On Sunday night, car manufacture Dodge sparked a might backlash on social media for a tone-deaf Super Bowl ad that used excerpts of a speech by Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. By Monday morning, someone recut the ad, wielding King’s words against the car-making giant.

Dodge’s ad used excerpts of King’s famous “Drum Major Instinct” speech, given just two months before his assassination, and it backfired. Badly. 

But one savvy internet user realized that the speech also had some coarse words from King for advertisers and so, to make perhaps the most firm point possible how off-the-mark the ad was, recut the original version of the Dodge using those excerpts, like the one below. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Super Bowl commercial recut to include Martin Luther King Jr's real thoughts on ads

It’s been an exciting weekend in the world of cryptocurrencies. On Friday, Bitcoin and all other major coins plummeted double digits according to CoinMarketCap, following an onslaught of bad news about stricter regulations, grim predictions and nasty scams. Then, after reaching a low of roughly $7,800, Bitcoin rebounded and other coins followed; on Sunday, Bitcoin was trading at over $9,300, and the total cryptocurrency market cap was more than $450 billion again. 

But come Monday and Bitcoin is testing new lows. It is currently trading at $7,762, down 11.3 percent in the last 24 hours. The second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum, is down 12.5 percent and is trading at $781, and the third, Ripple, is down 13 percent and is trading at $0.77 per coin.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | The Bitcoin rollercoaster is going down again