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Weird Wide Web: Secret dinner parties, speeding Google cars and a test of your sanity

All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.

WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.

Speedy news of the week

This week we learned Google’s driverless cars will be programmed to exceed speed limits by up to 16km/h if it is deemed to be the safest option. The project’s lead software engineer told Reuters that this is designed for situations where going slower than surrounding vehicles that are over the limit could be dangerous.

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Speaking of Google cars…

A Google Street View car in Chile may have run over this dog

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Annoying Facebook move of the week

People were pretty mad when Facebook forced them to download its Messenger app. It turns out it was a very effective move, though, with more than 500 million android users having now downloaded it.

Secret dinner party of the week

Users of the anonymous sharing app Secret have started hosting dinner parties, to get to know some of the faceless people whose secrets they read. A reporter from Recode was lucky enough to get invited to one and here’s how she got on.

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Flappy Bird replacement of the week

The creator of the intensely frustrating game Flappy Bird has released a new, equally nerve-wracking game to test your sanity, The Next Web reports.

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    Oct 24th 2013, 10:58 PM

    Sure Twitter has millions of users, but not many characters. Only140.

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    Oct 24th 2013, 11:11 PM

    You buy into a company when it’s small, not when it’s massive, it’s too late now

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    Oct 24th 2013, 11:08 PM

    #overpriced

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    Oct 24th 2013, 11:11 PM

    Think so? Based on what?

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    Oct 25th 2013, 1:31 AM

    The overpriced one was facebook.

    Their IPO price was crazy.

    FB has kind of hit a wall aswell.
    It seems now just a repository for baby / cat pictures.

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    Oct 25th 2013, 9:47 AM

    Sorry lads that was just a jest, impossible to call if it’s overpriced but I can’t see them ever getting the revenue streams of Facebook! Joey if you think Facebook was overpriced on launch you might have a quick look at it’s current trading price!

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    Oct 24th 2013, 10:51 PM

    They just need to keep the moronic teenagers and illetirates off and it’ll be fine

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    Oct 24th 2013, 11:04 PM

    *illiterates

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    Oct 25th 2013, 3:53 AM

    Oh, the irony!

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    Oct 25th 2013, 2:13 PM

    lulz

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    Oct 24th 2013, 10:51 PM

    Crazy numbers.

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    Oct 24th 2013, 11:22 PM

    #hasnevermadeaprofit

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    Oct 24th 2013, 11:00 PM

    Twitter…

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    Oct 24th 2013, 11:03 PM

    Yes

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    Oct 25th 2013, 7:37 AM

    It’s underpriced considering Pinterest is going to be valued at $3,2 billion which is a joke. But sure shares are the way to go seen as the über elite will be the ones owning everything while us poor Joe Schmo’s will be left with propping up this bullshit roundabout we are all on.

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    Oct 25th 2013, 2:13 PM

    $17-$20 per share is a great price, I’ll be buying a couple of dozen for myself.

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