For the first time, Facebook is getting actual people to curate events recommendations in 10 cities across the country. Previously, the company recommended events based off of your interest and friends, which that’s not very helpful if you’re looking for something out of your co … | Continue reading
Google is reportedly preparing to start designing and manufacturing its own smartphone, according to a new report. While some giddily clap at the idea of an Android smartphone straight from the mothership, it’s actually not a great idea. Nexus Starting (and possibly ending) with … | Continue reading
Last year Google first demoed its impressive virtual reality field trip program, Expeditions, and started rolling them out to a select set of schools. Now the company is opening up the VR experience to everyone. In case you’re not familiar. Expeditions are VR ‘trips’ designed aro … | Continue reading
Google want to help teach kids how to code, so now it’s launching a hardware platform for kids (and curious) adults to learn the principles of code. It’s called Project Bloks. There are three components to the experience. The Brain Board houses a processing unit based off of Rasp … | Continue reading
Twitter is introducing stickers for images uploaded to your feed, which are also searchable when tapped. It sounds really dumb, but read on — it’s actually pretty neat. Here’s how it works: you upload an image to Twitter, then select some stickers to put on it. Once you post the … | Continue reading
With no prior programming experience required, you can greatly expand your skill set and establish yourself as a career-ready programmer in just 12 weeks with the Interactive Coding Bootcamp, now only $29 on TNW Deals. If you can see yourself as a professional in the world of cod … | Continue reading
Most people recognize Anki best for its line of toy race cars, but the latest product from the company will excite anyone who’s remotely interested in artificial intelligence, robotics, Pixar movies, or all of the above. Cozmo is Anki’s newest toy car that’s basically Wall-E and … | Continue reading
Reuters reported that Facebook and YouTube, which are among the world’s largest sources for distributing online video, have been quietly removing extremist content from their platforms using an automated system. The method itself isn’t new: the removal system looks for file hashe … | Continue reading
Here’s a service that’s very fitting to put some life into your dull Monday morning. Fakeupdate.net lets you put up a Windows or OSX Update Screen on your friends and co-workers computer screens. It was launched a couple of months ago, and it is a miracle nobody at the TNW office … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 5,409 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the five most interesting patents. 1. eBay makes laundry easier Patent number: US 201601 … | Continue reading
62 percent. That’s the percentage of Crew’s revenue driven by our side projects last week alone following the launch of one of our latest tools. Every time I see such high ROI on our side project marketing efforts, I feel this urgent need to convince every single one of my startu … | Continue reading
20 years ago, Id Software released the groundbreaking first-person-shooter Quake and set the course for the future of 3D gaming. If you cut your teeth on it in the mid-90s, you’ll be happy to know that MachineGames – the studio behind Wolfenstein: The New Order, as well as The Ol … | Continue reading
At the end of April, Google set up its own hardware division and appointed former Motorola president Rick Osterloh to run it. The idea was to bring the company’s various gadget projects under a single umbrella. Now, The Telegraph’s sources say that Google is gearing up to design … | Continue reading
Sundar Pichai isn’t going to have a happy start to his week. The CEO of Google’s Quora account appears to have been hacked by a group called OurMine, which previously broke into Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter and Pinterest accounts earlier this month. The three-man hacke … | Continue reading
Apple is again celebrating Pride in San Francisco, but this time are gifting employees with a rainbow Apple Watch band for taking part in the festivities. Many Apple employees have taken to Twitter and Instagram to show off the band, which has a card included letting them know th … | Continue reading
Apple’s WWDC 2016 session videos now have an unofficial transcript, thanks to a macOS app on GitHub. The appropriately named ‘WWDC’ is a native app for macOS that streamed live session videos during WWDC, but may actually be better now that the event is over. Though Apple makes … | Continue reading
The dark underbelly of society is not something we like to think about — much less talk about — but it’s there. An app named TraffickCam shines a light on human trafficking, and lets you intervene without getting involved. After downloading the app, all you have to do is snap fou … | Continue reading
Searching for apps is typically pretty straightforward, so long as you know what you’re looking for. But when you don’t, both Apple and Google’s respective shops (the App Store and Google Play) do an absolutely terrible job of helping you out. GIFs I’m sure you’ve noticed by now … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, a $4 smartphone meant for the rural Indian market was announced, sending waves throughout the industry. Believe it or not, it’s real — and about to start shipping. The Freedom 251 is now set to start shipping on June 30 to those who pre-ordered the device. Buil … | Continue reading
Pundits believe Apple is working hard on a new ‘Thunderbolt’ monitor, and much of the focus is on the possibility there will be a GPU buried in the hardware. I think there’s a much different (and more colorful) reason Apple is refreshing its monitor. The rumor Late last week, App … | Continue reading
The iPhone 7, expected to debut this Fall, is currently tumbling through the rumor mill. The latest involves what is being touted as the phone’s machined casing, which details a few previously heard rumors like the absence of an audio jack. Replacing the audio jack on the iPhone … | Continue reading
The new iOS 10 is right around the corner, with enormously anticipated advancements in everything from Messages to Maps, Photos to the ways we interact with Siri and beyond. If you’re interested in getting in on the ground level of Apple’s latest evolution, you can get a running … | Continue reading
The market is flooded with Bluetooth earbuds, but not all are created equal, and quality is hardly a guarantee. Check out four great offers on high-caliber Bluetooth audio options from TNW Deals, featuring a variety of options to suit your earbud needs. Acesori A.Buds Bluetooth A … | Continue reading
When most of us launch a YouTube channel, it consists of dozens of really bad videos that gradually improve the longer we keep at it. When Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson starts a YouTube channel, he spares no expense and hits the platform running, complete with Hollywood trailer and p … | Continue reading
Affinity Photo is easily the closest thing to Photoshop that’s not made by Adobe. Until recently, it was also only available to Apple users. But, that all changed with a short teaser and a quick press release. Serif Ltd., announced that it was bringing the much-loved photo editin … | Continue reading
Less than two years ago, Netflix told the world that offline video was “never going to happen,’’ indicating it would rather improve the infractructure to allow streaming inmore places. Recently, the company has been backtracking, and that’s a great thing for everyone. Back in Apr … | Continue reading
Right on the heels of Apple discontinuing its Thunderbolt display, the rumor mill is picking up: Apple’s next monitor might integrate its own GPU. John Paczkowski, Managing Editor at BuzzFeed, made the claim based of off unnamed sources: There are two reasons why having an integr … | Continue reading
Buying a home is stressful. Buying a home from a blinged-out, parachute pants-wearing rapper from your childhood is somehow less stressful. | Continue reading
The UK has voted to leave the EU by an extremely narrow margin, and the world is in turmoil. However, in an extremely reassuring sign that everybody knew what they were doing when they voted, Google trends indicates a huge spike in searches for “What is the EU?” after polls had c … | Continue reading
It’s time for another edition of “What TNW is reading.” If you’re not familiar with them, take a moment and enjoy the previous edition about the US election. This week we’re featuring Cecil Kleine, our Product Lead and warm-hearted, proud Curaçaoan. After having first been coloni … | Continue reading
We’d like to introduce you to the world’s first home security robot, the iCamPRO FHD Home Security Camera. Far more than just a home security camera, the iCamPRO is a magic 8 ball-shaped security robot designed with built-in artificial intelligence to see, hear and track intruder … | Continue reading
If you’re a photography nerd at all, then you’ve probably already heard about Hasselblad’s new X1D, the first ever mirrorless camera with a digital medium format sensor. I was lucky enough to spend a bit of quality time with it after it’s announcement. Head on over to our origin … | Continue reading
The ergonomic value of a proper workstation has been shown to increase performance, posture and even confidence in your professional environment. Coupled with Apple’s gorgeously advanced 27-inch Thunderbolt display, a stand-up desk and wireless accessories such as a Bluetooth key … | Continue reading
Since the UK voted to leave the EU this morning, a lot has happened: the value of the British Pound has plunged, as has the price of oil; Prime Minister David Cameron has resigned; millions of Britons have essentially lost the right to live and work in 27 other European countries … | Continue reading
There’s no doubt that the cybersecurity industry is in dire straits. Each year, data breaches are growing in size, numbers and severity while the cybersecurity talent gap is widening and there aren’t enough experts to fill vacant posts. And with internet-based services encroachin … | Continue reading
Snapchat is notorious for not having any kind of discovery feature. However, with its rise to one of the most popular social networks out there it’s not keeping people from getting the app on their phone. Maybe you’re new to the Snapchat game or haven’t been using it in a while. … | Continue reading
In 2015, we interviewed the Marketing Director of what3words, a promising startup participating in Boost, TNW Conference‘s early stage startup program. We recognized the startup’s potential but didn’t anticipate that, just one year after our conference, they’d already be making i … | Continue reading
A great social media marketer today and an awesome advertiser in the 1960s have much in common. David Ogilvy, the father of advertising, was famous for spending an inordinate amount of time on headlines. Why? Because that’s the line that people read the most, so it mattered a lot … | Continue reading
BitTorrent has been working to expand its portfolio of cloud services lately, from its Sync file storage and sharing app to its Live multichannel video broadcasting platform. Today, it’s launched BitTorrent Now, an ad-supported streaming service for music and video. It doesn’t ho … | Continue reading
We have 1.67 million followers on Twitter. But sometimes I miss the days when we only had a hundred thousand followers. Back when we had around a hundred thousand followers we would share a link and get 10,000 clicks, within minutes. We still get a fair amount of traffic, but the … | Continue reading
Since April, Uber has been rolling out a new way to display fares for UberX rides in the US and India. The latest version of the app asks for your destination and shows you the cost of your trip before you hop in the cab; this feature will soon roll out in other countries too. Th … | Continue reading
Better (awfully) late than never: YouTube is adding livestreaming support to its mobile apps so content creators can broadcast video straight from their phones. It’s odd that the world’s biggest video platform took so long to introduce this feature, after the concept was pioneere … | Continue reading
Apple is officially discontinuing its Thunderbolt display, and is actually pointing consumers to other monitors that may suit their needs. If you’re really enamored with Apple’s own display, an Apple spokesperson tells The Next Web that you can still pick one up directly from App … | Continue reading
Want to track whether or not the UK will leave the EU, but don’t want to check Twitter or a Website every few minutes (we know you obsess!)? Politico has you covered — if you use an iPhone. After filling out a simple online information form, you’ll be able to add a pass to your i … | Continue reading
Facebook is making a few changes to its live video initiatives, including letting users stream from the MSQRD app. When you broadcast from MSQRD, you’ll be able to try out different masks and effects live — and even swap them on the fly. You can also select the audience you want … | Continue reading
A recent study detailed some rather perplexing problems for autonomous car manufacturers. When polled, people wanted the self-driving car’s programming to minimize casualties during a crash — even if it meant killing the passengers inside the car. But here’s the rub, although thi … | Continue reading
How do you celebrate an IPO? If you’re Twilio, you build apps in real-time on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. During trading, two Twilio engineers and one stock trader built apps as excited investors rushed to snap up stock in the company. The trader, a 35-year veteran … | Continue reading
Part of its ‘Road to Tomorrow Initiative,’ Missouri’s Department of Transportation is teaming with Solar Roadways, an Idaho-based startup (seriously, what’s going on in Idaho?) to cover an undetermined length of Historic Route 66 with road-ready solar panels. “We expect them to b … | Continue reading