LinkedIn is changing the iOS app development process forever with Rocket Data, a caching service that works with any database. Rocket Data came about while LinkedIn was rewriting its own mobile app. It wanted a caching system that would present information to the end user (you) w … | Continue reading
To help developers make sense of users, Twitter’s Fabric suite of tools is introducing ‘Activity Segments’ for Answers. Specifically, Activity Segments gives developers insight on user activity. It hopes to help developers understand how much we’re not using an app, so an action … | Continue reading
The latest WhatsApp beta is out, and the good folks over at Android Police have spotted a few useful new features. Most fun for the devs out there, you can now separate lines of code or quotes from the rest of your conversations by surrounding a phrase with “` (those are back quo … | Continue reading
Periscope streams will now start streaming automatically on embedded tweets, which essentially makes any webpage its own live TV channel. Users don’t need to do anything differently, and those embedding tweets (like The Next Web often does) also have no extra work; embedded tweet … | Continue reading
You know a pair of Beats by Dr. Dre from across the room. More than an industry icon, they’re a cultural standard, worn by everyone from students to superstars, hip hop heroes to MVPs on the court. Ready to join the Beats movement? You can pick up your own set of Beats by Dr. Dre … | Continue reading
While many hold a Project Manager title, only a fraction of PMs are legitimately certified, and thus qualified, for high-level management operations. The difference is clear in career trajectory and income possibility, and the Project Management Certification Training 2016 Bundle … | Continue reading
“How do you make the smartphone interesting again?” That’s the question Motorola seems intent on answering with the new Moto Z and it’s more pragmatic sibling, the Z Force. After all, our phones are our most important devices, but in the past couple of years, it’s often felt like … | Continue reading
Between overloads caused by too many players logging on at once, to hackers threatening to take down its servers, there’s a chance that you may not be able to play Pokémon Go when you want to. Thankfully, the fine folks at New York-based cloud monitoring firm Datadog have whipped … | Continue reading
There are few greater joys in a marketer’s life than experimenting with a new technique — and having it work like a charm. You feel like a cross between a scientist, an artist, and a magician, am I right? After doing a little celebrating, you officially add the tactic to your rep … | Continue reading
As Nelly once famously said: “It ain’t no fun unless we all get some.” It seems Tinder took that message to heart. The world’s largest dating app just announced that it was going to unlock a whole new world of dating by allowing you to include your friends. The feature, which tes … | Continue reading
If you enjoy peppering your IM conversations and notes with emoji, there are already several keyboard apps for your phone that allow you to add them from built-in menus. The team behind Microsoft-owned SwiftKey has a smarter approach: instead of having you search through a long l … | Continue reading
For years, Corning’s toughened glass has graced the screens of more than 4.5 billion devices around the world to protect them from drops and untoward encounters with keys and coins in pockets. The company has now announced that it’s working on Gorilla Glass 5, which it claims can … | Continue reading
Roughly a decade ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk outlined a master plan for the electric car company: build a sports car that could outpace high-performance gasoline-powered vehicles, use the proceeds to develop an affordable car and repeat for even better results. 10 years on, the comp … | Continue reading
If you’re a KickassTorrent user, you’ll have to find another means to torrent media. Its alleged leader has been arrested and the site is now offline. Reaching all the way to Poland, the US has arrested 30 year old Artem Vaulin and charged him with two separate counts of criminal … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is officially a phenomenon. Like most things that climb to the top of pop culture’s collective awareness seemingly overnight, Hollywood was quick to swoop in and buy the rights to make a movie about it. Legendary Pictures plans to do just that with an upcoming Pokémon … | Continue reading
According to a new report from SimilarWeb, we really like watching porn on our phones and tablets — even more than we like watching movies. For the fist time, SimilarWeb has included mobile devices in its ranking of most popular websites. Due to that timely inclusion, Pornhub now … | Continue reading
Bots these days are all the rage, but the sad truth is: most of them kind of suck. ‘And Chill’ is different, it may actually be the first bot to provide a bit of value by making that ever-so-difficult “what should I watch on Netflix?” decision just a tad bit easier. To use And Ch … | Continue reading
Facebook is issuing a few updates to Live to make it a more immersive experience and help you avoid the trolls. First up, streamers can now go live in full-screen mode, which gives them a bit more room to monitor what viewers are seeing. On iOS, streamers can broadcast in either … | Continue reading
I love the creative things I run across on Instagram. Like most users, however, I’m a bit annoyed by seeing the same passé posts by those trying to appear creative but falling well short. The Starbucks photo is a great example. I mean, look: Starbucks is currently saving my life … | Continue reading
Popular desktop email client Polymail has landed on mobile with the introduction of an iOS app. On launch, Polymail was widely heralded as a new way of thinking about email without compromising productivity. It tracks how many have read an email automatically, and includes profil … | Continue reading
Pokemon Go is consumptive. It asks a lot of your time, but also drains your phone’s battery and chips away at your data plan. There’s now a clever fix for the battery life issue, if you don’t mind carrying a real Pokeball. An enterprising Etsy seller has created a Pokeball phone … | Continue reading
Today, Mozilla announced its plans to do away with the thorn in our side that is Flash. Starting August 2016, with Firefox 48, Mozilla will block all Flash content deemed “not essential to the user experience.” The move is the first in a series that will finally kill Flash for go … | Continue reading
As we wait impatiently for Apple to drop new iPhones on us, leaks abound. This new video may be our best look yet at a dummy iPhone 7, and it even has a side-by-side comparison to the phone you probably already have. The video host says the dummy unit came straight from a supply … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we look at the future of TV entertainment guides. Submit your startup to get featured too. What does Zeen do? Zeen is solving the common problem “what shall I watch tonight?” for modern audiences, helping to navigate in the sea of con … | Continue reading
Razer, best known for its peripheral computer hardware, is making a Pokemon Go chat app that sounds like something you’ll actually want to use. Via The Verge, we learn that the RazerGo will let Pokemon users chat with others up to 600 miles away, and your conversations can be pub … | Continue reading
So here at TNW we’re now forced to play Pokémon Go every day, for ‘health’ reasons. If you ask me, it’s merely an excuse for Boris to go out catching Pokémon instead of working. Some coworkers had a bit of trouble getting on board, so I decided to do a quick write-up for others o … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger has just hit arguably it’s biggest milestone yet: 1 billion monthly active users. That makes Facebook pretty much unparalleled when it comes to overall messaging users. WhatsApp hit 1 billion monthly active users in February earlier this year. While there’s sur … | Continue reading
In addition to maintaining a blog on virtual reality, VRGamingEvolved also runs a YouTube channel where he reviews various VR experiences with his HTC Vive. But for the past several weeks, he’s been involved in a tedious customer service nightmare with HTC that has rendered him u … | Continue reading
For a limited time, TNW Deals is offering an exclusive run of savings on E-learning courses, with an incredible range of opportunities available for ambitious learners eager to save some serious cash on a skill set upgrade. From Game Design to Linux mastery, Product Management to … | Continue reading
Let’s play a word association game. I say “domain extension,” you say?… If you answered .COM, you’re not alone. However, don’t dismiss new top level domains so quickly. For a plethora of reasons – lackluster domain names, local buzz, clarification of industry – many companies are … | Continue reading
If you’re a gamer on a constant hunt for new thrills, Steamcrate is a dream come true. The wildly popular gaming subscription service delivers 10 Steam games to your inbox every month for one low cost, with no commitment or physical media hassle to content with. For a limited tim … | Continue reading
You can now shop for a new home on your Apple TV via Trulia. The company is releasing its first official Apple TV app, which lets you browse homes in your area without leaving the couch. In addition to seeing what’s available, you’ll also be able to see images a real estate agent … | Continue reading
This weekend, a girl was stabbed for playing Pokemon Go. In the small town of Redding California, three girls were in a park playing the game through their smartphones when they were set upon by three women and four men. While the wounds weren’t life threatening, while trying to … | Continue reading
If you often wonder what privileges your citizenship grants you around the globe, Passport Index is the only tool you’ll ever need – and it’s oddly fascinating Built by financial firm Arton Capital, it’s a Web-based interactive encyclopedia that will tell you everything you need … | Continue reading
When you hear the word ‘spreadsheet,’ a cold sweat likely breaks out (unless you’re an accountant or data nerd, of course). They’re boring, but necessary — and Google turned them into art. In collaboration with Refinery 29, Google wanted to bring two artists together under the au … | Continue reading
This weekend in San Diego was Pride weekend, an amazing celebration of love and acceptance geared mostly toward the LGBT crowd, but — in my experience — accepting of anyone who wants to come have a good time. The rainbow flag emoji would have been a nice addition, and I actually … | Continue reading
A group of middle schoolers in Mystic, Connecticut teamed up with a local aquarium and the ACT Group, a 3D systems partner, to construct a new boot for a feisty penguin with an injured leg. Purps, an endangered African penguin that, following an altercation with another bird in 2 … | Continue reading
Poodlecorp (yes, you read that right) has threatened to take the über popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go offline August 1 through a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the game’s already fragile servers. “We take the servers offline because it is popu … | Continue reading
App logging for Swift apps can now be done natively on a Mac. SwiftyBeaver, a popular GitHub project, has come out of its private beta and is now available to the world. Logging is important to any app development process, but it’s typically done via a cloud-based service. The pr … | Continue reading
Twitter today announced a new process for those seeking verified accounts. The verification badge is designed to allow key individuals and organizations to prove their authenticity in a sea of fake and parody accounts. “We want to make it even easier for people to find creators a … | Continue reading
While most of us don’t want ads at all, Google has found a way to deliver them faster. Using its AMP technology meant for stripped-down, fast-loading webpages, Google hopes that it can “significantly improve both page load time and mitigate effects of the ads on the user experien … | Continue reading
Making a Murderer, the breakout true crime documentary from Netflix, is set to return for a second season. “We are extremely grateful for the tremendous response to, and support of, the series. The viewers’ interest and attention has ensured that the story is not over, and we are … | Continue reading
Apple’s Safari browser included with iOS 10 and macOS Sierra is testing WebP, Google’s own technology for getting webpages to load quickly. WebP was built into Chrome back at build 32 (2013!), so it’s not unproven. It’s also used by Facebook due to its image compression underpinn … | Continue reading
Google just launched an awesome new app and website meant to help users discover art, architecture, music and culture. It’s called, fittingly enough, Google Arts & Culture. You can search through a huge database (which Google has been building for a while), searching for anything … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we look at an app for fitness enthusiasts. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Sidekick? Sidekick is a mobile app for fitness enthusiasts, matching like-minded people together based on their fitness goals and personal pre … | Continue reading
We’re going through a bit of dejavu here: a Brazilian judge has ordered a nationwide block on WhatsApp after it refused to comply with a court order to reveal user information in a crime investigation. The most recent block happened in May, causing 100 million users to have to us … | Continue reading
Flash cards are the most straightforward way to learn anything, and Duolingo is using that foundation for Tinycards, which happens to be its first foray outside of languages. With Tinycards, you can pick up info on anything from languages (Duolingo wasn’t going to ignore its root … | Continue reading
IT experts are modern day superheroes in the world of business, with the skills and insight to secure and fortify the success of companies worldwide. Available for a limited time, the Professional Python & Linux Administration Bundle will teach you, over the span of four in-depth … | Continue reading