Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction last week is still being felt in a number of states and the long-term impacts of the storm are still being assessed. Over 100 people have been reported dead from the storm so far (a number that’s expected to increase) and a
Minutes before the start of the debate vice presidential debate, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a commitment of nonpartisanship. “We’re going to keep it very straight, see how they do,” he said in a video posted to Truth Social, the social platform he owns. “We’re going to say good
Snapchat failed to act on “rampant” reports of child grooming, sextortion and other dangers to minors on its pla
A code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after research found that three-in-four people suffer some form of sexual violence through the platforms, Australia’s government said on Tuesday.
Bumble, Grindr and Match Group Inc., a Texas-based
By now everyone is familiar with #BookTok—but have you stumbled across its spicier cousin #SmutTok?
“Smut” refers to books that include one or more sexually explicit scenes and surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) the erotic category has found a growing fan base on TikTok. The #SmutTok hashtag has over
When the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shut down normal life more than four years ago, few tech companies endured more wrenching change than Yelp. The familiar tool for researching restaurants and retail stores “was kind of at the center of the bull’s-eye of the blast radius of the pandemic,” remembers Jeremy Stoppelman, its cofounder and CEO.
With everyone stuck at home, traffic to the site plummeted by half. Eateries and shops that couldn’t even stay open had no need to buy ads. The exi
Grindr might not have been the first location-based dating app—that distinction belongs to MeetMoi, a hookup app acquired by Match Group in 2016. But whether LGBT or not, looking for a long-term relationship or not, most singles are living in the house that Grindr built.
A sparkly silver purse, tucked between a bottle of baby lotion and Infants’ Tylenol at a retailer, sparked a recent viral trend. Denaesha Gonzalez noticed the purse (with the price tag still dangling) in the baby product aisle while out shopping. Assuming someone had put the item back on the shelf in order to prioritize their baby’s needs, Gonzalez posted a
Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and evolution of Pluto’s moon Charon, the largest moon orbiting any of our solar system’s dwarf planets.
Webb, for the first time, detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide—both frozen as solids—on the surface of Charon, a spheri