A star-studded photo of Barbra Streisand hanging out backstage at a Rolling Stones concert kicks off #ThrowbackThursday.
12 Celebrity #TBT Photos You May Have Missed This Week
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The Actual Scariest Things On Earth
Nothing is scarier than running into your ex…
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18 Dating Lessons From Mr. Darcy
My feelings will not be repressed.
This is Mr. Darcy.
His first name is Fitzwilliam. Never use it.
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This is also Mr. Darcy. Ladies love Mr. Darcy.
And though he was created by the beautiful mind of Miss Jane Austen over two hundred years ago, he has some lessons that might be of assistance to the modern chap.
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First and foremost: you must learn to dance.
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
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Don't be afraid of a little sassiness.
"Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
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15 Times Grocery Stores Failed So Hard They Won
Canned cat, anyone?
Well, it looks like they have found a new way to market bananas:
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At least they're being sold by the unit:
But does it taste like chicken?
I didn't even know there was a liquid form option:
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Apple CEO Says He's "Very Bullish" On The Future Of The Tablet
“We’ve sold more iPads through the first three years than we have sold iPhones,” Tim Cook tells BuzzFeed News.
Apple CEO Tim Cook holds an iPad during a presentation at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Oct. 16.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook told BuzzFeed News following the iPad unveiling on Thursday that he was "very bullish" on the future of tablets, countering some reports that the outlook for tablets is not as positive as it was when the devices first began entering the market in force in 2010 with the release of the first iPad.
"At a macro level, we've sold more iPads through the first three years than we have sold iPhones," Cook said in response to a question about the subject from BuzzFeed News at a gathering following the iPad event. "There's ebbs and flows. I'm very bullish on the future of the tablet. You can see some things that we're doing with our work with IBM to get it deeper into the enterprise, and some other things we're working on I think bode very well for the future of it."
Earlier today, Cook unveiled a suite of new iPads that included a new, thinner and more powerful iPad called the iPad Air 2. Apple also unveiled an update to its smaller tablet, the iPad Mini, called the iPad Mini 3. All of the new tablets have Apple's "Retina" display, which is Apple parlance for a screen that is so high resolution that the human eye cannot discern individual pixels. The company today said it's sold 225 million iPads, since 2010.
According to IDC, at the end of the second quarter of 2014 Apple had a 26.9% market share. But the year-over-year growth for tablet shipments in Q2 of 2014 compared to 2014 was 11%. In August, IDC lowered its forecast for global tablet shipments, saying overall tablet shipments would only grow 6.5% this year compared to 2013. That's compared to its original forecast of 12.1% growth year-on-year of annual shipments. The same report also indicated that growth outside of North America was still present.
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But Apple's tablet growth may get a shot in the arm. The company said it was dropping the price of its original smaller iPad Mini to $249, and the new iPad Mini 3 is priced at $399.
Apple also signed a major partnership with IBM earlier this year that would greatly increase its footprint in large corporations. Such a deal can be a powerful tool for selling tablets like the new iPad Air 2 and even lower-priced ones like the iPad Mini. Many large companies are adopting tablets like iPads for work use, and Apple had already held a large presence preceding the IBM deal.
Still, Cook said he isn't necessarily focused on other tablets. "That doesn't mean that they bode well for the future of other tablets; I'm not focused on those, I'm focused on iPad," he told BuzzFeed News.
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13 Everyday Struggles Of The Modern Vampire
All that glitters is not gold. With Halloween on the horizon, it’s time for modern vampires to speak their truths.
Everyone is always asking you where the rave is.
It's not your fault that you light up like a disco ball every time the sun hits your skin.
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You'll never be a "summer".
Your skin is way too pale to ever be anything but a "winter" again. You can kiss your dreams of wearing mauve or cerulean goodbye.
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Blood is an absolute bitch to wash out.
Vampirism is all fun and games until your down to your last pair of underwear on laundry day. *sigh*.
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Your mom is ALWAYS on your case about your room.
Geez, she's such a NAG.
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25 Thoughts All Hypochondriacs Can Definitely Relate To
“This is it. This is the end. I’m NOT READY.”
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Or what if it's a blood clot?
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Or... could it be a brain tumor?!
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10 Survivors Of Domestic Violence Quoting The People Who Attacked Them
From Project Unbreakable , an online platform that aims to “encourage the act of healing through art.”
Project Unbreakable has strived to "increase awareness of the issues surrounding sexual assault" since its launch in 2011.
BuzzFeed News has previously highlighted Project Unbreakable quotes from both male and female survivors of sexual assault.
What started as an art project quickly expanded into a blog with user-submitted content and now has non-profit status.
Project Unbreakable is currently in the process of becoming a tax-exempt non-profit.
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After three years, 22-year-old founder Grace Brown has decided to expand Project Unbreakable's online platform even further.
We want to be able to help as many people as possible. In light of Domestic Violence Awareness Month (October), we have opened Project Unbreakable up to include survivors of domestic violence.
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7 Signs You've Found Your BFF
No one knows you like your BFF.
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24 Reasons To Love Dr. Spencer Reid From "Criminal Minds"
Warning: this post includes cute photos of Matthew Gray Gubler in a sweater vest.
Because he's so damn cute it's hard to believe he's real.
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Because when he dances it looks like this.
Look at that hand placement. A true gentleman.
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Because when he sleeps it looks like this.
And when he smiles you pretend he's dreaming of you.
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Because he's just as awkward as you are.
Social interaction is HARD, guys.
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Are Companies That Pay To Freeze Women's Eggs Improving The Workforce For Them?
Companies like Apple and Facebook are now paying for their female employees to freeze their eggs. Some say it’s a perk for women who want to wait to have kids, but critics say it’s a short-term solution to a bigger problem of balancing work and family.
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Earlier this week, NBC reported that Facebook and Apple were paying for their female employees to freeze their eggs so that, if they choose to do so, they can work through their peak childbearing years and have children later in their career when they are presumably more financially stable.
This policy "can help women be more productive human beings," according to Extend Fertility, a company that offers and promotes egg freezing nationwide. "Women are making the proactive decision to freeze their eggs at a younger age, and the choice is more one of empowerment than 'this is my last chance.'"
But some said this week that they see the policy has as a short-term solution rather than a structural improvement to accommodate female workers and families.
"What's going to be structurally different at the workplace to make the women want to have kids while at the company?" Seema Mohapatra, a health care law and bioethics expert, said to BuzzFeed News. "There's no indication that women who have children later on at the companies will be given choices that help them more successfully have a career and raise a family concurrently."
Facebook does not see this policy as one that pressures women to work through their childbearing years, however, but rather one elected benefit among many.
Those who want to have children in their twenties or early thirties can still do so, and will receive perks that include a four-month parental leave for mothers and fathers, subsidized daycare, flexible work schedules and the option to work remotely, unlimited sick days, and $4,000 "baby cash" for each child born or adopted, the company told BuzzFeed News.
The company put the egg-freezing policy into effect on Jan. 1, 2014, as part of a larger surrogacy and fertility benefit plan that was the result of employees requesting more options for family planning, Facebook said. The policy covers men and LGBT families as well offering surrogacy agency fees, sperm donation or sperm retrieval, and court, legal, and attorney's fees, among other costs.
Mohapatra said that Facebook and Apple are not the companies "to be cynical about."
Apple store in Beijing
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45 Eddie Redmaynes You Need To See Right Now
Because Eddie Redmayne.
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21 Extremely Awkwardly Placed Product Stickers
It only takes one well placed sticker to completely change a product’s description.
Those M&M’s mascots always did seem super close:
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Speaking of being close, what's going on there, Pooh?!
"Inside & Out" indeed.
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This makes it sound like the porn parody:
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Even the pink button placement suggests that this book is about something else:
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Which Celebrity Would You Rather Have As A Best Friend?
In a perfect world, you wouldn’t have to choose, but this isn’t a perfect world. This is BuzzFeed.
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These 29 Photos Of Cosplayers Revealing What Their Day Jobs Are Might Blow Your Mind
BuzzFeed asked some of the best cosplayers of New York Comic Con to reveal what their day jobs are to prove, once and for all, that nerds come in all shapes and sizes.
Left: Research analyst
Right: Banker
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Student and princess performer
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Manages a doggy daycare
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Aspiring filmmaker
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If All Disney Princesses Were Taylor Swift
“Are we out of the woods yet?” —Taylor Swift and most Disney Princesses
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Poll: Are Your Bathroom Habits Weird?
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Lena Dunham Wants Everyone To Know About The Incredible Words Of Tom Meagher
“Tom Meagher used his wife’s unspeakable death to create dialogue, so bless the fuck out of him.”
The Girls creator posted a stirring Instagram post using the words of Tom Meagher - the husband of Jill Meagher who was raped and murdered in Melbourne.
"Beautiful words from Tom Meagher, whose wife Jill was raped and murdered. To anyone who has accused me/us of vilifying men as a group: analysis of the rampant forces that keep women from speaking about assault should not scare you. It should excite you, because you will have happier, more engaged and empowered partners who trust you and open up to you. I fucking love men, I want to be in dialogue with men. And Tom Meagher used his wife's unspeakable death to create dialogue, so bless the fuck out of him."
The Tom Meagher quote comes from an incredible blog post written in the wake of Jill's murder. She was abducted and killed walking home from a Brunswick pub back in 2012.
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19 Baffling Moments From "X Factor"'s '80s Night
I975 was basically the 1980s, right?
Tonight it was '80s night on The X Factor! Dermot O'Leary's contribution was to wearily punch the air.
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This Playful Dog Couldn't Give Less Of A Damn That He's On A Live Weather Report
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