Email response times are getting faster, according to a report put out by the University of Southern California. People between the age of 20 and 35 respond within 16 minutes on average. The problem for email is that’s just not fast enough anymore. Today email is being replaced b … | Continue reading
It’s time to add “AI research” to the list of things that machines can do better than humans. Google’s Alpha Go, the computer that beat the world’s greatest human go player, just lost to a version of itself that’s never had a single human lesson. Google is making progress in the … | Continue reading
Rather than figuring out the keywords yourself that’ll send your web numbers surging, wouldn’t it be even better if you could get your competitors to help do the work for you? That’s the principle behind Serpstat...and right now, you can land a lifetime subscription to their inge … | Continue reading
Facebook users are getting a new way to pay eachother with Messenger. Well, actually an old one – starting today, people in the US will be able to pay eachother using PayPal. To set up PayPal, just initiate a payment like you normally would, by tapping the ‘+’ button and then sel … | Continue reading
Blockchain can creates economies where, instead of competing, involved parties collaborate for productivity. | Continue reading
We’ve seen IBM’s Watson politely annihilate humans in Jeopardy, make a movie trailer for Morgan, create never-before-eaten recipes and even understand nuance and tone… to say the least. Now it’s moving on to music. Watson Beat is IBM’s music arm of Watson; an AI-driven music comp … | Continue reading
Google Pixel 2 is about to face some stiff competition from Huawei’s freshly released Mate 10 Pro flagship. Popular image quality authority DxOMark has awarded the new Mate 10 the impressive score of 97 – coming second only to the Pixel 2. Two weeks ago, Google’s phone set a reco … | Continue reading
Danish students are going to hate the country’s new exam rules. Denmark’s Education Minister Merete Riisager has proposed a new law that encourages students to grant schools access to their personal laptops, popular news outlet DR reports. The proposal seeks to make it more diffi … | Continue reading
Prisma took the world by storm when it launched last year with its AI-powered art filters for your photos. It was a neat trick that eventually expanded to video and selfie stickers, and even prompted Facebook to copy it. But I’ve hardly ever found the results appealing. If you’re … | Continue reading
Google announced a bunch of updates big and small to its Play store today, but the most exciting of them all is the arrival of Instant Apps, which you can stream to your device and try out without having to install them first. We first heard about Instant Apps at Google’s IO deve … | Continue reading
Thanks to advancements in technology, the demand for remote workers continues to grow. Some simply need to telecommute part of the week in order to better manage life and work needs. Others work from anywhere in the world, offering unique skill sets that companies can leverage. F … | Continue reading
With movies, such as Jobs and The Social Network presenting millennial entrepreneurs as brilliant and youthful gladiators, it is important to stay focused on the underlying trends with successful young entrepreneurs. After inspecting the current landscape, there are a number of t … | Continue reading
Given that more people than ever before are getting their news from social media, it makes sense that Facebook wants to help publishers by introducing subscriptions for content on its platform. And it’s starting on mobile. The company announced today that it’s rolling out paywall … | Continue reading
As far as Android skins go, Xiaomi’s MIUI 8 is a commendable effort, with plenty of options for customization and theming. But I’ve had it with its notification shade, which doesn’t allow you to expand certain apps’ alerts to act on them directly, like Gmail. That means you can’t … | Continue reading
There aren’t that many Linux hardware manufacturers around. Of the few that exist, System 76 is amongst the most well-known. It offers a slew of laptops and desktops, all shipping with the popular Ubuntu distro pre-installed, saving customers hours of wasted time dealing with dri … | Continue reading
It’s called the information age for a reason. From our tweets and status updates to our Yelp reviews and Amazon product ratings, the internet-connected portion of the human race generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of computer data every single day. That’s 2.5 million one-terabyte har … | Continue reading
Over 12,000 people are attending the annual Adobe Max creativity conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas. If you scratch beneath the surface of announcements such as the cloud-centric redesign of Lightroom washed down with appearances from actor/director Jon Favreau and Mark Rons … | Continue reading
It’s been three years since Mac mini got an update. It’s easy to assume three years without an update means the product is dead, and the company has moved on. But with Apple products, you never really know for sure — looking at you Mac Pro. One Apple fan could no longer deal with … | Continue reading
I tested out Wicked Audio’s Outcry Extreme Bluetooth speaker just in time for Halloween, and it’s been great to party with. I used it in a number of environments and found a lot to like. It’s a quality speaker that literally growls and barks (more on this later), plus it sounds p … | Continue reading
Services like Amazon’s S3 have made it easier and cheaper than ever to store large quantities of data in the cloud. Used properly, S3 buckets are a useful tool that can save time and money. Used properly, I said. The problem is that plenty of companies fail to implement basic sec … | Continue reading
Facebook is currently testing more than 60 versions of its navigation bar, the small icons on the bottom of your mobile screen. According to designer Luke Wroblewski — who gathered the data with the help of Twitter users — the navbar has at least 66 variations: if anyone (other t … | Continue reading
A promotion from Uber offering drivers the chance to earn a 33 percent earnings boost in exchange for an upfront payment of $115 is causing controversy, and has lead some to accuse the controversial ridesharing company of charging drivers to work. One damning critique, from NYC-b … | Continue reading
Thanks to the emergence of Web-based tools and services, most of us work primarily in the browser these days, and that means it’s our main productivity center. Google Chrome is far and away the most popular browser around and it supports a huge number of extensions, which are ess … | Continue reading
Nanoleaf’s Aurora – a system of triangular LED panels you can connect like Legos – was already one of the coolest lighting systems around. But with a new $65 music module, it just got much more interesting. I’ve been a big fan of the Aurora since I first reviewed them, so I was p … | Continue reading
A recent investigation revealed that over 30,000 medical research papers, published over decades, are now invalid due to contaminated cells. In many cases scientists who believed they were working on human cells were in fact working on mouse cells, others thought they had lung ce … | Continue reading
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a robot? Bender from Futurama? R2D2? Well yes, you’re not wrong, however, I want to introduce a new breed of robots that might change the way you think about them entirely. ‘Soft robots’, unlike their old, rigid counterp … | Continue reading
Retail is evolving before our eyes, and all you have to do is take notice. Take LG SIGNATURE’s recent partnership with Bloomingdale’s. The Korean electronics brand is showcasing its smart-home appliances at Bloomingdale’s 59th Street in New York. Why the fuss? Because Bloomingdal … | Continue reading
If you can be the person to turn all that numerical gibberish into strong, actionable insight...well, you start commanding major attention. You’ll start drawing a salary to match that talent after mastering the elements of serious data analysis with the Big Data course bundle, on … | Continue reading
For a deep look as well as hands-on training in the hardcore coding and back-end systems and processes that ultimately make the online world run, pick up a world’s worth of know-how in this Complete Computer Science bundle of courses, now for less than $20 from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Being on the lookout for the next big hit is what keeps music publishers and producers awake at night – but thanks to artificial intelligence and neural networks, they might finally get a good night’s sleep. Speaking the Amsterdam Dance Event Tech conference today, Ard Boerd from … | Continue reading
New York-based digital payments firm Payoneer helps businesses and professionals grow a global business. The financial services company work with a broad range of clients from freelancers all the way up through to tech behemoths such as Amazon, Google, and Airbnb. Typical clients … | Continue reading
Studies show that employees who work from home can be even more productive than in-office peers. They’re typically happier since they have more control over their lives and schedules. Business owners with a telecommuting staff don’t have to maintain expensive office space or deal … | Continue reading
Jinn, one of the stars of London’s food delivery scene, has announced that it is entering administration, and has permanently ceased trading. In a statement, Jinn CEO Mario Navarro said, “it is with a heavy heart that I share that Jinn has now stopped operating and won’t be takin … | Continue reading
Is this controller cute as hell or what? Sony’s teamed up with hardware accessory maker Hori on its new Mini Wired Gamepad, which is designed for younger PS4 players with smaller hands, and it looks nice enough that I want to try it too – despite my giant paws. The $30 Mini is ha … | Continue reading
If you live in the US or much of the West, you probably haven’t heard of Meizu. Though it’s occasionally made headlines for some interesting designs – see the rear display on the Meizu 7 Pro – it’s ‘only’ the world’s 11th largest smartphone maker, operating mainly in China and sm … | Continue reading
Facebook is now rolling out its Explore feed to desktops; the new feature looks just like your existing feed, but surfaces content from pages you don’t yet follow, but might be interested in. The feature has been available on mobile since April, and been in testing for a while on … | Continue reading
Senator Al Franken has some concerns about the iPhone X’s new feature, Face ID. The feature, as Apple displayed on stage — or tried to — during its most recent iPhone event takes an algorithmic approach to unlocking a phone by mapping your face with sophisticated sensors. Unlike … | Continue reading
Nielsen, the company which has been monitoring television show views and providing ratings for over ninety years, today announced it was creating a new service casting light on “Subscription-based Streaming Content Consumption” — in other words, Netflix, Hulu, and the like. Niels … | Continue reading
Representatives for Facebook, Google, and Twitter will appear in front of congress on November 1st to provide testimony on Russian election interference. The congressional hearing is one of many government probes into Russian election interference, this one turns its focus on soc … | Continue reading
A Colombian shop owner fought for his rights against Google. The small-scale furniture seller recently won a court battle with Google after failing to silence an anonymous blogger who spread false accusations, shattering his online reputation. The man, who chose to remain unnamed … | Continue reading
Razer has a penchant for rapidly upgrading it’s laptops, so when I reviewed the company’s Blade Stealth laptop a few weeks ago, it was with the reservation that it would likely be upgraded to Intel’s latest processor by the end of the year. Well, surprise, Razer has upgraded the … | Continue reading
America and Japan squared off in robot combat last night over the course of two fights. In a first-of-its-kind event the Japanese robot, Kuratas, took on America’s Iron Glory in one bout, and Eagle Prime in another. This was an event for the ages, with more than a few surprises i … | Continue reading
Adobe completely revamps Lightroom on the desktop to make photographer’s lives easier. Adobe just conpletely redesigned Lightroom on the desktop to make photographer’s lives easier. Adobe Lightroom, likely the world’s most popular editing and management app for photographers, is … | Continue reading
HQ Trivia, a new app from the creators of Vine, is recreating the appeal of game shows for iPhone users. The app debuted a few months ago, but has been gaining in popularity since then. The show goes live at 3pm and 9pm ET on weekdays. Host Scott Rogowsky asks a series of trivia … | Continue reading
When I received my review unit of the Cue robot from Wonder Workshop it had a lot of hype to live up to. We’ve reviewed the company’s products before and enjoyed them, so my expectations were high. I’m happy to report I was not disappointed. The Cue is designed for ages 11 and up … | Continue reading
Over the recent past, websites have entirely become vital corporate tools. They are used at least in every field from marketing to engineering. The high demand for websites has put developers on the spot, a situation that explains the current industrial competition for better pla … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) — Jennifer Smith doesn’t like the term “accident.” It implies too much chance and too little culpability. A “crash” killed her mother in 2008, she insists, when her car was broadsided by another vehicle while on her way to pick up cat food. The other driver, a 20-year … | Continue reading
I spent a lot of time in my inbox. Dealing with the hundreds of pitches, follow-ups, and angry emails I get each day is basically a full-time job. I really wish that wasn’t the case though, but until someone builds an app that deports tech publicists to a land where there’s no In … | Continue reading