A few weeks back, we stumbled upon some leaked images of GoPro’s upcoming Hero 5. Today, we’ve got even more to share with you — including a “sick” new feature. The new images seem to corroborate the earlier leak and detail a few new findings. Notably, the Hero 5 is slightly larg … | Continue reading
Some Snapchat users are experiencing outages. While the app works just fine for some editors here at TNW, I’m unable to log in, and Snapchat has confirmed the disruption on Twitter: Downdetector indicates the problems started around 2:09 PM ET. The outage map suggests it’s pretty … | Continue reading
Tech companies copy off of each other. That has always happened, and always will happen. Still Motorola is apparently not happy about Samsung (and LG’s) new always-on displays. The company tweeted this out yesterday: In what galaxy is it okay to steal competitor phones’ cool feat … | Continue reading
Have you seen your website’s earnings from third-party advertising crash over the past few years? It’s going to get worse. A lot worse. Facebook’s Instant Articles platform is just the latest factor that could reduce your advertising income. Put that alongside ad blockers and use … | Continue reading
It’s well known hackers and cops don’t always get along, but this is particularly true when it comes to hacking collective It’s Going Down (IGD). Earlier this week, the group of self-proclaimed anarchists hacked a road sign in Denver, Colorado and changed the reading on the scree … | Continue reading
There was a time when Pandora was the most popular music story around, but as Spotify and other services that let you play whatever music you wanted came to prominence, its growth has stagnated. Now it’s looking to fight back. A report from the WSJ indicates Pandora is working wi … | Continue reading
We conduct more business online today than ever before. That means more of our personal data is ripe for potential compromise by hackers. Now you can secure your sensitive data with a lifetime subscription to SaferVPN Premium. This VPN packs high-grade encryption, unlimited bandw … | Continue reading
Join us for an exclusive screening of the InVision-produced documentary DESIGN DISRUPTORS, brought to you by yours truly and General Assembly NYC. DESIGN DISRUPTORS reveals a never-before-seen perspective on the design approaches of 15+ industry-shaking companies, and how they’re … | Continue reading
While you’d usually have to describe a photo in words to find corresponding images, stock photo service 500px has built a search engine that lets you browse pictures by drawing images – no matter how badly sketched they are. Currently, Splash works solely for searches within 500p … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we look at ShelfJoy which helps people discover great books. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is ShelfJoy? ShelfJoy helps people discover great books to read by hand-curating books on specific interest areas. By narrowing … | Continue reading
Our last edition of TNW Europe was a week long, festival-like extravaganza with countless speakers, side events, workshops and food trucks – a true Mecca for 20,000 international coders, founders, and geeks. On day one, Gary Vaynerchuk broke off mid-keynote to call the conference … | Continue reading
The first half of 2016 has been all about virtual reality: The buzz around Oculus Rift, Sony’s Playstation VR, and HTC’s Vive have been lighting up the internet. VR is awesome and it’s ready for prime time. But now VR’s friendly brother AR stole the show – thanks to Pokemon Go, t … | Continue reading
If recklessly clicking through hundreds of Wikipedia entries at a time no longer does it for you, Wikiverse is about to become your new favorite way of browsing the internet’s richest encyclopedia. Built by Owen Cornec, it’s a Web-based interactive 3D map of Wikipedia that visual … | Continue reading
Furthering its mission to work more closely with the developer community, Microsoft is open sourcing PowerShell and making it available on Linux and Mac OS X. PowerShell is the company’s task-based command-line shell and scripting language built on the .NET Framework for running … | Continue reading
This is my second visit to Tirana for the OSCAL conference, an annual celebration of open source technology in Albania’s capital. Aside from excellent content, the conference stands out for a couple of reasons. Most attendees and organizers are under 30, and the gender divide is … | Continue reading
For nearly two decades, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been administered by the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration, which means that the American government has been in control of a global database of addresses for m … | Continue reading
GTA V is getting on in age: the massive open-world crime game is closing in on three years since its release, and some folks might find it looking a tad bit plain at this point. That’s certainly not a knock on developer Rockstar Games, it’s just how titles age. If you’re still ha … | Continue reading
Tired of seeing tweets and notifications from randos and nobodies? Twitter’s got some handy new tools to tackle them, and they’re rolling out from today. You’ll now be able to set the Twitter app to buzz you only when there are notifications from people you follow, as opposed to … | Continue reading
When visiting South Africa and experiencing the world’s highest bungee jump there are a few things that go through your mind; none of them are related to the mobile phone in your pocket. Mairtin Farragher found this out the hard way after jumping off the Bloukran’s Bridge in Cape … | Continue reading
Airbus, the second largest aeronautics company in the United States (behind Boeing) envisions a future of flying taxis operated by artificial intelligence. The ambitious plan sounds almost laughable when it reveals that it could begin testing as early as 2017, but then you rememb … | Continue reading
It seems Microsoft doesn’t like Evernote. That’s okay, I don’t either. It doesn’t matter what your reasoning. Whether it’s the constant state of flux in the upper levels of management, the bloated and not-at-all reliable interface or the fact that the price just went up to $69.99 … | Continue reading
After the NSA hack earlier this week, the hackers — ‘Shadow Group’ — released a treasure trove of free files obtained from offshoot ‘Equation Group.’ We’re still not sure who’s behind the hack — Snowden thinks it’s Russia — or how up-to-date the information is (it’s said to be fr … | Continue reading
That LTE Apple Watch you’ve been wishing for is probably not coming any time soon — but the new version will have GPS tracking as previously rumored, so at least there’s that. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple ran into trouble with battery life for a version of the inco … | Continue reading
T-Mobile is changing how we think about carriers, there’s no doubt about that. But Uncarrier 12 — which brought us unlimited data — is like most of the company’s other moves: it’s smoke and mirrors. The highlights of the latest move by T-Mobile are unlimited LTE data, talk and te … | Continue reading
If Nick Gregorio had directed the original Super Mario Bros movie, it may have actually been watchable. Instead, we ended up with a dumpster fire on the big screen that featured the likes of Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo — both of which would have made stellar mobsters if they’d … | Continue reading
The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is the best phone I’ve ever reviewed. Unfortunately, there is one problem with I didn’t notice until recently: It scratches really easily. YouTuber JerryRigEverything puts phones through brutal durability tests, including scratches, bending, and… fire. T … | Continue reading
Gawker.com is shutting down for good. In a post on its website, the publiscation had the following to say: After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million f … | Continue reading
Facebook wants to show you how the sausage is made. Facebook is open-sourcing its AI bot-building research. Part of its Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab’s mission, the plan is to provide better access to researchers and engineers to they, in turn, can build better bots. The code l … | Continue reading
Android should-have-been-Nutella will almost definitely arrive on Augsut 22. We already knew it would arrive in August, and there are two big clues pointing to that specific release date. Android Central points to Canadian operator flat-out listing an ‘Android N Update’ for the N … | Continue reading
You’re saying it wrong. MacRumors noticed Apple is no longer calling its retail locations ‘Apple Store.’ They are now simply known as – wait for it – ‘Apple.’ So instead of ‘Apple Store, Soho,’ the location is now just listed as ‘Apple Soho.’ ‘Apple Store, Ridge Hill,’ is now jus … | Continue reading
One of the advantages to owning the larger ‘Plus’ series iPhone is optical image stabilization (OIS) for the camera. A new leak suggests that feature will be made available on the 4.7-inch iPhone 7. Via nowherelese.fr, an alleged camera module for the iPhone 7 shows off four area … | Continue reading
Facebook is preparing to take on Steam for casual gaming. The company today announced the Facebook PC Gaming Platform, a downloadable desktop hub for games made in partnership with Unity. The platform is actually an update to the Facebook Games Arcade beta from earlier in May. An … | Continue reading
In June, Mozilla announced that it would be designing its logo with the help of the internet’s collaboration. Along the way, it asked its community members to provide feedback on every step, shaping the logo into what the Web believes is a strong rebrand. Today, the company unvei … | Continue reading
While most celebrities have moved on to social channels like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and sometimes Facebook Live or Periscope to share their thoughts and feelings, America’s favorite naked bongo-playing actor Matthew McConaughey is still sticking it out with YouTube. Unfort … | Continue reading
Running out of hard drive space? It’s something we’ll all face eventually, and not everyone is a fan of external drives as a solution. A better alternative has arrived with Nifty MiniDrive for Macbooks, which allows you to add up to 200GB to your Macbook without a bulky attachmen … | Continue reading
Slack competitor Hipchat is adding native video conferencing. Unlike Slack, Hipchat’s video conferencing tool doesn’t lean on Skype or any other third-party workarounds. It also doesn’t require specific hardware, additional apps, browser plugins or that users log-in to the chat. … | Continue reading
Public relations pitches are a popular subject for journalists in the industry, often because of how poorly they can turn out. The internet is rife with examples of good pitches and horrible ones, and the difference between the two can be difficult to define. We often hear about … | Continue reading
Twitter is probably my favorite social network, and has been for sometime. I love the ability to search for and find fascinating people across the globe who I may not otherwise have access to. I can instantly send a message (tweet) to high profile business execs, politicians, cel … | Continue reading
We’ve seen numerous car manufacturers and tech companies make noise about their plans to launch autonomous vehicles in the near future, including Tesla, Google, Ford and BMW. But it looks like Uber will beat them to the punch in bringing self-driving technology to consumers. Bloo … | Continue reading
Ahead of the release of the sci-fi RPG game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided later this month, publisher Square Enix has launched a mobile puzzle title that ties into the PC/console release, and it’s well worth your time and money. You don’t have to be familiar with the Deus Ex universe … | Continue reading
It’s almost that time of year: Apple event season. Rumors are swirling about the next iPhone event, which is likely to be held on September 7, and it’s reportedly going to see the introduction of the Apple Watch 2. I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch for over a year now, and it’s o … | Continue reading
Networking hardware giant Cisco Systems announced that it’s laying off 5,500 employees in the first quarter of 2017. The move will see the company lose about 7 percent of its global workforce. Cisco isn’t in financial trouble: Its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016 earnings repo … | Continue reading
It’s common knowledge that people don’t visit McDonald’s for healthy eats, but the global restaurant chain often tries its best to promote smarter choices by doing things like including fresh fruit in its Happy Meals. Its latest initiative didn’t go over so well. The company’s re … | Continue reading
Kobo has unveiled its latest e-reader, the Aura One, that’s set to take the fight to Amazon’s Kindle Oasis. The device features a large 7.8-inch 300 ppi e-ink display that’s bigger than most other e-readers and is designed to reduce exposure to blue light, so it’s easier for user … | Continue reading
Following the release of Google Duo for cross-platform video calls on mobile earlier this week, it’s now come to light that the app will soon be updated to support audio calls. Google’s product lead for communication, Amit Fulay, mentioned the upcoming feature in a response to a … | Continue reading
There are several ways to get files from your iPhone to your Mac and vice-versa. There’s AirDrop, plugging in a lightning cable or any number of cloud-based solutions to get files from Point A to Point B; none of them are as simple as AirMount. When AirDrop works, it’s easily the … | Continue reading
The hybrid plane/blimp/helicopter known as Airlander 10 spent 20 minutes in the air today after months of preparation. The airship, originally intended for the US military, lost its funding in 2013 due to defense spending cuts. Since, Hybrid Air Vehicles raised over $4.4 million … | Continue reading
Most of the robots in existence are clumsy buffoons. Case in point: As advanced as our robots have become, they’re mostly still lacking the very human ability to avoid falls by making seemingly negligible changes to speed, center of balance and range of motion. In short, it’s not … | Continue reading