A couple of months ago, Brianna, a 22-year-old who lives in Milwaukee, downloaded the Tea app. It was created to provide a space for feedback on potential dates for other women, and she understood that it was almost akin to Yelp, except that instead of rating businesses or restaurants, users …
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After Whitney Wolfe Herd, a vice president of Tinder, left the company in 2014, she founded Bumble as a women-focused alternative to the popular dating app. With an interface that required its female users to send the first message to their matches — in theory cutting down on spammy or …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As the looming Jan. 19 deadline draws ever nearer for TikTok to be banned in the United States, it looks like we collectively have to decide which new …
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Dee and Joe Indiviglio like to go out on their front porch at night, and look up. That’s where they were on Dec. 4, when they saw something they hadn’t seen before above their Middletown, New Jersey, home: a group of lights, moving quickly, strangely all over the sky, for …
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There’s something comforting about watching Jennie Young’s TikToks. It may have to do with the calm assurance of her voice: it feels like you’re meeting during private office hours. Except, instead of the essay that’s due next week, you’re talking about the challenges of finding your soulmate on Hinge. A …
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Democratic political consultants have some advice if you’d prefer not to have companies track your every move and sell that data to campaigns: avoid mobile games like Candy Crush. “Political campaigns are a perfect microcosm of the data economy,” Raffi Krikorian, the host of the Technically Optimistic podcast tells Rolling …
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On any given day, Matt Potts opens up Grindr to a menu of bodies spread on a gridded map around him. Torsos, headshots, and ass pics — many looking for a hot hookup. If Potts is in the mood, he’ll sometimes filter for weight, height, and body type.From there, he’ll …
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Three months. That’s how long it took for HQ Trivia to go from unknown mobile game to household name with a record 2.38 million users at once. Now, six years later, a new documentary, Glitch: The Rise And Fall Of HQ Trivia, aims to tell the scandalous behind-the-scenes story of …
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No matter where you hang out online, you’ve probably seen friends sharing colorful, intensely stylized illustrations of themselves. The images weren’t made by human artists but with an app called Lensa, from the photo and video editing company Prisma Labs. While Lensa has been available since 2018, it recently added …
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