Last November, when the Paris attacks took place, Facebook was quick to enable its Safety Check feature which allows users to alert their friends they were safe. The company received backlash for failing to do so for other countries experiencing their own terrorist attacks, some … | Continue reading
If you’re like us, you probably set your Wi-Fi name to something witty. Personally, we didn’t get much further than renaming our network to a emoji. However, super creative people like Russian artist Dmitry Morozov have taken Wi-Fi access to a whole new level. Morozov is the cre … | Continue reading
This series was brought to you by Index.co From the conception of an idea, to the first lines of code, early hires, and preliminary funding rounds – every company has a narrative. But there are always shared experiences: Processes, tactics, and habits that galvanize the experienc … | Continue reading
First YouTube, then Facebook, and now one more: Twitter has just added support for 360-degree video. As with other implementations, you can just click and drag to look around the videos, and they work on both desktop and mobile. It works kind of similarly to the rewindable Scratc … | Continue reading
Many people claim to have great ideas for businesses, but only a few ever become a reality. Even fewer become successful. So what is the secret to success? What makes some people successful entrepreneurs while others fail to get out the starting blocks? Having built my own busine … | Continue reading
The storage space battles never seem to end, but a secret weapon has arrived for Macbook users. Nifty MiniDrive for Macbooks allows you to add up to 128GB of storage to your Macbook without a bulky hard drive attachment, giving your system the boost it needs. For a limited time, … | Continue reading
“Did you know that the typical person spends 750 days of their life doing laundry, of which 375 days is folding!” That’s how the pitch started out for FoldiMate, a laundry folding machine that promises to do one of your least favorite chores and make time for the more important t … | Continue reading
At 400 million downloads, Hotspot Shield Elite VPN is the clear solution for digital security, anonymity and access. A lifetime subscription from TNW Deals is now 59 percent off, protecting your personal data from hackers and prying eyes while bypassing censorship to access geogr … | Continue reading
Berlin has steadily earned a reputation as the techno music capital of Europe and nightclub Berghain has played an integral part in the city’s blossoming rave scene. Known as a hub for hardcore techno and unregulated debauchery, over the years Berghain has not only cemented its s … | Continue reading
Facebook has given details on its DeepText artificial intelligence that scans “several thousand” posts per second to analyze them for sentiment and meaning in more than 20 languages. DeepText’s ability to connect disparate tools – like different neural network architectures – hel … | Continue reading
This year’s Hack Battle was all about IoT and attendees didn’t fail to impress with their creative hacks. And with a grand prize awarded to the most impressive product, the 36 hour battle was rife with competition. The 2016 winner? Fokke Zandbergen, creator of ComeEmpty.me. The j … | Continue reading
God created the world in six days, rested the seventh and on the eight he discovered emoji. Fast forward about 6,000 years (if you’re a Christian), or 4.5 billion years (if you’re not) and God’s supposed word has just been translated into the language of the millennial — emoji. T … | Continue reading
I love Spotify. It’s my go-to for music and I’ve chosen it repeatedly over the likes of Google, Apple and others. My affinity for Spotify, however, isn’t going to save it — nor is its new monetization plan. It’s important to understand how a business with 75 million users is walk … | Continue reading
Researchers have been attempting to make robots and artificial intelligence more creative over the past months – from drawing to writing quasi-dystopian poetry. Today we get another piece of work from a Google machine: a 90-second melody. It’s the result of Google’s Project Magen … | Continue reading
Russian social media users are up in arms over the removal of an account parodying President Vladimir Putin, as well as many others, such as: @SovietSergey, an account that mocks Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The former has more than 50,000 subscribers and it’s honestly rather … | Continue reading
We’re not sure that many people actually use Now on Tap – Google had to make a commercial to explain it – but that isn’t stopping the company from making it more powerful. Starting today, you can use Now on Tap as a a sort of AI-powered reverse image search, as well as a system-w … | Continue reading
WhatsApp and Telegram have both billed themselves as secure alternatives to phone, text or email correspondence. For the most part, that’s true, the two are end-to-end (e2e) encrypted by default and because of this, your conversations are much harder to monitor by outsiders. But, … | Continue reading
One small step for digital equality: Facebook today announced that it will roll out a new set of emoji specifically designed for Messenger – including new skin tone and gender options. Previously, Messenger hand emoji defaulted to yellow – now, you’ll be able to pick from the fiv … | Continue reading
Tenants at City Park Apartments in Salt Lake City Utah this week were met with a rather unusual addendum to their rental contracts: ‘Like’ our Facebook page or you’re in breach of contract. The residents awoke to the demand taped to their doors earlier this week, a move that led … | Continue reading
You got to the Google Play Store to install new apps, so color us surprised to find out it’s now suggesting you delete apps if you’re running low on storage. Basically, if you try to install a large app when you’re running low on storage, a pop up will prompt you to delete apps y … | Continue reading
At Recode’s Code Conference, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Alexa could be the “fourth pillar” of his company – the other three being its retail marketplace, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Web Services. Bezos also revealed that Amazon now has more than 1,000 employees working on artificial … | Continue reading
Losing your phone sucks, so last year, Google added the ability to locate your Android device by just typing in ‘Find my phone’ into Search. Now you can do the same on iOS. It’s also making the tool much more robust. You can log into Google’s My Account section, from where you … | Continue reading
The OnePlus 3 will be officially announced at 12:30 ET on June 14th, with sales beginning on June 16 in China. That’s cool and all, but the bigger piece of news is how it’s launching: without the invite system. You read that right. For the first time, OnePlus is launching a new d … | Continue reading
Your interest in an IT profession has taken you to this point, and TNW Deals has made the next vital step as painless as possible. For a limited time, you can enjoy a 95 percent discount on The Ultimate Java Bundle, a perfectly-structured range of lectures to establish quality fo … | Continue reading
Your Mac is an awesome piece of machinery on its own, but with the right apps it’s possible to give your system a significant upgrade in productivity, computing speed and more. That’s where The World Class Mac Bundle comes in, offering eight top-selling Mac apps to give your syst … | Continue reading
OK, OK, you haven’t had a whole lot of reason to visit your long defunct MySpace page, but have you been using the same password for everything else all these years too? If you have, firstly, you’re really a bit silly – there are loads of easy ways to manage passwords for free n … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be conducting the company’s first live Q&A stream from space with the International Space Station this week. Zuck isn’t actually going to space himself – instead, he’ll be streaming from the Facebook headquarters and asking the astronauts up at t … | Continue reading
If you’re not old enough to remember Pong, please vacate this post and let the rest of us olds droll over this life-sized mechanical replica of the Atari game. The result of builder Daniel Perdomo’s Pong Project, he and a team created this Pong Table as a homage to the classic ga … | Continue reading
There are tons of hospitality exchange communities out there – Couchsurfing is the first to come to mind – but none have been more controversial than Airbnb, which seems to be constantly struggling in various cities in the legality of its business. For example, in New York State, … | Continue reading
The rumors have finally come to fruition: Business profiles are arriving on Instagram. Accounts that are recognized as a business will receive tools to help measure engagement and promote their posts. The Insights tool, for example, lets business account owners see their follower … | Continue reading
Where there’s live content, there’s bound to be someone taking joy in some massive trolling. A little over a year after it launched, Periscope today announced that you can now moderate comments to prevent abuse and spam. The system works like this: If you’re watching a stream and … | Continue reading
I get a lot of shit as a tech blogger for not putting a passcode on my phone. There are several reasons: I review phones on an often-enough schedule that there’s nothing super personal them The SIM card moves with me as the phone switches, so no SMS or call history worth snooping … | Continue reading
“Uncountable organisms are working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to exploit new opportunities and overcome challenges that we put in their path. So the biological world is the most spectacular example of crowdsourcing and problem solving – nature’s been doing that for several … | Continue reading
Your creative genius is limited only by the tools at your disposal, but in today’s tech-rich world, the best of those tools can get outrageously expensive. The Adobe Creative Cloud is a visual artist’s dream, providing access to everything necessary to create and edit videos, ima … | Continue reading
Studies have shown that taking notes on a laptop doesn’t result in nearly as much retention as you would when taking notes by hand. Sometimes you want a touch more personal than a keyboard, and Equil Digital and Ink Smartpen 2 brings both worlds together for total convenience. No … | Continue reading
So you’ve founded a startup. Congrats! Now it’s time to hit that stack of resumes. You might think that you have better things to do as a founder, like raising funding, securing partnerships, and generally being the face of the company. But your number one job is to build a succe … | Continue reading
Some of the world’s largest technology companies have agreed to new EU regulations that mean they will have to take down hate speech within 24 hours of it being posted to their platforms. Of course, the comments will only be removed if they breach they are indeed actual hate spee … | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
Want to waste 5 minutes and maybe even some money? I’ve got just the thing for you. Highscore.money is a scoreboard where you pay to be included. The more you pay, the higher your score. That’s it. It’s almost like the real world, where money will get you the presidency, can keep … | Continue reading
Can you rely on your memory to store all of your passwords? The theory goes – if you want to be truly certain that your passwords are not lost or stolen, make sure they are only stored in your head. From your personal email accounts to the computer system in your car, hackers can … | Continue reading
We had a great event last week here in Amsterdam, with amazing speakers, a very excited crowd, a festival atmosphere and a party that was impressive even by Amsterdam standards. There were also a few embarrassing moments which are just too much fun to not share with you. You know … | Continue reading
If you’ve grown weary of Word’s limitations and you’re ready for the next step in processing, it’s time to make the switch to Scrivener 2. This multi-functional word processor and project management app delivers a clean writing interface and useful reference tools, allowing write … | Continue reading
I’ll be honest. I’m not a SlideShare expert. I do know, however, that the site gets over 70 million visitors a month, and has up to five times more traffic from business owners than Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn. That means the quality of traffic you get from SlideShar … | Continue reading
I had a chance to interview Reddit CEO Steve Huffman at our conference last week, which was interesting and a lot of fun. And when I asked Steve about monetization, or simply ‘making money’ he replied with what I thought was just a funny statement: We know all of your interests. … | Continue reading
We knew the future would be cool, but few could have predicted it would be this fun. The Touch Board DIY Starter Kit is an incredible leap of real-life tech immersion, which doesn’t require previous tech experience. With this mad scientist starter kit, you can now create an inter … | Continue reading
A recent bit of commentary from Macworld posits that Google’s use of Material Design on iOS is a mistake. Another site piled on, going so far as to call it “dumb” and “rude.” The main takeaway is that design can be divisive, and is always subjective. Material Design is no differe … | Continue reading
If you travel a lot, you likely know how shitty TSA checkpoints are. Getting through an airport safety check can be a nightmare, but Delta may have just solved it with something called “Innovation Lanes.” Here’s how it works: rather than a single-file line, travelers can queue up … | Continue reading
Jawbone may finally be doing the smart thing and getting rid of its hardware business. According to a report from Tech Insider, the company has sold off all of its wearable inventory. It’s not been confirmed (and we’ve reached out to Jawbone for comment), but Jawbone has apparent … | Continue reading