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No more parties at Airbnbs: The company makes its party ban permanent

Airbnb will permanently ban parties in rental homes listed across the globe, according to a company announcement today. First instituted in August 2020, the party ban was designed

5 ways to protect your personal data in a post-Roe world

The world changed for many people on Friday, June 24 when the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. Although the opinion had been

Congresswoman Sara Jacobs explains why we need to protect reproductive health data

For as long as the internet has been in existence, abortion was, until last week, a constitutionally guaranteed right. The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade will have a number of obvious ripple effects, most significantly the so-called 

Adobe—yes, Adobe—has one of the best free video-makers out there

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Adobe’s professional software has long struck me as unnecessarily clunky and complex. Adobe Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop and other such apps are powerful, but daunting for beginners to learn.

How to keep your data from brokers and marketers

We’ve seen a stream of revelations about data brokers in recent months, and though the stories vary, the takeaway is consistent: Our privacy has never been more vulnerable.

In May, Vice

3 free cooking resources for people who have no time to cook

Sometimes I feel like my wife and I spend more time planning meals than actually cooking them. It’s a weekly brainstorming session wherein we somehow forget every dish we’ve ever enjoyed and have to come up with all-new dinner ideas from scratch.

Then during the week, we get busy and don’t feel like cooking because it takes too long or we’re missing a vital ingredient. It’s a vicious cycle of expensive takeout paired with unused groceries.

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Chatbots need to evolve to stay relevant in the age of virtual assistants

Our exposure to chatbots is at an all-time high. From customer service to commerce to healthcare, chatbots are the fastest growing brand communica

I spent six weeks living in A24-world. Here’s what happened

What makes A24 a cultural powerhouse is not that it released a film last spring in which an inter-dimensional assassin impales himself on an Auditor of the Month trophy, inexplicably shaped like a certain sex toy, although it most certainly did. It’s not that most cinephiles would immediately guess A24 as the company who put out that film,

Why people fell for UST and how to potentially avoid getting burned by not-so-stable stablecoins

It’s safe to say that we’re in another crypto winter as projects begin to go under and investors hold their heads. Arguably what set off this series of unfortunate events was the depegging of

I’d love to dump Gmail for this slick, private email–but there’s a catch

If Gmail were to reinvent itself with a streamlined design and stronger privacy policies, it’d probably look a lot like Skiff.

Skiff’s email service, which launched last month, offers end-to-end encryption for messages to other Skiff users and claims to have no way of reading your email contents. The app is also beautiful, with none of the forced product tie-ins that make Gmail feel bloated.


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