Sometimes (OK, all the time) you just want some ice cream.

That’s how Georgia Arnett felt when she was at the Pacers-Magic game with her boyfriend Jake Moran.

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The video shows Moran casually swinging the ice cream away from Arnett. He must have missed the memo that sharing is caring.

The couple appeared on “Good Morning America” on Monday to discuss and laugh about the video.

“I didn’t want her to have my ice cream,” he said.

What was not obvious in the viral video but was later confirmed was that Arnett had her own cup of ice cream just offscreen.

Blue Bell ice cream got such a kick out of this story that the company has agreed to supply Arnett with free ice cream for a year, which, for reasons we cannot understand, Arnett said she will share with her boyfriend.

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That’s how Georgia Arnett must have felt when she was at the Pacers-Magic game with her boyfriend Jake Moran.

The couple, while watching the game, was also enjoying what looks like delicious ice cream. A video that went viral shows Arnett reaching over with a tiny plastic white spoon to try a bite of her boyfriend’s mint-chip ice cream, only to be rejected by him. The girl just wanted some mint-chip, how can you blame her.

The video shows Moran casually swinging the ice cream cone away from Arnett. He must have missed the memo that sharing is caring.

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In the grand tradition of science fiction, it is time we accepted it — computers have taken over. So says Bronwen Grimes, a technical artist at Valve.com and one of the many young entrepreneurs featured in a video in support of programming curriculum in schools by the nonprofit Code.org. The video has gone viral, reaching over 9 million views in one week.

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“Computers are everywhere,” Grimes says. “You want to work in agriculture, entertainment, manufacturing — it’s just all over.”
The video taps some big forces in software engineering — Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Drew Houston — alongside boldface names from outside of the computerverse, like singer will.i.am and basketball star Chris Bosh. They make the case that programming helped them learn how to problem solve and that anyone can do it.

Professor Lev Manovich teaches computer science at the CUNY Graduate Center and writes about technology and culture. He says that countries like China are getting ahead of the United States by teaching programming in high school, and that students should be taught not only how to code, but how to understand programming concepts like how a web browser or a search engine works.

“I think we need to take a larger and more expansive view that coding is not just the only thing you need to know. It’s one element and there’s a difference between writing a program that has five lines and learning how Gmail works — a program with 5 million lines of code,” he says.

The film is set to show in movie theaters this week. A curriculum that includes computer programming, however, has yet to go viral.

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An 8-year-old girl driving a car at 100 km/h while her parents urged her is the latest viral video hit from Russia.

In the video, Karina Mikulchik, who is not wearing a seat beat, is behind the wheel in an Audi on an icy narrow country road outside St. Petersburg.

Her father, Dmitry, is in the front passenger seat and after his daughter reaches 90 km/h can be heard saying, “Come on! Give some gas! At least, 100 km/h!” Meanwhile, her mother, Elena, is in the backseat filming her daughter’s antics. After the speedometer hits 100, the father promises to put the video on VKontakte, Russia’s popular social network.

Throughout the 5:40 video clip, now viral on YouTube, despite her constant grins Karina appears a little tense, with her father occasionally puts his hand on the steering wheel to correct the direction of the drive.

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Local Russian traffic police are now looking at the video footage. “An examination will be carried out in accordance with the Code of Administrative Offenses,” the press office of the traffic police said in a statement. “Video and all materials will be explored with the involvement and other services.” According to Russia’s traffic code, letting someone unauthorized to drive is punishable by a fine of 2,500 rubles (€63; $82).

“We must clearly identify when this video was shot. Maybe it was filmed last winter. Each article of the law has its own time limit,” a spokesperson for the regional traffic police told Metro.

The video footage has earned mixed opinions. Svetlana Agapitova, the ombudsman for children’s rights in St. Petersburg, has pointed to child negligence in this case, according to the Piter.Tv news website. But social media users have come to the parents’ defense. “The car is good, the car is in automatic, the father is beside the girl and can always take the wheel, the road is empty. People have gotten hysterical, but in vain,” wrote Yuri on Vkontake.

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