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Google Celebrates A Stereotype-Shattering Female Athlete
Today, Google's homepage is graced by record- and stereotype-breaking runner Fanny Blankers-Koen. The Dutch athlete made history at the 1948 London Summer Olympics, when she became the first woman to...
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LedBetter Helps Consumers Consider Equality Before They Buy
While women influence 85% of consuming spending in the U.S., the sad fact is that the majority of companies who enjoy our business don’t have a female CEO. That lack of representation matters: It...
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Parity Partners Is Helping Women Get Promoted
Women make up nearly 50% of the workforce, yet we hold nowhere near 50% of leadership roles. And that’s a problem for many reasons, but arguably the biggest is that having so few female execs results...
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Postmates Scared Customers With “Emergency Alert” Promotion
Late yesterday, Postmates found itself in hot water with customers after advertising free delivery in what some felt was an insensitive marketing ploy. The company sent out a notification to users in...
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Everything You Need To Know About The Professor Who Is Maybe Dating Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt may or may not be dating someone new — but that's not the important part of this story. What's important is who that person is, and why she will soon become our new best friend. Her name is...
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Sad Times For Free Shipping Lovers: Amazon Is Raising The Price Of Prime
“Free” two-day shipping is starting to look like less of an incredible deal: During a call with investors, Amazon announced it is raising the price of a Prime membership to $119 annually. The cost of a...
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Wait, How Did A Home DNA Kit Help Police Catch The Golden State Killer?
Yesterday, Sacramento police located and arrested Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer (aka the East Area Rapist) suspect, who is believed to have committed more than 50 rapes and 12 murders...
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The Music Video-Making Apps Even A-Listers Are Using
In the spectrum of viral videos, you could put the quick clips of Vine (may it RIP) at one end, and the creator-helmed channels of YouTube at the other. In the middle, there's an increasingly prevalent...
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Joy Reid Admits She Wasn't Hacked — She Really Wrote Those Blog Posts
So it turns out MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid wasn’t hacked after all.Last December, dozens of inflammatory anti-LGBTQ posts from Reid’s old blog archives came to light, courtesy of some savvy Internet...
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Why Proms – Supersized, Superglam – Don’t Look Anything Like The Ones You...
To say that prom has changed since I attended my own over a decade ago is an understatement. When I went to prom at a swanky hotel in downtown Chicago, about 80% of our dresses were handmade from the...
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All Your Questions About Instagram Screenshot Notifications, Answered
What causes the most social media-related nightmares? Here are a few possible answers: Accidentally liking your ex's new girlfriend's photo; sending a DM about your boss to your boss, instead of your...
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I Broke Up With My Phone & Lived To Talk About It
When was the last time you had a full conversation without checking your phone in the middle of it? You know how it goes: nodding or mumbling a reply even though half your attention was on a viral...
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Soon, You'll Be Able To Control How Much Facebook Knows About Your Shopping...
Logging on to Facebook after shopping elsewhere online can sometimes feel like you're stuck in an episode of Big Brother. All of a sudden, your News Feed is full of ads for objects and clothes you've...
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Introducing Your Newest Dating App: Facebook
Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge have a new competitor in the crowded dating app ring: Facebook. Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Facebook Dating — which he said will be for “building real,...
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Hulu Is Following Netflix's Lead & You Will Be Thrilled
Update: May 2, 2018: The opportunity to download episodes of The Handmaid's Tale and other premium Hulu content is finally on the streaming company's agenda.Today, during a presentation at Madison...
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The Option To Request Female Drivers Isn’t The Solution To Uber’s Sexual...
A brief hiatus from bad Uber news ended on Monday, when CNN published a new investigation revealing that 103 Uber drivers have been accused of sexual assault or abuse over the past four years.This is...
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The Social Scam: For A-Listers, Imposters Still Loom Large
“I just had to make sure you were real,” Francoise Isaac, a financial operations manager in Plano, Texas, says when she answers the phone.Isaac’s concern is legitimate. A day earlier, I reached out to...
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Today's Google Doodle Is A First Of Its Kind
Today’s Google Doodle, celebrating the French filmmaker Georges Méliès, is a little different than the search engine’s standard homepage illustration or animation: It’s Google’s first virtual reality,...
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10 Gifts For Mom That Have Nothing To Do With Cheesy Cards & Flowers
Skip the cheesy card and roses this Mother's Day, and send something your mom will actually use — and might just give you a reprieve from constant text threads.Tired of getting asked to send photos of...
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A Bug Causes Instagrammers To Briefly Lose Their Cool — & Their Memes
Update: 10:50 a.m.: Refinery29 reached out to Instagram for comment on these changes. A spokesperson says the changes users noticed on their feed were the result of a bug that temporarily resulted in...
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