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The Top 10 Most Emotionally Intelligent Countries, Ranked
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (367+ words) The Top 10 Most Emotionally Intelligent Countries, Ranked'VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. There are a lot of first dates that never make it to the second simply because someone couldn't hold a proper conversation, or their…...
6 Dating App Mistakes That Are Killing Your Match Count
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (306+ words) The worst part is that a lot of the stuff tanking people's chances is completely fixable. SELF rounded up advice from dating coaches and app experts, and the same issues kept coming up again and again. "Hey" is not a…...
What You Need to Know About Nothing’s New Phone (4a), Which Isn’t Coming to the US
1+ week, 1+ day ago (276+ words) Dire Straits said it long, long ago: Money for Nothing. Nothing's Phone (4a) launches today, March 5, 2026, fulfilling the year-long wait that Nothing fans have withstood since 2025's Nothing Phone (3a). But the English smartphone maker won't be bringing the Phone (4a) to North…...
WhatsApp Officially Recommends One of Our Favorite VPNs
1+ week, 3+ day ago (303+ words) Can we say now that we're an influencer who influenced Meta? I'm stingy with my VPN(virtual private network) recommendations. Many, maybe most of them, are sketchy or ineffective. Lots of them'especially the free ones'are both. Mullvad VPN is one…...
Anthropic’s Claude Hits No. 1 in the App Store as Users Ditch ChatGPT Amid Recent Backlash
1+ week, 3+ day ago (232+ words) Bad business with the US government turned out to mean good business with the public. "The Claude iOS app has gained momentum this month," read a CNBC article from February 28, 2026. "On Jan. 30, it was ranked No. 131 in the U.S., and it…...
This Is How Many Swipes It Actually Takes to Get a Match on Dating Apps
1+ week, 3+ day ago (284+ words) Dating apps have put people on a sad, bleak train of autopilot. Swipe, swipe, swipe, get a match, feel briefly alive, then watch the conversation die in a puddle of "hey." Then you close the app and realize you wasted…...
DuckDuckGo's Anonymous AI Now Lets You Edit Images
1+ week, 3+ day ago (251+ words) DuckDuckGo is the most prominent alternative search engine for those wary of Google and Microsoft Bing's greed for recording their search activity. It's a much more privacy-forward search engine, and I've been using it instead of Google for months now…...
Hackers Have Hijacked Part of the Ancient Internet to Invisibly Deliver Scams
1+ week, 3+ day ago (299+ words) Be skeptical and keep your payment details to yourself. ARPANET. If you know your internet history, ARPANET was the forerunner of the internet. Dating back to 1969, it gave birth to the World Wide Web decades later. Far from being an…...
Tumblr Issues Public Apology for Leaving Halsey out of Its Own Birthday Post
1+ week, 5+ day ago (340+ words) Tumblr celebrated its 19th birthday in February 2026, but Halsey seemingly took offense to being left out as a pillar of the platform. Tumblr turned 19 in February 2026, and the microblogging social media heavyweight celebrated with a post on Twitter/X. Alongside the caption…...
The Soundtrack to Social Media: What Mark Zuckerberg Was Listening to When He Was First Developing Facebook
2+ week, 4+ day ago (191+ words) The Soundtrack to Social Media: What Mark Zuckerberg Was Listening to When He Was First Developing Facebook'VICE Get unlimited access to everything VICE has to offer. Social media has become a primary fixture in our daily lives. Nowadays, it even…...