Two weeks ago, Twitter opened up a feature that allowed anyone to apply for account verification. If noted entrepreneur, venture capitalist and blogger Jason Calacanis is to believed, this is simply “phase one” of a process that should see all Twitter accounts (using a real name) … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of Google announcing it would allows users to switch emoji genders two weeks ago, Apple is now doing the same for iOS. This means you can finally have a female construction worker, weightlifter, police officer, or any other previously male-only emoji. The latest … | Continue reading
John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go creator Niantic, is the latest in a string of high-profile Twitter account hacks recently. The hack saw Hanke join the likes of Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey — the CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter — and again, the hack was perpet … | Continue reading
Pokemon are hard to catch, but everyone wants to catch ‘em all while playing Pokemon Go. Now that the Etsy shop selling those uber-popular Pokeman Go cases is temporarily closed, Casetify has come out with something very similar. The ‘Pokemon Aimer iPhone Cover’ is basically a th … | Continue reading
The Samsung Gear VR is already the best VR experience you can get without dumping $1,000 or more on a standalone kit and PC, but a new leak suggests it’s about to get much better. Most critically, the new Gear VR will reportedly have a 110-degree field of vision — a marked uptick … | Continue reading
3,331. That’s how many miles there are between me and my fiancee, who lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Like millions of other couples around the world, we’re in a long distance relationship. This has its own costs. We see each other every three months on average, ea … | Continue reading
Windows 95 is something of a cultural phenomenon. You can run it in your browser, endlessly stare at its screensavers or even check out its weird, arty cousin. Thanks to Russian graphic designer Misha Petrick we can now even run Instagram on it — kind of. Instagram for Win95 is a … | Continue reading
When it comes to AMA (ask me anything) sessions, Reddit is normally the go-to platform (unless you’re Mark Zuckerberg). Obama and Trump have both done it, but it seems White House candidates Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to try something new: Quora. Of course, Quora itself i … | Continue reading
Apple has launched a new Instagram account over the weekend, which happened to coincide with one of the most anticipated script releases this year: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The @iBooks account mostly consists of quotes from books and authors – which is awesome if you’re … | Continue reading
Japan is well-known for its food, bonsai trees, and earthquakes. Luckily, it’s also the country that’s most prepared for the latter. Their Earthquake Early Warning system is set up along the coastline and into the ocean, ready to identify earthquakes long before they hit the coun … | Continue reading
LG today quietly announced the successor in its most powerful smartphone line, the LG V20. According LG’s own press release, it will come with Android Nougat, making it the first phone we know to do so. As a recap, last year’s V10 was the first in LG’s new video-oriented line. We … | Continue reading
Coding isn’t just for geeks anymore. In fact, the ability to code is quickly becoming the standard in many professions today. Dive into the programming world and work towards a lucrative career with The Complete 2016 Learn to Code Bundle, now just $59 from TNW Deals. Strong coder … | Continue reading
Every week we send out a weekly update with some of the best stories of the week, a few apps we like and the ‘Red faces of the week’. Sign up now to get it delivered to your inbox every week. Here’s my introduction text for last weeks issue: A few years ago I vowed never to lie. … | Continue reading
Over the past few days, we’ve covered a couple of tools that help you track Pokémon in the AR game Pokémon Go. If you’ve been hoping to use PokéVision, PokéNotify or PokéHound to help you find Pokémon in the wild today, you’re out of luck. These apps have shut down or have likely … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we look at an app that helps you decide what to post on social media and what not. Submit your startup to get featured too. What does your product do? Post or Not provides you anonymous feedback on your photos and videos before you po … | Continue reading
The Dutch technology conglomerate Philips has already made a name for itself in the burgeoning internet of things space, entirely thanks to its popular Hue line of programmable lightbulbs. It’s now taking the lessons it’s learned from building connected devices and applying it to … | Continue reading
Electric car maker Tesla Motors has announced that it’s agreed to merge with solar technology firm SolarCity for $2.6 billion in an all-stock transaction. The deal builds on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent revelation of the second phase of the company’s master plan, a major part of … | Continue reading
Next week sees the start of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro. Enthusiasm for what should be the biggest event of the sporting calendar has been dampened by a myriad of issues, including crime, the zika virus, a hastily-built and entirely unliveable Olympic Village, and ar … | Continue reading
Walking around Earth just got a bit scarier. You might not have known, but falling asteroids aren’t the only way to die a space-induced death. Thanks to Kurzgesagt, you now also have a reason to constantly fear invisible rays! Extremely energetic explosions happening in other gal … | Continue reading
Drinking is super fun. But it’s not just that. It’s also unhealthy, addictive and — depending on where you live — pretty expensive. However, because of its place in society as a widely-accepted, mainstream drug we’ve all become detached from the effects it has on our bodies. I’m … | Continue reading
Noise-canceling headphones are great for tuning out the din around you when you just want to focus on listening to music or enjoy some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, they also mute sounds that you might need to hear – like someone calling your name. Amazon has a pretty cool idea … | Continue reading
Nashville, Tennessee-based Third Man Records – which was founded by The White Stripes’ Jack White and has released works by Wanda Jackson, Laura Marling and Cold War Kids – went all out to celebrate it’s seventh anniversary over the weekend, by launching the first vinyl played in … | Continue reading
For a year after its launch, Microsoft allowed users of previous versions of its desktop OS to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. That offer ended last week on July 29. If you’ve missed the boat, you’ll be interested to learn that the company’s free upgrade offer is still available … | Continue reading
Chinese cab service Didi Chuxing is gearing up to merge with Uber’s operations in the country, reports Bloomberg. The homegrown cab company is investing $1 billion in Uber based on a $68 billion valuation; the combined value of the new entity will be about $35 billion. The repor … | Continue reading
Manual exposure control is reportedly coming back to stock Android, and we’re expecting it to drop sometime in August. Having vanished from earlier preview builds of Android Nougat, the camera control has returned. According to Android Police, exposure control appears when you ta … | Continue reading
A new study details that mobile wallets like Apple Pay and Android Pay are on the rise, but consumers want more — and it’s coming. Urban Airship says that in the last three months, 67 percent of millennials have used a mobile wallet, and 51 percent of users over the age of 35 are … | Continue reading
Every quarter, we sit in awe as Apple rakes in money hand over fist. Now you sit and weep as you watch how much it makes every second of the day. A site named Every Second lets you peer into how Apple is doing every time a clock ticks. It doesn’t have access to internal sales fig … | Continue reading
Open Source can often feel like a lazy way to distribute software, but Facebook is giving it a bit of structure with its new Incubator hub. Incubator isn’t for everyone: it’s limited to Facebook’s own projects. What Incubator provides is a new way to think about open source. Spea … | Continue reading
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was a stellar reboot to the series, but we don’t know much about Rey’s origins. A new fan theory suggests she’s actually a descendent of the dark side, and it makes a lot of sense. Instead of being Luke Skywalker or Obi-wan Kenobi’s daughter, Ren is s … | Continue reading
As with an pre-release Apple hardware, rumors of the 2016 MacBook Pro are making their way through the news cycle. If you believe them all, we’ll be getting the computer of our dreams in a slim, light package about the size of a MacBook Air. But I don’t believe everything I read, … | Continue reading
Keeping up with torrent sites can be a game of whack-a-mole, as we learned with KickassTorrents and its subsequent mirror sites. Now it seems as though Hollywood is going after search and discovery via Google and Reddit. In a letter to Google, Warner Bros. studios asked the searc … | Continue reading
That Pokemon Go phone case designed to help you catch ‘em all is seeing such high demand that its Etsy shop has been closed (temporarily). The 3D printed case made headlines when it was launched because it basically forced you to throw the perfect Pokeball. Because most of us low … | Continue reading
Game of Thrones has but two short seasons to go, but show runners are hinting that a spinoff may be in the works. It has long been rumored that HBO prefered the series to end with eight seasons, but until now, we’d had no real confirmation of that. Now we do. Speaking to Entertai … | Continue reading
Kanye West, known crazy person and possible liar, went on a tweetstorm recently to implore Apple to cut Jay Z a check for Tidal — which suggests the rumors of Apple buying the streaming music service are true. Here are Yeezy’s tweetzys: This Tidal Apple beef is fucking up the mus … | Continue reading
A major Pokemon Go update might make it harder to find actual Pokemon — but you’ll be able to re-customize your avatar, so there’s that. Available for Android and iOS, it seems that the footprints of nearby Pokemon have been removed. You no longer get a sense of where the Pokemon … | Continue reading
You don’t need a degree in marketing to get started with your career and get your foot in the door, or grow your business with proven marketing techniques. The Professional Web Marketer’s Certification Bundle will guide you to fully certified mastery of modern marketing essential … | Continue reading
I’m sorry to tell you, but you’re in a bubble. It’s a bubble made up not only of the work you do, but your friends, the books you read, and your day-to-day routine. It’s a bubble built from the meals you make each week. It’s your Monday/Wednesday/Friday gym schedule. It’s the rou … | Continue reading
Activity Monitor for Mac Activity Monitor is a little know gem of an app hidden in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It can look daunting when you first launch it but once you look past the information overload and find out what to focus on it can become an invalu … | Continue reading
We believe in bringing your whole selves to work. Many times, that might mean stepping away from work for a bit to celebrate and wholly focus on your family. This is a foundational pillar here at Buffer and we’re committed to supporting our team members in many different ways: pP … | Continue reading
Learning to code is an increasingly valuable investment in your own skill set, with greater demand for programming basics rising every day. And while there’s a labyrinth of online courses offering cheap instruction, many of them fall short on quality and qualification. You’ll fin … | Continue reading
The real test for any new technology is how quickly it gets picked up by the adult industry. As porn embraces virtual reality, what does that mean for the rest of us? Talking about virtual reality is a bit like “dancing” about “architecture;” we lack the vocabulary to do it prope … | Continue reading
Some time ago I visited my parents, and as these things tend to go, they had a list of things that bothered them about their computers, iPhones and iPads and the Internet connection. I like helping them, so tried optimizing their Wi-Fi network first. That was frustrating at first … | Continue reading
Being creative makes us happy – that’s true – but not just because we just enjoy dreaming up new ideas and having flights of fancy. In fact, research tells us that what we really love about creativity is the daily drudgery – the slow and frequently painful trudge towards getting … | Continue reading
After last week’s email dump that saw nearly 20,000 emails from leading Democratic National Convention leaders end up on WikiLeaks, Julian Assange could be right that this is just the beginning. The Associated Press, just minutes ago confirmed that Clinton emails are part of thos … | Continue reading
Google Knowledge Graph, for those that are unaware, provides additional information about a search term to keep you from needing to click on results to get quick bits of information. A celebrity’s age, the date of a major historical event, or which team a NBA star plays on are al … | Continue reading
Chat app Wire has been rapidly adding feature as of late as it looks to gain some traction against the myriad of competitors out there. The latest trick in its arsenal is screen sharing. Now you can click on the new screen-sharing button to, well, share your screen during a call … | Continue reading
One day we're going to look back at the 2016 presidential election and remember this moment, the moment when the US fully understood democracy. | Continue reading
Google Maps for iOS will finally allow you to set multiple destinations on your trips – a month after the feature arrived on Android. It works just the same: open the app, set your first destination, and then tap the menu button and select ‘Add stop’. You can add as many as you l … | Continue reading