Can Lipsi Succeed Where Other Anonymous Messaging Apps Have Failed?
Around this time last year, Sarahah was experiencing the App Store equivalent of a box office breakout.The messaging app jumped to the top of the downloads chart and quickly earned cred among a...
View ArticleZara Is Changing How We Shop Through Augmented Reality
If you've recently walked past your local Zara, noticed an empty store window, and asked yourself what the hell was going on, well, prepare to grab your smartphone. On Thursday, the fast-fashion...
View ArticleWestworld's Robot Revolution Starts Soon — Here's How To Watch
Robot sex, complicated theories of consciousness, and a Western theme park where guests can do whatever they want (including commit murder): These were just three of the unlikely components that...
View ArticleWhen Will Movie & TV Characters Start Meeting Their SOs Online Like The Rest...
Of the 18 couples who announced their weddings in this week’s New York Times, six met on OkCupid. Though you don’t need the Times wedding announcements column to prove that internet dating can lead to...
View ArticleWhy 300 Women In Tech Got A Massive Influx Of Twitter Followers This Weekend
This past weekend, almost 300 women working in various areas of the tech industry noticed something odd: Their Twitter followers multiplied exponentially, for seemingly no reason at all.They have one...
View ArticleNike Flyprint Is Here To Transform The Sneaker Game
At the 2012 London Summer Olympics, Nike wowed the sneaker world when it unveiled Flyknit, a game-changing approach to how shoes are made. The woven, fit-like-a-sock upper (i.e. everything above the...
View ArticleI Was Sexually Harassed At Work & Now I Feel Nervous Asking For A Raise
Welcome to Refinery29’s new career column Advice From A Nice Girl. Each month, readers will be asking Fran Hauser, bonafide boss and author of the book The Myth Of The Nice Girl , their hardest career...
View ArticleAway's Latest Collaboration Is All About Paying It Forward
Away is quickly becoming as well known for its simple, stylish suitcases (a favorite of the Instagram influencer set) as it is for its creative product collaborations with unlikely brand partners,...
View ArticleConfirmed: Beyoncé Broke Streaming Records On Saturday Night
This past Saturday, Beyoncé ’s greatness extended far beyond the confines of Coachella’s 99,000-person capacity festival grounds in Indio, California. She made streaming history, too.On YouTube, the...
View ArticleWith Me Too Rising, Google Maps The Spread Of A Movement
By now, you've seen the hashtag, read the reporting, and likely heard personal stories about Me Too. But what has the movement looked like on a global scale since it started seven months ago? Today,...
View ArticleWhat You Can & Can't Do With Other People's Instagram Photos
For full-time influencers, a thoughtfully curated Instagram grid full of envy-inducing photos is not only their portfolio, it's how they pay their bills. The upper echelon of the influencer community...
View ArticleOur Relationship With Earth Is Toxic — These Women Are Working To Change That
To say our connection to Earth is a great relationship gone very wrong is an oversimplified statement, for sure, but it's not a far stretch: Record high temperatures, increasing acidity of ocean...
View ArticleThe Pipeline: How A Mars 2020 Engineer Started Her Career Later In Life
Refinery29 is proud to present The Pipeline , our monthly commitment to highlighting young women who aren’t just making it in Silicon Valley — they’re thriving. This is your chance to hear the stories...
View ArticleJane Goodall Teamed Up With Google This Earth Day
This Earth Day, Google teamed up with Dr. Jane Goodall and the Jane Goodall Institute for a Doodle that is every bit as adorable as it is impactful. Head to the search engine’s homepage today and...
View ArticleBring On The Snark: Alexa Will Personally Roast Your Friends Now
Asking Alexa trick questions about your friends and family is a rite of passage for anyone who brings Amazon's smart assistant into their home. It's the classic family room dynamic, including favorites...
View ArticleSurprising Takeaways From Facebook's Community Standards
Today's Facebook news is not that the social network is changing its community standards, the set of policies that govern what users can and can't post. It's that — for the first time — Facebook is...
View ArticleThis App Will Help You Pay Off Your Credit Card Debt
By now, there are countless apps that boast the ability to help you save without the "you" part: Set a goal, like your friend's upcoming summer wedding, and watch the cash flow in without lifting a...
View ArticleSpotify's New Free Version Is So Good You Might Cancel Your Subscription
You may want to rethink the $9.99 you spend every month to subscribe to Spotify Premium.To be clear, we're not suggesting you get rid of the stellar music streaming service altogether. Instead,...
View ArticleHow To Watch Season Two Of The Handmaid's Tale
If reading the news isn't giving you your fix of dark, dystopian drama, you're in luck: The book-turned-Emmy-winning show The Handmaid's Tale is returning for season two.A brief reminder of where we...
View ArticleThe New Gmail Is Here To Get Rid Of Your Email Nightmares
It's hard to remember an email era beforeGmail. When Google launched its own free version of webmail in April 2004, it came packed with an unimaginable storage capacity — 1GB! — and speed that replaced...
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