A Minnesota high school senior found herself without a prom date, so she decided to take her Harvard acceptance letter to the dance.
She got the idea from her sister, and then took to Twitter to post a photo of herself kissing the Harvard2021 folder with the caption: “Couldn’t find a man to accept me for prom so I took a college that did.”
The frugal 17-year-old, whose dress was made by a family friend, adds that her date “was pretty low maintenance, so I didn’t have to pay for his dinner”.
Kids as young as 13-years-old are being treated for cellphone addiction.
The reSTART Life Center in Seattle is the only treatment center of its kind in the western world and helps youngsters with addictions to digital technology including video games.
Its founder says she has treated kids as young as 13.
She also advises people of all ages to restrict their use of devices to certain scheduled times. and says families should confront their worries about the increasing influence of technology.
Over a quarter of people have had a sexual fantasy about a voice assistant like Apple’s Siri.
Researchers surveyed over 1,000 smartphone users and 100 Amazon Echo owners.
They found 26% admit they have had a sexual fantasy about a voice assistant, while 37% said they love their voice assistant so much that they wish it were a real person.
Russell Brand is opening up about his marriage with Katy Perry.
During a recent interview, Russell said that he has positive feelings toward her these days. He said, “Katy was obviously very, very occupied and very busy. I was very occupied and very busy—not to the same degree, I recognize.. But it meant, I think, that [for] the sanctimony of marriage , which is a very private thing really…I supposed we perhaps—intuitively or explicitly I don’t know—understood that we better protect this thing.”
He said, “The marriage didn’t last for a very long time, and I think that is to do with the undulated nature of fame and that, living in those conditions and what was happening.”
Russell said, “But I have come away from that experience. I still feel very warm towards her. I feel like, when I hear about her or see her, ‘Awe, there’s that person. There’s that person in the world’… I sort of recognize it as a part of my life that was for a clearly delineated piece of time.”
According to Uber, wallets, keys and phones are the most common forgotten items people leave behind. But occasionally there are some strange things left behind like:
1. Engagement ring
2. Nordic walking poles
3. Pool cue
4. Vacuum
5. Smoke machine
6. Bulletproof vest
7. Elf cut-out
8. Money bag
9. Valium
10. Taser