As the black community in Ferguson, Missouri solemnly commemorates the tragic loss of an unarmed black teeanger from a year ago, the city braces for another day of violence in the wake of yesterday's police shooting of yet another black man on the one year anniversary of Michael Brown's death.

Following a rather embarassing wardrobe malfunction in which performer Lenny Kravitz accidentally exposed himself on stage at a concert in Sweden, the Internet erupted with jokes about the incident using the hashtag #penisgate.

While the retirement of the Canadian hitchhiking robot seems inevitable after it was found maimed beyond repair in Philadelphia this week, the viral surveillance video purportedly showing the death of hitchBOT has been debunked as a hoax most likely orchestrated by a pair of YouTube pranksters.

Vocal fry – that way of speaking where someone's voice gets all low and gravelly – is now the subject of controversy, especially among young women. Some critics say women need to eliminate the tone to be taken seriously, but many respond that people should be listening to what they say, not how they say it.

A hacker identifying himself by the handle "ThreatKing" has taken responsibility for hitting the NYMag.com website with a large scale DDoS cyber attack.