Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook's Controversial "Real Name" Policy Can Work For Trans Community

“Real name” on Facebook does not mean legal name, says Zuck. Facebook Facebook has no plans to end its controversial "real name...

How Metal Is Apple Music?

We convened a panel of passionate experts to get to the bottom of this one mystery. A major new music product from Apple raises all kind o...

The World's Biggest Keyboard App Is About To Help Decide The Future Of Emoji

Unicode Consortium The Emoji Council Of Elders is about to get a little bit bigger. As of today, Swiftkey , the predictive keyboard app f...

What Kind Of Insufferable Tweeter Should You Unfollow Today?

Today is the day you do yourself a favor and unfollow someone how has been driving you nuts.

Apple Music Is The New iPod And The Old Record Store

When everyone can put millions of songs in your pocket, the trick is helping you figure out what to listen to. Touchstone Pictures In 200...

In-Flight Wi-Fi Will Soon Get Much Faster, Gogo Tells Wall Street

In a presentation to investors, the company said onboard Wi-Fi will hit broadband speeds within five years, and be available on many more fl...

Apple's Beats 1 Radio Is Censoring Music

Bleeps by Dre. Brendan Klinkenberg / BuzzFeed As part of the debut of its new Apple Music streaming service, Apple on Tuesday launched Be...

Russians Try To Build A Normal Media Startup Across The Border

Meduza’s exiles cover an authoritarian Russia. Deputy editor-in-chief Ivan Kokpakov in Meduza's Riga office. instagram.com RIGA, Lat...

Apple Music Is Here

The tech giant’s new streaming service debuted today. Here’s what it looks like. Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed After months of anticipation, ...

The Warriors' Andre Iguodala Has Some Things To Say About Tech

“Tesla’s pretty cool.” Michelle Rial/BuzzFeed Less than two weeks after winning the NBA championships, Warriors power forward Andre Iguod...

VR Company Jaunt Made Its Own Camera

Building a 360-degree view from the ground up. Jaunt You probably haven't seen a VR video yet. And why would you, because there's...

This App Keeps Truckers Rolling In An On-Demand World

Trucker Path started as a crowdsourced information hub for truckers, but it’s about to become a marketplace with the potential to shake up h...

FTC Settles With Developer Who Hijacked Phones To Mine Cryptocurrency

A game and rewards app was really a Trojan horse, installing virtual currency mining software on the phones of unsuspecting consumers. Dog...

Rand Paul Threw A Libertarian Hackathon On Pride Weekend

For liberty, for privacy, and for Rand Paul for President. William Alden / Via BuzzFeed News If they ventured outside on Saturday, maybe ...

Apple Music Launches Tuesday With Dr. Dre's "The Chronic"

It will be the first time Dre’s solo debut has ever been made available by a streaming music service. youtube.com When Apple Music debuts...

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Google Appeal Of Oracle Suit

The denial leaves in place a ruling that Java is copyrightable — Oracle may seek a billion dollar in damages. MLADEN ANTONOV / Getty Image...

An Algorithmic Feed May Be Twitter's Last Remaining Card To Play

Are we about to see the end of the unfiltered stream? Universal Studios and DreamWorks Twitter is out of options — except for one big one...

The 21st Century Has Really Not Been Great For Women And Minorities In STEM

The gap between white men and everybody else in tech starts in high school. Via Flickr: orangegreenblue Teens of all stripes are glued to...

SpaceX Rocket Explodes After Liftoff On Space Station Cargo Mission

The private space company’s scientists are trying to work out what went wrong. An unmanned SpaceX rocket on a cargo mission to the Internat...

Apple Music Is Coming To Sonos Before The End Of 2015

The wireless speaker company is working with Apple to get the new streaming service on its devices. Sonos Apple Music is coming to Sonos ...

Here's Ronan Farrow Covering Avril Lavigne On The Guitar Next To A Cutout Of Rand Paul

Just some good, clean, libertarian fun. Ronan Farrow arrived at a Rand Paul for President hackathon in San Francisco on Saturday planning ...

Now You Can See What Google's Algorithms Are Thinking

It gets weird!` This is the Google logo you know, but with one major difference Google Not the people at Google (the company) — the arti...

FCC Chair: "Broadband Should Be Available To Everyone Everywhere"

FCC Chair Tom Wheeler championed broadband access and defended net neutrality as he dismissed characterizations of the FCC as an “omnipresen...

Meet The Mysterious New Hacker Army Freaking Out The Middle East

iStock SAN FRANCISCO — The first tweets appeared on April 14. The website of Al Hayat , a pro-Saudi newspaper, had been hacked, its front...

Why Robots Aren't Coming For Your Job — Yet

In the booming field of industrial robotics, the race is on to create a machine that can actually replace human workers. But even with the b...

Twitter Stops Inserting Random Favorites Into Your Timeline

For the time being, anyway … An experimental Twitter feature that outraged some of the platform's population upon release is now dead. ...

Uber's Biggest Chinese Competitor To Shareholders: We're Killing It

In a letter to shareholders, Didi Kuaidi said it controls 80% of the private car market and 99% of the taxi-hailing market in China. STR /...

News Corp's Education Company Will Stop Making Tablets

Students using Amplify's tablets. Amplify.com Amplify, the education company owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, will stop selli...

There's A Loophole In Poland's Abortion Law And It's Drone-Sized

Abortion drugs are mostly illegal there — except, maybe, if you fly them in. This is a quadcopter being tested by Deutsche Post in 2013, b...

Inside The Very Strange, Very Heated, Kanye West Forum Wars

No one fan should have all that power. Getty / Michelle Riall / BuzzFeed On a typical Friday afternoon, visitors to Kanye To The — the s...

What Our Tweets And Google Searches Say About Our Health

Researchers are mining social media for insights into our well-being — or lack thereof. Alice Mongkongllite / BuzzFeed For years, Alicia ...

Move Aside Dollar Shave Club, Here Comes Dollar Beard Club

“You sure as hell won’t be receiving any f***ing razors from us to demolish your manhood” youtube.com For years, bearded men have longing...

Anti-Uber French Taxi Drivers Are Burning Tires And Overturning Cars

The cabbies have also blocked access to motorway exits, railway stations, and airports. French taxi drivers are on strike throughout the co...

Apple Boots Games Featuring Confederate Flag From The App Store

The company is working with game developers affected by the decision to reinstate their apps. Hunted Cow Apple announced Thursday that ga...

Palantir Valued At $20 Billion In New Funding Round

The secretive data-processing company is raising up to $500 million in a previously undisclosed round of funding. The round makes it the thi...