April fool stories

do_ron_ron · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:04

Surprised no one has started this so far, so here is the first link

https://techcrunch.com/gallery/apri...-best-and-worst-of-this-years-pranks/slide/8/

NVP · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:19

Here are some from the auto world: http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/anything-goes/april-fools-day-2017-best-jokes-car-manufacturers

Fiigmo · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:23

Thames Valley Police new unit

ivrytwr3 · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:25

Got my kids with this one this morning:

"Quick! Downstairs before they all go. Lot's of Brownies for you all!!!"

Vonhelmet · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:26

I read one about how we're leaving the EU.

TS7 · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:27

Facebook has been good so far.

Air Emirates: new planes with an onboard swimming pool, gym and park.
Subway: new ice cream flavours which include tuna melt and meatball marinara
Coke: they took it too far, with 'new floating helium filled coke bottles'.

robfosters · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:43

something daft already!! · 1 Apr 2017 at 10:57

https://paulbraterman.wordpress.com/2017/04/01/clay-tablet-casts-new-light-on-origins-of-genesis/

Destination · 1 Apr 2017 at 11:17

I was going to post this, but on further inspection it might actually be real.
Trump has a photo op to sign some presidential orders, and leaves without signing as he forgot.
Real or fake? Impossible to tell with that man.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...-orders/ar-BBz8Glj?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartanntp

Sankari · 1 Apr 2017 at 11:38

adolf hamster · 1 Apr 2017 at 12:12

8 hours of matlab, the april fool is that it's not an april fool

asim18 · 1 Apr 2017 at 12:35

You can turn Google Maps into a Pac-Man maze.

Mysterae_ · 1 Apr 2017 at 12:38

A pretty lame one from Nvidia.

Although a GTX USB memory stick would a cool thing

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robfosters · 1 Apr 2017 at 12:42

Rather than a USB, it would be cool to have a little HDMI plug in device that looks like a graphics card for that thing (I forget the name) where you can play your PC games on your telly.

datalol-jack · 1 Apr 2017 at 12:47

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...gio-osborne-takes-new-job-as-fashion-designer

Georgio!

tracertong · 1 Apr 2017 at 16:32

The kodi website certainly surprised a few people today :-)

https://kodi.tv/

http://koditips.com/kodi-domain-seized-homeland-security/

nutcase · 1 Apr 2017 at 16:54

Traffic near me is a nightmare. I posted on the local facebook group that an access bridge was being closed permanently to improve traffic flow (would cause a total nightmare if it happened as it did for a couple of weeks last year). Got a few people

garsands · 1 Apr 2017 at 17:57

http://farming-simulator.com/newsArticle.php?lang=en&country=gb&news_id=56

Greebo · 1 Apr 2017 at 18:18

Mysterae_ said:
A pretty lame one from Nvidia.

Although a GTX USB memory stick would a cool thing .

One of ocuk's revils ran the story that overnight Nvidia had done a hostile share takeover of AMD.

Devrij · 1 Apr 2017 at 20:07

Linus Tech Tips got me with theirs (server room fire)