Congress Schools Education Apps On Student Privacy

A new bill would provide K–12 students with robust data privacy protections. Christopher Furlong / Getty Images As public schools scrambl...

Big Insurer Expands Coverage For Telemedicine

It just got easier for 1 million UnitedHealthcare members to see the doctor from the comfort of home. Doctor on Demand UnitedHealthcare, ...

Lawmakers Challenge FBI On Surveillance Backdoors, Encryption

Congress pushes back against the FBI’s calls for backdoors to encrypted smartphone data. Maxkabakov / Getty Images Days after the House o...

Goldman Sachs Makes Its First Big Investment In Bitcoin

Goldman is co-leading a $50 million financing round in Circle Internet Financial, a bitcoin wallet company. The investment lends some Wall S...

Flywheel Now Lets You Pay For Taxis On A Mobile App

The taxi-hailing app hopes the new feature will give it a leg up on Uber and Lyft. Flywheel press kit Flywheel, the taxi-hailing app that...

Oracle Is Not Courting Salesforce

You can strike Larry Ellison and Co. off the short list of possible bidders — for now. Eric Risberg / AP Salesforce may well be listening...

Here's What You Need To Know About Windows 10

Straight from Microsoft Build 2015. Microsoft Build Here are some of the key takeaways: Goodbye, Internet Explorer. Windows 10 comes wit...

Secret Shutting Down

The app for sharing anonymous updates is in the process of closing its doors. Secret BuzzFeed News has learned that just over a year afte...

Android And iOS Apps Are Coming To Windows 10 — Sort Of

Microsoft makes it easy for developers to rework code written for rival platforms to run on Windows devices. Mikko Stig / Getty Images Mi...

This Is What Happens When A Guy From Rwanda Finds Out He's Been Internet Famous For Months

He’s the unwitting star of a Vine that’s been seen 32 million times – but who is the “Okay Guy”? BuzzFeed News finally tracked him down. If...

Instagram Launches Dedicated Music Channel @Music

The Facebook-owned social network’s first category-specific vertical will showcase popular and emerging artists. Jared Eberhardt / Instagr...

Fetch Puts Robots To Work

New industrial robots could someday take over boring warehouse tasks. But what does that mean for warehouse jobs? Fetch Robotics Fetch Ro...

Nobody Knows

Which industry will you change forever? Image: Mat Honan It's cold and foggy in San Francisco today, after several hot weeks and seve...

Congress Moves To Curb Mass Surveillance Under The Patriot Act

The USA Freedom Act, introduced today in the House and Senate, would rein in the NSA’s bulk data collection program. Dado Ruvic / Reuters ...

Meet LG's New Flagship G4 Handset

I told 4chan’s /g/ (Technology) board all about my experience at the LG phone event today in the form of a “green text story”. Editor's...

Maple: Another Food Delivery Startup, This Time With Momofuku's David Chang

Plenty of websites and apps will help you get a meal delivered. But Maple gets big-time Manhattan food cred from its chief culinary officer,...

Twitter Spooks Investors With Bungled Earnings Release, Shares Plunge

Twitter was forced to release its quarterly numbers early after a markets data company found a copy online. Investors didn’t like what they ...

Uber Launches Food Delivery Service In New York City And Chicago

With UberEATS, the ride-hailing service is going head-to-head with Seamless and GrubHub. ubereats.co New Yorkers and Chicagoans now have ...

Now PayPal Users Can Buy Things With One Click On The Web

One Touch furthers the payment giant’s efforts to streamline digital checkouts. youtube.com For years, the rigamarole required to buy thi...

I Let The Apple Watch Run My Life For 48 Hours

It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn and I am screaming at my own wrist. I’m late and walking with purpose down Flatbush Avenue an...

Gett Wants To Deliver Dinner, Doctors On Demand

The ride-hailing service plans to expand into food delivery and a handful of other new verticals. Shahar Waiser, DLD Moscow, May 29, 2012....

Best Buy Will Accept Apple Pay, First Defector From Rival Payments Alliance

The electronics retailer gave a major boost to Apple’s mobile payments system, even though it’s a founding member of a competing payments al...

Apple's Latest Results Show China On The Rise And iPad In Decline

In the first three months of 2015, the company sold more than 61 million iPhones and pulled in almost $17 billion in revenue from the Greate...

Instagram Won't Let You Search For The Eggplant Emoji

#FREETHEEGGPLANT Instagram just announced that you can hashtag and search by emoji . Great! Cool! It turns out people have already been doi...

Facebook Messenger Now Includes Video Calling

The social network hopes to transform Messenger into a world-class standalone app. Facebook Onstage at Facebook's annual F8 conferenc...

Did You Know? You Can Hashtag Emojis On Instagram

New filters, too. #smilingpileofpoop Starting today, you can hashtag emojis in Instagram captions. Instagram Instagram told BuzzFeed Lif...

Here Are The On-Demand Companies Using Full-Time Labor — And Why

Even as lawsuits threaten the contract-based employment model of companies like Uber, contract labor is the norm in the industry. But a few ...

People In Nepal Are Letting Their Loved Ones Know They Are Safe Using Facebook

Facebook introduced its “Safety Check” feature last October. In a press release , Facebook said its engineers in Japan began working on the...

My Problem With The Passwords

One woman’s struggle with the day to day grind of extreme cryptography. Jenny Chang / BuzzFeed It is 8:46 in the morning and I have alrea...

The Funniest Thing On Google Maps Is This Android Bot Peeing On An Apple Logo

Apple loyalists will be pretty “pissed” about this. UPDATE: This has since been removed and was not the work of a Google employee. But it’s ...