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Twitter CEO Plans To Make It Harder For Abusers To Be Heard
Twitter plans to make it more difficult for users to harass one another on its platform. AP Lionel Cironneau Twitter has new product updates in development that will make it "difficult to be an...
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What The Most Texted GIFs Say About Our Fragile Humanity
The most frequently texted reaction GIFs are a terrifying look into the wretched filth of our own souls. Also, people really like those dumb cartoon “minions.” PopKey is a keyboard you can add to your...
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Meet The Teenage Girls Who Made The Feminist iPhone Game "Tampon Run"
You throw tampons to defeat villains. “When enemies are hit with tampons they now turn into pads that fly away.” Nadia Irshaid Gilbert / Via Handout itunes.apple.com View Entire List ›
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Do You Punctuate Your Texts?
Are periods an extinct species in the casual culture of SMS? When it comes to texting, we all contend with an incredibly wide range of writing styles on a daily basis. From the heavy-on-the-emoji...
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Google Hints At YouTube Kids Rollout With New Online Survey
According to an online focus group questionnaire, Google is mulling a paid YouTube Kids product. A popular YouTube channel for children. YouTube / Via youtube.com Google's long-rumored YouTube for...
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Lost And Found In "Majora's Mask"
I’ve struggled with anxiety for years. So when I replayed my very favorite game, this time I decided to let go. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed I have beaten The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask more times in my...
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Sidecar Announces Nationwide Same-Day Delivery
The latest shift from “ride-sharing” to “logistics.” Via side.cr The ride-hailing company Sidecar is getting into deliveries. The service—which has lagged behind Uber and Lyft in the transportation...
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Cubans Can Now Get Netflix. Now All They Need Is An Internet Connection
The streaming video service announced today it was “delighted” to make its product available in Cuba. But with an estimated 5% of the Cuban population having access to the web, the country is unlikely...
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The U.S. Filed More Than Half Of All Twitter's Requests For User Info Last Year
In its latest Transparency Report, Twitter calls out the countries who’ve requested the most information on its users and who’s asked for the most things to be deleted. Since 2012, Twitter —...
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Yelp Is Going To Start Delivering Food
Soon you’ll be able to order as well as pen essay-length reviews. Via officialblog.yelp.com Yelp announced today that it has purchased Eat24, a food-delivery service, for $134 million. The acquisition...
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How A Leftist Finnish Meme Became A White Supremacist Comic Strip
Basically: Anti-Semitism is complicated, but bears are always funny. Le American Bear is a sunglasses-wearing, morbidly obese cartoon brown bear, dressed in an American flag t-shirt, who loves...
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Men Are Using Uber's Lost-And-Found Feature To Harass Female Drivers
Several women have also complained that a feature created to protect drivers, the anonymized number Uber provides to passengers, opens them up to harassment from passengers because they are not...
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Why Smiley Faces Turn Into Js In Your Emails
The ghost of Wingdings past is haunting you. You're reading an email and suddenly there it is: A lonesome J dangling in its own nook of negative space. Who are you? Why are you here? How did you find...
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Lyft's Ambitious, Near Impossible Attempt to Beat Uber
Lyft is putting an increased emphasis on the friendly experience of rides and going after the more casual drivers. But catching Uber will require serious gas. BuzzFeed News Chances are, if you've ever...
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How HBO Unwittingly Helped Create Insanely Hardcore "Game Of Thrones" Porn
Winter is coming, a lot. Thanks to its frequent sex and nudity, HBO's Game of Thrones — and the series of fantasy novels it's based on — is no stranger to the internet's abiding Rule 34: If it exists,...
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NYC Council Member Will Introduce Consumer Privacy Legislation For Ride-Hail...
The legislation would require the Taxi and Limousine Commission to fine companies that do not adhere to the policies, BuzzFeed News reports exclusively. Sergio Perez / Reuters New York City Council...
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You Can Now Decide Who Will Run Your Facebook After You Die
Because life is short, but Facebook is forever. Facebook The legacy contact can also download an archive of the person's photos, posts, and profile information, and add a note to the top that says...
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On Its First Birthday, Slack Declares Itself The "Fastest Growing Business...
And its daily users have doubled twice in six months. kris krüg / Via flic.kr Slack could be the only business application that doesn't provoke regular bursts of homicidal rage from its users, and...
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How a startup pitch convention morphed into an overdone joke and, finally, a media criticism tool. If you've spent any time following Tech Twitter, the insular community of entrepreneurs, venture...
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Xiaomi's Smartphone Selfies Make Old People Feel Young
Xiaomi’s Mi Note has a built-in algorithm that attempts to figure out a selfie-taker’s age and gender. It’s not as flattering for young people. Today in San Francisco, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi...
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