Tag: Tech
Swiping Right As Much As You Want On Tinder Costs Users Wildly Different Amounts, A Study Found
A new study by the Mozilla Foundation and Consumers International has found that the dating app Tinder charges users dramatically different prices for access to its premium Tinder Plus service. The study raises key questions about how the personalized demographic data of app users (like age, race, gender, and sexual…
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Who’s Behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, The Secretive NFT Brand? These Guys, For Starters.
Bored Ape Yacht Club, BuzzFeed News In late January, Paris Hilton appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show. In a segment that was widely mocked for its boosterism, Hilton and host Jimmy Fallon each pulled out printouts of their “Bored Apes” — digital images from a collection of 10,000…
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Meta’s Stock Dropped $230 Billion After Earnings Showed Fewer People Are Using Facebook
Facebook parent company Meta’s stock plunged more than 25% on Thursday, following fourth-quarter financial results that show the impact of Apple’s new privacy measures and a drop in people using Facebook on a daily basis. The plummet could be the steepest collapse in the company’s history, following a 19% drop…
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Nothing Sacred: These Apps Reserve The Right To Sell Your Prayers
Rinee Shah for BuzzFeed News 2016 was the worst year of Katie’s life. Just after New Year’s Day, her 24-year-old son went missing. Seven weeks later, police recovered his body from the river that snakes through her town. For months, to get to work, Katie had to drive across the…
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Caleb From West Elm Is Bad At Dating But Probably Didn’t Deserve Being Pushed Through The TikTok Meat Grinder
This is an excerpt from Please Like Me, BuzzFeed News’ newsletter about how influencers are battling for your attention. You can sign up here. This week, TikTok was overrun by the saga of a man whose bad dating history turned him into the new Couch Guy. It’s also a tale…
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Congress Is Trying To Figure Out What To Do About Crypto’s Colossal Carbon Footprint
For years, cryptocurrency has rivaled entire nations in terms of energy use, and US lawmakers are just now starting to investigate how crypto mining operations could be undermining global efforts to combat climate change. This question was the subject of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Thursday that…
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