Eugene Chung Wants To Be Virtual Reality's First Auteur

“We almost decided that we shouldn’t show it to you.” Eugene Chung is standing in his office, hesitating. Really, he’s standing in a desk-f...

Grindr Went Down And Panic Ensued

“Swear #Grindr goes down more times than I do” Grindr had an outage on Saturday, and users were pretty upset to say the least. Via Twitte...

We Asked 13 Friscans How They Feel About Frisco

Frisco gives us the ~feels~! 1. You should! 2. This dog is also wrong. It its defense, it is a dog. View Entire List ›

Private Gun Sales Banned On Facebook, Instagram

Facebook is planning to announce that the network will no longer allow its user to conduct private firearms sales through pages and groups,...

This Is The Version Of The Kim Kardashian Game That Could've Been

A rival game company’s lawsuit claims Kim Kardashian: Hollywood was based on these images. Kung Fu Mobile claims in a lawsuit that they met...

Why A Marxist Social Policy Is Gaining Ground In Silicon Valley

Thierry Ehrmann / Flickr / Via flic.kr This week, the startup incubator Y Combinator put up a job listing for a researcher to study basic...

Facebook Doesn't Like Calling Twitter By Its Name, And Twitter Is Pissed

When a Twitter flame war between Wendy's and Burger King last week ended with Wendy's saying it would respond to its rival's ant...

Ted Cruz Mocks Trump Debate Absence With Cartoon Duck Snapchat Filter

Ted Cruz has a new nickname for Republican rival Donald Trump: Ducking Donald. And he's propagating it on Snapchat. The nickname is a r...

FCC: U.S. Broadband Still Terrible

Matt King / Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday agreed to release its 2016 Broadband Progress Report to the pub...

Amazon Stock Crashes After Company Reports Record Profit

Yes, profit. David Ryder / Getty Images Amazon Amazon stock had soared in the lead-up to what many expected would be a positive earning...

Apple Is Issuing A Recall For Some Of Its Wall Plug Adapters

Apple Today in power cord plug wall-adapter news, Apple is announcing a sizable voluntary recall of AC wall plug adapters designed for Ar...

This Smart Pill Tells Your Doctor If You Miss A Dose

Ingram Publishing / Getty Images Matthew Panks takes five pills a day to keep his blood pressure low. But sometimes he forgets or runs out...

This Boy Was Thrown Out Of School Because Of His DNA, Parents Say

Claudioventrella / Getty Images On Oct. 10, 2012, 11-year-old Colman Chadam was pulled out of class at his public middle school in Palo Al...

Internet, But Over The Air: How A Startup Plans To Take On The Cable Companies

Starry Internet. But through the air. Chet Kanojia is not the first person to have this idea, but his new startup, Starry, promises to r...

More Than Half Of Facebook Users Only Use It On Mobile Devices

For more than half of Facebook's 1.59 billion monthly active users, the platform's desktop version might as well not exist. 823 mi...

Obama Administration Takes On Inequality In Silicon Valley

Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News East San Jose, in Santa Clara County, California, is a town of pickup trucks, strip malls, and sing...

Venmo Adds Support For Merchant Payments

Venmo Venmo, the popular payments app, is finally reaching beyond peer-to-peer payments. On Wednesday afternoon, the service introduced a ...

The FCC Wants You To Choose Your Own Cable Box

Columbia Pictures Should consumers who pay for cable or satellite TV have an array of set-top options from which to choose? The head of th...

Google Beats Go, The Ancient Game That Computers Couldn't Crack

Wei-hua / Getty Images The board game Go has a deceptively simple premise: Defeat your opponent by using white or black stones to claim th...

Here’s How Free Basics Is Actually Being Sold Around The World

If you watched TV in Bolivia or read a newspaper in Ghana or listened to the radio in Panama in the last year or so, there’s a chance you sa...

Meet The Guy Who Solved Uber's Insurance Problem

William Alden / Via BuzzFeed News Two years ago, Uber faced a problem that could have been financially ruinous. Sure, the ride-hailing com...

Apple Says It Has Fixed The Bug That Was Crashing Safari

Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images Apple has fixed the bug that caused the Safari browser to crash on iPhones, iPads, and Macs around the wo...