Github Streaks are dead and gone. About ten days ago, GitHub announced it was changing contribution graphs to reflect private as well as public commits, and ditching the metric that tracked how long you’d been active altogether. Here’s how GitHub framed it: As part of this update … | Continue reading
We’d all like to consider ourselves proficient in Microsoft Office, but let’s be honest – the majority of office professionals could stand to polish up on Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Access. Take your skill-set from basic functionality and educated guessing to in-depth fluenc … | Continue reading
Each year, The Next Web plays host to an epic hack battle. In a mere 36 hours, 140 code lovers, designers, and digital creatives dissected, connected, and created their wildest dreams. As Michel Muurmans, Manager Toon API said: The Next Web Hack Battle presents an amazing opportu … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for music, movies and apps to load up on your iOS device on the Web, it’s a pain to purchase them without switching between your browser and iTunes’ crappy desktop app. That’s where Lookmark comes in. The first version of the browser extension, launched last Oct … | Continue reading
The Google app is about to get much faster on iPhone. Google is introducing its Accelerated Mobile Pages platform to iOS, which works similarly to Facebook’s Instant Articles to reduced page sizes so they load instantly off of Search. This applies mainly to news publishers, and A … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever tried to straighten an image in Photoshop, you’ve probably come across this problem – you start rotating the image, and then are left with unsightly white gaps at the corners. According to Adobe, that will soon no longer be an issue. We know you’ve been waiting for … | Continue reading
Excited about VR for Android? We are too, but we’ve also got some bad news: your current phone probably won’t support it. Speaking to Road to VR, Google’s VR boss Clay Bayvor says we’ll all need an upgrade: I can tell you that there will most likely not be any ‘retroactively’ Day … | Continue reading
If you’re a fan of the caped crusader, or just generally have an affinity for cool logos on expensive flagship phones, Samsung is about to make you really happy. “We are excited to partner with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and offer a special edition of Galaxy S7 Edge f … | Continue reading
For all our reliance on cellular networks and Wi-Fi, the bulk of the internet is still built on good-old physical cables. As in, giant fiber optic cables that run under the entire Atlantic ocean. Now Microsoft and Facebook have teamed up to build the most powerful transatlantic c … | Continue reading
When you think social — and stickers — I bet LinkedIn is the last place you consider. There’s a good reason for that, too — they’re terrible. As a professional network, LinkedIn is either a handy tool or a necessary evil depending on your perception. Last Fall, LinkedIn tried har … | Continue reading
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has succeeded in having yet more websites added to the list of copyright-infringing sites that anyone in the UK is blocked from accessing via any of the country’s major ISPs. The eight new additions are: Couchtuner, MerDB, Putlocke … | Continue reading
Sitting down over rijsttafel — an Indonesian rice dish (the word literally translates to “rice table”) — in Amsterdam, Jochem Wijnands begins to explain diversity in the Netherlands and how this small Dutch country now has some of the best Indonesian food in the world. Our waiter … | Continue reading
During President Obama’s recent visit to Vietnam, Facebook went down — and it wasn’t an accident. Data compiled by Access Now — which has the tagline “fighting internet shutdowns around the world” — suggests Vietnam cut access to Facebook off while Obama visited due to its own up … | Continue reading
Finnish mobile firm Jolla has been working to bring its community-powered Sailfish OS to the masses since 2013. It’s now launched its second smartphone in an effort to keep interest in its platform alive, but the new device has sold out in one day. That’s partly because Jolla onl … | Continue reading
Twitter will now let you listen to Spotify music clips right from your timeline. The new audio cards let users listen to 30 second previews of song tracks in their feeds without having to open Spotify itself. Click or tap on the song to start playing the music, or click on the li … | Continue reading
Innovation is the key word of today’s startup culture. New businesses pop up every day, each providing solutions to make life easier for customers. Even existing corporations are seeing the value in these startups and partnering with them to address specific issues. The help desk … | Continue reading
One of the novel features of the latest Apple flagship, the iPhone 6s, is 3D Touch. It brings up contextual options when you press down rather than tap on an icon or in an app interface. It’s an elegant way to let you access additional functionality without cluttering up the UI. … | Continue reading
Do you really want to strap a computer to your back while using VR? My answer is ‘lol no,’ but HP thinks many of you will disagree. The unnamed project from HP packs an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, up to 32GB memory and a GPU into a 10 pound case that you’re supposed to strap o … | Continue reading
Google is not infringing Oracle’s Java APIs with its Android operating system, a court has ruled. A jury found Android to be accessing Java APIs under a ‘fair use’ provision in copyright law. Via email to Ars Technica, a Google lawyer had the following post-trial take: Today’s ve … | Continue reading
Amsterdam is known for being particularly strict when it comes to how people use its waterways. It’s understandable – they’re more than 300 years old. So what does it take to get them to relax their rules to allow a jet ski and a wakeboard to cruise them for an entire morning? Th … | Continue reading
Following the trails of Amazon and Netflix, Apple too might be looking to step up its production of original video content. According to a report from the Financial Times, last year a top Apple executive broached the prospect of a potential Time Warner buyout at a commercial meet … | Continue reading
The Tech5 competition 2016 has come to an end. Together with Adyen, we searched six countries to find each one’s fastest growing companies in revenue, hosting a dinner in each country to announce its winner. During TNW Europe –on the main stage at 5:10PM – we’ve just announced th … | Continue reading
‘Player Two’ is a four-minute short film that looks like a fun animated adventure featuring an older and younger brother exploring life through video games, both physically and metaphorically. As the film delves on, you begin to see a bigger theme emerge — the second player is es … | Continue reading
If you’re a PC gamer, you can pretty much stop reading now. For everyone else, specifically console-toting Minecraft fans, you’re finally going to be able to get in on the franchise’s mini-game action from June. Announced in a blog post, the Mojang team (now owned by Microsoft) w … | Continue reading
OnePlus has already begun teasing the launch of its upcoming smartphone, with a giveaway of VR headsets and the promise of a virtual reality shopping experience. The company hasn’t announced a launch date, but you can now get a closer look at what the OnePlus 3 will look like, th … | Continue reading
Nick Denton is looking to sell his stake in Gawker, and may already have a buyer willing to spend between $50 and $70 million. The New York Post reports that Denton could sell his stake in Gawker media to Univision, which had expressed interest well before a Florida jury awarded … | Continue reading
Skilled photographers do more than take good pictures. They know how to seek out the right conditions for the perfect shot – as well as the tricks and techniques of editing to bring out their full visual potential. With the nine-course collection offered in the Pay what you want: … | Continue reading
Bots are all the rage, you don’t need us to tell you twice, so today Product Hunt is getting into the automation game with its first bot for Slack. Called Kittybot, the tool helps Slack teams keep up with news and trends in their industry. For example, you can subscribe to catego … | Continue reading
Variety is a great asset for the Android platform, but it’s also a curse that creates fragmentation. Now it seems Google is preparing to take measures to end the confusing and conflated environment by shaming Android manufacturers. Bloomberg reports that Google is eyeing a rankin … | Continue reading
If Apple’s latest patent is anything to go by, it appears that the company wants to create a new type of headphone designed for communication with people in the same area, using ad-hoc wireless networks. The patent describes headphones with Lightning connectors to plug into your … | Continue reading
Only VPN users know the peace of mind that comes with establishing an encrypted, secure internet connection, immune to hackers, prying eyes, and data caps. In today’s hacker-heavy world, an unsecured Wi-Fi connection is essentially an open invitation for malicious meddlers to ste … | Continue reading
Microsoft has been telling us that tablets are the future of personal computing since the original Surface and Windows 8, yet after all these years, very few Windows tablets have been able to hit the size, weight and battery life we’ve come to expect from Android and iOS tablets. … | Continue reading
For years, Imgur has been the go-to service Redditors use to upload images when opening threads on the website, but this might be about to change soon. Starting today, Reddit is launching its own in-house image uploading tool on the Web that will let users quickly and easily post … | Continue reading
Remember Twitter’s ‘Buy’ buttons? Turns out, they may be just a memory, according to a new report from BuzzFeed. Twitter is said to have moved most of the staff working on Buy to either its customer service or dynamic ads teams. Many others have left the company. A source on Twit … | Continue reading
AT&T is again changing its phone financing options, simplifying it from three plans to two. The bad news is you’ll no longer be able to actually own a phone. The annual upgrade plan, dubbed AT&T Next Every Year, lets you trade-in your existing device so long as you’ve paid 50 per … | Continue reading
The Nexus brand of products are usually your best bet for getting a taste of a pure Android experience the way intends. But if you’ve been holding off on getting the Nexus 9 tablet, you’ll have to hurry: hardware maker HTC has confirmed to CNET that it’s stopped making the device … | Continue reading
Uber is about to be much faster at finding your drop-off or pick-up location. In a “global, multi-year agreement,” the ride-sharing app will access Foursquare Places data. In accessing Foursquare data, Uber riders can (hopefully) stop typing in addresses when a location isn’t kno … | Continue reading
A new report has revealed that large swathes of America’s nuclear arsenal are still managed and controlled using a 1970s computer system that uses eight-inch floppy disks. According to a report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Department of Defense (DOD), “ … | Continue reading
Xiaomi’s first drone is official, and you can probably guess what its name is. The Mi Drone features a 104-degree wide angle lens camera capable of taking 1080p or 4K image-stablized video, and can stream 720p live video. Specifically, the camera use a Sony 12.4 megapixel sensor … | Continue reading
Notifications suck — for users and developers. Twilio thinks it can help change all of that with its new Notify API, which manages SMS, push and platform notifications. Three main components make up the Notify API: orchestration, messaging and segmentation. Orchestration helps de … | Continue reading
The rumored PS4.5 PS4k Playstation ‘NEO’ is going to be a 4k gaming beast, but Microsoft is reportedly planning a couple big moves of its own. One will just be a smaller and cheaper version of the Xbox One, but another — codenamed ‘Scorpio’ — is set to have a more powerful GPU re … | Continue reading
Businesses that don’t want to run their point-of-sale system through an iPad no longer have to: Square is making its Register API available for Android. With Register, Square customers can create custom point-of-sale applications that utilize card swipes, NFC payments like Apple … | Continue reading
Stunt flying excitement awaits! We’re excited to introduce you to the SKEYE Nano Drone: Limited Edition – a sleek, black reskin on the world’s smallest quadcopter the SKEYE Nano. Priced at just $39.99 on TNW Deals (with free worldwide shipping!), this half-ounce drone is ready to … | Continue reading
According to the South China Morning Post, Foxconn, manufacturer of Apple’s iPhone among other electronic equipment, has replaced nearly 60,000 of its factory workers with robots in a bid to cut costs. The report suggests that those 60,000 jobs have been lost from one factory alo … | Continue reading
As fast-moving startups continue to disrupt incumbent companies, more traditional organizations must figure out how to stay relevant in a world that’s now more customer experience-focused than ever. Often, that takes the form of a design-driven business model. Examining today’s d … | Continue reading
As mobile databases go, Realm was already a fan favorite. Now we get an idea of just how popular it really is, as the company notes it now reaches one billion iOS and Android users via 100,000 active developers. It outpaces Parse (RIP), Firebase, Azure and Amazon’s Cognito for mo … | Continue reading
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost and Bootstrap, our early-stage growth programs at TNW Conference. The applications for our growth programs are now closed, and we’re prou … | Continue reading
Seems like everyone (except Microsoft, but more on that in a minute) has a connected home hub you can talk to. If a new report from The Information is correct, you can count Apple in. Joining Google Home and Amazon’s Echo may be a Siri-powered hub, according to the report. It’ll … | Continue reading