Samsung just sent out invites for its next hardware event. And while it doesn’t explicitly say it will be releasing the next device in the Note series, the accompanying graphics and timing make it pretty obvious. Update: Actually, Samsung isn’t even bothering to keep any semblanc … | Continue reading
For someone who’s never heard of Pokemon, the idea of seeing millions of people running around waving phones in the air to catch virtual pockets monsters is absurd as it looks in actuality. But when everyone is doing it, suddenly it’s kind of normal. So while no one is embarrasse … | Continue reading
In a surprisingly fast move, Pokemon Go has gotten its first update to fix some of the growing pains and bugs from the initial release. Most notably, it fixes one of the biggest complaints about privacy: the app required too much information from your Google account, particularly … | Continue reading
After the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philanto Castile last week, the online Asian American community pooled their efforts to pen a letter explaining Black Lives Matter to their immigrant family members. The letter became so popular that the open Google Doc became inaccessibl … | Continue reading
At a press event today in New York, Google announced a series of updates coming to search results aimed at travel planners looking to get the best deals on flights and accommodations. Now, when you search for specific types of hotels like “pet-friendly and under $175 a night,” Go … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Bento Cam, a camera app for iOS that helps you stay organized. Submit your startup to get featured too. Why create a new camera app? Smartphones are changing how and why we take photos in a big way, but Apple … | Continue reading
Finding a stranger to take a shot of you and your loved ones can be awkward, and let’s face it – those selfie sticks just aren’t for everyone. That’s where the Anti-Gravity iPhone 6/6S Case comes in, revolutionizing the way you capture life’s important moments, keep up with loved … | Continue reading
Sonos is preparing to launch its first its first ever flagship retail location in New York City on Tuesday July 19 (101 Greene Street in SoHo, for you locals). I was able to get a tour of the location in before it opened up to the public, and it’s one of the coolest tech retail … | Continue reading
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Another day, another imaging app launches. Polaroid Swing, which is available now for iOS, lets you shoot 60 burst photos and turns them into animated images; viewers can control the 1-second-long playback with the motion of their phone. You’ll actually need to swing your phone ( … | Continue reading
Buffer, a fan-favorite all-in-one social media app, can now be used to schedule Instagram posts. As you can with Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus and Pinterest, Instagram posts can be planned directly from the Buffer dashboard. There are also analytics pertaining to likes … | Continue reading
Google included a bunch of templates in its Docs app to make it easier for users to create resumes, brochures, school essays and newsletters. Unfortunately, they’ve made life more difficult for Casey Baumer. The company, most certainly unknowningly, used her name in the dummy tex … | Continue reading
One of my most strongly-held beliefs about creativity, that’s gone on to drastically shape both how I use creativity in my own life and how I explain it to others, comes from Maya Angelou. As she put it, “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” This con … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of Qualcomm’s announcement about its latest mobile processor, ASUS has revealed its next smartphone that’s filled to the gills with top-end specifications – the ZenFone 3 Deluxe. The Deluxe is the first handset to feature the Snapdragon 821, which is a follow-up … | Continue reading
In 1994, Sega made history by launching the much-lauded 32-bit disc-based Saturn game console. Many major games were released for the system, but it lost out to the Nintendo 64 and was discontinued just four years after it first became available. That means that the Saturn is dif … | Continue reading
In a statement forecasting financials for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2016, hard drive maker Seagate said that it would be cutting 6,500 jobs by the end of the next fiscal year, amounting to roughly 14 percent of its global workforce. That’s a huge expansion in layoffs compared … | Continue reading
Good news, GIF lovers: Twitter has expanded the size limit for GIF support up to 15MB. It’s awesome for media outlets like The Next Web which frequently uses GIFs in tweets to illustrate products, but also for when you’re trying to GIF battle with your friend and a low quality GI … | Continue reading
If you’re in the market for an SSD drive with tons of storage space, Samsung has one you should consider — if you have $1,500 to spare. The already popular 850 Evo line now has a 4TB option, which is its largest capacity. You can now incrementally get SSD storage from 128GB up to … | Continue reading
Machine learning is all the rage, and eBay is buying its way in via an acquisition of a startup named SalesPredict. SalesPredict is a learning engine that uses your order history to suggest new items you might want to buy. It’s also well suited for marketing, helping businesses t … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Peek which provides fun, private live streaming with friends & family. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Peek? Peek is a new app for fun, private live streaming with friends & family. In contras … | Continue reading
Twitter and politics go hand in hand, but the latest announcement by the company is still a bit of a surprise: Twitter will livestream both the Republican and Democratic national conventions as they happen over the coming weeks, through a partnership with CBS News. You’ll be able … | Continue reading
Pokémon Go is a smash hit all around the world, and it hasn’t even been released in most parts of it yet. Walking down the street it’s not hard to spot the other people playing — they’re probably pointing their phones at random places, trying to catch a few Wombats. It’s obvious … | Continue reading
In an age of uniform technology, high-quality customizable tech is an act of revolution in both style and function. The BLOCKS Smartwatch has broken into an entirely new frontier of smartwatch construction, allowing you to add various features to your wristpiece for incredible fu … | Continue reading
While the advent of the personal computer has rendered the good old typewriter virtually defunct, the fascination with typewriters is still real. If you’ve always wondered what it’s like to type on an actual typewriter, OverType will certainly satisfy your curiosity for the past … | Continue reading
From hackers to advertisers, our digital privacy and security is under constant attack. Various entities are eager to get their hands on your information and exploit any and all loopholes in your device. It’s increasingly necessary to do everything possible to keep your privacy p … | 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: Danger! High Voltage! Once upon a time … | Continue reading
Slow news day at TNW? Do we seem distracted? Not replying to email fast enough? That’s just because nobody can focus on their work today. Samuel L. Jackson is in Amsterdam filming The Hitman’s Bodyguard and he’s parked his trailer right below our office. Check it out: We’ll try … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6,523 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we can’t list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the five most interesting patents. Disney themes parks are about to to become more entert … | Continue reading
Francis and the Lights isn’t a name that will ring a bell for a lot of people. Not yet, at least. That’s all about to change with the release of their new song Friends. The video clip for it was released hours ago and has already taken the world by storm, gaining hundreds of thou … | Continue reading
In the next two years, India is slated to have the largest population of software developers in the world, at four million professionals in the industry. To that end, it’s important for companies to get in on the ground floor and capture as large a share of that focus as possible … | Continue reading
Since launching last week, Pokémon Go has quickly become tech’s hot topic. In fact, Nintendo’s new AR game is so popular that people would rather catch Pokémon than go on a date – or so the numbers say. According to a recent breakdown by SimilarWeb, Pokémon Go was already install … | Continue reading
Right now, it kind of sucks to select emoji on the Mac - and that's exactly why Macmoji exists. You can now select emoji with a few quick keystrokes! | Continue reading
In an effort to curb piracy of copyrighted content, entertainment giant NBC Universal has patented a way to detect files being shared by large groups of people on peer-to-peer networks in real-time. The idea is that the system, which could be deployed by an internet service provi … | Continue reading
Yes, Pokémon Go is hot right now and the AR mobile game will almost certainly get you off your couch to explore your city in search of adorable toy monsters. But it could land you in trouble too. The O’Fallon, Missouri police force reported that it has located four people suspect … | Continue reading
Want to create cutting-edge games the world is obsessed with? A clear path to success in 3D game creation is available in the Intro to Unity 3D Game Development Bundle, available to TNW readers for only $19.99 for a limited time. Unity is a robust development engine for the creat … | Continue reading
From tech startups to personal entrepreneurial endeavors, your business plans are reliant on a strong foundation of skills necessary for any company to thrive. The four courses included in the Business Core Skills Bundle will equip you with the knowledge and foundations in financ … | Continue reading
You’ve seen AI achieve incredible things like defeat world champions at Go, describe photos for the visually impaired and operate an elevator. But now, a startup in London has finally figured a genuinely useful application: brewing quality beers. IntelligentX offers four basic be … | Continue reading
On Thursday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed new laws that will see internet and telecom service providers collect users’ private information, store it for up to three years and hand it over to the government on request. In addition, calls, texts, photos, and internet act … | Continue reading
In March, Microsoft revealed that it was using the open-world game Minecraft to train AI agents to learn how to do things like climbing a hill. The company also promised to make it available to the public so they could work on their own artificial intelligence projects and resear … | Continue reading
Well, there goes all the memes about Pokemon Go. Just days after its release in Australia, New Zealand, and the US, things have gotten dark with the game. While many players have been sent to random locations like local churches and police stations to find Pokemon, a Wyoming teen … | Continue reading
Of all the ways to apply sunscreen, ‘getting pooped on by a seagull’ does not sound like the best option. Still, that’s what Nivea is banking on with a new, rather ridiculous ad campaign. Here’s the premise: kids apparently don’t like to wear sunscreen, so Nivea partnered with an … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger just made it a little bit easier to book an UberPOOL ride. It works like this: Open up a messenger conversation, click on the three-dot menu button, and select ‘Request a Ride’. You’ll then have the option to request a ride just for yourself, or for you and you … | Continue reading
Early into the investigations behind the shooting of Philando Castile, a black man who was killed by a Minnesota cop during a traffic stop, many speculated that the responsible policeman was Asian American. In the viral video shot by Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, she des … | Continue reading
If you’re interested in a future in coding, the JavaScript Coding 2016 Bundle is a perfect launchpad to your expertise-driven success as a web developer. For a limited time, you can pick up this great offer for only $59 from TNW Deals. The architecture behind the internet we use … | Continue reading
At the beginning of 2016, the entire team here at TNW resolved to read more this year. To help make this resolution stick, we release weekly posts featuring The Next Web’s favorite reads, in a series called ‘What TNW is reading‘. Our last post gave you a glimpse on how to prepare … | Continue reading
Summer is in full stride, and your sunshine-soaked adventures demand high-quality portable sound. The LED-flashing FRESHeCOLOR Bluetooth Portable Speaker will deliver your Summer soundtrack with terrific sound and 5 fun lighting modes to keep the LEDs in sync with your music. For … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger’s David Marcus today announced that the platform will be testing a new feature that lets you set a timer for your conversations to disappear. The feature, called “Secret Conversations,” promises to encrypt messages end-to-end from both the sender and the recipi … | Continue reading
Custom applications have revolutionized the way people use technology to run their businesses. In today’s fast-paced world, no one has the time to wait for industry-specific apps to be released or updated. And there’s no guarantee that the application will even fit into your busi … | Continue reading