Mat Honan
Mat Honan is the San Francisco bureau chief for BuzzFeed News.
Contact this reporter at mat.honan@buzzfeed.com
The Google Pixel 3 Is A Very Good Phone. But Maybe Phones Have Gone Too Far.
We are captives to our phones, they are having a deleterious effect on society, and no one is coming to help us. On the upside, this is a great phone.
Mat Honan
• 22 hours ago
Google Home Hub Is A Photo-Centric Google Assistant With A Screen
The voice-activated gadget will frame all your best pictures, play YouTube videos, and show live footage from your connected security cam. And it answers questions too.
Nicole Nguyen
• 6 days ago
Instagram's CEO Says Stories Help People Who Don't Want To "Violate The Norms Of The Feed"
"We're trying to now re-grease the wheels."
Mat Honan
• 2 months ago
Inside The Facebook Media Resistance
You can't bust a trust if the trust busts you first.
Mat Honan
• 4 months ago
The Techie Town Of San Francisco Gets A New Tower As Houses Remain Scarce
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But mostly the worst.
Mat Honan
• 4 months ago
Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says
A responsibility "to find common ground."
Ben Smith
• 5 months ago
Amazon Created A Version Of Alexa Just For Kids
The personal assistant gets more kid-friendly, less swear-y, and a little bit cuter.
Mat Honan
• 5 months ago
19 Things BuzzFeed Tech Tried And Liked In 2017
All the innovations, apps, hacks, habits, gadgets, and robovacuums that made our lives a little better this year.
Ellen Cushing
• 9 months ago
Google Photos Can Recognize Your Pets Now
If you have lots of pictures of your dog or cat, Google Photos will start sorting them into distinct groupings.
Mat Honan
• 12 months ago
Google's New Camera "Clips" Uses AI To Automatically Get Great Shots
Designed for parents and pet owners, it's meant to help you capture candid moments.
Mat Honan
• One year ago
Here Are All The Big Announcements From Amazon's Surprise Event
Amazon announced a small army of new Echo devices and services at a press conference today in Seattle.
Mat Honan
• One year ago
Apple's Best Product Is Its Media Strategy
Everyone knows what's coming. But we still show up. Apple's master class in playing the media.
Mat Honan
• One year ago
Amazon’s New Echo Show Is Very Cool And A Little Creepy
The new Echo Show is a great device, especially when it comes to video calling. But you should think carefully about how it may fit into your life.
Mat Honan
• One year ago
Do You Think Those Color Block Facebook Posts Are Awesome Or Awful?
Help settle this debate between BuzzFeed tech editors.
Katie Notopoulos
• One year ago
Here's Google's New Push To Make Virtual Reality Better And More Accessible
The company spent much of its 2017 developer conference talking about a technology that seems to be perpetually looming on the horizon.
Mat Honan
• One year ago
Here's Everything You Need To Know About Google IO 2017
Google is holding its annual developer's conference in Mountain View, California on Wednesday. The company is expected to talk about its new Android O mobile operating system, its efforts in artificial intelligence, a new version of its Assistant for Apple's iOS, and more.
Mat Honan
• One year ago
Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole
With its new camera platform, Facebook is busy augmenting reality. Perhaps it should pay a bit more attention to the hard truths of the world in which we currently live.
Mat Honan
• One year ago
Here’s What Mark Zuckerberg Told Us About The Wild Things Facebook’s New Camera Will Do
Facebook's new augmented reality Camera Platform looks beyond Snapchat to a world where the digital and physical come together.
Alex Kantrowitz
• One year ago
We Talked To Mark Zuckerberg About Globalism, Protecting Users, And Fixing News
The Zuck Doctrine: The Facebook founder has announced a plan to more actively use his platform’s power to intervene in people’s lives in real ways. BuzzFeed News talked to him about the role his company plays in a changing world.
Alex Kantrowitz
• One year ago