The hamlet of Templeton, in England’s picturesque Devon region, is about as remote as you can get. It sits nestled among other tiny villages with quintessentially English names, like Puddington, Black Dog, and Cheriton Fitzpane. As a result of its remoteness, it suffers from extr … | Continue reading
And you thought 280-character tweets were bad. Over the weekend, two German men (who presumably were unfamiliar with the saying that brevity is the soul of wit) figured how to trick Twitter into letting them post a 35,000 character tweet. Twitter has since deleted the post, altho … | Continue reading
The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have the best camera I’ve ever used in a smartphone. But because it’s so good, some of its shortcomings have become more apparent, and I have a few suggestions for both the camera app and Google Photos. I get that Google has to balance features with si … | Continue reading
For those interested in making the most of their social media marketing efforts, SMhack offers up a full service of engagement and management tools to help small and moderately-sized businesses hit the sweet spot with their audience online. Right now, you can pick up a lifetime s … | Continue reading
VR users need content...and creating that content takes a whole new development process, a skill set you can master with the help of the Complete VR Development course bundle. It’s on sale right now for just $34, a 90 percent savings, from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Have you considered investing in early stage startups? But you don’t know how to do it? There are questions you need to think about: How much do you invest? Where do you find startups? How do you balance your portfolio? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, don’t worr … | Continue reading
Believe it or not, online payments are still in their infancy. When you break it down, the ways that we’ve paid before are all somewhat old-fashioned, especially when it comes to infrastructure. As banks have, and still largely are, the focal point of finance, they never found a … | Continue reading
Everyone values privacy. We just don’t value it as much as the things we’re trading it for. I’m willing to give a relatively unknown company access to my entire social profile just so I don’t have to learn another password. I’m willing to give Nike access to my every step so they … | Continue reading
Visions of Scrooge McDuck-style money bins are mostly fantasy, but there’s definitely plenty of money to be made in the stock market for those who know what they’re doing. You can learn the background to make educated stock market trades with this Investing 101: Market Trading fo … | Continue reading
Things are looking up for SoundCloud, who have weathered a tumultuous summer. They came out with an SOS funding round of $170M and a new CEO, Kerry Trainor, formerly of Vimeo. Now Trainor has announced the newest addition to the platform — increased playlist statistics for artist … | Continue reading
Is this what the kids are doing these days? Teen/parent watchdog app Bark.us released a list of abbreviations and acronyms it has gathered that are popular among teens. No surprise, most of them are about naughty things like sex and drugs. It’s not exactly new — I’ve seen similar … | Continue reading
On iPhone release day, I expected long lines. Check. I expected hardware and/or software problems. We got them. I expected those lucky enough to snag a phone after waiting in line for hours to show off their new $1,000 investment. What I didn’t expect, was this: Ok, so to celebra … | Continue reading
I checked out two sets of headphones manufactured by AUKEY to see if its mid to low-priced offerings could provide an alternative to costlier options without sacrificing the soul of my music. My results were mixed, but I’d still recommend both. The first set I checked out was the … | Continue reading
What do you do when it’s your last day of work, you’re a Twitter contractor (not even an employee), and you think you’ve got nothing to lose? Attack the account of one of the most powerful (and Twitter-happy) people in the world. At least, I can only assume that was the thought p … | Continue reading
Finding housing sucks. Finding housing in a bustling city like New York or Boston sucks even more. Between the multiple wait lists and long application times, a newcomer to the city is probably going to have a pretty difficult time getting settled into a place in any reasonable a … | Continue reading
You know what it’s like … You’re scrolling through your timeline for something interesting to distract you. Unfortunately, you see the same old titles, the same old “tips,” “tricks” and “tools” for your industry. You’ve read them all before — nothing new. Heck, you don’t even nee … | Continue reading
This new app lets you monitor the content your child creates and receives on their mobile phone. It’s a way for parents to watchdog without bothering their kids. Gallery Guardian (GG) is an app created by YIPO Technologies which is revolutionizing keeping an eye on your child. Th … | Continue reading
Twitter today published a blog post clarifying the site’s terms of service. The biggest clarification surrounds abusive behavior, with the company explaining it plans to use newsworthiness as one of the determining factors behind whether a tweet is deleted, or a user is suspended … | Continue reading
A former engineer for Waymo, one of Google’s sister companies under Alphabet, recently filed paperwork to become the “CEO” of a religion based on the worship of an AI. He’s not the first person to suggest that technology can be spiritual, and it’s easy to dismiss it as silly or o … | Continue reading
Any avid cryptocurrency enthusiast has heard about the new cool kid on the block, BitConnect – a bullish Bitcoin lending investment platform with a bludgeoning user base and a bullish market cap of over $2 billion. But despite its stunning success, the company, which launched thr … | Continue reading
The finals of the League of Legends World Championships are starting tomorrow (0r later tonight, depending on your timezone), and they’ll be taking place inside the Beijing National Stadium — putting them in company with the Olympic games played there in the past. Ever since espo … | Continue reading
The 12th of December marks our fifth edition of TNW New York. And this year, we’re moving away from our traditional conference format. During the day, we’ll hosts nine insightful keynotes, while another 145 industry-leaders host round-table sessions. In these two-way conversation … | Continue reading
Part teaching tool, part super-awesome big kid toy, you can get all the equipment and instruction you need to build your very own dual-purpose Force Flying Building Block Fly ‘n Drive Drone right now for just $32.99. It’s 34 percent off with this limited time offer from TNW Deals … | Continue reading
The emergence of online resource-sharing and freelancing platforms have ushered in the new era of the gig economy. These services have made it possible to get or provide help on tasks and projects like never before. They’re now challenging traditional labor structures and models. … | Continue reading
Data science jobs are staying open longer than the market average...often because qualified candidates aren’t always easy to come by. Even if you’ve never studied the field before, this Introduction to Data Science course ($14.99, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals) will put you … | Continue reading
One of the biggest obstacles to electric car growth — apart from the massive upfront cost — is the absence (or, at least scarcity) of charging stations. Hoping to solve that, a consortium of mainly German carmakers has set the ambitious goal of introducing a Europe-wide network o … | Continue reading
Police in San Francisco are looking for three men believed to have stolen over 300 iPhone X handsets from a UPS delivery truck. According to local news, the phones were stolen from the truck as it made its way to the Stonetown Mall, at some point between 11:15 and 11:30 PT. The t … | Continue reading
Facebook is about to turn scrolling through your feed into an even more obnoxious drill. The social media giant appears to be currently testing a new poll format that nobody asked for: voting with animated GIFs. The feature practically works in an identical way to the standard po … | Continue reading
Reviewing the Xbox One X is weird. At a basic level, all there is to say is that it’s an Xbox One with much better, 4K ready graphics graphics. If you don’t have a 4K TV or you generally don’t care about graphics, there’s little reason to purchase a One X. But this console wasn’t … | Continue reading
Use of voice searching is already on the rise, but other tech changes are brewing. | Continue reading
For six minutes today, the world experienced social media without Donald Trump. And just as we were starting to get into it, to become fully engrossed in the very essence of what made it so good to begin with — the heavy breathing, animal-like noises, and intense feelings of plea … | Continue reading
Facebook’s latest attempt at a standalone app — that totally isn’t a complete copy of another — is available now on Android. Well, sort of. Bonfire, Facebook’s new-ish group video chat app is now available on the Play Store. Unfortunately, you probably won’t be able to download i … | Continue reading
A clever author with some programming skills – or perhaps developer with writing chops – has created an AI to help overcome one of the most common plagues a scribe can face: writer’s block. And she could use your help with the project. The worst sight a writer can behold is a bli … | Continue reading
The Google Pixel 2 series was met with near-universal acclaim upon launch, but even from then it was clear the displays would be, umm, divisive. In particular, the XL’s LG-made display has been a point of frustration, arguments, and overall frumpiness due to a combination of Goog … | Continue reading
Imagine having a button that can instantly tell you (virtually) everything there is to know about something or someone. That, in a nutshell, is Detective by Charlie, which uses natural language processing (NLP) and AI to unearth and collate information about a particular subject … | Continue reading
While the Title II classification of ISPs as common carriers was a victory for all, there is growing concern that ISPs could go on with business as usual with clever tricks designed to skirt the rules of the classification. While knowingly stepping outside the boundaries of the T … | Continue reading
Smart fabric is a relatively new feat, with Google and Levi’s smart jacket finally available after over two years of anticipation. Scientists, however, have been quick to create a smart fabric that easily outperforms the $350 jacket — and its most impressive feature is its abilit … | Continue reading
Science lovers of the world are getting a fabulous dose of social media this week as #MyOneScienceTweet trends on Twitter. Thanks to the magic and wizardry of the internet, scientists are able to somehow send us messages by displaying colors and words on our screens — and we get … | Continue reading
Search engines are powerful tools for bringing people to your business. The challenge that many entrepreneurs face, however, is that they’re not well-versed in how to communicate with the robots that control the algorithm behind Google and Bing. Your business might be the absolut … | Continue reading
In theory, the Pixel 2 XL is an amazing phone. In practice, the launch of Google’s latest handset has been beset with all sorts of woes, most notably with the device’s gorgeous, but troublesome OLED screen. One Reddit user has it worse though, having reportedly received a Pixel 2 … | Continue reading
Of course, you can not only learn what it means, but how it works and how to use it with this in-depth Reactive JavaScript Course and eBook bundle. It’s available right now for only 90 percent off, just $29 from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Social media and changing demographics have changed the way we communicate and share information. The average person now spends more time on social networks than activities such as eating, drinking or socializing. So it's no surprise that apps are incorporating such features to g … | Continue reading
Google might be going all-in with its supercharged Assistant AI, but it seems it still hasn’t quite given up on improving its older and slightly dumber sibling, Google Now. It appears the internet giant is currently testing a new user interface for Now, so you could be greeted wi … | Continue reading
I remember a time when you could safely assume that the person you were speaking to on Twitter was a human. Not, I’m afraid, any more. Twitter (and, more perhaps precisely, Twitter accounts) is now a weapon of war, used to spread misinformation and propaganda. And the most insidi … | Continue reading
Early cryptocurrency adopters must be overwhelmed with joy right now. The price of Bitcoin has skyrocketed past the $7,000 mark for the first time ever, hitting yet another important milestone and setting a new all-time record high. The biggest cryptocurrency by market share offi … | Continue reading
After releasing an uninspiring bunch of phones over the past couple of years, HTC bounced back earlier this May with its squeezable U11, which let you do things like launch an app or take a picture just by gripping it tightly around the sides. Now, it’s hopping on the nearly beze … | Continue reading
The holidays are around the corner. Therefore, it’s time once again to reset your focus on the changes you would like to see in the upcoming year. Being more healthy and organized were the top two resolutions for 2017. Why not combine them both and kill two birds with one stone t … | Continue reading
After beta testing the latest version of its Android fork over the past few months, Xiaomi is rolling out the stable global build of its MIUI 9 OS this month, starting from tomorrow. The company says that MIUI 9, which will roll out to most Xiaomi devices (including those dating … | Continue reading