The self-styled "Front Page of the internet" suffers a setback as it's unique "IAMA" subreddit is temporarily closed. The subreddit was a host for such memorable IAMA's as President Obama, talk show hosts, comedians, actors and statesmen as Reddit employee, Victoria, has unexpectedly been sacked.

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A mysterious cryptography competition that claims to be searching for “highly intelligent individuals” has apparently started a third annual round of recruitment. Cicada 3301 (the name given to both the scavenger hunt and the unknown organisation responsible for the puzzles) first began in January 2012, baffling participants with a series of puzzles and codes spread across the internet and various locations worldwide.

Sites like CareerExcuse.com promise to not only craft an elaborate lie based on your exact job specifications but to see it through to the end.

Twitter bots are, essentially, computer programs that tweet of their own accord. While people access Twitter through its Web site and other clients, bots connect directly to the Twitter mainline, parsing the information in real time and posting at will; it’s a code-to-code connection, made possible by Twitter’s wide-open application programming interface, or A.P.I.

In our quest to discover strange new life on strange new worlds, a group of astronomers has modeled potential alien worlds using Earth’s biological history as a framework. From this they have determined that if we are to detect extraterrestrial biology, we should fine-tune our search to the color purple.