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Bumble Wants to Help You Make Friends (Without Benefits)
Photographed by Winnie Au. First comes love, then comes...friends? That's the unusual direction that the popular dating app Bumble has taken with its latest offering, BFF. It's intended to help both...
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The iPhone Trick that Boosts Your Efficiency
Photo: Courtesy Apple.I wouldn't call myself a neat freak, but my apartment definitely has a baseline level of organization. My iPhone on the other hand — a complete wreck (before I wrote this piece,...
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What The Heck Is The Cloud?
Photo: Getty Images. Welcome to What The Tech?!, Refinery29's weekly column explaining the basics behind a buzzword or concept you've heard tossed around in conversation (but maybe don't actually...
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5 Gadgets We Should Have Forgotten About
Around this time each year, we start combing through the closet and digging through drawers as we embark upon the tradition of spring cleaning. Often you find things to trash or take to Goodwill, but...
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The People-Rating App Nobody Wanted Is Finally Here
Photographed by Jessica Nash. Last fall, we learned about an app that left many troubled: Peeple, described as the Yelp for people.The premise was that the app would allow users to rate people they...
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What Happens To Marshmallows In A Vacuum? We Still Want To Eat Them
Photo: Getty Images. Remember back when you had to do science projects for school? You were supposed to come up with some kind of experiment that grown-up scientists hadn't thought of yet, even though...
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You Can Customize Your Facebook Emoji Reactions
If you don't feel like the new Facebook reactions really get at how you feel, there's now a way to swap those six reactions for something a bit more fun.According to Mashable, a new browser extension...
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Watch Out Apple Fans: There's New Malware Targeting Macs
Photographed by Ruby Yeh. You've heard it before: "Macs don't get viruses." The myth was kind of true, for a while, but not in 2016. Now there's new malware that's paying particular attention to OS...
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This Bike Bell's Unusual Ring Sounds Oddly Familiar
Photographed by Maia Harms. You're walking ("jogging") through the park, chatting with your friend, when you hear a familiar sound. Ding ding ding. You move right as a cyclist pedals by on two wheels....
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This Heart Touching Video Shows Where The Women In Tech Problem Starts
Sure, you've heard of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, but what about Martha Coston, Mary Anderson, and Sarah Mather? Those are the women who, respectively, invented the signal flare,...
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How to Watch Tomorrow's Total Solar Eclipse From Anywhere
Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images. On the morning of March 9, the moment of totality will occur in Indonesia. No, we're not talking about something from T he Twilight Zone (although it will...
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It Might Finally Be Time To Quit Your iPhone
Photo: Courtesy Samsung. If you're in the market for a new phone and are looking beyond the confines of the Apple ecosystem, it can be tough to decide what to get. Google's Nexus 5X and 6P are...
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You Can Now Use Apple Pay At The Pump — & It's Awesome
Photo: Getty Images. Nobody likes having to fill their car with gas (or at least I sure don't). It's time better spent doing, well, anything else. And I don't know about you, but I always worry about...
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This App May Be The Definition Of Oversharing
Photographed by Alexandra Gavillet. Between Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, we've never really stopped to think Hm, if only we could share even more photos. But a new app that just...
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The Right Way to Mourn Your Dearly Departed Pet Online
Photo: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock. Let us start by saying this: We love pets. We love our family pets, our friends' pets, the pets we creepily watch in the dog park because we live in a city...
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Planning A Trip? Google's New Travel Feature Will Help You Save $$ & Time
The last time I tried to plan a trip, I ended up with 25 open tabs on my computer (hotel, airfare, sightseeing locations — the works) and one big headache. Google is hoping to eliminate all that with...
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What Exactly Is Bluetooth, Anyway?
Photographed by Rockie Nolan. Welcome to What The Tech?!, Refinery29's weekly column explaining the basics behind a buzzword or concept you've heard tossed around in conversation (but maybe don't...
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The Secrets To Earning Verification Status
Photographed by Rockie Nolan. The little blue "Verified" check has become a status symbol across a number of social networks. But its meaning differs slightly from site to site.Here's what you need to...
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Alaska Airlines Just Had The Coolest Flight, Ever
John Chapple/REX/Shutterstock. Our typical flight schedule goes something like this: board plane, put on fuzzy socks, curl up under a blanket, and pop on an eye mask until we land, groggy and ready to...
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Today's Google Doodle Was Inspired By The Queen Of Electronic Music
Photo: Renato Toppo, Courtesy of The Nadia Reisenberg / Clara Rockmore Foundation. If you clicked on today's Google Doodle, you may have been a little confused. The sepia-colored animation welcomes...
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