Soon after incorporating a very Snapchat-like Stories feature into Instagram, Facebook is taking a similar approach with its main app. Basically the latest Facebook test places a camera on the proverbial front page of its mobile app. Like, really front and center – it’s taking up … | Continue reading
Apple’s rumored decision to ditch the 3.5mm audio jack is proving to be an increasingly unpopular one. Even Samsung’s VP of marketing is making fun of Apple. Despite that, it’s almost certainly going to happen anyway. A video posted by Mobile Fun – a UK-based distributor of smart … | Continue reading
Just about every major tech company is doing Olympics promotions: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and now Snapchat. The company is today releasing a batch of stickers, lenses and filters themed after the Olympics. First off you have a couple of new lenses themed around the c … | Continue reading
Almost 20 years after initially launching it back in 1998, Blizzard might be prepping a remastered HD release of legendary strategy game Starcraft, iNews24 reports. While the new version will offer better resolution and revamped user interface, rumours speculate that there won’t … | Continue reading
Okay, tell me if you’ve heard this story before. You’re wandering through the streets of your city playing some Pokémon Go. Suddenly, a wild pidgey appears. It’s got a CP of 10, or something, and you’ve already caught a million of them, but you think “screw it, I’ve got enough Po … | Continue reading
Malicious hackers are finding new ways each day to violate your privacy, so getting a virtual private network (VPN) is essential. These services route your online activity through remote, private servers, shielding your data from digital criminals. And PureVPN is not only one of … | Continue reading
It’s crazy, but Pokémon Go has become so huge that there’s now a company that specializes in wiping Pokémon off the map. As Go players often vagabond into private or potentially unsafe areas, a number of power utility companies have resorted to the services of cybersecurity firm … | Continue reading
Spotify’s Discover Weekly feature has turned out to be immensely popular, so now the company will compliment it with another playlist of recommended music called Release Radar. Whereas Discover Weekly sends you songs you might like every Monday, Release Radar will share a list of … | Continue reading
Remember Curiosity, the rover we sent on a trip to Mars for a life of planetary exploration and solitude? As it turns out, today marks his first birthday after spending a year on the red planet. After four years year of servitude, it has made more than 70,000 images and fired mor … | Continue reading
As Boris explained last week, people spend a bulk of their time at work. So when the weekend finally rolls around, it’s time to relax, ditch your office attire, and unwind. And what defines a lounging atmosphere better than good music? As such, we’re creating weekly Spotify playl … | Continue reading
Our last edition of TNW Europe was a Mecca for 20,000 international coders, founders, and geeks – a festival-like extravaganza with countless speakers, side events and workshops. For Momentum – our new conference for New York – we’re introducing a more intimate approach: 5,000 l … | Continue reading
Google is partnering with password management service Dashlane to build what they’re calling Open YOLO, a new API that will allow Android apps to securely access your login credentials to sign you in without any fuss. Of course you’re wondering that name is about. Here, YOLO stan … | Continue reading
Christoph Waltz is one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood right now, largely thanks to his unusual Viennese diction, and his involvement in critically-acclaimed movies like ‘Carnage’, ‘Django Unchained’, and ‘Spectre’. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Samsung would … | Continue reading
I’ve never been a huge fan of nature documentaries or Azis Ansari’s comedy, but it turns out combining the two together is just straight-up hilarious – and I can’t thank Netflix enough for this fortuitous discovery. Watching an episode of BBC’s Planet Earth, Redditor BenMeiri84 n … | Continue reading
In an effort to avoid any untoward accidents during the Olympics that kick off tomorrow in Rio, drone maker DJI is issuing an update for its products that will prevent them from flying into and above venues for the various sporting events in the city over the next two weeks. The … | Continue reading
Two weeks after pirates’ favorite search engine KickassTorrents closed doors following the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin in Poland, the torrent community has lost another major player today – and this time it’s Torrentz.eu. After more than 13 years of service, the popula … | Continue reading
We’re now just hours away from the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Rio 2016. This time around, Google has outdone itself with its celebratory doodle that sits proudly atop its search bar on your mobile device. Fire up the Google app on your Android or iOS device and tap the … | Continue reading
It’s been nearly a decade since the last game from the Quake franchise was released (Enemy Territory: Quake Wars came out way back in 2007). At this year’s E3 gaming expo, id Software announced the upcoming multiplayer title Quake Champions, much to the delight of hardcore FPS fa … | Continue reading
Amazon is leasing 40 cargo planes to shuttle its own shipments through the air, with a view to improve its delivery times. And today, it’s launching its first branded aircraft, the Amazon One at the SeaFair Air Show in Seattle, where the company has its headquarters. The branded … | Continue reading
Nearly a month ago, former Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom announced that he was working on a brand new version of the cloud storage and hosting service with enhanced security and privacy features. Today, he took to Twitter to reveal more about his vision for the next coming of Meg … | Continue reading
In an age where internet porn makes up an ungodly amount of content produced on the internet, it seems some small percentage of the population has never heard of it. Case in point, this 13-year-old. I’ll get out of the way now and let Shelby tell the story. A lady called in at wo … | Continue reading
Last month, we reported that Apple was casting its own reality show ‘Planet of the Apps‘ to beef up its original content offerings, a move it seems to be serious about after announcing an upcoming version of Late Late Show host James Corden’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ last month. The sho … | Continue reading
The International Olympics Committee today issued a statement expressly prohibiting the use of GIFs derived from its events. In fact, the committee went a step further by prohibiting GIF alternatives like WebM, GIFV and GFY, or just short videos in general a la Vine. .@dcseifert … | Continue reading
What if hackers could one day control your mind, or at least take a glimpse inside, through the use of sophisticated malware? It’s a scenario that’s sounds straight out of a science fiction novel, but we’re far closer than you might think. As scientists continue to make breakthro … | Continue reading
Speaking today at a Television Critics Association press tour, ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey confirmed that talks are ongoing between ABC and Lucasfilm about a Star Wars television show. Dungey said: As a fan, I would absolutely love to say yes. We have had conversa … | Continue reading
A Japanese gymnast racked up a staggering 500,000 yen (approximately $5,000) bill trying to catch ’em all while in Brazil. The Olympic gold medal winner (at the 2012 London Olympic Games) is the reigning world champion in artistic gymnastics and racked up the massive bill after d … | Continue reading
You know how you can send giant thumb-ups on Messenger by holding down the like button? (If not, you can send a giant thumb-up on Messenger by holding down the like button). Facebook just announced you can do the same with any other emoji now. Just tap and hold on it and it will … | Continue reading
Apple today launched a new ad, just in time for the Rio Olympics. Much like some of its previous work, this ad sort of transports you to a different place where you forget for a moment that you’re watching an advertisement. Apple does (arguably) have one of the best creative team … | Continue reading
Facebook has tweaked its New Feed algorithm many, many times in its attempt to keep the posts you see relevant, but the change it’s rolling out today may be the most important one yet: Facebook is vowing to kill clickbait. It’s a potentially huge move, and one that makes journali … | Continue reading
In the early 1990’s, malware was pretty simple. Unsophisticated, even. It was spread primarily through infected floppy drives (remember them?) and dodgy shareware sites. When a machine was infected, the damage that could be done was relatively limited. That changed when criminals … | Continue reading
If you grew up on Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), prepare to be very happy. PC game distribution platform GOG announced today it was bringing back three Disney favorites in all their 16-bit glory — Aladdin, The Lion King and The Jungle Book. All three … | Continue reading
Today is the grand finals of DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), where seven teams pit their technology against each other at the largest annual hacker conference in the world – DEF CON 24 – in Las Vegas. And the team with the best autonomous security tech will win $2 million. T … | Continue reading
Facebook’s interface is a big maze of confusing buttons, lists and menus. That’s exactly why there are a lot of interesting pages hidden away far from the News Feed. While navigating its beautiful mess of clickable things today, I stumbled upon one of the darkest corners of the s … | Continue reading
Celebrities get paid an incredible amount of money to promote products on social media. The Kardashian sisters are probably the most visible face of this phenomenon, having all put their names behind weight-loss products and pharmaceuticals on multiple occasions. It’s an ethicall … | Continue reading
Twitter is introducing a new type of ad today called Instant Unlock Cards. They sound great for brands, but pretty sucky for users. Here’s the gist of it: A brands tweets out a teasing image – say, for a movie trailer. Want to read or see more? Sorry, you have to tweet out #somet … | Continue reading
LG just sent out its invite for the the LG V20’s launch event. We already knew it would be the first phone to run Android Nougat, but now we know when: September 6. The unveil event will be held in San Francisco. The company isn’t revealing much more; the invite has a vague ‘Pla … | Continue reading
There’s only so much a person can do with a selfie stick, and that’s after overcoming the issues involved with spending money on a long metal rod made just to take selfies. Now it’s possible to have a versatile, multi-use tripod to assist in taking the pictures you want to be a p … | Continue reading
Norway’s slam hit Slow TV has never left its home country, but it’s hard to understand why. Their first broadcast in 2009 was a 7.5 hour long train ride from Bergen to Oslo. It turned out to be immensely popular and was watched by two million people – roughly 25 percent of Norway … | Continue reading
TNW readers have a great opportunity to save 50 percent on the latest version of PDFpenPro, the popular all-purpose PDF editing tool for Mac. PDFpenPro 8 boasts scores of new features to expand on previous versions, and can be yours for only $62 from TNW Deals. There’s a clear re … | Continue reading
You can now find an apartment or house to rent using Trulia’s new Facebook Messenger bot. The bot is designed to help you find a new place to stay quickly, and works from commands like “for rent in San Francisco,” and allows you to distill results based on features you’re looking … | Continue reading
There was a time when playing flash games on Newgrounds was pretty much all I ever did. One of my favorite games was the ‘escape room’, an extremely popular genre that spawned classics like Crimson Room. The goal is to find the key to the door by solving a series of puzzles, and … | Continue reading
It’s hard to explain the Vaporwave subculture to those who aren’t already familiar with it, but I’ll give it a go anyway. It’s essentially a nostalgic mashup of 80s and 90s design, retrofuturism and glitch art (among other things) that draws from a musical genre of the same name … | Continue reading
My favorite thing in the world is when someone makes something, just because. There’s no reason or rhyme as to why. It doesn’t need to exist, but it’s cool, so it does. One of the best examples I’ve seen of this lately is the OvRcharge – a needlessly-extravagant iPhone charger th … | Continue reading
It’s been just a few weeks since Facebook announced the introduction of bots for Messenger, and the web is already filled with articles about how awful these bots are, and how we just have to bear it until this fad passes by. First off, what exactly are Messenger bots? Quite simp … | Continue reading
New research on traffic incidents in the US published in the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that the availability of Uber’s on-demand cab service had no association with the number of subsequent traffic fatalities – contrary to what Uber-funded non-profit group Mothers A … | Continue reading
Most people stopped using BlackBerry phones around five years ago. But then again, most people aren’t Kim Kardashian West, who to this day continues to use a BlackBerry Bold for emails and calls. Since that model has long ceased to be produced, whenever her phone breaks she has t … | Continue reading
Intel is recalling every Basis Peak fitness tracker it’s sold since the wearable launched in 2014, over fears that the device may overheat and burn wearers’ wrists, or cause blisters. The company, which was acquired by Intel in 2014, noted that it received reports of faults in on … | Continue reading
What do Sketch, Coda, and BBEdit have in common? Apart from being big name Mac apps, they’re all big name Mac apps that have walked out on the App Store. There’s something fundamentally wrong about people leaving the place that was built to make their lives easier. But then again … | Continue reading