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Third time’s the charm, or eighth, I’ve actually lost count. Whichever number it is, Twitter has introduced yet another redesigned homepage today which the company hopes will fix one of its biggest weaknesses. Despite being an excellent service, Twitter has struggled with growth because
Remember last week when Uber announced that it would be working with UN Women, an offshoot of the United Nation that works to promote gender equality across the globe, to employ more than a million women by the year 2020? Yeah, that’s already been shut down. The organization decided to end the
BuzzFeed may be getting serious about apps but its most recent app is anything but serious. The app is virtually useless for both the users and BuzzFeed itself, but that doesn’t detract from how amazing it is. Known as Cute or Not, this experimental new app employs a Tinder-esque swiping syste
Smartwatches haven’t even picked up yet and universities are already trying to shut them down. Just a couple of months before the Apple Watch is set to launch, numerous colleges and universities have decided to ban all wrist-worn devices out of fear that students would be able to use them to c
A new trove of documents leaked from the Sony Pictures hack is now out in the wild. And, somewhat astoundingly, it takes the whole debacle to a new level of absurdity since the data includes a file directory named “Password”. Can you guess what’s inside? Yep, it’s thousands o
Uber changed its privacy policy yesterday, but even that may not cover its back this time. Because its top New York executive, Josh Mohrer, has been using an internal tool called God View to track a journalist without her permission. Buzzfeed reports that one of its journalists, Johana Bhuiyan, used
It seems that hard times are continuing for struggling e-commerce startup Fab, as a company spokesperson confirmed to Buzzfeed that it will lay of 80 to 90 employees — roughly a third of its current staff — in meetings tomorrow. The news comes as the team has spent the last six months putting togeth
Taking down Silk Road, the Bitcoin black market for goods and drugs sold around the world, didn’t just put a dent in the economy of crime. It has led authorities to be able to find and arrest the culprits who used it. NOD, a well-known drug dealer on the defunct online black market Silk Road,
The truth is ugly. It really is. They’re teenagers. They’re driven by maturing sexuality, drug-based mischief, and an unyielding disdain for anything that resembles authority. They speak their minds on social media in ways that would make many teachers blush (especially when they’r
After 30 days of continuously changing its logo, the tech giant unveiled its final new design at midnight Thursday. “We wanted there to be a mathematical consistency to the logo, really pulling it together into one coherent mark,” CEO Marissa Mayer said. Mayer said she spent the majority of a Saturd
It is illegal in the United States for federal prisoners to go on the internet. Most prisoners who have been serving long sentences in prison have never been online. Some inmates have managed to go online through illegally smuggled cell phones. But most of them haven’t tried out smartphones, apps, o
