Hundreds of millions of people’s user details for popular email services are floating around the Dark Web, and are being offered for sale from as little as $1, according to a cybersecurity expert. Alex Holden, founder of Hold Security, says that in total his company was given mor … | Continue reading
Mother’s Day is coming up (in the US anyway) and Facebook wants to help you spread the love. This week, it’s baking in a feature to let you decorate your messages with flowers. When you use Messenger on Android or iOS, you’ll see a new little flower icon on the lower right of the … | Continue reading
Google is rolling out HTTPS to all blogs that use the Blogspot domain, with users now given the option to redirect all requests made to their site over to the secure version. Google has warned that some of the blog’s functionality, aside from links and bookmarks, could stop worki … | Continue reading
One of the cryptocurrency experts who backed Australian Craig White’s claim that he is the inventor of Bitcoin has said that he shouldn’t have shown support for the claim until proof had been publicly posted. Answering questions from security researcher Dan Kaminsky, Gavin Andres … | Continue reading
The best way to prevent hacker attacks and malicious security breaches is to build a fluent familiarity in the means and methods of security penetration. If an IT career appeals to you, you can acquire vital tools for success across nine in-depth courses in the Pay What You Want: … | Continue reading
Coding Dojo, best known for its bootcamps, is launching a Corporate Training Program to help the enterprise space keep engineers up to date on new language enhancements and technologies. Citing a report by Dice Hiring, Coding Dojo notes it currently takes roughly 39 business days … | Continue reading
There are a couple of reasons why you want to target Android users when building your next app. As of July 2015, Google Play remains the largest app store with 1.6 million available apps followed by Apple’s App Store with 1.5 million apps and three other comparatively small app s … | Continue reading
It isn’t often that you spot a fitness tracker that you can wear to the office without looking like a health nut. I’m not one, but I’d still like to track my steps each day. That’s why I’m intrigued by Garmin’s latest wearable. The Vivomove blends classic analog watch styling wit … | Continue reading
As part of the TECH5 dinner series I jumped on a flight to Stockholm to meet up with the fastest growing young tech companies in Sweden. The Scandinavian country, and in particular Stockholm, is home to technology companies including Spotify, game makers MAG Interactive (a previo … | Continue reading
Every startup has a story to tell. From the conception of an idea, to the first lines of code, early hires, and preliminary funding rounds – every company has a unique narrative. But there are always shared experiences. Processes, tactics, and habits that shape the experience of … | Continue reading
Companies rebrand themselves for dozens of reasons: a merger or acquisition, a new technology or product that disrupts the company and the market, a new CEO at the helm, or a craving to update an image that has grown tired after years of use. Sometimes a company’s top brass reali … | Continue reading
One of the problems with making VR experiences feel real is that your if your body isn’t experiencing the same thing as your eyes are seeing, it can all feel a bit fake. Well, Microsoft Research has been working on a number of different solutions to this problem that might help V … | Continue reading
A while back, we announced that the TNW Hack Battle is back, better than ever. And we weren’t kidding: on May 25-26, we’re once again bringing together the best developers, designers and digital creatives from around the world to build some amazing hacks. Get ready for 36 intense … | Continue reading
TNW Conference Europe is just around the corner (May 26 and 27!), which means we’re also fast approaching the Tech5 showdown. In a joint effort with Adyen, we scouted for Europe’s fastest growing companies in six countries – the Netherlands, the UK, Spain, France, Germany and Swe … | Continue reading
I am not what you would call Snapchat’s target audience. I still read newspapers, I have subscriptions to expensive and largely pointless print magazines, I don’t know anyone between the ages of 14-22. But I do have Snapchat on my phone, and I do occasionally tune in to watch DJ … | Continue reading
ProtonMail launched to the public back in April, along with slick Android and iOS apps, to offer up a secure email client that even your mom could use. Trouble is, your mom probably ain’t no good at remembering passwords and ProtonMail needed you to enter two before you got to yo … | Continue reading
Fingerprint scanners are becoming increasingly common on smartphones – when they first came out, they were available only on high-end handsets like the iPhone 5S and the Samsung Galaxy S5, but now feature on devices that cost as little as $150. They’re great for adding a layer of … | Continue reading
McDonald’s wants to be the cool kid. And perhaps it is to a whole lot of people, but there’s also a massive number who wouldn’t even consider the brand in the same breath as that word. And what makes anyone (or any company) seem cooler than hanging out with a bunch of ‘creatives’ … | Continue reading
Don’t miss Pep Rosenfeld at TNW Europe on May 26-27th! Get your ticket here. What do you call people who are stretching the limits of their imagination to engineer a new future? At The Next Web, we call them the imagineers. Produced in partnership with the City of Amsterdam, e … | Continue reading
Opera has been bringing its A-game to the browser wars of late, having recently introduced built-in adblocking and a free VPN service in its desktop browser. It’s now updated its Mini browser for Android with integrated adblocking. The company says this allows for up to 40 percen … | Continue reading
Moog is known for its groundbreaking work developing analog synths since the 1960s, and counts many heavy hitters in popular music among its fans, including The Beatles, Alicia Keys, Deftones and Coldplay. The company recently announced it would reissue a limited run of 150 hand- … | Continue reading
Apple’s request to sell imported refurbished phones in India has been rejected by the country’s government, reports Bloomberg. That might certainly deal a blow to the company’s hopes for reaching more consumers who are interested in devices at lower price points – but maybe this … | Continue reading
I’m not talking about you, of course, I’m talking about them — but more on that later. Today, Adblock announced a new feature that allows users to send a few pennies to the websites they visit most often. Its a feature designed to “revolutionize web monetization” by ridding the W … | Continue reading
Philadelphia-based biotech company Bioquark, Inc. is seeking to awaken 20 dead people. Bioquark has been granted ethical approval from an Institutional Review Board at the National Institutes of Health in both the United States and India to complete a clinical trial at Anupam Hos … | Continue reading
Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are working together to put self-driving capabilities into Pacifica minivans. From Google: This collaboration with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is the first time we’ve worked directly with an automaker to create our vehicles. FCA will desig … | Continue reading
If you’ll be in Rio for the Olympic games this year, keep Google Maps handy: it’s being updated with “enhanced features” for the various venues you’ll be at. After launching real-time transit info for Rio de Janeiro a few weeks back, Google is rolling out detailed indoor and outd … | Continue reading
In the infancy of the drone era, we’re still only certain about a handful of specific use cases. Choreographed drone dancing probably wasn’t one of them, unless you’re with MicroAd, the company that created this artful waltz of LED-laden drones in front of Mt. Fuji. The productio … | Continue reading
Apple and Xintong Tiandi, a Chinese company that makes leather goods, have been fighting in Chinese courts since 2012 over the latter’s use of a brand name Apple feels it owns: ‘iPhone.’ While it seems like a no-brainer to allow Apple sole exclusive rights to a product that it ma … | Continue reading
DISH is getting into the smartphone repair game with a new on-demand service called — wait for it — Smart Phone Repair. Rather than send your phone in, or take it to a repair shop, DISH will send a technician to you, wherever you are. “Fixing your phone shouldn’t mean losing your … | Continue reading
Instagram’s carousel ads have been a staple of the platform for a while, but now they’re getting a new feature: video. If you’re not familiar, carousel ads are basically slideshows you can swipe through to view multiple images from a brand in the space of a single ad. Now brands … | Continue reading
Are you smarter than a 10-year-old? Probably not the one who just made a cool $10,000 from Facebook for showing you could hack into Instagram and delete comments made by users. Speaking to local publication Iltalehti, Jani (whose last name hasn’t been released) said (in Finnish): … | Continue reading
You know how every smart-ass IT guy or customer service rep tells you to try turning your devices off and on to solve your issues? ResetPlug does just that, except automatically — and for your home Wi-Fi woes. The $59.99 plug (yes, seriously) monitors your WiFi signal, and automa … | Continue reading
Uber was, surprisingly, still accepting Google Wallet as a form of payment. On May 9, that won’t be the case. In an email to users, Google is preparing those who rely on Google Wallet to get around town that a transition to Android Pay is necessary for Uber. It joins credit/debit … | Continue reading
Twitter wants to make it easier to make new internet friends. A new ‘Connect’ tab on Android and iOS will link you to people and accounts it thinks you’ll enjoy following. Although Twitter already has a ‘Who to follow’ section with a few suggestions, the idea is that Connect can … | Continue reading
The difference between where a business is now and where it’s headed can be a huge deciding factor in how its viewed externally, particularly by investors. Take Apple’s most recent financial statement as an example. Last week it reported quarterly revenues of $50.6 billion, of wh … | Continue reading
Big data is a buzzword that often sounds more like a problem than a solution – but in the case of Flint, Michigan’s lead-poisoned water scandal, Google.org is at hand with cash to help the city use data to fix a big government problem. Campaigning journalist Michael Moore is a re … | Continue reading
Ever wanted to send somebody a GIF mid-text conversation, but didn’t feel like browsing the Web or opening an app to find the right one? Giphy’s new keyboard can help – if you’re on iOS anyway. Giphy Keys isn’t the first of its kind – there was a flood of GIF-sharing tools once A … | Continue reading
Rumors abound that WhatsApp is hard at work on a native desktop client for Mac and Windows operating systems in a bid to further expand its already ridiculously popular messaging service. According to images tweeted by WABetaInfo, the project is looking for translations for speci … | Continue reading
Millions of people around the world are hooked on Netflix. With a ton of incredible original programming as well as all the shows and movies you love, Netflix leads the pack in premium TV streaming. The service keeps adding great content every week, and now TNW Deals is hooking u … | Continue reading
Carrier billing has been around for ages and is by no means the sexiest of the payment technologies – but it’s about to launch for Google Play in India with the country’s third-largest operator Idea and it could be pretty massive. A spokesperson told TNW: “We are in the process o … | Continue reading
The fight for privacy online has never been greater. With the advantages of modern technology, however, you can take steps to securely safeguard yourself against malicious attacks and identity theft through a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service. VPN keeps your online activity p … | Continue reading
The world’s most popular torrent sites has netted less than 50 cents per day in donations since it started accepting Bitcoin back in November, 2013. As pointed out by TorrentFreak, the total received by KickAssTorrents’ public bitcoin address is just 0.96 of a single bitcoin, whi … | Continue reading
“If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get five percent of the vote. The only thing she’s got going is the women’s card,” Donald Trump said during a press conference last Tuesday at Trump Tower. In a video response, Clinton fought back by saying: “If fighting for wom … | Continue reading
If you’re running out of storage space on your Android device, you might want to check your WhatsApp folder. Chances are you’ll find it full of images you don’t care to keep, like memes, cheerful greeting cards and screenshots. Those pictures can quickly add up and deleting them … | Continue reading
Photos are the most personal digital artifacts that we possess in life today. What started with the analog camera in 1826, has grown into an unrelenting avalanche of personal memories truly meaningful to every one of us. The number of photos we take, many of which we share, is gr … | Continue reading
Australian people are cooler than me. I’m an uptight Brit who sits around drinking tea all day, moaning about the weather and stressing whenever anything goes wrong. By comparison, the Australian lecturer in the video above is a calm and collected person who deals with a situatio … | Continue reading
There’s a war being waged in mobile. A war to control the final lucrative frontier that will shape how mobile is monetized. The battle is for mobile search, and its outcome is uncertain. Today, mobile search is a wild landscape of competing and contradictory technologies, unfulfi … | Continue reading
Though the Web – and particularly social media – can often feel like a sad or angry place and not always welcoming of minorities, a hashtag started by Twitter user @lexi4prez proves that sometimes some good ideas can come out of the crowd. Having failed LGBT campaigning organizat … | Continue reading