Ten years ago today, Psy released “Gangnam Style.” In the hazy rear window of our collective memory, the track may seem like a silly little pop song we clumsily imitated with friends or family for a summer. In reality, “Gangnam Style” shifted the entire landscape of music and video culture […]
Day: July 15, 2022
Bumble to let nonbinary users message anyone first
Founded in 2014 by early Tinder VP Whitney Wolfe Herd, dating app Bumble‘s claim to fame was that women “make the first move” — meaning that for straight couples, only women can message their matches first. Eight years later, discussions around gender and sexuality look a lot different. Now, the […]
‘Wordle’ is being turned into a B-O-A-R-D game
Wordle is going IRL. The wildly popular daily word puzzle that launched a thousand clones (and flooded your Twitter feed with square emoji) is being turned into a physical board game, according to a New York Times press release Thursday. Billed as a “brand-new product that delivers classic Wordle gameplay, […]
How LED lights might unlock your glowiest skin yet
LED lights may be the backbone of the high-definition TV and smart home lighting industries, but the bright little bulbs also may just be the secret to glowing skin. Celebrities like Shay Mitchell and Chrissy Teigen have long been wearing cyborg-like face masks on Instagram, quite literally lit from within, […]
Social media giants aren’t protecting LGBTQ users enough, GLAAD says
TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook need to pull up their socks on making their platforms safer spaces for LGBTQ users, GLAAD says in its latest report. The organisation’s now-annual Social Media Safety Index analyses LGBTQ user safety on the five big social media platforms: TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and […]
Netflix’s ‘Resident Evil’ never divorces its story from the games. Is that on purpose?
It’s June vs. Serena Joy in the teaser for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 5
After an exhausting fourth season, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale is back for a fifth outing. And it looks like the girlbosses are heading for a showdown. June (Elisabeth Moss) deals with the aftermath of killing Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) by going head-to-head with his wife Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski). In […]