty good at making fun of himself. 

Pets are magical, whimsical mysteries that come into our lives to make us less miserable. Without pets, we'd just live with humans and honestly, who really wants to do that? 

Have you wrapped your head around that epic Legion finale? Did you walk away feeling as mentally empowered as David Haller, or was it crazy-making enough to have you ready to check into an asylum?  

Russia, it will always be too soon. 

The Russian Foreign Ministry actually posted an April Fools' joke making fun of its alleged involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. 

SEE ALSO: Lyft made these goofy wearables as a prank but they're actually kind of cool

An audio file on the ministry's Facebook page played the joke, which sounded like an answering machine recording, the Associated Press reported. 

A ministry duty officer confirmed to the AP that the recording was an official joke. Читать дальше...

I don't care if you're tired of hearing it, it bears repeating: The studio behind the new Ghost in the Shell movie got the casting wrong. 

"The Trump Presidency" is a pretty obvious, easy setup for an April Fools joke. Many people aren't fans of starting the month off with lies and pranks (we're among them), but at least there's some quality, topical work being done about how stupid this "holiday" is.

April Fools' Day is the only "fake news" day that's almost welcomeAlmost. And one of the longstanding masters of the tech prank, Google, is at it again with a fresh batch of trickery. 

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In the 1930s, the federal government established dozens of experimental cooperative farm settlements across the United States in an effort to provide relief and employment to farmers displaced by the Great Depression.

One of these was Skyline Farms, located on 13,000 acres in Jackson County, Alabama. The settlement was divided into 181 farms, with government-supplied housing and farming equipment to help the tenants work the land.

Like much of the Jim Crow South... Читать дальше...

Every April Fools' Day joke this year is pretty bad. Snapchat's, however, isn't. 

In a year when every day feels like a cruel joke, it isn't really the time for April Fools' Day. 

Sometimes an April Fools joke makes you sad — not because you fall for it, but because you really wanted it to be trueStar Trek icon George Takei tweeted an article on April 1st that listed him as running for Congress in 2018, which will sadly not happen, according to Takei himself.

The Japanese cat Twitter account @b_ru_ru has a whole lot of adorable cat content that deserves your undivided attention, but one tweet stands out among the rest.

4K Blu-Ray disks are what you go for if you absolutely have to have the best TV experience available on the market right now. This new format offers 2,160 lines of resolution, which is double what you get in regular Blu Ray HD. It can also support the more lifelike 60 frames per second. 

April Fools' day as an adult (or like, semi-adult) can be a real drag: you've seen it all. You've seen the thumbtack on the chair, and the stapler in the Jell-o.

The Energy Observer is the first ship to run on hydrogen gas and will sail around the world to promote the development of renewable energies. Read more...

Want to mess with your friends on April 1st? Get creative and hack into their phones.  Read more...

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African-Americans displaced by the Great Ohio River Flood line up at a relief station in Louisville, Kentucky.

Image: Margaret Bourke-White/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

In January 1937, while covering the disastrous flooding of the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky for LIFE Magazine, Margaret Bourke-White captured an image that quickly became famous and eventually rose to become an icon of the Great Depression.

The photo features a simple but sharply ironic juxtaposition... Читать дальше...

Against all odds, the Rickroll still hasn't turned around and deserted us.

President Trump has called his 1987 book, The Art of The Deal, the best selling business book of all time. Unsurprisingly, that is not true.

I remember the halcyon days when April Fools' Day was a bit of harmless fun. We'd read fake stories from the newspaper over our cornflakes and have a good chuckle. Fake news was just something that happened once a year. But, those days are gone

We are now living in the age of fake news; where mistruths are presented as truths, and believed at face value. Fake news is no longer a once-yearly event, it's a 365-day-a-year news cycle. And, that's why April Fools' Day needs to die. 

Amazon is seeking social media celebrities.

The online shopping giant quietly launched a new program this week in which influencers with "large followings" can apply to host their own stores on its site in exchange for a commission on products sold.

TechCrunch first reported the news on Friday.

SEE ALSO: The latest crop of #Influencers are lurking at your local Best Buy

The program, currently in its beta testing stage, appears to be a more exclusive version of Amazon's existing affiliating marketing service. Читать дальше...

After months of daily leaks, Samsung finally announced its next flagship Android phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+.

Spoiler warning: This interview contains plot details for the series finale of Grimm.

Internet service providers are in an awkward spot. After getting all dressed up for the sell-your-data dance, it turns out they'll be staying home.