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OK, guys — we’re going to the underworld,” says Gerardo Medina, a swashbuckling guide with a loose ponytail and a silver eyebrow ring. “But first we have to make our way through paradise.” It’s a bright, sweltering day off the dusty main road of Tulum, Mexico. Medina has led our small group to the…
The Pop Music You Listen to Really Does Matter The story of Dr. Luke and Doja Cat shows how the industry relies on consumer passivity. But audiences can still stand against alleged abusers. Kevin Mazur / Getty; Tommaso Boddi / WireImage / Getty; The Atlantic Eras of music are commonly defined by particular sounds. The…
The Pill Helped Start the Sexual Revolution. What Will Phexxi Do? Saundra Pelletier is marketing a new form of birth control to women wary of hormones. Ms. Pelletier’s back is tattoed with feminist symbols.Credit…Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times June 10, 2021Updated 12:20 p.m. ET SAN DIEGO — If you’re a woman aged 18…
The cicadas across our region have been relentless, sparking a social media frenzy and keeping nature reporters in the D.C. area busy. Now they’ve made their way onto weather maps, too. They, along with other insects, can be seen on Doppler radars ordinarily used to track storms. Over the weekend, plots from D.C.-area weather radars…
Chrissy Teigen, the former queen of Twitter, has gotten into a lot of trouble lately on the very platform she once ruled. Teigen is famous because she’s a model, TV host, and bestselling cookbook author who is married to John Legend. (Disclosure: Legend sits on the board of Vox Media.) But her real claim to…
TikTok quietly updated its earlier this week in a way that allows the company to automatically collect extensive data on users in the United States —including data about their faces and their voice . The policy change, first spotted by , specifically states that TikTok “may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under…
How the ad exchanges are sending your money to a very bad man Welcome back to BRANDED, the newsletter exploring how marketers broke society (and how we can fix it). Here’s what’s new with us: Seb Gorka is a neo-Nazi. This is not an opinion or a personal interpretation. It’s a well-documented fact. He has…
You’re reading a Quartz member-exclusive story, available to all readers for a limited time. To unlock access to all of Quartz become a member. When Lou Montulli invented the cookie in 1994, he was a 23-year-old engineer at Netscape, the company that built one of the internet’s first widely used browsers. He was trying to…
The technology that shaped digital advertising and media is going away. What will replace it? Image copyright: Illustration by Charlie Le Maignan By the digits $336 billion: Valuation of the digital advertising industry, according to one estimate 72%: Americans who worry that what they do online is being tracked by companies 40%-60%: The (rather low)…
You’re reading a Quartz member-exclusive story, available to all readers for a limited time. To unlock access to all of Quartz become a member. Table of contents Nothing on the internet is free | Glossary | What is a third-party cookie? | Timeline | Why are third-party cookies going away? | What will replace third-party…