Spring cleaning may just call for a career overhaul this year, and you can stack the deck in your favor with a good resume boost from any (or all) of these great offers from TNW Deals, including project management training, data & analytics mastery and more. eduCBA Project Manage … | Continue reading
Here’s something you might not expect in this mobile-first world: the majority of Product Hunt‘s tech-savvy users access the site through a desktop browser. With that in mind, the company is today launching a lightweight Mac app to help you explore new products whenever you have … | Continue reading
If your brainstorming sessions tend to result in a bunch of disjointed notes and half-cooked thoughts that look more like a Rorschach test than a collection of ideas, chances are good that your big-idea concepts aren’t getting the chance to reach their full potential. To help eli … | Continue reading
2015 was one of the worst years on record for patent troll lawsuits. Most of the lawsuits that snagged headlines involved tech titans – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon – but small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) were far more frequent targets. While these cases may … | Continue reading
Amazon’s rolling out new Fire tablet options from today that bring some bright new colors to the range and additional storage space for apps, games and other content. The devices are being offered in three more colors: magenta, blue or tangerine, and now can be snapped up with ei … | Continue reading
There’s nothing worse than arriving in a new city on vacation and not knowing where to start with your sightseeing, shopping or foodie explorations. Well, the folks at HotelTonight have just opened up their Aces concierge service to all of its app users, so now you’ll have direct … | Continue reading
Today Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a AU$230 million Cyber Security Strategy (see PDF for full report) to beef up the country’s defensive measures after admitting government agencies have repeatedly fallen victim to cybercrime in the past. In addition to im … | Continue reading
Bang & Olufson is a long-standing audiovisual brand with a reputation for quality – and high price tags. B&O Play is its funkier, cheaper, more accessible brand that draws on that heritage, but puts it within the reach of people who just can’t afford (or justify) spending thousan … | Continue reading
Just five years ago in 2011, American adults spent less than an hour per day on mobile devices. By 2015, adults spent 5.6 hours a day on internet-connected devices, more than half of which (2.8 hours) were spent on mobile devices. And the average US smartphone user now spends 88 … | Continue reading
A Barcelona company has managed to turn the humble house plant into a bonafide charging station for your smartphone. Bioo Lite, made by Arkyne Technologies harnesses photosynthesis – something the plant does all by itself – to turn sunlight into electricity. It’s currently smash … | Continue reading
Quora, like fellow Q&A platform Yahoo Answers, really shouldn’t have taken off in the age of Google. Both managed to build a community of useful and less so answers to big and small questions when a troll could really have ended it all at day one by simply asking: “HAVE YOU GOOGL … | Continue reading
Elon Musk has just revealed that nearly 400,000 people have put down the $1,000 deposit required to be in line for Tesla’s Model 3 – its $35,000 assault on the mainstream motoring industry. That that sort of demand “surprised even us”, Elon Musk told a conference crowd in Oslo th … | Continue reading
A whole heap of serious spying information has just landed after an ongoing court case by the UK’s Privacy International (PI) digital rights organization filed back in 2015 has finally borne redacted, PDF-based fruit. Although the previously confidential documents published today … | Continue reading
Nostalgic gamers have had access to a number of Sega’s classic 16-bit games from the late 80s and 90s on PC through Steam for some time now. Next week, the company is set to blow some minds with a special treat for fans of the Genesis (aka the Mega Drive). April 28 will see the l … | Continue reading
Earlier this year NASA was urged by Congress to step it up and have a prototype in place by 2018 for a deep space habitat that will bring humans to Mars and back again. Well, with that deadline quickly approaching, NASA is reaching out to the public for some help. The space agenc … | Continue reading
Google was pleased as punch to announce that its Chrome browser on mobile had surpassed one billion monthly active users. As part of the browser’s 50th release’aversary, its Twitter page has a little infographic to toast the occasion. With those billion users, Chrome now loads 77 … | 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, our early-stage growth program at TNW Conference. The applications for Boost are now closed, and we’re proud to have 200 of the world’s … | Continue reading
A Massachusetts judge has thrown out evidence obtained using malware created by the FBI in a case involving the agency’s seizure of a Dark Web site that distributed images of child sexual abuse, reports Motherboard. According to Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist at the … | Continue reading
Opera has updated its desktop browser with a handy feature to keep you safe on the Web: a free built-in VPN service that you can turn on with just a click. You don’t even need to sign up for an account. Once you’ve turned it on in the Settings menu, you can switch between virtual … | Continue reading
Although Tesla has been able to consistently wow consumers every time it’s launched a new electric car, things haven’t been quite so rosy for some customers after they got the keys to their new rides. The Wall Street Journal reported that some owners found that the falcon-wing do … | Continue reading
Comcast is set to become the first major American cable company to voluntarily comply with the FCC’s ‘unlock the box’ initiative that seeks to end the cable monopoly on set-top boxes. Last week, President Obama threw his support behind the the initiative that seeks to give consum … | Continue reading
Chromebook users are in for a surprise: Chrome 50 is bringing material design to Chrome OS, too. On his blog, Senior Designer at Google Sebastien Gabriel notes there will also be two implementations of Chrome OS. One will be designed for those using mice, while touch-enabled Chro … | Continue reading
Last September, Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft would be investing $75 million into its YouthSpark program for helping children and students develop computer science skills. Now it’s expanding that program with a series of grants around the world. The company says it will … | Continue reading
Facebook Page admins: rest easy and don’t fire your intern just yet. If your Page seems to be auto-like nearly every post you’ve published, it’s not just you; it appears a bug on Facebook is causing Pages to do so on its own. We noticed this bug overnight when a bunch of our own … | Continue reading
Today on Android and iOS, users with the latest update of Messenger will have the ability to start a group VoIP (voice over internet protocol) audio call from any group chat. To take advantage, just tap the phone icon and select which members you want to include in the chat. Once … | Continue reading
Turns out Inbox isn’t the only app Google had updates for today. The company announced a few new features for Keep – its note-taking app – that should help make a bit more sense of your reminders and tasks. First up, a new Chrome extension allows you to add a link to save directl … | Continue reading
Back in March, Rocket League — the futuristic soccer game featuring cars instead of whining sacks of flesh — teased a new basketball mode that hoops fans pretty much went nuts over. March Madness is just around the corner. Great time to tease the mode we're working on next #Rocke … | Continue reading
Two Apple car partnerships may be dead, according to a new report. While many believe Apple is still working on an automobile, it may not involve BMW or Daimler. Interestingly enough, the project may have been killed by iCloud. Citing industry sources, Handelsblatt claims that wh … | Continue reading
It might have been a bit of a throwaway purchase when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought Irish user-generated newswire Storyful back in 2013 for a pretty measly €18 million. But Storyful has been making quiet steps to capture the future of the Web – through the content you post an … | Continue reading
Twitter Fabric is launching Mission Control, a new dashboard that surfaces important information about your apps instead of asking you to dig through various views and menus. A new card-based format tells you all you need to know about your apps at a glance, bringing data from Cr … | Continue reading
Talk about timing – this morning, in honor of 4/20, Snapchat unveiled a new filter that superimposes Bob Marley’s face onto your own. It was not well-received, as many found it a form of digital blackface. What few people have realized, however, is that MSQRD, a popular face-swap … | Continue reading
The Xbox 360 launched over 10 years ago – time flies right? That’s a long shelf life for any console, so Microsoft says the time has come to cut the cord on the 360’s manufacturing. That means the company will no longer be building any new Xbox 360 consoles, and if you don’t alre … | Continue reading
Heavy texters know that some emoji don’t mean what you think they mean (ahem ), so to put that idea front and center, Pornhub has launched a new service that lets you text them emoji for on-demand porn (content on this page is fairly SFW, but the domain is not). If you already di … | Continue reading
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Giphy has had a dedicated app on iOS since October, but not the gif-finding platform is finally coming to Android too. To be clear, Giphy did have an app on the Play Store before, Giphy for Messenger, but as its name implied, it was just a plugin for Facebook’s chat service. This … | Continue reading
Udacity is bringing online learning into the real world. A new initiative dubbed ‘Udacity Connect’ (or UConnect) creates localized study groups for Nanodegree students — led by graduates. While study groups are nothing new, Udacity hopes UConnect will help students feel less isol … | Continue reading
It’s the Queen’s 90th birthday tomorrow, April 21, but proving some are never too long in the tooth, Her Maj is currently advertising for a new head of social media. The UK’s Royal Family is offering up to £50,000 (almost $72,000) for someone (responsible, presumably) to work as … | Continue reading
Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to work on a few different website projects that all engage with different and unique industries. As different and unique as each of these projects were, the one thing that remained constant was the need for a simpler, more con … | Continue reading
While Tesla engineers have been gradually adding autonomous capabilities to its electric stable, Chinese firm LeEco has gone one step further and announced a car that can do it right from the off. The LeSEE, announced last night in China, managed to drive itself out of a shipping … | Continue reading
Remember these faces, because they want to ruin technology for the whole world. These are the “well-intentioned” senators, Republican Richard Burr (60) and Democrat Dianne Feinstein (82), that have penned The Compliance with Court Orders Act 2016 draft seeking to end encryption i … | Continue reading
On-demand cabs are great, except when they’re unavailable or cost a bomb thanks to surge pricing. For years, companies like Uber have used a system that raises cab fares to meet high demands during rush hour; they say that the increased rates, calculated using an algorithm, incen … | Continue reading
Teaching kids to code is probably something that will be part of school curriculum in the not-so-distant future or at least it should be. Being able to code is an invaluable skill and learning at a young age leaves time for ample discovery and exploration. However, as anyone who … | Continue reading
Who decided the emoji would be a good idea? What sage thought the emoji should be this way up? And could someone please, once and for all, explain what happened to this guy ? Well, as it turns out, it’s a bunch of seemingly quite serious looking men and women at The Unicode Cons … | Continue reading
Google’s Android operating system could be about to get a big overhaul after a European antitrust investigation accused the company of breaching competition law. Google makes around $11 billion from advertising within its apps, according to the Guardian, and the European Commissi … | Continue reading
The truth is unavoidable for those heading up major tech companies across the world – gender inequality is still a major problem and not enough is being done to combat it. But this issue isn’t just centred on diversity – it’s fast becoming a pressing economic concern too. The UK … | Continue reading
Not content with grabbing ad dollars from TV networks across the world, Google went a step further by announcing that the adverts it serves on YouTube are better at convincing watchers to buy stuff. In a report seen by the Guardian, Matt Brittin, Google’s head honcho in Europe wi … | Continue reading
It wasn’t long ago that the majority of the US workforce held traditional, ‘9-5’ jobs. We took a job in our early 20’s, and were expected to stay there for years – ideally until retirement. Today’s workforce is far more fragmented. While most people are still engaged in some form … | Continue reading
With the launch of Instant Articles for publishers to deliver content and ads more quickly on mobile, Facebook made it clear that it was serious about monetizing content. A new user survey from the company, spotted by The Verge, hints at the possibility of Facebook allowing users … | Continue reading