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Girl manages to tweet from smart fridge after mother confiscates phone

A teenager has managed to tweet from a smart fridge after her mother confiscated her phone

The teengaer, who is an Ariana Grande fan, known as Dorothy on Twitter started tweeting from unexpected devices such as a Nintendo DS and a Wii Console. But the weirdest of them all, was an LG smart fridge.

She tweeted: “I do not know if this is going to tweet I am talking to my fridge what the heck my mom confiscated all my electronics again”

The Twitter client could be seen as “LG Smart Refrigerator”. But the tweet won her thousands of likes and retweets, plus the hashtag #freedorothy. Even the official LG Electronics Twitter account tweeted the hashtag.

A few days later, she updated her fans, saying “ I don't know how I got this much support thank you so much to my supporters and @twitter this is crazy I would be lost without you and given up. I'm trying to get my things back fast so I can thank you properly! “. This tweet was also sent by the fridge.

Even though she’s still on her ban, the 15-yr old updated The Guardian on the situation via her cousin’s iPad. She told the newspaper that her mother had confiscated her electronics two weeks ago, beacuse she had caused a fire when she got distracted while cooking.

“She took all my tech so I’d pay more attention to my surroundings” She stated

“I felt mortified! I was worried because I’ve never been bored all summer and Twitter passes the time for me”

Before she resorted for the fridge, she used a Nintendo DS. Which her mother discovered and added to the ban. She then managed to tweet from a Wii before going to the fridge.

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Keep an eye on the data breaches that have your details

In today's world, data breaches are becoming ever more prevalent and your data could be in some of them, unknown to you. Here's where a free service from Mozilla (company behind Firefox) comes in.

It's called Firefox Monitor and it allows you to look up your email against it's database to check what breaches you have been involved in and allows you to set up alerts so that you will get emailed the next time you are involved in a breach.

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Modern day slavery in Britain- ‘The plants were more valuable than my life’

This episode of The Guardian’s Audio Longreads tells the story of a Vietnamese boy called Minh who was trafficked into the UK as a teenager and was forced to grown cannabis. It also breaks down his fight to be recognised as a victim and not as a criminal.

Listen here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/aug/12/enslaved-on-a-british-cannabis-farm-the-plants-were-more-valuable-than-my-life-podcast

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Deepfakes are now so advanced that this happened....

This video is a testemant to the times that we live in. It shows a 2008 interview on David Letterman’s late night show with SNL star Bill Hader. During the interview he recounts a story that involves Tom Cruise and starts to do an impression. But in this altered clip, the comedian’s face is subtly changed to look like Tom Cruise’s.