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April 7, 2015
Polyvore Launches Remix, An App For Instant Styling Advice
Remix, Polyvore's new styling and shopping-focused mobile app, launches today. Can it correct for months of stagnant growth?
The neon crop top, the white blazer, the fringe-tastic leather purse: It's not always easy to keep tabs on fashion's fast-moving trends, let alone style an outfit around them. Remix, a new iPhone app released today by Polyvore, is the company's latest attempt to form a bridge between runway inspiration and customer click.
What You're Really Saying With Your Office Fashion Choices
Every office has a "Fun Socks Guy"
Some people in offices dress way too trendy, while others are convinced their Banana Republic outfits are the key to success. (They aren't.) Wherever you fall on the spectrum, you are probably somehow projecting the complete opposite of what you intended. Watch this to learn what you're really saying with your work outfits.
April 6, 2015
Today in Tabs: Stooping To Conquer Is Not The Same As Punching Down
Your Monday grab bag of #longreads, featuring Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslaney, and the flap over Franzen's bird-conservation story.
What better way to get the week off to a brisk and breezy start on a Monday than with a crushing truckload of
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Disney Invests $250 Million In Fantasy Sports Site That Lets You Bet Real Money
Disney dropped a large investment in Boston startup DraftKings, which promised $500 million in advertising on Disney's ESPN.
The Walt Disney Company has invested $250 million in DraftKings, a Boston startup that lets folks bet real money on fantasy sports games, reports The Wall Street Journal. Included in the deal is a reciprocal commitment for DraftKings to advertise a little more than $500 million on ESPN (which Disney has 80% ownership of) over the next few years, which was a major attraction, says The Wall Street Journal.
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John Oliver Reveals To Edward Snowden Americans' Top Privacy Fear: Dick Pics
In order to wake up Americans about pressing government surveillance concerns, John Oliver hits them where it hurts.
Edward Snowden's appearance on Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver made one thing very apparent: Snowden would resonate more with Americans if he rebranded his mission in a more relatable way, STAT.
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Report: Google Is Getting Closer To Offering Its Own International Call And Data Plan
Rumors of talks with international mobile network Three imply that Google is moving forward with its plans to be a mobile telecom.
Google's adding fuel to the telecom rumor mill by talking with global conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Limited, owner of international mobile network Three. According to The Telegraph, Google is likely hoping to rent out Three's infrastructure in order to offer customers international calls, text, and data at the same price regardless of location.
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Nike Passes The Golf Torch With Emotional Ad Starring Rory McIlroy And Tiger Woods
The Swoosh stylishly marks the passing of the torch in an epic new commercial.
At five years old, Rory McIlroy watched on TV as Tiger Woods won his first U.S. Amateur Championship in 1994. This week the two golfers will be competing for Augusta's green jacket at The Masters. To mark the occasion, Nike's epic new ad chronicles McIlroy's journey from that little kid watching Tiger on TV, to strolling the same fairways, and starring in the same ads, as his childhood golf hero.
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8 Essential Products For Spring
Survive the fickle season with these exquisitely designed items, from a clever umbrella to a waterproof flask.
After what felt like the world's longest winter, spring has finally arrived. Not that spring's bounty comes all at once. One day it's gorgeous and sunny, the next it's 45 degrees and pouring rain. Here's a guide to welcoming both the good and the bad that accompany spring. From clever umbrellas to colorful cameras, these are the designs that will help you survive, and thrive, in the season.
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Light Pollution Is A Public Health Issue--It's Not Just Making You Tired, It's Making You Sick
After dark, electric lights disrupt our natural circadian rhythms—and the consequences could be far worse than just a little lost sleep.
For thousands of years, man lived in synchronicity with day and night patterns, his wakefulness and sleep tracking light and dark. Then he invented artificial light and suddenly our rhythms were out of sync. We extended the day, and got a lot more done—but with impacts to our physiology that we're still only beginning to understand.
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Instead Of Pin-Up Models, This Calendar Features Extreme Weather Porn
Dramatized art of dust storms, monsoons, and drought show just how bad nature's wrath could get in the future.
As a classic piece of business swag, free wall calendars usually try to feature something pretty and innocuous, like bucolic nature scenes or baby animals. But when a Russian insurance company made its calendar this year, it decided on something a little more apocalyptic: Beautiful scenes of nature wreaking havoc on civilization.
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