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Meet the 19 startups in AngelPads 12th batch
AngelPad just wrapped the 12th run of its three months long New York City startup accelerator. For the second time, the program didn’t culminate in a demo day; rather, the 19 participating startups were given pre-arranged one-on-one meetings with venture capital investors late last week. AngelPad co-founders Thomas Korte and […]
Mitski laughs off similarities between her and Mac DeMarco’s album
Mac DeMarco just released a video for new single “Nobody,” in which he sports a cowboy hat, robe, and mottled green lizard face, and sings an underwhelming song about, um, television? It was released in advance of his new album Here Comes the Cowboy, out in May.In a statement about […]
What happens to your body when you eat spicy food?
Let the bloggers blog.Image: Enrique Das / 7Cera / Getty Images Every so often, someone will act very angry online because a recipe they clicked on has “too much text.” They wanted to make mushroom ravioli, but instead had to scroll through a bunch of words about what mushroom ravioli […]
Apple AirPods 2 could be on the horizon
Apple is assuring podcasters that their shows won't be removed from Apple Podcasts over "episode numbers" after an email from the company stated otherwise.Image: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Podcasters can now breathe easy. Apple is walking back an emailed statement to podcasters on Wednesday that seemed to suggest shows […]
Search marketing company Botify raises $20M
Botify, a search engine optimization company that works with customers like Expedia and Nike, announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Adrien Menard said that the opportunity in SEO is “even bigger now than in the past,” and that the problem is […]
Malware attacks Pornhub users accounts for their credentials | The Daily Dot
A report from antivirus company Kaspersky Lab calls this malware effort credential hunting. The report says these sort of attacks doubled in numbers in 2018, affecting over 110,000 PCs around the world. The attacks can be traced to two popular sites: Pornhub and XNXX. Alternately, a user mighttry to watch […]
Stop Saying Millennials Are Killing DatingWe’re Not Betches
If there’s anything you absolutely do not need to read today (or ever), it’s another entry in the (depressingly bloated) collection of essays about how millennials are killing dating. But because the world we live in is a nightmarish trash fire, I’m sorry to report that the genre is alive […]
Europe agrees platform rules to tackle unfair business practices
The European Union’s political institutions have reached agreement over new rules designed to boost transparency around online platform businesses and curb unfair practices to support traders and other businesses that rely on digital intermediaries for discovery and sales. The European Commission proposed a regulation for fairness and transparency in online platform […]
Instagram caught selling ads to follower-buying services it banned
Instagram has been earning money from businesses flooding its social network with spam notifications. Instagram hypocritically continues to sell ad space to services that charge clients for fake followers or that automatically follow/unfollow other people to get them to follow the client back. This is despite Instagram reiterating a ban […]
In a year of reckoning for YouTube, some good stuff also happened on the platform
Image: Getty Images 2018 was not what you would call a great year for the world’s largest video platform, nor for some of the influencers who use it to make a living. Case in point: the Logan Paul incident. The YouTube star caused widespread anger when he uploaded a video […]