Foursquare's CEO: We Want People To "Open Their Eyes"
In his first public comments since announcing the split of the Foursquare app, its founder and CEO explained why he split his app in two and why Foursquare is nothing like Facebook or Twitter. Mike...
View ArticleNew Nintendo Game Is All About Your Life — Unless You're LGBT
Tomodachi Life is supposed to be about “all the dramatic ups and downs of life,” but Nintendo has rejected pleas from fans to allow same-sex relationships in the game. Yuriko Nakao / Reuters / Reuters...
View ArticleWhy Twitter's Newest Tweetstorm™ Trend Must Be Stopped
Twitter’s sanity depends on it. Warzel/BuzzFeed Here's a thing you probably haven't noticed unless you relentlessly follow a niche tech and tech media crowd on Twitter (and heaven help you if you do):...
View ArticleGoogle, Facebook, And More Than 100 Tech Companies Come Together To Defend...
The tech industry breaks its silence. Hisham Ibrahim/Hisham Ibrahim This afternoon, a coalition of more than 100 tech companies wrote a joint letter to the FCC standing in favor of net neutrality....
View ArticleFlappy Nerd: The New Oculus Add-On That Lets You Pretend To Be A Bird
Strap on and strap in to Birdly if you want to fly! Birdly, the project of four Zurich dreamers, combines hydraulics, a padded table, some bird software, and an Oculus Rift. Its goal: "to capture the...
View ArticleWe Went To TechCrunch Disrupt And Asked People How To Fix The Tech Industry
Attendees at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference weigh in on what Silicon Valley is missing, and how to increase the number of women in tech. First question: "What is Silicon Valley lacking?" View...
View ArticleApple Reportedly In Talks To Buy Beats By Dre For $3.2 Billion
The iPhone maker might be close to its first major acquisition, according to the Financial Times . Robert Galbraith / Reuters / Reuters In what would be one of Apple's largest acquisitions ever, the...
View Article18 Cool Internet Tricks You Didn't Know Existed
So many shortcuts! Alejandro Escamilla / BuzzFeed Use "Cmnd + Shift + T" on a Mac. Works in Chrome and Firefox. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed View Entire List ›
View ArticleNetflix Raises Prices For New Customers, Current Customers Keep Prices For...
New customers will pay $8.99 for streaming, and old customers will get to pay $7.99 for two more years. Netflix Netflix told customers in an email Friday morning that the price of its streaming video...
View ArticleMeet The Man Who Invented The Browser Tab
Adam Stiles recalls “the first tab” and how he came to create the atomic unit of internet navigation. In the summer of 1997, a 25-year-old Pasadena software developer named Adam Stiles started working...
View ArticleThis Disgusting "Realistic Kissing Simulator" Will Teach You All About Love
Grab a friend and prepare to make out . All you need is a friend and a keyboard, and you can play. View Entire List ›
View ArticleTwitter Officially Rolls Out Its New Mute Feature
Now you can silence users and they’ll be none the wiser. Perhaps a tacit admission that Twitter has become too noisy. s3.amazonaws.com Today, Twitter officially rolled out a mute feature the company...
View ArticleGaming's Obsession With "Exclusive Content" Reaches Its Preposterous Extreme
Watch Dogs features eleven editions, twelve content packs, and a partridge in a pear tree. Via en.wikipedia.org Watch Dogs, the forever-in-development, much ballyhooed third-person action game from...
View ArticleMicrosoft Backpedals On Kinect, Will Sell Stripped-Down Xbox One For $399
A quick retrenchment from the living room battleground. youtube.com Today, less than six months after Microsoft released the $499 Xbox One with a bundled Kinect camera as "an essential and integrated...
View ArticleWhy We Favorite Tweets, According To Science
An ’ official ’ taxonomy of faving behaviors. Sometime around 2013, Twitter-obsessives became fixated on favoriting. It started with the evolution of Twitter's platform, which shifted to show users...
View ArticleGeorge R.R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor
“Did you make this computer out of wood? Did you carve it?” George R.R. Martin, author of the Song of Ice and Fire series, gave a little insight into his writing process while visiting Conan last...
View ArticleExclusive: The Three New Games Microsoft Wants To Talk About At E3
Ex. Clu. Sive. Over the past several days, speculation has run rampant regarding Microsoft's game lineup at the upcoming E3 industry conference in Los Angeles. Quoting anonymous sources, outlets have...
View ArticleFlappy Bird Will Return In August
A second act for the maddening and beloved mobile game. Flappy Bird, the difficult and hugely addictive mobile game that took the App store —and the world — by storm earlier this year before being...
View ArticleThe Guy From Blues Traveler Is Having A Twitter Meltdown And I'm Trapped In...
I want to die. Flickr: axsdeny There's a sort of black hole for celebrity gossip of the '00s that never made it into the canonized online world. One of these things is THE most interesting tidbit of a...
View Article30 Social Media Inventions That Should Definitely Exist
::flirty favs your tweet:: Natalie Fitzgerald for BuzzFeed 1. The ability to go into stealth unclickable mode on Twitter and Instagram, so there's no chance of accidentally faving someone you're...
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