A 2015 report suggested nearly a quarter million iPhones had been hacked by one (or more) of 92 different identified varieties of malware. A new app, ‘System and Security Info,’ wants to let you know if you’re one of them. The problematic part isn’t often the hack itself, it’s t … | Continue reading
Swift 3.0 is coming, and the first developer previews will be out later this week. In a blog post, the Swift team notes it will create the first developer preview of Swift 3.0 on May 12, and release it 4-6 weeks later. The release cycle for developer previews will be “irregular,” … | Continue reading
Motorola appears to be taking a page out of LG’s book this year. The most recent batch of leaks suggest the 2016 Moto X will feature an all metal design with a collection of detachable accessory modules. Just like last year, there will be a high-end model, and a lower-spec’d chea … | Continue reading
The era of the personal car is in decline. In cities around the world, young people are opting for bikes and ridesharing services over owning an automobile. And with the swelling wave of the self-driving car very much on the horizon, it’s really only a matter of time before there … | Continue reading
While it’s perfectly easy to share your favorite Spotify or SoundCloud tracks and playlists, finding an easy way to play back music from a variety of different sources in a collaborative way with friends is a trickier prospect. Flo Music launches officially today – after a ‘soft … | Continue reading
Periscope is officially launching its beta save function as a stable feature, introducing search functionality and rolling out a new feature that will let you trade off between your phone and a DJI Drone during a live-stream. In the Periscope app, you’ll soon see a new feature th … | Continue reading
Happy Europe Day, the commemoration of Schuman’s 1950 speech declaring the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community, which we all know and love as the European Union. Well, maybe not all of us love it… yes, we’re looking at you, UK. But it’s a day to celebrate peace and … | Continue reading
Spotify is making a big push into video by producing its first ever lineup of original shows. While the company recently started showcasing video from around the Web, this will be first time the company produces original media. There will be 12 shows to start, but don’t expect fu … | Continue reading
A vibrating phone is distracting. It interrupts meals, meetings and even meditation – if you’re into that sort of thing. However, with the Ditto Bluetooth Alerting Device, you can retake control over your communications, silencing the non-essentials and choosing which notificatio … | Continue reading
Commuters in New York will now have an alternate option to crowding in trains during rush hour: Uber announced a $5 flat rate for its uberPool ride-sharing option on weekday morning and evenings in Manhattan. The deal is available only between 7 to 10 AM and 5 to 8 PM Monday to F … | Continue reading
British Airways is one of the brands set to benefit from a new deal between the International Airlines Group and internet service provider Gogo from next year. Under terms of the deal, the company’s long-haul flights – as well as some operated by Iberia and Aer Lingus – will star … | Continue reading
While Apple takes their sweet time expanding the iPhone’s storage capacity, many of us are fighting the “Not Enough Storage Space” notification as we use our iOS devices for an assortment of media and data activity each day. The Cloud helps, but it’s certainly no substitute for t … | Continue reading
African tech – and the continent’s growing middle class – is increasingly attracting interest from overseas, with serious activity on the continent this month from Asia. Alibaba is expanding its UC Browser, the leading browser in China, to Kenya, with the company noting it had se … | Continue reading
Woo, the platform that lets you find the right job without giving up personal information, is rolling out a matching algorithm to put you into a job faster. Using your skill-set and stated desires for your next job, Woo says it’s data-driven matching has led to an 80 percent rele … | Continue reading
Opera has announced the launch of a new standalone VPN app for iPhone and iPad that promises to unlock geo-location restrictions and block ads. The launch follows the introduction of the VPN service baked into its desktop browser last month, but brings it to a far larger potentia … | Continue reading
Google’s well-known for tweaking and testing every aspect of its products, and as Search underpins a huge part of the company’s performance, eking out every single benefit can translate into a huge win for the company. Now, it’s testing a different color font on its Search result … | Continue reading
Wercker is introducing Workflows, a streamlined way to manage custom Docker container pipelines for distributed apps and microservices. Workflows can be used with AWS, CoreOS, Deis, Kubernetes and DC/OS. Once a user defines a hook, the pipeline is executed in a Docker container. … | Continue reading
It’s Monday and you’re keen to jump feet-first into a new week, but before you get properly started, there’s a whole load of news you need to check out from over the weekend. You wouldn’t want to sound stupid at the (virtual) watercooler in Slack would you? Exactly. So, all you n … | Continue reading
With a number of high-profile crowdfunding failures hitting headlines in recent months – and confirmation of another million dollar flop last week – PayPal has announced that it’s withdrawing its purchase protection program for people who back projects using the platform as the … | Continue reading
Another day, another trademark infringement case in China – except this time the court has ruled in favor of Facebook, despite its service being banned. The case, brought by a court in Beijing found that a different company attempted to register the trademark “Face Book” in China … | Continue reading
There's now a keyboard with a built-in search feature that allows you pull results directly from Google Images and paste them into your message. | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6,768 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 six most interesting patents. Google’s self-driving car is now self-cleaning Patent … | Continue reading
The Indian government has issued a proposal to regulate how companies and individuals create and share mapping data about the country, and it’s probably one of its worst ideas yet. The Geospatial Information Regulation Bill (PDF), which is currently only a draft and is open to fe … | Continue reading
Given that roughly 500 million tweets are published each day, it can be difficult for any organization, including sophisticated government agencies, to analyze them for valuable insights. But doing so would help them get a better idea about critical events, like terror attacks, a … | Continue reading
HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is a great show for many reasons: most importantly, it’s freakin’ hilarious – and its ability to satirize the tech industry while maintaining a high level of authenticity is truly commendable. Spoiler warning before we move forward with this post: If you ha … | Continue reading
The people behind Duolingo have been trying to discover what the most popular languages are according to what people choose on its app. With a user base of more than 120 million, this dataset can provide significant insights into what language people are most eager to acquire. In … | Continue reading
To commemorate David Attenborough’s 90th birthday, the BBC is releasing a free app this autumn that will feature more than 1,000 clips of his work studying the natural world. The Story of Life app, which will be available to access worldwide, will include clips from his earliest … | Continue reading
Have you ever said to yourself, “I’m too busy”? “I’m too busy to meet this person…” “I’m too busy to take care of my health…” “I’m too busy to learn a language…” We take in a big sigh, and even lead ourselves to believe that being “too busy” is something worth celebrating. I’ve c … | Continue reading
Parents in France are being warned that their love of posting intimate photos of their young children on Facebook could land them with a fine and jail time. Thanks to the country’s strict privacy laws, reports the Guardian, French authorities have forecast a legal patricide and s … | Continue reading
Just last month, Nathan Latka took a risk: A public, five million dollar, business-defining risk. At 26, Nathan is already a bonafide startup icon. Host of the number-one rated business podcast The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life, Nathan’s entrepreneurial … | Continue reading
YouTuber Spanish Spoiler is spending his free time uploading videos that explain the next episode of Game of Thrones before they come out. In each video, according to Business Insider, the mysterious spoiler merchant has managed to predict what each episode contained with alarmin … | Continue reading
When most marketers finish a piece of video content these days, the first response is usually to plop it center stage on your website. Then you probably do a rapid “spray” campaign–get you, your mother and everyone you know to share it across all your social media networks. While … | Continue reading
The past decade has brought on a new kind of industrial revolution, a lot of which is thanks to how prevalent 3D printers have become. From full-sized versions to mini-desktop styles, you can find 3D printers for about the cost of a cheap laptop, or go to stores like Staples to g … | Continue reading
In its efforts to further oppress the internet, China has put forward new regulations that will ban women from livestreaming themselves eating bananas in an erotic manner. Well then. According to the BBC, the move is part of its ongoing effort to control “inappropriate and erotic … | Continue reading
Doing a quick Google search one can discover the many stories about how entrepreneurship and investment is rising in Latin America. Brands like OpenEnglish, iBillionaire, and Mural.ly are becoming household names, but what about the movers and shakers behind those stories? There … | Continue reading
Creative types – especially writers – love a good wander. Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf were avid city strollers whilst Wallace Stevens wrote his poetry walking to work: I write best when I can concentrate and I do that best whilst walking Modern-day novelists like Naomi Ald … | Continue reading
It’s possible to pursue your dream without using your credit card as a poor substitute for a paycheck. By remaining employed as you develop, test, and sell your product you can lay a secure foundation and minimize the risks associated with bootstrapping a business. Here’s how to … | Continue reading
A free smartphone app set to launch Monday in the UK, ‘Sweatcoin,’ aims to give digital rewards — called ‘sweatcoins’ — to those willing to get off the couch and earn it. Sweatcoin uses your smartphone’s existing tools for measuring movement and location in attempt to get people … | Continue reading
Facebook Groups aren’t often talked about, but they’re a great resource for finding a community around specific topics. Whether it’s parenting, photography, food or sports, there are groups for nearly every topic — even a few that shouldn’t exist at all. Facebook is now testing a … | Continue reading
If you happen to be in the New York City area between this weekend and June 12, be sure to look up in the sky around the Brooklyn areas during sunsets. New York artist Duke Riley is unveiling a spectacle this weekend which employs 2,000 pigeons equipped with three-lumen LED light … | Continue reading
Here’s a little Friday fodder: if you’ve ever wondered how a kaleidoscope is made, take five minutes and watch the above video. Posted by Discovery Channel’s “How It’s Made” YouTube Page, the clip above details the craftsmanship of what goes into creating a kaleidoscope. In short … | Continue reading
Mother’s Day is coming up in the US, so brands are busy shifting their marketing to family love. Apple’s tactic: a website to let users create Mother’s Day videos, and then share them on Facebook. The gesture follows Apple’s ‘Mother’s Day’ ad released last week, and in fact the v … | 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
A federal judge yesterday rejected Facebook’s request to throw out a lawsuit that alleges the company “secretly amassed the world’s largest privately held database of consumer biometric data.” The dispute centers around a feature added in 2010 that allows Facebook users to tag th … | Continue reading
In AV circles, there’s a diminishing, but still a strong number of smart TV holdouts who just refuse to accept that the devices have anything worthwhile to offer, other than a little more convenience. To those people’s dismay, it’s now harder than ever to find ones that don’t off … | Continue reading
Today in “Sure, why not,” Groupon is offering – what else – a deal of a lifetime that lets you 3D print a life-size replica of yourself for only $30,000. And it’s being offered as Mother’s Day special. In collaboration with Alabama-based 3D-printing company SWIGRO, the deal inclu … | Continue reading
If you’ve debating building a DIY prototype of the Echo so you don’t have to pay a hefty $180 for the convenience to use Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa, Lexi might just be the app you’ve been looking for. Available for iOS, Lexi lets you speak to Alexa straight through your phone … | Continue reading
Facebook fiends can now take the social network everywhere they go with Littlebook, an unofficial Facebook client for the Apple Watch that will either keep your eyes glued to the wearable or rolling back into your skull. Silly as it may be, Littlebook is actually pretty robust. Y … | Continue reading