You may have seen the Gru’s plan meme making its rounds, perfectly describing when your plans just go wrong. Gru’s being meme’d again, and this time, it’s to iconic songs.

It started earlier this month, when @OffTopicMica tweeted, “when you type ‘gorls’ instead of ‘girls'” along with a picture of Gru.  

To get an idea of what he sounds like, here’s a clip from the second Despicable Me movie. 

And in the past few days, people have been Photoshopping Gru’s face on to images with girls.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Drop everything, Gru's 'gorls' meme is the funniest thing on Twitter

If you left Avengers: Infinity War wanting way more of Wakanda and way less of everything else — hard same.

And we’re in luck, because USA Today released an exclusive clip of a deleted Black Panther scene. It’s a reminder of what makes the film stand out in the Marvel franchise, displaying the incredible depth of its characters while also speaking to real-world cultural issues and questions. 

Most scintillatingly, it finally confirms what many suspected: Okoye and W’Kabi are married. And marriage is tough, man.

The scene takes place right after T’Challa loses the King’s Challenge to Erik Killmonger, and is thrown off a waterfall — presumably to his death. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Deleted 'Black Panther' scene has big reveal about Okoye and W'Kabi

New Zealand is continually omitted from maps of the world. Seriously, there’s an entire Reddit thread highlighting examples of the country being completely wiped from global existence. 

Also known as Aotearoa or “the land of the long white cloud,” New Zealand is missing from maps in Getty stock images, German museums, Ikea wall stickers, tattoos, iPhone cases — even the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum’s globe left it out.

And New Zealand’s just about done with it.

The country’s tourism board has launched a fun new ad campaign dubbed #getNZonthemap, with a commercial starring Kiwi Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. They’re keen to get to the bottom of this blatant map omission, and they’re looking squarely at … Australia. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | New Zealand's so sick of being left off maps they've launched an entire ad campaign

While he joked about his Congressional testimony and the never-ending privacy scandals of the last few months on the F8 stage, Mark Zuckerberg’s most important message was one he doubled down on throughout his keynote: Facebook is actually very good and not at all evil.

That may not seem particularly surprising, as the Facebook founder has spent the last several weeks on a whirlwind apology tour, where he’s repeated the same talking points over and over and over again.

“We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility,” and “Facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company.” Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Facebook desperately tries to convince us that it's good for the world

Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that fake profiles and soviet robots have no place on Facebook.

But worry not, robots. ‘Messenger’ is still a hospitable home for bots like you.

At F8, Facebook’s Vice President of Messaging Products, David Marcus, jovially reported that Messenger’s integration with business is going swimmingly. According to Marcus, over 8 billion messages have been sent between people and businesses. And there are 300,000 monthly active bots engaging with customers on messenger.

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Source: Mashable | Facebook is really proud of its 300,000 business bots, despite claiming it will put ’people first’