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Extra, Extra: New Apps Will Break Up With Your Significant Other For You
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Ben Yakas
Published Dec 26, 2015
Modified Dec 26, 2015
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Published Dec 26, 2015
Modified Dec 26, 2015
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- Hoverboards ruined Christmas for a lot of people.
- Rumors are heating up about a possible 2016 Guns N' Roses reunion.
- No one invited Bono to Christmas, so he busked on the street for charity instead.
- A British astronaut apologized for calling the wrong number from space.
- Noah Syndergaard and his family celebrated Christmas in Bartolo Colon shirts.
- This is probably the most dedicated Star Wars tribute band out there today.
- That guy who wanted to bike across the country on a Citi Bike actually did it.
- A Pakistani man from South Africa on his "dream vacation" to the city has been arrested after he described his suitcase as a “bomb” while checking in to a Brooklyn hotel.
- Instead of communicating with significant other, you can now use an app to break up with them.
- No one is using the city's troubled teen text hotline.
- And finally, this child came up with a new use for her patient dog's tail:
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