By now everyone is familiar with #BookTok—but have you stumbled across its spicier cousin #SmutTok?
“Smut” refers to books that include one or more sexually explicit scenes and surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) the erotic category has found a growing fan base on TikTok. The #SmutTok hashtag has over
When the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shut down normal life more than four years ago, few tech companies endured more wrenching change than Yelp. The familiar tool for researching restaurants and retail stores “was kind of at the center of the bull’s-eye of the blast radius of the pandemic,” remembers Jeremy Stoppelman, its cofounder and CEO.
With everyone stuck at home, traffic to the site plummeted by half. Eateries and shops that couldn’t even stay open had no need to buy ads. The exi
Grindr might not have been the first location-based dating app—that distinction belongs to MeetMoi, a hookup app acquired by Match Group in 2016. But whether LGBT or not, looking for a long-term relationship or not, most singles are living in the house that Grindr built.
A sparkly silver purse, tucked between a bottle of baby lotion and Infants’ Tylenol at a retailer, sparked a recent viral trend. Denaesha Gonzalez noticed the purse (with the price tag still dangling) in the baby product aisle while out shopping. Assuming someone had put the item back on the shelf in order to prioritize their baby’s needs, Gonzalez posted a
Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope are giving scientists a fuller understanding about the composition and evolution of Pluto’s moon Charon, the largest moon orbiting any of our solar system’s dwarf planets.
Webb, for the first time, detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide—both frozen as solids—on the surface of Charon, a spheri
After altering how Hollywood discovers scripts, The Black List is now targeting the book world. Founder and CEO Franklin Leonard proved that overlooked scripts like Slumdog Millionaire and I, Tonya can become commercial and artistic hits. Now, grounded in his belief that the Black List can act as a giant metal detector for uncovering great fiction, he explains his reasoning and plans for this expansion.
This is an abridged transcript of an intervie
Speaker company Sonos laid out a number of new plans and commitments on Tuesday in an attempt to turn around the beleaguered sound company following a bug-riddled app relaunch in May that’s still impacting the company.
The changes mostly focus on creating new avenues for employees and customers to raise concerns, plus more stringent beta testing. The seven commitments include: “unwavering focus on customer exper
Video game maker Epic Games sued Google and Samsung on Monday, accusing the tech companies of coordinating to block third-party competition in application distribution on Samsung devices.
At issue is Samsung’s R
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed a hotly contested artificial intelligence safety bill after the tech industry raised objections, saying it could drive AI companies from the state and hinder innovation.
Newsom said the bill “does not take i
Serve Robotics, which makes autonomous sidewalk delivery bots, and Wing, Alphabet’s on-demand drone delivery service, announced a pilot partnership on Tuesday meant to expand autonomous last-mile food delivery in Dallas.
In the coming months, select Wing deliveries will be picked up by a Serve robot from a restaurant curbside and delivered to a Wing drone AutoLoader a few blocks away for aerial delivery to customers. The effort will allow Serve to expand its market to a broad