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BlueCruise
BlueCruise is a hands-free highway driver-assistance system developed by Ford and launched in 2021, adding hands-free steering to Adaptive Cruise Control and Lane Centering on prequalified divided highways called hands-free Blue Zones.
Blueface
Blueface (Johnathan Jamall Porter, born 1997) is a Los Angeles rapper known for his offbeat flow, the RIAA-Platinum Billboard top-10 hit "Thotiana," the 2018 mixtape Famous Cryp, Cash Money West signing, and 2020 debut album Find the Beat.
Bluefish
Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) is a schooling marine predator found in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide, known for sharp teeth, voracious feeding, and importance to commercial and recreational fisheries.
Bluegill
Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), a North American freshwater sunfish (Centrarchidae) popular as a panfish; native from Quebec to northern Mexico, widely introduced worldwide, including Japan and Korea from 15 fish in 1960; max 41 cm, 2.2 kg.
Bluegogo
Bluegogo (小蓝单车) was a Chinese stationless bike-sharing startup launched in November 2016, which raised 400 million yuan and collapsed within a year, its bikes passing to Didi Chuxing in 2018.
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music, an American string band genre named for Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, emerged fully in 1945-48 with Scruggs-style banjo, high lonesome vocals, and turn-taking solos distinct from old-time music.
Blueground
Blueground is a furnished-rental company founded in Athens in 2013 by Alex Chatzieleftheriou, now headquartered in New York City, that leases, furnishes, and sublets apartments for 30-day-plus stays.
BlueJ
BlueJ is a free, cross-platform Java IDE designed for teaching object-oriented programming to beginners, created at Monash University in 1999 and used by an estimated 20 million learners.
Bluejay Therapeutics
Bluejay Therapeutics was a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company founded by Keting Chu in Redwood City, California, in 2019, best known for the hepatitis delta antibody brelovitug and acquired by Mirum Pharmaceuticals in January 2026.
BlueKeep
BlueKeep, also known as DejaBlue, is a critical wormable vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services, disclosed and patched in May 2019, that lets unauthenticated attackers run code.
Bluelight (web forum)
Bluelight (Bluelight.org) is an international online harm-reduction community where people who use psychoactive drugs exchange safer-use information. It has run as a non-profit since 1999.
BlueNord
BlueNord ASA, formerly Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco), is an Oslo Stock Exchange-listed oil and gas company producing in the Danish North Sea, where it is the second-largest producer.
Bluenose
Bluenose Lake is a large lake in Kitikmeot, Nunavut, Canada, at 68°25′N 119°45′W, named in 1953 by Nova Scotian caribou biologists; about 400 km², drained by the Croker River, with Bluenose-East and Bluenose-West caribou calving on either side.
BlueOval City
BlueOval City is a Ford and SK vehicle and battery manufacturing campus in Stanton, Tennessee, announced in 2021 as a $5.6 billion investment with about 6,000 jobs.
BlueOval SK
BlueOval SK was a joint venture of Ford and SK On, formed in 2022 to build EV battery plants in Tennessee and Kentucky; it dissolved in December 2025.
Bluepha (蓝晶微生物)
Bluepha (蓝晶微生物) is a Chinese synthetic-biology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Shanghai, which produces PHA, a biodegradable and marine-degradable bioplastic, by microbial fermentation at its Yancheng plant.
Bluepoint Games
Bluepoint Games, Austin, Texas studio founded 2006 by Marco Thrush and Andy O'Neil, famed for remasters and the Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls remakes; acquired by Sony in 2021, closed by PlayStation in March 2026.
Blueprint
A blueprint is a contact print of a technical drawing made by the cyanotype process, invented by John Herschel in 1842, showing white lines on a blue ground.
Blueprint Equity
Blueprint Equity is a growth equity and venture capital firm in La Jolla, California, founded in 2018 by Sheldon Lewis and Bobby Ocampo to invest in enterprise software.
Bluerun Ventures (蓝驰创投)
Bluerun Ventures (蓝驰创投), also known as Lanchi Ventures, is a Beijing-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in Chinese technology start-ups through US dollar and renminbi funds.
Blues
Blues, or blues music, is a secular music that emerged among African Americans in the rural southern United States in the late nineteenth century, built on twelve-bar forms and blue notes.
Blues (Super Rugby)
Blues, Auckland-based New Zealand Super Rugby franchise founded 1996 for Super 12; five titles (1996, 1997, 2003, 2021 Trans-Tasman, 2024); home Eden Park; coach Vern Cotter.
Blues and Royals
The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons), formed 1969, is the British Army's second most senior regiment, part of the Household Cavalry, serving in armoured reconnaissance with Ajax and mounted ceremonial duty, wearing blue tunics with red plumes.
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, "The Beano Album" (Decca, 22 July 1966), by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with John McVie and Hughie Flint; the record on which Clapton's 1960 Les Paul through a cranked Marshall JTM45 combo set the blues-rock guitar template, peaking at No. 6 in the UK.
Blues Brothers 2000
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) is John Landis and Dan Aykroyd's sequel to The Blues Brothers, with Elwood Blues re-forming the band after Jake's death; it earned $14M domestic and mixed reviews.
Blues festivals in Europe
Blues festivals in Europe are annual music events devoted substantially to blues, ranging from small volunteer-run club festivals to free open-air city events and ticketed destination festivals.
Blues festivals in North America
Blues festivals in North America are annual events celebrating blues music, from the Chicago Blues Festival, the world's largest free one, to Mississippi's roughly fifty festivals.
Blues festivals outside Europe and North America
Blues festivals outside Europe and North America are recurring blues music events, including Rio das Ostras in Brazil, the Mahindra Blues Festival in Mumbai, and Bluesfest in Byron Bay, Australia.
Blues for Allah
Blues for Allah: Grateful Dead's eighth studio album, September 1975, Grateful Dead Records/United Artists; recorded at Bob Weir's Ace's studio during the 1975 touring hiatus; peaked at #12 Billboard; jazz-fusion suite Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower; 2025 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition.
Blues Hall of Fame
Blues Hall of Fame: honor roll and Memphis museum of the Blues Foundation (est. 1980 by Joe Savarin), with five induction categories, over 400 inductees, and a museum opened May 8, 2015 at 421 S. Main Street. Distinct from the St. Louis Blues hockey hall of fame (est. 2023).