Fans of HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’ might see a little more than some recaps and reviews today when they Google search the show. If you haven’t seen the season 3 premiere episode last night, you might want to skip the following paragraph for minor spoilers. In its search results, you’ … | Continue reading
A new report from The Wall Street Journal suggests Facebook has a new photo and video app that will directly compete with Snapchat and Periscope. The app is said to launch directly into a camera environment, with live video playing an important role as well. Once in the app, you … | Continue reading
While the world mourns the loss of a music icon, many of us are feeling cheated out of the possibility of never having seen Prince live. Sure, we’ve seen the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame show, the Super Bowl Halftime Show and even the recently released SNL afterparty performance, b … | Continue reading
Tech companies can’t seem to help but get themselves in trouble with the law. There is of course a rich history of governments putting their foot down to stem one activity or another, typified by the antitrust suit against Microsoft back in 2000. Some see these legal incidents as … | Continue reading
Building your own server ‘pod’ isn’t exceedingly hard, but Backblaze just made it far easier with its new Pod 6.0 scheme, which can house up to 480TB of memory. Backblaze also says it can deliver storage at a mere $0.036 per gigabyte, which it claims is about 1/4 the cost of Amaz … | Continue reading
Twitter is introducing a small but useful update to its abuse reporting system: victims can now include multiple tweets in a single abuse report. http://twitter.com/safety/status/724640077150707717 Previously, anytime you felt someone was harassing you on Twitter, you would have … | Continue reading
From today you might start seeing various star emoji beside people’s usernames on Product Hunt. No, this doesn’t mean they have been selected to be verified as part of the Product Hunt elite – it simply means they are on an upvoting streak. Yes, Product Hunt has started rewarding … | Continue reading
It was around halfway through 2015 when a group of cyber-attackers who called themselves “The Impact Team” stole the data of 37 million users of controversial dating site Ashley Madison, and published the details online. Such details included people’s email addresses, dates of bi … | Continue reading
Remember that rumor Apple was considering LTE for the next version of the Apple Watch? It’s back, but there’s a bit more credence this time. In discussing first year sales of Apple Watch, The Wall Street Journal notes that Apple is hard at work on including cellular connectivity … | Continue reading
Working in tech isn’t great for women at the best of times – and it appears it could actually be affecting their chances of getting pregnant using IVF. Fertility startup FertilityIQ surveyed more than 1,000 of its users, who use the platform to log their experiences with differen … | Continue reading
If you’re a fan of old school games but want to enjoy them without the hassle of cords and wires, today you’ll finally be able to get the best of both worlds. Analogue, maker of the revamped NES and most recently a 24-karat gold version, has collaborated with 8BitDo to create a r … | Continue reading
Over one million users details stored by dating site BeautifulPeople.com are now accessible online, following a hack at the end of last year. While the intrusion itself isn’t news – it’s been known about since November 2015 – this is the first confirmation from a security researc … | Continue reading
While pop culture is still caught in bandwagon iPhone hysteria, Android remains the biggest mobile platform in the world by far, with more than 80 percent market share and over 1 billion devices sold in 2014 alone. Google’s latest mobile platform Android M is the gateway for deve … | Continue reading
Just weeks after releasing its Hub keyboard for iOS, Microsoft has dropped another one. The Word Flow keyboard is available today in the US App Store and is meant to make typing on-the-go a lot easier with its nifty one-handed option. Similar to the Windows Phone keyboard, users … | Continue reading
The use of chatbots has exploded in a big way thanks to the likes of Facebook, Microsoft and Telegram putting their combined clout behind automated messaging interfaces. Now Botlytics has launched to help you understand exactly what all of your chatbots are up to. The tool, built … | Continue reading
If you constantly find yourself recommending YouTube videos or apps to your buddies, you need a tool to share those links quickly. Radon for Android does just that. Install it and you’ll find the app listed in the share options when you want to beam across a link or selected text … | Continue reading
The Department of Defense’s innovation arm DARPA has made a pretty balls-out request for someone to help build a blockchain-based encrypted messaging app to replace “expensive, inefficient [and] brittle” systems that leave it exposed to cyber attacks. Like many big organizations, … | Continue reading
Today, the organising committee behind the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics announced its new logo: a circle that looks like a re-arranged chequered flag. Here it is, below. It’s pretty abstract, right? Inoffensive? A bit, well, meh? That’s probably because the first attempt at a logo … | Continue reading
Productivity is the by-word of high-achievers everywhere. Pack more into your finite time and you’ll get more done. Simple. One way to help claw back a few minutes might be to limit the amount of ‘useful’ time you spend doing things you could better achieve at another time, like … | Continue reading
NASA has been responsible for developing a lot of things other than spacecrafts, including memory foam, scratch resistant glasses and insulin pumps and now the agency is looking to fuel the future of aviation using green technology. With the launch of its New Aviation Horizons in … | Continue reading
Tidal, the music service whose owner forgot he bought it, has rocketed up the app charts this week thanks to being the only place where you can stream Beyoncé’s new album, Lemonade. According to App Annie, the app – which has struggled to break into the top 500 for the best part … | Continue reading
RjDj has made a name for itself by producing mind-bending mobile audio experiences. All has been quiet from the company in the past few years but now it’s back with Hear, an iOS app it hopes will transform your relationship with the sounds around you. The app requires headphones … | Continue reading
I spent much of the last two years running business operations at Heyo, a social media campaign platform for small businesses. At its core Heyo is a tool for gathering leads by getting people to opt in and provide you with contact information. One of my responsibilities there was … | Continue reading
Israel’s Sirin Labs is set to launch its debut smartphone at a new flagship store in London’s exclusive Mayfair neighborhood next month, with a minimum price tag of $10,000 for what it says is the: most advanced mobile device that combines the highest privacy settings, operates f … | Continue reading
The latest version of Facebook’s Android app has a treat for users who converse in Hindi – an all-new transliteration feature. The app now lets you type Hindi posts and comments using an English keyboard, negating the need to download separate language packs or switch between the … | Continue reading
Large swathes of Silicon Valley – which include the headquarters of tech companies such as Google and Facebook – will disappear as a result of rising sea levels. According to a group of scientists collectively known as Our Coast, Our Future, they have mapped what a rise in sea le … | Continue reading
With another weekend over, it’s easy to leap feet-first into the week ahead, but before you do that, there’s just enough time to catch up on everything you missed over the weekend while you were offline doing other things. All you need to do is make yourself a coffee, clear your … | 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
The hackers involved in last month’s cyber heist of Bangladesh Bank, in which they managed to steal only $81 million of a planned $951 million haul because of a spelling error, might actually be smarter than they were initially made out to be. Reuters reports that investigators l … | Continue reading
If you think your network of Windows computers is safe from malware because you’ve set up Applocker to whitelist only trusted apps, we have some bad news. A newly discovered security flaw allows users to get around this on business editions of Windows (Windows 7 and up) by using … | Continue reading
Google’s Chrome OS might soon get a serious shot in the arm that will make it a lot more enticing. Users on Reddit recently noticed that the developer version of the platform recently revealed an option to run Android apps on it. Redditor ‘TheWiseYoda’ found that that when the se … | Continue reading
In a few hours, the season premiere of Game of Thrones will be upon us. This season should be as bloody as ever, and we don’t want you to miss a thing. Here’s how you can watch. HBO (duh) Hey, did you know HBO is on a free preview weekend?! It is, so if you’ve got cable, you can … | Continue reading
Google is preparing its own in-house startup incubator, according to a new report from The Information. According to sources, Google will soon launch “Area 120,” which will be helmed by Google executives Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz. Teams within Google must pitch ideas for … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6,774 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. 1. Disney makes 3D printing instantaneous Patent numbe … | Continue reading
A clever hacker has installed a Linux-based system on their Tesla, and is using the center display as a media center. Going only by ‘Hemera,’ the hacker has detailed just how they sidestepped the stock Tesla OS. Using Gentoo, Hemera made the modifications after gaining root acces … | Continue reading
I hate to say it, but I have to: Apple updated the wrong MacBook. While I love the 12-inch MacBook — and enjoy the recently updated specs — it’s not what we needed. We need a new MacBook Pro. In fact, we’ve been in need of a new Pro for some time. The last time Apple made meaning … | Continue reading
Starting June 1, all new Apple Watch apps submitted to the App Store must have the ability to operate independently of an iPhone. Apple laid this mandate down in a blog post to developers, which it released to the developer’s website. It’s interesting timing, too; June 1 is just … | Continue reading
Take your online marketing skills to new heights with these four offers from TNW Deals, designed to boost your comprehension of data-driven marketing, SEO, blogging and more. Blogging & Content Marketing Live Course + Diploma: $14.99 Blogging has come a long way from the personal … | Continue reading
When I first noticed that Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, and Mark Zuckerberg are almost always seen in the same clothes, I wondered why these powerful and wealthy people (globally influential to the nth degree) didn’t seem to buy new clothes. Clearly, it wasn’t about affordability. Th … | Continue reading
When my wife and I moved to New York City in 2001, recently graduated from college and newly wed, we were eager to find friends. We knew nearly no one but were sure we’d soon find a fun-loving group like the 20- and 30-something New Yorkers who spontaneously dropped in on one ano … | Continue reading
Last year, Stack Overflow, a question and answer site for programmers, asked its user if they had a degree in Computer Science (CS). The results of the 2015 Developer Survey were startling. Nearly half of the 26,086 developers who responded didn’t have a computer science degree. … | Continue reading
The best apps have a key ‘wow moment’ – whether it’s when Uber transforms the way you think about travel forever, when Amazon Prime Now gets that item you need to your door within an hour, or simply the moment you get addicted to your new favorite game. I just had a ‘wow moment’ … | Continue reading
From students to business professionals, file-sharing is an essential – and perfectly legal – productivity tool for team projects, research, assignments and beyond. To instantly share documents, files, bookmarks and more in a beautifully simple interface, pick up a lifetime subsc … | Continue reading
All of us procrastinate in one way or another. I’m sure we can all remember putting off studying for that dreadful exam or thesis paper in college. But you’re not alone. Over 25 percent of Americans think of themselves as chronic procrastinators, which is up from only five percen … | Continue reading
We’ve been hearing about how 3D and “holograms” will become an integral part of lives for a long time. It infuses our pop culture, and from Panasonic’s first commercialized first 3D TV system in 2010 to our present day fascination with VR/AR, it has become more and more of a focu … | Continue reading
From Lost in Space to Star Trek to Star Wars, the entertainment industry has tantalized us with the concept of interplanetary travel. The best part is that the technology to make the journey is no longer light-years away. Virgin Galactic, Commercial Spaceflight Federation, and Ci … | Continue reading
Slack is great for communicating with your entire team no regardless of whether you’re in the same room together or working remotely. But if you use a common chat channel to ping your group, there’s a chance that your message will get buried amongst all the others and go unread. … | Continue reading
Fingerprint readers and iris scanners are great for authenticating people in buildings and on mobile devices. The next big thing in biometrics might lie under our skin. Researchers at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Saarland and the Max Planck Institute for Informa … | Continue reading