While some found him bad at telling you what the weather is going to be like, a group of investors has put $2 million into Poncho to help him become better. | Continue reading
Imagine that future civilisations are looking for evidence of us. Digital human life. And they find nothing. No Buzzfeed. No Slack. No GitHub. Nothing. That’s actually a distinct possibility as the current means of storing our increasingly large digital past exist only virtually, … | Continue reading
Any Windows user will have been hit with an update prompt at the worst possible time at least once. For me, as I was sitting at the start of a press conference at Mobile World Congress one year it once automatically installed a downloaded update. Not entirely convenient, Windows. … | Continue reading
Yesterday I attended the TECH5 dinner in Berlin, where the fastest growing tech companies of Germany gathered for dinner, drinks and good conversation. Germany, with Berlin as the beating heart of the tech scene, is creating successful startups at a rate that is unseen in any oth … | Continue reading
Apple’s CareKit medical app development tools have launched today and the company has already started showing it off by announcing that three healthcare platforms have already gone live. The idea behind CareKit is to help you use your phone to share data with the healthcare profe … | Continue reading
Last December, Tesla CEO Elon Musk teamed up with Y Combinator president Sam Altman and former Google Brain Team scientist Ilya Sutskever to launch OpenAI, a $1 billion non-profit organization dedicated to furthering our understanding of artificial intelligence with a promise to … | Continue reading
If you’re in doubt about whether the US government’s various programs to spy on its citizens has made people more paranoid, this should clear things up. Jonathon Penney, a fellow at the University of Toronto’s interdisciplinary Citizen Lab, analyzed traffic on Wikipedia and found … | Continue reading
At Samsung’s developer conference today, Injong Rhee, the company’s head of research and development confirmed that Samsung was indeed working on a standalone headset to rival that of Oculus and Vive. The new headset would offer positional tracking like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vi … | Continue reading
Periscope’s fun new sketch feature is now available for iOS. The feature, which we first told you about just over two weeks ago, lets you draw over your stream. Anything you do sketch will vanish after a few seconds, so feel free to get weird with it. Just remember that people ca … | Continue reading
Most of the world first heard the term ‘All Writs Act’ during Apple and the FBI’s recent showdown. Others, like a Philadelphia man have known about it for at least the last several months, as the US government is using it to hold him indefinitely for failing to decrypt a hard dri … | Continue reading
We already new HTC was the likely winner in Google’s annual build-a-Nexus contest, but two reports today suggest the company is actually building two devices. First up, Evan Blass – better known as the consistently accurate @evleaks – suggests HTC is making two devices with the m … | Continue reading
Facebook reported its earnings for Q1 2016 today, and showed impressive growth with almost all revenue coming from mobile ads. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is also proposing a stock split that will see him remain in control of the company. The three-for-one stock split will us … | Continue reading
A leaked schematic of the next iPhone has purportedly found its way to a Japanese magazine, suggesting all the rumors are true. The device, which is believed to be the larger ‘plus’ variant of the iPhone 7, has space for two cameras as well as no headphone jack. Curiously, Apple’ … | Continue reading
Today, Oculus announced it was offering up ‘Minecraft: Gear VR Edition’ for a mere $6.99 on the Oculus Store. TNW took Minecraft VR for a spin a couple months back and the experience was equal parts amazing and nauseating. Upset stomach aside, it’s truly an immersive experience … | Continue reading
Samsung announced its first 360-degree camera back at Mobile World Congress, and now we know it’s arriving very soon: April 29. The company made its announcement at its developer conference in San Francisco. Apparently things like price are trivial though, as we still don’t know … | Continue reading
Nintendo hit one out of the park with its first foray into the smartphone gaming market with its “not a game” Miitomo. To follow that up, Nintendo dropped a release this morning detailing the March 2017 release of its new console — Nintendo NX — and a par of new smartphone titles … | Continue reading
Those using Google Calendar alongside Google Apps for Work or Edu can now take advantage of a feature that finds a time for your next meeting. The aptly name ‘find a time’ option scans your calendar for available times to meet up with a contact or coworker, and saves you the trou … | Continue reading
Netflix didn’t have a rocket-launcher last quarter, particularly as people expected it to have a whole heap of new customers in the 130 countries it went live with in January, but that could be about to change as it starts to offer in-app billing on Android. Just like when Netfli … | Continue reading
Protecting your trademark from rivals is an essential part of any successful business. If you have a hit, someone will always want to trade on your name. However, I’m not sure I can agree that Littergram, a UK-only app that lets people report local trash hotspots in the hope of b … | Continue reading
SpaceX is planning to send a Dragon spacecraft — to Mars. It’s possibly the first step in Elon Musk’s wild vision of a colonized Mars. The SpaceX CEO has previously stated he wants to have humans on the red planet by 2025. This news is based on a single tweet, so details are spar … | Continue reading
Android TV is getting a virtual remote on iOS. As with Android version of the same app, it works via Wi-Fi to connect to your Android TV and provides a virtual controller setup, or a virtual touchpad for scrolling around. It’ll come in handy if you tend to lose your remote every … | Continue reading
Google Fiber is opening up in its ninth market: Nashville, Tennessee. Google first announced Nashville as a candidate city back in January of 2015. It’s a small roll-out to start: just four apartment and condominium buildings. Google says hopes to eventually expand its service to … | Continue reading
A ruling by a federal judge has laid the blame of erroneous in-app purchases made by children with Amazon, which could lead to an order for a full refund for all affected parties. The case, brought by the Federal Trade Commission against Amazon, essentially hinges on whether oste … | Continue reading
Spotify has just acquired a startup named CrowdAlbum, a company that specializes in aggregating photos and videos from concerts, events and performances. CrowdAlbum has been around through 2013 and collects a “visual history” of sorts for artists during tours using images from fa … | Continue reading
Your Mac is pretty incredible on its own, but with a range of added features offered in the Spring 2016 Mac Bundle, you can maximize your computer’s productivity with game-changing results. For a limited time, you can pay what you want for 13 premium apps – a combined $946 value … | Continue reading
I’ve been itching to try the Mi 5 ever since Xiaomi first unveiled its flagship for 2016 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. When I got a chance to take a closer, but brief look at it at the press event, it seemed to check all the boxes for what a smartphone should … | 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
Samuel L Jackson thinks registering to vote should be easy. Really, each and every one of us should be able to go to our local government website, find the voter registration area, fill out the information and you’re all signed up to vote. Trouble is, there are still even many st … | Continue reading
Popular email client CloudMagic has a new tool for desktop and mobile that allows you to see information on people who email you, whether they’re in your contacts list or not. Called Sender Profile, it uses data from LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to give you better insight on wh … | Continue reading
Startup accelerators are traditionally tough places where long hours are worked and everyone is keen to show that they’re ‘killing it.’ With demo days looming, few people stop to consider the mental health implications of operating in the high-pressure tech world. Ignite, a UK-ba … | Continue reading
Hacks hit the headlines every day – whether that’s someone compromising the security of SWIFT and stealing over $80m or BeautifulPeople.com’s member info being leaked online or the Ashley Madison hack, or…well, you get the picture. Knowing that your data could end up in the hands … | Continue reading
Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on May 26-27. If you rent out your place on Airbnb – or any other online house rental s … | Continue reading
The HighThere stoner community is pretty brazen about its love for the green stuff but after an investigation by Tech.Mic it turns out the company is playing fast and loose with its user data too. When you download the app it asks for access to your location so it can start helpi … | Continue reading
Remember the old IRC chatrooms that you spent hours in while you should have been doing more worthwhile things with your youth? Well, now you can relive that feeling of ‘what the hell am I doing?’ by checking out Round.io. It’s not a tricky concept to get your head around. You op … | Continue reading
Tinder Social is a new groups feature being tested in Australia that enables you to get together all of your friends so you can swipe through and match with other groups to plan a big night out. You can then chat with the people you’re matched with or see from the group status wh … | Continue reading
Volvo has announced that it’ll be putting regular folk like you and me behind the wheel of its autonomous cars when they hit London’s streets next year. The company says that it’s going all-in on autonomous cars as they “represent a leap forward in car safety” and that its ‘Drive … | Continue reading
When I was 12, I briefly acquired a girlfriend called Maria. I’m not sure how it started, but I am sure how it ended: badly. In high-school I dated Eylem, a Kurdish girl. Everything was great when we were alone, but she was distant in public. It took me many years to understand w … | Continue reading
If you’ve noticed a sudden, severe drop in the traffic on your site or if you’ve received the dreaded, “manual action” notice in your Google Search Console, you know what it feels like to be blacklisted. Google doesn’t hand out manual penalties without good cause – but sometimes … | Continue reading
If you were asked to name the one industry that has been the most negatively affected by digital disruption, I bet newspapers would be high on your list. Few would argue that they have been victims of the dramatic changes in technology, society, markets, competition, ownership an … | Continue reading
Nintendo’s annual financial results, published today, reveal that its next console will be released globally next March. The company has remained silent on details about its upcoming platform, codenamed NX, for some time now. All it has said is that it won’t run on Android, as so … | Continue reading
Seven months since its first stable release, version 6.0 of the Node.js framework is now available. The Node.js Foundation says that the update brings a number of performance enhancements, including significantly faster module loading, better tests and documentation, as well as i … | Continue reading
A seemingly legit screenshot of a Windows 10 developer build shared on Reddit shows that the platform might soon bring the ability for users to switch between desktops and mobile devices, and pick up their work right where they left off. Sounds familiar? That’s because OS X has h … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck took to Medium to share how his company analyzed foot traffic patterns at more than 1,900 Chipotle locations across the US locations in February, using data collected by its app that lets people check-in to places they’ve been. It then co … | Continue reading
Nearly three years after initial rumors that Dyson was foraying into the beauty industry, we finally have our answer: the company today introduces its first hair dryer, the Dyson SuperSonic. The hair dryer uses Dyson’s digital motor V9 to create a lightweight appliance that aims … | Continue reading
The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn’t plan to reveal its method for unlocking the San Bernardino iPhone, according to the Wall Street Journal. After a congressional hearing, and an 11th hour cancellation from the FBI after finding a third party to unlock it, the world waite … | Continue reading
Last week, Snapchat filed paperwork as part of a legal case to defend your rights to take, and share, ‘ballot selfies’ at the polls. The filing is the latest development in an 18 month battle between the ACLU and New Hampshire over a 2014 law that takes away our god-given right t … | Continue reading
Developers who want to know how to take advantage of Twitter’s tools and knowledge can do just that now that it has released its Mobile App Playbook. The ‘book’ is really a series of of blog posts Twitter has been releasing over time on best practices for building apps, which obv … | Continue reading
Earlier in April, IKEA released a VR experience on Steam, because its marketing department was bored, or something like that. Don’t get me wrong, I love IKEA, and it would be pretty cool if you could browse through selections of its catalog or decorate your own virtual home. I ev … | Continue reading