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View ArticleSeeking Shelter From The Short Internet
Longform.org’s new reading app wants to give you a sanctuary from your endless feed (and maybe change your browsing behaviors too!). Longform.org Over the past year a peculiar trend piece seems to...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Egypt Begins Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype On...
“We are looking at any conversation, any interaction, we might find worrying or would want to keep a closer eye on.” Sheera Frenkel reports from Jerusalem and Maged Atef from Cairo for BuzzFeed News....
View ArticleiOS 8 Is Here
Apple’s new mobile operating system promises better notifications and typing. Apple iOS 8, Apple's annual iteration of its mobile operating system, is now available for download. While last year's...
View ArticleEveryone's Nuking Their Phones Just To Download iOS 8
Who actually has 4.6GB of free space on their phone? The iOS8 update for iPhone and iPad came out today, and requires a hefty 4.6GB of storage space for the phone. Many people are frantically trying...
View ArticleThe Future Of The Future Of Books
Thoughts on Amazon, e-books, and the future of how we read words. Nathan Pyle / BuzzFeed The year I graduated high school, the media was overrun with speculation about a new technology set to shake...
View ArticleApple Took A Page Out Of Android's Playbook, And It's Now Obvious Why
With iOS 8, developers are getting access to parts of the iPhone that were, at one point, sacred. Stephen Lam / Reuters Apple released the newest version of its iPhone operating system, iOS 8, on...
View ArticlePeople Are Switching To iOS 8 Slower Than You Might Think
Expect that to change by the end of the weekend, though. Mixpanel The release of a new iteration of iOS, Apple's mobile operating system, has turned that least exciting of digital phenomena—the...
View ArticleYour Facebook News Feed Is About To Get More Timely
Facebook is updating its ranking algorithm to determine which stories are more important in a given moment than others. Valentin Flauraud / Reuters / Reuters Facebook is rolling out a small update to...
View ArticleYour New iOS 8 Phone Is Not "NSA-Proof"
But it is a whole lot more secure. Last night, Apple unveiled an overhauled privacy section to its website along with a personal message from Apple CEO Tim Cook reaffirming the company's "commitment...
View ArticleDo Not Believe The Rumors Going Around That You Can Charge Your iPhone 6 In...
They were made up by 4chan and if you try it you will melt your phone. As you might recall, last year 4chan tried to convince everyone that iOS 7 would make your iPhone waterproof. (Reminder: iOS 7...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes Of Uber's Biggest Driver Strike
Why frustrated and unhappy drivers won’t stop working for Uber. Johana Bhuiyan/BuzzFeed When New York area workers started flocking to Uber, they did so because the company promised better pay, more...
View Article20 Things Less Important Than Getting The iPhone 6
“I will never be that degraded ever again.” Meet some of the people waiting in the line to get the iPhone 6. In Midtown Manhattan people waited in a multiple-blocks-long line at the Fifth Avenue Apple...
View ArticleSomeone Inside Congress Edited A Wikipedia Article About #Gamergate's...
Your tax dollars at work! Joshua Roberts / Reuters Congress-edits is a Twitter bot that posts all edits made to Wikipedia from the IP address associated with the United States House of...
View ArticleMeet The Two Friends Who Made A Million Dollars Off Of EA's FIFA Series
How FutHead.com harnessed a massive hidden audience to create a millions-strong community. FutHead In 2010, Dan Paulson and Chris Conover were working as web developers in Orlando when they picked up...
View ArticleDogspotting Is The Game That Will Save Facebook
Spot a dog, post it, win points. Voila, your newsfeed is now full of cool dogs. Dogspotting is only thing that can save Facebook. Reid Paskiewicz / Via Facebook: 10487409466 If you're getting burnt...
View ArticleOld Media Is Buying Up The Biggest YouTube Networks
AT&T’s deal to buy Fullscreen is the latest in big media companies snapping up YouTube networks. With around 50,000 independent creators in its stable, Fullscreen is one of the biggest YouTube...
View ArticleiPhone 6 Plus Users Are Sitting On And Bending Their Enormous New Phones
STOP SITTING ON YOUR HUGE DANG PHONES, PEOPLE! stadt-bremerhaven.de The iPhone 6 Plus, with its 5.5-inch display is big. Really big. Like, markedly bigger than a Pop Tart big. So big, in fact, that...
View ArticleThis Is What Having An iPhone 6 Plus Is Actually Like
You get asked “OMG is that an iPhone 6 Plus?” approximately 4647 times. Firstly, let's get this out of the way. However, it IS possible to fit an iPhone 6 Plus into your tight jean pockets. It might...
View ArticleHere's What I Learned Using Teen-Monitoring Software On A Sorority Girl's...
BuzzFeed News’ Katie Notopoulos, reporting live from inside a 21-year-old’s iPhone. Last November in suburban Texas, two high school BFFs, away at separate colleges, texted about boy troubles. He...
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