A Reddit user has uploaded footage he says his dad, Charles Cook, took of the deadly tornado that's killed scores in suburban Oklahoma City forming. The video has been linked to by NASA. Here's the son's quote on Reddit: He [the father] was worr

Reddit recent asked its readers, "[for those] labeled as gifted children, do you think the label harmed you, or helped you?" It sparked a big discussion, highlighting some real drawbacks to growing up gifted. Tumblr founder and high school dropout D

Does this double serpent-tailed siren look familiar? Imgur photo from Reddit. If you are a coffee drinker, visions of a green mermaid-esque logo affixed to...

Boy was I surprised when a Reddit User with the twitter handle RaptorClause got back to me about these images to say that they were all "public domain." They were public domain, he explained, because they had all been taken on a government camera, by

A former Amazon Web Services engineer recently conducted an Ask-Me-Anything session on Reddit, and one of the more surprising things he said was just how much of a threat Google's cloud computing service is to Amazon. That's because Google's cloud is

For some, social media must seem like a minefield of potential missteps. They have heard stories about people who accidentally destroyed their reputations by making an egregious mistake on sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Reddit. In light o

Reddit's ad sales pitch deck is fantastic for two reasons. First, it has lots of amazing facts about the sheer size of "the front page of the internet." Reddit's 70 million monthly readers spent an average of 20 minutes on the site, and looked at 5 b

Brett Easton Ellis, the author of "American Psycho" (the scariest book written about Wall Street) and several other must-read novels, did a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" the other day.  It was a pretty good AMA and we'd recommend reading the full thi

Angus MacGyver, the main character of the timeless television show, has escaped many a fate with nothing more than the random objects he has in front of him. Over on Reddit, users are sharing their best "MacGyver moments," where they were able to ext

In a series of posts on Consumerist, Rohit Chopra, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Student Loan Ombudsman, answered readers’ questions about comparing, paying for, and getting out from under student loans. If you missed it, or

A 20-something guy on Reddit sent the NBA an e-mail on April 19th declaring his eligibility for the 2013 NBA Draft "after a view drinks." Another Reddit user left this comment speculating on how the night went down, and nemoran called it "scarily acc

After four weeks of voting, Reddit users on the /r/shanghai page chose the best things to eat, drink, and do in Shanghai. Over 800 people voted on 17 different categories, from the best Chinese restaurant to the best street food. Here are the winners

If you want to learn about "community," you'd do well to pay attention to Reddit. Sure, the site is news aggregator with thousands of different communities across all types of interests. But there's more to it than that. When there's a cause that nee

If you're born gifted, life is handed to you on a silver platter, right? Not according to several Reddit users who answered the question, "[For those] labeled as gifted children, do you think the label harmed you, or helped you?" Most said that the "

Recently a 16-year-old was arrested for a science experiment that went wrong. The incident sparked a question raised on Reddit asking users to give examples...

The latest hilarious receipt to go viral comes to The Huffington Post courtesy of Vancouver's rabid hockey fans (and Reddit.) A picture of the receipt,...

Recently a 16-year old was arrested for a science experiment that went wrong. The excessive nature of the punishment for something harmless had people questioning the school's rules.  A question raised on Reddit asked users to chime in and

Top Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator has produced an army of super successful startups. Think peer-to-peer market for home sharing Airbnb (valued at $2.5 billion), storage startup Dropbox (valued at $4 billion), and social news site Reddit (va

Last week, a Tennessee family embarked on a treasure hunt straight out of the movies -- and their amazing discoveries were posted to Reddit last...

Getting thousands, maybe millions of Internet users to view, like, share, and talk about your product isn’t easy. Any number of companies have tried to anonymously post “viral” content in the hope that it will spread quickly (and wi

While Reddit has never pretended to be a news organization, as it grows bigger and more influential the rest of the world expects it to exercise judgment.    

Reddit is awesome. The self-titled "front page of the internet" is loaded with communities of people sharing links and communicating with each other about nearly any topic you can imagine. The site is currently home to 238,310 different communities,

The controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is likely to die in the Senate, according to US News. The bill, which has stirred up internet privacy watchdogs and sites like Reddit, followed closely in the footsteps of the las

Someone on Reddit made this next-level GIF that shows you what all five of Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish's primary pitches look like at once. Not sure what's more impressive, the revolutionary GIFs-manship, or the diverse movements of these pitche

The amateur detective sleuths on 4Chan, Reddit and other social sites were so eager to demonstrate their investigative prowess in the information vacuum days following the Boston Bombing, they managed to identify virtually everyone who appeared even

It wasn't just Reddit that failed last week in its quest to find the Boston bombing suspects — facial recognition technology also reportedly failed to produce a match for the suspects. This certainly stands in contrast to hype about the technol

Reddit is apologizing for its role in fueling the social media witch hunts for the Boston bombings suspects.    

Reddit apologizes for missteps in marathon bombing case.

Yesterday, an earthquake in China killed over 100 people, and several hundred were injured. The quake struck during the middle of one reporter's wedding, so naturally she got on camera in her wedding dress, and began reporting the news. (Via Reddit a

April 19 (Reuters) - Around 7 p.m. on Thursday night, social media sites like Twitter and Reddit lit up with a sensational rumor: that Sunil Tripathi, a student who had vanished weeks ago, was one of the suspects accused of bombing the Boston Maratho

April 19 (Reuters) - Around 7 p.m. on Thursday night, socialmedia sites like Twitter and Reddit lit up with a sensationalrumor: that Sunil Tripathi, a student who had vanished weeksago, was one of the suspects accused of bombing the BostonMarathon.

April 19 (Reuters) - Around 7 p.m. on Thursday night, social media sites like Twitter and Reddit lit up with a sensational rumor: that Sunil Tripathi, a student who had vanished weeks ago, was one of the suspects accused of bombing the Boston Maratho

This week social media has given the public an active part in the suspense unfolding in Boston.The last few days have been undeniably cinematic as Boston's bombing tragedy has turned into a horror siege. There was the initial act of terror at the Bos

When the FBI came out Thursday with a few blurry images and asked for "help" identifying the subjects, they were asking Reddit. Put more simply, they were asking the Internet to help them find the suspects. And the Internet answered: within a few hou

News sharing site Reddit was brought to its knees earlier today by what it says was a "malicious" denial-of-service attack. The site is functioning now, but with limited availability, it says, thanks to the attack.   Site availability continues

Just a few minutes ago, the FBI released images of two suspects for Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. It hopes the community will be able to help identify the two men, who were both wearing baseball caps. The Reddit community has already gotten to wo

Image by William Banzai The privacy-shredding Internet spying bill - CISPA - has passed the House. Our only chance is to stop it in the Senate. Background here and here. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian also urges us to contact Google, Facebook and

The battle between traditional media outlets and social media in the race to identify--and avoid misidentifying--the Boston bomb suspect(s) continues. Today, the New York Post put a picture of two people in the marathon crowd on its cover, saying tha

Wanting to offer some comfort to those affected by the Boston Marathon tragedy, a California woman named Liz Kosearas took to Reddit on Monday afternoon...

A Reddit user posted an innocuous question two days ago – "What is one cool internet trick you've learned?" It generated huge response, with well over 10,000 well-practiced internet users chiming in. Here are 10 of our favorite responses.A simp

Have you ever typed the name of Ikea’s "Gosa Raps" pillow into Google Translate? One Reddit user did just that and found that the nearly...

We know there’s a market for classic games and game consoles out there, but one Walmart is holding steady on the price for a Nintendo GameCube title that was released seven years ago.Over at Reddit, a brave Raider of the Lost Walmart stumbled u

A shocking photo posted to Reddit shows what appears to be fluorescent green something streaming out of a pipe into a waterway. We're not sure...

Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading up strategic partnerships at social-news website Reddit.The post Ex-Kleiner Partner Elle

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading up strategic partnerships at social-news website Reddit.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Reuters) - Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Reuters) - Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading up strategic partnerships at social-news website Red

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Reuters) - Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading up strategic partnerships at social-news website Red

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Reuters) - Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading up strategic partnerships at social-news website Red

SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Reuters) - Ellen Pao, a former Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers junior partner who is suing the venture capital firm for gender discrimination, has landed a new job heading...