The Privacy Updates You're Getting Are Just A Reminder Of Everything You...
Your privacy is important to us.FYI: Privacy changes.Our privacy promise to you.Yes, like you, my inbox is jam packed with emails alerting me about privacy policy updates from dozens of companies,...
View ArticleAmazon’s Alexa May Be Listening — But This Trick Can Stop Her
Like something out of a Ray Bradbury short story, reports came this week that an Amazon Echo recorded a Portland, Ore. family’s conversations and sent them to a business colleague — without the...
View ArticleToday's Google Doodle Takes You Back To High School Chemistry Class
Today's interactive Google Doodle takes you back to freshman year chemistry class to celebrate S.P.L. Sørensen, the Danish chemist who invented the pH scale.If you spent more time passing notes under...
View ArticleThe New iOS Brings Some Much-Needed Updates To Apple's HomePod
Update: May 29, 2018: If you invested in Apple's Siri-enabled smart speaker, HomePod, today brings some welcome and long overdue updates. You'll finally be able to pair two HomePod speakers for stereo...
View ArticleWhy Do Women YouTubers Keep Getting Hacked On Instagram?
When Madi Westbrooke checked her email in September 2017, she was greeted with what appeared to be a career milestone: Instagram verification. As a freshman at the University of Alabama, she had spent...
View ArticleAlexia Bonatsos Has Big Dreams For The Future Of VC
If someone mentions a dream machine, they might be referencing the beloved, discontinued line of Sony clock radios. Or, they could be talking about the ball pit and streamer-filled interactive...
View ArticleA Former Snap Engineer's Farewell Email Should Be Included In Future Job...
The standard it's-my-last-day-working-here email includes a few basics: A playful inside joke to make your coworkers laugh, your personal contact info (even though there are some people you never want...
View ArticleThe Pipeline: The First-Gen College Student Who Became A Lyft Community Manager
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 ArticleStreaming Central: Your Definitive Guide To Picking The Right Service For You
Streaming should be easy: You pick a service — say, Hulu Live or YouTube TV — enter your credit card info, and set up an app on one of the supported devices. But the world of cord cutting has recently...
View Article16 Apps To Help You Track & Manage Your Anxiety
Sometimes you're a week behind on a big project, your train has been late three days in a row, and you got approximately three hours of sleep last night (between car alarms). So when anxiety makes its...
View ArticleHow To Use Twitter & Not Get Fired
Roseanne is canceled. The rebooted TV show is canceled. The reruns of the original show are canceled. Roseanne Barr is, as the kids say, canceled. And it’s all because of a single racist tweet (and,...
View ArticlePoop Happens: Why The Poo Emoji Is Everywhere
From throw pillows and bedsheets to paper plates and custom cakes, the poop emoji has become an unlikely star of the lifestyle sphere. True, you can also purchase poop emoji t-shirts, leggings, and...
View ArticleNot All Republicans Are Boycotting Netflix Over Obama — & The Numbers Show It
Do you like Netflix? If so, you’re probably a liberal. Or, at least, this is what a dedicated group of Twitter users seem to believe, all of whom have taken to the social platform with the hashtag...
View ArticleHow 3 Teenage Women Created Apps Before Finishing High School & Earned...
For most high schoolers, weekdays are structured around going to classes, completing homework, studying for the SAT, playing competitive sports or acting in local theater production, and dealing with...
View ArticleHouseparty’s Latest Expansion Will Remind You Of AIM
When AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, officially ended in December 2017 it felt like the end of an era for everyone who grew up before Instagram DMs and Snapchat put a Gen Z spin on messaging and...
View ArticleMemoji, Group FaceTime & All The New Features Coming To Your iPhone With iOS 12
Prepare yourself: Come September, animated representations of your friends' faces will fill your iMessage threads.Today, Apple offered a preview of everything arriving on iPhones this fall. At the...
View ArticleApple's Memoji Are Gender Neutral — Here's Why That Matters
Many adjectives are used to describe emoji — playful, silly, expressive — but progressive is not usually one of them.Since Unicode, the non-profit that creates software standards across devices,...
View ArticleNew Updates Make Apple's Safari A Woke Browser In An Era Of Privacy Concerns
It isn't uncommon for tech giants to throw a little shade at each other during major announcements. Samsung pokes fun at the iPhone X's notch, Google emphasizes its Pixel phone still has a headphone...
View ArticleIf The Rumors Are True, You May Soon Spend Up To 60x More Time On Instagram
Instagram is already a digital shopping mall, inspiration board, and celebrity news feed, but soon, it may become a bona fide video streaming service. Less than a month after Instagram CEO Kevin...
View ArticleDear Apple, You Forgot Some Very Important "Do Not Disturb" Settings
Mooning has become a crucial part of our everyday lives. We do it when we need to get work done during the day, or when we're in a job interview. We do it when we're at a show, or when we're in need of...
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