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Blues rock
Blues rock: hybrid genre fusing electric blues forms (12-bar, dominant 7ths, minor pentatonic) with rock volume and improvisation; emerged late 1960s via Cream, Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Butterfield Band; parent of heavy metal and Southern rock.
Blues Saraceno
Blues Saraceno (born 1971) is an American guitarist from Connecticut, ex-Poison (1993–1996), who toured with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker and now composes TV and film production music.
Blues scale
Blues scale: six-note scale = minor pentatonic plus flatted fifth (1, b3, 4, b5, 5, b7). C blues: C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb. The added blue note is a passing tritone; a major blues variant exists.
Blues Traveler
Blues Traveler is an American blues-rock jam band formed in Princeton, NJ, led by John Popper. Known for the six-times-platinum album Four (1994), the Grammy-winning hit "Run-Around," and the H.O.R.D.E. festival.
Blues Unlimited
Blues Unlimited was a British magazine devoted entirely to blues music, published from 1963 to 1987 and credited as the world's first magazine dedicated to the subject.
Bluesail Baisheng (蓝帆柏盛)
Bluesail Baisheng (蓝帆柏盛) is a Beijing-based cardiovascular device holding platform of Bluesail Medical, established in 2019, housing Biosensors International and raising RMB 1 billion in 2024.
Blueschist facies
The blueschist facies, introduced by Pentti Eskola in 1920 as the glaucophane-schist facies, describes low-temperature, high-pressure metamorphism in subduction zones, producing blue schists rich in glaucophane and lawsonite.
BlueScope Steel
BlueScope Steel is an Australian manufacturer of flat and coated steel products, spun off from BHP Billiton in 2002, with more than 160 operations in 14 countries.
Blueshirts
The Blueshirts, Irish members of the Army Comrades Association founded February 1932, were a pro-Treaty ex-servicemen movement under Eoin O'Duffy that adopted blue shirts in 1933, merged into Fine Gael, and split by 1935.
Bluesky (social network)
Bluesky, also known as Bsky or Blue Sky Social, is a decentralized microblogging network on the AT Protocol that grew from a Twitter project to 30 million users.
Bluespec
Bluespec is a high-level hardware description language built on guarded atomic actions (rules), whose compiler synthesizes designs into standard Verilog, with two interchangeable syntaxes, BSV and BH.
BlueStacks
BlueStacks is an Android emulator, marketed as an app player, that runs Android apps and games on Windows and macOS computers, first released in 2011.
Bluestar Alliance
Bluestar Alliance is a New York-based brand management company, founded by Joey Gabbay and Ralph Gindi, that buys fashion brands and licenses them to manufacturers and retailers.
Bluestone
Bluestone is the trade name in the dimension stone industry for blue-gray, fine-grained igneous rock of basaltic composition, quarried in Victoria, Australia since the 1830s for buildings, kerbs, and laneways.
Bluetail putative surface-anchoring domain
The bluetail putative surface-anchoring domain is the C-terminal anchoring region of a 74.5 kDa surface protein found in the extracellular matrix of seawater-adapted aerobic granular sludge, produced by Candidatus Accumulibacter.
Bluetick Coonhound
Bluetick Coonhound, an American scenthound breed (UKC separate 1946, AKC 162nd breed, 2009) with a mottled blue-black ticked coat, cold-nosed raccoon trailing, males 22-27 inches, University of Tennessee mascot since 1953.
Bluetongue disease
Bluetongue is a vector-borne viral disease of wild and domestic ruminants, spread only by Culicoides biting midges; it is usually mild but can kill sheep, and vaccination is the main control.
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a global wireless standard for short-range communication in the 2.4 GHz band, offering Bluetooth Classic for audio streaming and Bluetooth Low Energy for low-power devices.
Bluetooth 5
Bluetooth 5 is version 5.0 of the Bluetooth Core Specification, adopted in December 2016, which doubled Low Energy speed, roughly quadrupled range, and later 5.x releases added audio and direction finding.
Bluetooth LE Audio
Bluetooth LE Audio is a set of Bluetooth specifications, announced in January 2020, that carries audio over Bluetooth Low Energy using the LC3 codec and supports Auracast broadcast audio.
Bluetooth Low Energy
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE, also marketed as Bluetooth Smart and once known as Wibree) is a low-power wireless technology for sensors and wearables, standardized in Bluetooth 4.0 in 2010.
Bluetooth mesh networking
Bluetooth mesh networking is a many-to-many device communications technology built on Bluetooth Low Energy, standardized by the Bluetooth SIG and released in July 2017 for building automation, lighting control, and other Internet of Things uses.
Bluetooth Special Interest Group
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) is the not-for-profit standards body behind Bluetooth wireless technology, founded in 1998 by Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Nokia, and Toshiba.
Bluetti
Bluetti (铂陆帝) is a portable and residential energy storage brand of Shenzhen PowerOak Newener, a Chinese manufacturer founded in 2013 that sells portable power stations and home batteries in over 120 countries.
BlueWalker 3
BlueWalker 3, also known as BW3, is a prototype communications satellite launched by AST SpaceMobile in 2022 to test direct broadband connectivity to unmodified smartphones.
Bluey (2018 TV series)
Bluey (2018 TV series): Australian animated preschool show created by Joe Brumm, produced by Ludo Studio for ABC and BBC Studios, about Blue Heeler puppy Bluey, sister Bingo, and parents Bandit and Chilli; Emmy, Peabody and Logie winner, Disney+ hit, with The Bluey Movie due August 2027.
Bluey: The Videogame
Bluey: The Videogame is a 2023 Artax Games/Outright Games action-adventure based on the Bluey TV show, released 17 November 2023 on PC, PS4/5, Xbox, and Switch; four-episode Heeler treasure hunt, four-player local co-op, Metascore 56.
Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen
Bluey's Quest for the Gold Pen is a Halfbrick-developed, PM Studios-published family adventure platformer with a story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm; launched on mobile December 2025, consoles and PC May 2026, with nine hand-drawn worlds.
BlueYard
BlueYard Capital is a Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2016 by former Earlybird investors Ciarán O'Leary and Jason Whitmire, investing $500,000 to $5 million.
BLUF (communication)
BLUF (bottom line up front) is a military-origin communication principle stating the conclusion or recommendation first, codified in DA PAM 600-67 and Air Force Tongue and Quill guidance, parallel to journalism's inverted pyramid, now common in executive and business writing.