In my limited capacity as a reporter here at TNW, I’ve been pushing an agenda for gadget makers to retain the 3.5mm jack on phones and other devices so we can all enjoy high-quality audio as we please. One of the arguments against this idea has been the notion that the jack takes … | Continue reading
A San Francisco resident payed homage to failed startups by erecting tombstones in their honor last night. Trick-or-treaters near Mission Dolores Park got to witness a graveyard of startups taken from the world too soon. All told, the display featured 12 tombstones, each made of … | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I used Uber for the first time. I’ve written about Uber extensively for work, and I have an academic understanding of how the app works, but I’ve never used it for myself before. There are two reasons for that: Until recently, Uber wasn’t allowed in the cit … | Continue reading
Google today opened a new platform for people to find and share 3D objects. Poly integrates with Tilt Brush and Blocks, respectively, and acts as a showcase for 3D models that developers can plug and play into their own AR or VR creations. Built for development kits like Google’s … | Continue reading
Mozilla is making Firefox a more private experience by taking cues from Tor, the browser of choice for those who dare to visit the dark web. The non-profit Mozilla Foundation will remove a “feature” called canvas fingerprinting from Firefox, which allows user-tracking across mult … | Continue reading
Smartphones in 2017 have been defined by devices with curvy form factors and ever-shrinking bezels. Razer’s first smartphone – simply called the Razer Phone – is having none of that. It’s a big, boxy, chunk of metal with the first 120 hz display on a smartphone and hearty bezels … | Continue reading
An artificial intelligence lawyer, CaseCruncher Alpha, just beat 100 lawyers in a challenge. The robot and 100 law students from Cambridge were put up against each other and given “the basic facts of hundreds of PPI (payment protection insurance) mis-selling cases and asked to pr … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) — Ironically, Cobalt, Ontario—population 1,100—was built on silver. Remnants of a boom that transformed the town more than a century ago are everywhere. A mine headframe still protrudes from the roof of the bookstore, which was previously a grocery. The butcher used t … | Continue reading
Nvidia yesterday revealed an AI capable of producing photograph-quality images of people who don’t exist. The next time you click on an attractive profile pic you might be admiring the fictional creation of a clever computer. Alan Turing, we need you now more than ever. The resea … | Continue reading
Human microchipping has always been a pursuit reserved for those crazy guinea pig types excited for the dystopian future everyone else is dreading. As it turns out, 2017 seems to be the year humans succumb to having rice sized chips implanted in their hands. And “What for?” you m … | Continue reading
Education technology is evolving, and this is a magnificent thing. It manages to provide us with that power and experience that everyone wanted to have as a young child. But integrating various new education technology trends to the table does seem to be quite challenging, especi … | Continue reading
In case you managed to miss it, TwitchCon was a week ago. It was a lot of fun! Too bad no one besides the attendees seemed to know what it was about. Several tech companies attended, including Razer, Logitech, and Intel. The developers of the game H1Z1 also hosted a major tournam … | Continue reading
HTC is almost certainly announcing a new flagship this week, rumored to be called the U11 Plus. Though the headline feature is that HTC is joining the small bezels party, the U11’s best feature might be a translucent body. Yes, kind of like an old Game Boy. Swiss publication Blic … | Continue reading
The age-old conspiracy that Facebook is somehow secretly spying on its users is catching a second wind (colloquially speaking, though the number is probably much higher in reality) this week. Only days after company representatives had to go on the record to dispel any rumors tha … | Continue reading
Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three tech giants (respectively, GOOG, FB, AMZN). Not much has changed, and quite literally the user interface and features on those sites … | Continue reading
One way to help alleviate some of that stress and pressure is to have a solid template to follow, which is what you can have immediately with the premium services of Bizplan. Right now, you can assure yourself a lifetime of Bizplan’s business assistance expertise for just $69 (an … | Continue reading
The iPhone X is almost here, and Apple’s PR machine is working overdrive. This year round, Apple is eager to amplify the positive response to the iPhone X, and has produced a picture of the phone which mimics the style of a movie poster, and shows the reaction to the device from … | Continue reading
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard of Bitcoin and blockchain. After all, they are one of the most trending topics these days — the ultimate buzzwords of the year. Even people who’ve never mined cryptocurrency or understand how it works, are talking ab … | Continue reading
I am standing inside the exhibitor room of (what claims to be) Eastern Europe’s largest startup event, IT Arena in Lviv, Ukraine. All around me are booths of companies looking for developers to join them, many servicing overseas clients. Upstairs are a handful of scrappy local en … | Continue reading
You’re already talking to the speaker in your living room, so why not take things up a notch and get yourself a robot pet? That’s the big question on Sony’s lips for its customers in Japan as it launches the latest edition of its Aibo robotic dog. The $1,740 (198,000 Yen) canine … | Continue reading
With so many products and services out there, it’s only natural that clever people will eventually discover bugs in Google’s offerings. What’s less common, however, is members of the general populace finding bugs in the company’s internal systems – and in Alex Birsan’s case, it w … | Continue reading
Google is finally putting an end to the hassle of pairing Bluetooth accessories with your phone, with the introduction of a new feature in Android 6.0 and up. It’s called Fast Pair, and it’ll work as seamlessly as connecting Apple devices together wirelessly. Enable pairing mode … | Continue reading
The latest iOS update features dozens of new emoji — it’s front and center in the release notes. Included in those are a few new emoji that arrive just in time for Halloween, such as a vampire, mermaid, and fairy/pixie. For me, emoji releases are characterized by the feeling that … | Continue reading
WhatTheFont is a Shazam for fonts — a designer’s dream. The app is a mobile version of the website previously developed by MyFonts, and recognizes any font you point at with your camera, including a variation of similar fonts to go with it. It also lets you buy the fonts you find … | Continue reading
It’s extremely aggravating when you decide to print a picture you took on your phone, only to find it’s blurry, grainy or pixelated. No matter how much of a photoshop master you might be, those low-resolution photos are nearly impossible to enhance. Thankfully, scientists have di … | Continue reading
It should be common sense that everything you use or wear had to be produced somewhere. From the iPhone you use to call friends to the pan you use to cook your meals, everything first started as a raw material. While most people don’t think about what is involved in producing the … | Continue reading
Data breaches have affected our lives on multiple levels, from breaches of social apps like Ashley Madison, to breaches of retail stores like Target, to breaches of the companies we’ve historically trusted to keep our most personal information safe, like Equifax. Each of these ha … | Continue reading
When the iPhone X rumor mill began churning everything seemed to suggest Apple tried to fit a Touch ID sensor under the display, but failed. Now Apple is flatly denying those rumors, saying it spent “no time looking at fingerprints” for the iPhone X at all. The comment comes from … | Continue reading
The Great British Bake Off (GBBO) final is the highlight of the UK television calendar. The anticipation is palpable, as the British public wait to find out who will be crowned master baker. That anticipation will be deflated somewhat, much like a souffle that wouldn’t rise, as G … | Continue reading
Mug Life is really bloody silly. Like, it’s the silliest app I’ve ever come across, and I say that with several years under my belt as a tech journalist. In a nutshell, it lets you upload photos, which it then turns into taunting, nightmarish animated videos, sort of like this: T … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, WhatsApp updated its FAQ page with instructions on how people can use its new unsend feature that lets users purge the embarrassing messages they sent before their intended recipient has had a chance to read them. But unfortunately, most users still didn’t have … | Continue reading
Jack Ma sure is one absolutely incredible specimen of a human being. The legendary Chinese entrepreneur, better known for his work as the founder and executive chairman of the Alibaba Group, is prepping to take on a new unexpected role: starring in action movies. The Alibaba boss … | Continue reading
Ok, so we’ve figured out ways to pretty much monetize everything at this point, with one of our last precious finite resources being time. Yes, time. We can have all the renewable energy in the world, but eventually our time is going to run out. It makes it our most valuable asse … | Continue reading
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TL;DR Amazon’s new $249 Kindle Oasis is waterproof and comes with a bigger screen. If those things matter to you, you should get one. I could pretty much end this review there, and you’d know most of what you need to know about the new Oasis. Like last year’s model, it’s a luxury … | Continue reading
Watch out, Nintendo: Raspberry Pi enthusiasts are building their own gaming consoles and this latest one is actually pretty awesome. Using a Raspberry Pi computer and an Altoids mint box, recreational inventor and YouTuber Sudomod has designed a fully-functioning gaming device th … | Continue reading
Earlier this summer, Razer came into the spotlight following reports hinting the gaming hardware manufacturer is gearing up to make a foray into the smartphone market. But thanks to a leak from a British website 3G, now we have a better idea of what to expect from its upcoming ha … | Continue reading
Most of us have suffered that disheartening feeling of picking up your phone after a ‘no phone could survive that’ kind of drop. You reach down and hesitantly turn it over, only to see a cracked screen that ruins your day… to say the least. Thankfully, scientists from the Univers … | Continue reading
Bloggers have begun getting some hands-on time with the iPhone X ahead of its shipping date, and the word on the street is that it’s pretty bangin’. And while it’s playing catch-up with the introduction of a bezel-less screen, it’s trumping the entire universe of Android devices … | Continue reading
Supply chains are what make the world go round. The food you buy at a grocery store was carried through a supply chain. Same with the products at your local corner store, and the clothes you buy in the mall. A supply chain is nothing more than the process of carrying goods from m … | Continue reading
As we draw closer to the launch date for Apple’s voice-activated smart speaker, Business Insider reports that the HomePod won’t support commands for certain third-party apps like Spotify. A developer update from the company encourages the creation of features in third-party apps … | Continue reading
After previewing the new interface design for Skype’s desktop app back in August, Microsoft is now ready to roll it out to Windows 10 users, and make it available in an update for Mac, Linux and older versions of Windows. The airy new look is in line with the revamped mobile app … | Continue reading
Saudi Arabia last week granted citizenship to a robot. While the middle-eastern country may be much maligned for its stances on women’s equality and LGBTQ rights, it’s clear the Kingdom doesn’t have a problem with machines. A robot called Sophia, made by Hong Kong company Hanson … | Continue reading
Russian-backed Facebook Pages were responsible for dozens of real-world political events in the US, including a “Blue Lives Matter” rally in one city and a police brutality protest in another – on the same days. The extent to which the Russian propaganda machine has influenced Am … | Continue reading
The Like Button, made famous by Facebook, has officially hit its 10th anniversary — and it’s so ubiquitous that it’s hard to imagine our internet without it. In case you don’t remember the dark, wild time of 2007, let me give you a quick crash course: Facebook didn’t create the L … | Continue reading
NASA has released “spooky” sounds from space and it’s the stuff of nightmares — just in time for Halloween. To most of us, space is deafeningly silent. But that’s only because the human ear can’t capture the electromagnetic pulses and radio bursts, amongst other sounds that live … | Continue reading
GameStop is getting its own Netflix-like subscription plan. For $60, gamers get a six-month subscription — dubbed ‘Power Pass’ — that allows them to pick any title from GameStop’s pre-owned inventory. Once done, they can return the title and select another, just like Netflix’s DV … | Continue reading
Alibaba is one of the largest platforms in regards to wholesale trading, and it’s known all over the world for the small pricing and the very good quality that it can deliver. In order to try and help small as well as medium-sized companies to grow, the company has launched a p … | Continue reading