Hits: 4 Images generated with Lensa AI are all over social media, but at what cost? Have you noticed that many of your friends are suddenly fairy princesses or space travelers? Is your Instagram feed overrun with Renaissance-style paintings of …
What We Learned From Apple’s New Privacy Labels
Hits: 23 We all know that apps collect our data. Yet one of the few ways to find out what an app does with our information involves reading a privacy policy. Let’s be real: Nobody does that. So late last …
Robinhood’s 2020 Recaps Are a Meme for a Volatile Year
Hits: 19 In 2020, wild fluctuations in the stock market caused by the pandemic turned millions of people into opportunistic investors. After stocks plunged in March, experienced traders and Nasdaq novices poured their dollars into buzzy tech companies like Tesla …
Seeking a Partner for the End of the World
Hits: 37 It should be no surprise that the coronavirus has changed dating in America. Many experts, along with daters themselves, say that daters have become more likely to couple up, to lower their standards and to do what they …
TikTok Ban: Creators Respond to Trump
Hits: 28 It was a weekend of chaos on TikTok — unleashed on Friday night when President Trump said, while aboard Air Force One, that he might ban the video app. The surprise announcement sent influencers in droves onto livestreams …
Signal Is the Messaging App of the Protests
Hits: 79 Over the last two weeks, the number of Americans who have downloaded Signal, an encrypted messaging application, has skyrocketed. Many are using the app to organize and participate in protests against police brutality (without being spied on by …