The Legend of Zelda is possibly the most consistently good series in all of gaming, and I’ve finished every single console title (the CDi ones don’t count). But even I would be terrified of the insane line for the upcoming ‘Breath of the Wild‘ produced at E3 – one that resulted i … | Continue reading
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There are countless internet quizzes that helps sort you into Hogwarts houses depending on your personality, but nothing comes quite close to this: an actual sorting hat powered by IBM Watson. The hat, created by IBM engineer Ryan Anderson, started off as a fun project for him an … | Continue reading
Citing a violation of design patents, the Beijing Intellectual Property Office has ordered Apple to halt sales of its latest iPhone models on the territory of the city, Bloomberg reports. The ruling claims that Apple has infringed on the patent rights of local device manufacturer … | Continue reading
While the pop culture world obsesses over the latest Snapchat filter fads and Instagram friending, skilled photographers are taking the shots that transcend social media. Take advantage of an incredible offer to become a skilled and certified photographer, taking frame-worthy sho … | Continue reading
The technology behind bone conduction reads like a piece of science-fiction tech: A set of Bone Conduction Bluetooth Headphones lets you to listen through the vibration of the bones of your face, completely bypassing the outer and middle ear (where the eardrum is located) and dir … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Tracks, an app that turns your boring run into an action movie. Submit your startup to get featured. Please describe Tracks and how it works Tracks is an app for runners that provides a dynamic auditory narrat … | Continue reading
If you’ve been looking for new ways to liven up discussions with your team on Slack, this bot might be just what you need. Scorebot is a fun chatbot integration for Slack that lets you turn everyday conversation into a fierce competition of numbers. Once Scorebot is invited to a … | Continue reading
The opening ceremony for TNW Conference has become a bit of a competition. Each year, we try to outdo ourselves with mind-blowing visuals, meticulously designed stages and loud, explosive performances. 11 annual, ever-growing editions later, however, and it’s become increasingly … | Continue reading
This past December, a local chapter of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) trade group held its annual “North East Pride Awards” dinner in Newcastle. With a room full of publicity agents, it didn’t take long for the event’s #PrideNE hashtag to trend. And when … | Continue reading
Joseph Gordon-Levitt recently finished filming for an upcoming movie on Edward Snowden where he plays the notorious whistleblower himself, but it seems that the Hollywood A-lister is not yet done with the former NSA employee. Today, Gordon-Levitt announced on Reddit that he is wo … | Continue reading
Snapchat doesn’t only busy itself with creating filters or adding clients to its Discover platform. It’s now becoming a publisher in its own right, starting with Real Life, a new online magazine. Set to launch on June 27, Real Life will be headed by Nathan Jurgenson, a social med … | Continue reading
Last year, India’s capital city of New Delhi recorded nearly 16,000 cases of dengue infections, the highest in recent years. The culprit: mosquitoes, which flourish in areas with uncovered garbage and stagnant water that are common in developing countries, and spread the dreaded … | Continue reading
Ever wandered into a club, restaurant or even someone’s living room and just enjoyed every single song that played there? I’ve had that happen several times in my travels, but launching SoundHound and engaging the ‘listen to identify track’ feature every time is a pain. Thankfull … | Continue reading
In iOS 10, Siri will be able to do a lot more than just answer your inane questions. Developers can now utilize something called SiriKit for their apps and extensions, and it’s going to be awesome. How it works During a session at WWDC, Apple detailed just how Siri for third part … | Continue reading
Microsoft is making a bet on the legal weed business. Today, it announced it would partner with LA-based pot startup ‘Kind’ to create software that helps track marijuana plants from “seed to sale.” The software — powered by Microsoft’s cloud platform ‘Azure’ — is designed to faci … | Continue reading
Buffer is a popular social media management tool that also offers a great marketing blog on the side, but you may know it best for is its open salary formula that the company’s co-founders shared publicly in order to be transparent about how each employee’s salaries are calculate … | Continue reading
I live on the internet. Because of the hours spent online, I get to witness some truly extraordinary things, as well as a few head-scratching events that make you wonder about the future of humanity. This video checks both boxes. YouTuber Russel Hawkins is an avid vaper and a chi … | Continue reading
A lot of changes are coming in iOS 10, and while things like iMessage apps get a lot of attention, there’s also some underlying tech that will make all of your apps run a lot faster and smoother. How? Hre’s the simplest version of how it’s all going to happen: instead of loading … | Continue reading
If you can get past the idea of living in Idaho, the small city of Ammon is offering up an innovative new way to ensure customers are happy with their current internet service providers. The city installed its own fiber network and rents it to internet service providers. The syst … | Continue reading
Reynaldo Gonzalez’s daughter, Nohemi, was among the 130 killed when religious extremists attacked Paris last year. Now, he’s suing Twitter, Facebook and Google for facilitating the spread of “extremist propaganda” after alleging the trio “knowingly permitted” ISIS to recruit, rai … | Continue reading
As part of T-Mobile’s Uncarrier 11 announcements, the company said it would dedicate the year to giving back to its customers. Part of this campaign was the T-Mobile Tuesday app, which offers giveaways for prizes of all monetary values every week, from paid vacations to 7-Eleven … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Duuoo, a tool that helps managers lead happy teams. Submit your startup to get featured. What is Duuoo and how did it start? Duuoo which gives managers the foundation they need to lead happy teams. It makes yo … | Continue reading
Last fall we showed you a demo of Magic Leap’s augmented reality technology which can shoot an impressive clip without any special effects. So fast forward seven months: who better to partner up with than Lucas Films? In a tweet, Magic Leap showed off its latest demo using our fa … | Continue reading
In its continuing efforts to separate itself from the main Facebook app, Messenger today received a redesign that will add a Home tab so you can see which of your friends are online, whose birthdays are coming up, and your favorite people to chat with. The redesign hopes to offer … | Continue reading
Aspiring Project Managers can get on the fast track for success in a massively lucrative field of Project Management with the eduCBA Project Management and Quality Management Bundle. Offering a concrete foundation in strategic and conceptual training, this bundle is now just $39 … | Continue reading
This football fanatic doesn’t know it, but his prankster girlfriend has an extra (hidden) remote control for the TV. Hidden away, she picks the perfect moments to switch off the TV. How does he react? Let’s just say he gets a little worked up. Just watch… Genius prank… but we can … | Continue reading
Celebrating their newborn daughter last December, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledged 99 percent of their Facebook shares over their lifetimes to charity. Currently, they’re valued at $48 billion. The couple founded The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to aid in that ef … | Continue reading
The dark depths of the internet has many secrets. Deep dive into YouTube — clicking on related videos for a few hours — and you find some weird shit.Meet 真ん中小五郎, a guy living in Tokyo with a (very cute) pug. For reasons I can’t begin to comprehend, he started uploading videos of … | Continue reading
X.ai has been in beta for the past two years, but it’s rare to hear users complain about its service or the long waitlist. That’s because its intelligent meeting scheduler works better than most other tools and methods available today. Until now, its AI-based assistant Amy only w … | Continue reading
This year’s TNW Europe was not only a festival-like conference full of great talks, epic parties and irresistible catering – it was also the opportunity for 200 of the hottest international startups to present 9,400 tech influencers, investors and journalists the next game-chang … | Continue reading
In March, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin said that the company was throwing in the towel and moving away from livestreaming as it couldn’t compete with Facebook and Twitter – even though it was the first service of its kind on mobile. Rubin told Recode at the time that Meerkat was going t … | Continue reading
Last June – almost a year to the day – a hacker from Kosovo who went by the handle Th3Dir3ctorY breached a server containing databases of personal information about US servicemen and federal employees. Over the next three months, he supplied data pertaining to more than 1,300 US … | Continue reading
Last September, The Pokémon Company announced that it was teaming up with mobile developer Niantic on an augmented reality game based on its ultra-popular pocket monster franchise. Over the past few months, they’ve been trialing Pokémon Go with players in Japan and the US. You wo … | Continue reading
Arguably the most anticipated game of 2016, ‘The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ debuted at this year’s E3 . The game was so big, in fact, that Nintendo dedicated its entire booth to displaying the game. Luckily, Polygon got a chance to sit down with the Wii U version of the … | Continue reading
Remember when Google decided to crowdsource some name ideas for the upcoming version of Android? As we’ve mentioned before, your suggestions are merely that – suggestions – and Google will ultimately decide what to officially name Android N. And maybe it has already found one. Th … | Continue reading
An online black market known as xDedic has a catalog of over 70,000 compromised servers, according to Kaspersky Lab. The servers are in 173 countries and belong to businesses, universities and even government agencies — most of whom still have no idea they’ve been hacked. Worse, … | Continue reading
Advertisers on Twitter can now target ads based on the emoji you use. Welcome to life on the internet in 2016. It makes sense though. Brands can already target you based on keywords, but emoji are particularly powerful because they are a concise way of expressing your mood – espe … | Continue reading
Bumble, the dating app that lets women make the first move, and Spotify have partnered to help you make more informed dating decisions — at least as it pertains to musical interests. Users on Bumble will now be able to connect their profile to a Spotify account to let potential s … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever tried to get medical records from your doctor’s office, you likely know how frustrating it can be. Even if you do get access, it may be in some strange barely-readable format you can’t make sense of. With iOS 10, you will be able to request those records directly f … | Continue reading
Several Twitter accounts belonging to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) were hijacked yesterday and replaced with gay pride messages and links to gay pornography. A hacker affiliated with Anonymous, WauchulaGhost, first began hijacking the pro-ISIS Twitter accounts months b … | Continue reading
You can now watch Netflix videos while using other apps on your iPad. It’s about time. iOS has been able to play picture-in-picture (PiP) since the release of iOS 9 last year, but Netflix is finally catching up to others (Hulu, for instance, has been able to use PiP since Septemb … | Continue reading
When March Madness came along, Facebook added a little easter egg that lets you send a basketball emoji and start a mini-game straight inside Messenger. Given its popularity, it’s no surprise that it’s released a new game for the #Euro2016 season – this time with the soccer (or f … | Continue reading
I moved to America from Thailand when I was 9 years old – old enough to have learned how to read, speak, and write basic Thai words but not advanced enough to write a professional cover letter or blog post. It’s somewhat of a difficult language – Thai has 44 consonants, 22 vowels … | Continue reading
I started working for The Next Web when I was 21, and when I became Conference Director at 24, TNW was still the first and only company I’d ever worked at in the technology industry. While some might see that as a disadvantage, I see it as my biggest asset. I may not have been th … | Continue reading
YouTube today announced a new suite of tools to help business owners get started with creating video ads on a budget. The YouTube Director suite comes in three parts: the first is a free iOS app that lets you shoot your own commercial using a template and step-by-step instruction … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at GitMarket, a marketplace for code. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is GitMarket? GitMarket is the world’s first platform for buying and selling code using private Git repositories. Developers can … | Continue reading
Are you a good writer? If so, congratulations – you’re one step down the road toward being an effective copywriter. But you can take your skills to an entirely new level of confidence, versatility and profitability in the business world, at a price of your own choosing, with the … | Continue reading