Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today.
Verizon and AT&T have agreed to stop “cramming” consumers' telephone bills with unauthorized third-party charges, Sen. Jay Rockefeller announced Wednesday. The move comes after a Senate investigation revealed last year that consumers were hit with $10 billion in fraudulent charges due to the practice over the past five years.
Tuesday we shared with you a story of an alleged Pinterest spammer who spilled his guts to The Daily Dot about how lucrative his business was, especially on the social networking bulletin board site, where he claimed he hauls in $1,000 a day. Wednesday, the website said the man "may or may not actually be a spammer," but that those who engage in similar work "not only confirmed the facts in his account as realistic but also derided him for sharing his secrets."
Here's how one man helped spark the online protest in the Trayvon Martin case.
Spike Lee wasn't the first to retweet the erroneous address on Twitter blindly accepted by many as that of George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month. But the filmmaker's message -- sent last week to his 240,000 Twitter followers -- was the most viral.
Now Lee's apologized to the elderly couple he helped drive from their homes.
An analysis of 36 years' worth of polling data indicates that political conservatives have become increasingly distrustful of science. But why?
Here's a guy whose figured out how to make Amazon recommend stuff you should buy.
And here's a guy who made a trojan virus that specifically target Mac users.
Half of all U.S. mobile subscribers use smartphones.
Half of all households now contain at least one Apple product ... according to this CNBC poll.
Speaking of Apple, if you're an iPhone user who never picked up your free special issue Antenna Gate Bumper, you can now get $15 instead!
We saved the best for last! Today on BuzzFeed's SHIFT, Coco (Mrs. Ice T) personally answers all your butt-related questions! Part 1!
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