With all the quadcopters and drones on the market, finding the right balance of value and quality can be tricky. That’s why we’re highlighting four terrific deals on the best stunt-flying, video-streaming fun you can find! SKEYE Hexa Drone: $39.99 The SKEYE Hexa Drone is a next-g … | Continue reading
Following revelations about the UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s father’s tax affairs in the Panama Papers investigation, #resigncameron has started trending on Twitter as the internet flexes its screenshot, copy and paste skills. He’s now admitted he and his wife made money fro … | Continue reading
Nobody’s sure of the risk of a drone hitting a plane, indeed, no one actually knows how many drones are out there. But in a move that shows it’s better to be safe than sorry, the organization that looks after 850 US airports is now working with a startup to help drone owners and … | Continue reading
As most of you know, a couple of weeks back we announced our new logo. Since then, we’ve been receiving alternative suggestions and proposals from our readers. In case you haven’t gone over the first batch of ideas, it’s definitely worth a look – those logos really do put ours to … | Continue reading
At your day job as a professional code Googler – I mean developer – you probably search for quick snippets multiple times a day to find the best way to perform a particular task. Almost always as developers we end up on Stack Overflow or Mozilla Developer Network, but now Microso … | Continue reading
Adobe’s Flash is notoriously buggy – never good news for its one billion users across Windows, Mac, Chrome and Linux – now the company’s pushed an emergency patch after researchers found what they think is the first talking hack. The RANSOM_CERBER.A ransomware has been buried in … | Continue reading
Spotted a GIF-worthy moment in a video? Or need to show a friend a new computing trick? Giphy’s new tool for OS X lets you capture it in a pinch. Giphy Capture lets you record anything on your Mac and turn it into an HD-quality GIF for free. Simply fire up the app, drag the resiz … | Continue reading
Is Facebook the first app you launch on your phone when you wake up? It might make more sense to do so, if the social network rolls out a new feature that it currently appears to be testing. Some Facebook users in the UK are now seeing weather updates in their News Feed on both A … | Continue reading
Roughly a week ago, Brave, the company behind the ablocking browser launched by Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich, announced that it was working on a way to replace Web ads with those from its own network and split revenues with sites and readers. But that isn’t going down well wit … | Continue reading
Four months after it launched in closed beta, Open Whisper Systems’ Signal messaging app for desktop is now available to all. You can grab Signal from the Chrome Web Store and login using your Android device with the mobile app installed. Once you’ve registered with your phone nu … | Continue reading
With everything else quickly joining the connected realm, it’s only a matter of time before your ratty old couch joins the party. Lift-Bit isn’t the only connected furniture in town, although it might be the most unique due to its shape-shifting design. To achieve this, each piec … | Continue reading
It seems there is still a long road to go before Lyft can settle a dispute with drivers over proper worker classification. As Bloomberg reports, a federal judge rejected the company’s attempt to settle with drivers as being ‘glaringly inadequate.’ All told, Lyft tried to settle w … | Continue reading
If you login to your Apple developer account today, it may look a little different. It seems Apple has refreshed the page, though it’s not clear if the change affects everyone immediately. The main portion of the screen has an iTunes Connect button as well as a direct link to man … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger will soon have more bots. According to a leaked slide deck, the company will announce a bot platform for its chat service at next week’s F8 conference. According to TechCrunch, Facebook is seeding APIs to developers that allow them to build bots for Messenger a … | Continue reading
Slack is a useful chat tool used by tons of people, and seems to get handier each time we touch it. Now, we’ll be able to see what’s next as Slack has opened up its product roadmap. Just like many of its users, Slack has a Trello board for planning things, which is where you’ll s … | Continue reading
According to a report by Bloomberg, Yahoo has several potential suitors interested in its core business. Following pressure from shareholders, and a failed turnaround effort under CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo put its core business up for sale and set an April 11 deadline for placing … | Continue reading
The death knell has been ringing for Adobe Flash for years now, but since we haven’t quite gotten completely rid of it yet, Microsoft is adding a feature to its Edge browser that will automatically pause unnecessary Flash content. Peripheral content – ads, random animations, etc. … | Continue reading
Android Studio — Google’s preferred IDE for developing Android apps — is now out of beta. There are no major improvements to the IDE; Google just made it stable enough to take the ‘beta’ tag off of it. It still has a lot under the hood developers should be excited about, though. … | Continue reading
In a situation that’s part perfect irony and part scene from ‘Blade Runner,’ it seems that the pollution in Mexico City has gotten so bad that Uber’s surge pricing goes crazy when the air is practically unbreathable. Quartz spotted the account in a Spanish-language newspaper, ind … | Continue reading
If you’re headed to Coachella and want to pack light, just bring your phone and an ID. Chances are, it’s all you’ll need anyway. Square has struck a deal to be the official payments processor for the entire festival, and says every vendor will be using its new NFC and EMV-ready c … | Continue reading
Facebook has long been trying to catch up YouTube as a source for videos, but it’s faced one big problem: you could only see videos shared on your News Feed or individual pages. The company is now changing that by finally implementing video search, a small but important addition … | Continue reading
In an effort to expand the number of tools teachers need to reach those internet-minded kids these days, Google for Education announced today via blog post that it now offers the ability to make polls. Google offers a host of reasons why polls are helpful in reaching kids, from m … | Continue reading
While the FBI has been relatively tight-lipped about the method it used to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone, Director James Comey opened up a bit last night in a speech at Kenyon College. “It’s a bit of a technological corner case, because the world has moved on … | Continue reading
The FBI has released some pretty awesome figures showing just how much money is being sent to scammers pretending to be your boss asking for you to wire some cash – amounting to $2.3 billion lost in just over two years. Turns out, the person responsible for that embarrassing inci … | Continue reading
Twelve South, who concentrate its efforts on making accessories for Apple’s various devices, has unveiled the TimePorter travel case for Apple Watch. Its main purpose is cord management, as the interior has bumpers you can wrap a cord around and a cutout in the lid for the magnet … | Continue reading
About the time Swift was going open source, representatives for three major brands — Google, Facebook and Uber — were at a meeting in London discussing the new language. Sources tell The Next Web that Google is considering making Swift a “first class” language for Android, while … | Continue reading
Outlook is about to get a lot more useful on Android and iOS. Microsoft is today introducing Calendar Apps, allowing you to integrate your calendars from a variety of your apps, which so far include Facebook, Wunderlist and Evernote. The feature is being ported over from Sunrise, … | Continue reading
Figuring out contact details for someone you don’t know can be difficult, and it’s something I’ve frequently had to do in my job at The Next Web. Some tools exist out there that can do it, but Clearbit Connect, which launches today, is a cut above the rest. It’s a dead simple way … | Continue reading
Apple’s MacBooks have long been the gold standard all laptops are measured against. What’s ‘best’ obviously varies according to individual needs, but critics and college lecture halls alike seemed to agree for the past several years. Mainstream Windows laptops then usually went o … | Continue reading
Rhapsody has a new trick up its sleeve, and it’s a clever marriage of human curation and social networking that also helps you find new music. Listener Network creates playlists of new music it thinks you’ll enjoy, which change daily. Those playlists are based on your listening h … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced a new feature launch for Messenger that lets users use a QR code or unique URL for direct messaging. This is something that brands are going to love, as it gives fans a quick way to start a conversation with them with one QR scan or a link click. To get a … | Continue reading
As our cars become increasingly connected to the internet, and eventually drive themselves, we’re going to want them to be rock-solid secure. The recent Chrysler exploit and FBI warning both highlighted just how vulnerable our vehicles can be to malicious hackers. The idea of ant … | Continue reading
There’s nothing wrong with scrawling down thoughts using pen and paper, but that task gets complicated when you need to take into account the thoughts of colleagues who may be one desk over or thousands of miles away. Rather than more emails and more haphazard Slack conversations … | Continue reading
Following the success of The Force Awakens that – among other achievements – became the highest-grossing film in the saga, Disney just released the trailer for the new Star Wars movie. Rogue One traces the struggles of a group of rebels on their quest to steal the plans for Death … | Continue reading
Not all entrepreneurs started out their businesses fresh from college – or quit halfway through. Most entrepreneurs already had careers before they decided to go it alone. But making the jump can be terrifying, especially if you have overheads to pay. That’s why a growing number … | Continue reading
Facebook’s been beefing up its Messenger app for a while now, particularly as it’s an important part of its strategy for business users, and now you can get a piece of the action with its new username features: Codes, Usernames and Links. You’ll have already been assigned a perso … | Continue reading
Running your own business is no small feat, requiring an ever-evolving skillset and a keen sense of where the market is headed in your field. When you’re ready to turn your entrepreneurial idea into a successful, full-fledged enterprise with strong exposure, the Startup School 20 … | Continue reading
Anyone who’s worked on a Web project would agree that it’s incredibly frustrating to try and quickly share your work with someone online – you have to mess around with configuration files, deployment scripts and spend time getting it right. A new project, called ‘Now,’ from ex-Cl … | Continue reading
There are about 7.2 billion humans on the planet but today, only 2.8 billion of us are connected to the internet. Although infrastructure enables internet access to over 85 percent of the planet, most people living in emerging markets are just starting to connect. While China has … | Continue reading
When Apple announced the beautiful Hermès collaboration for its Watch last year, it left people who already owned the original timepiece out of the loop, since you couldn’t buy the straps on their own. Now, Apple has revealed that it will be selling the Hermès bands separately, a … | Continue reading
Today marks 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, and SwiftKey is celebrating by releasing a keyboard that will help you type “exactly like the Bard would.” ‘ShakeSpeak’ is a lot like SwiftKey proper, just with a parchment paper theme and modified autocorrect algorithm. It still l … | Continue reading
My mom won’t thank me for writing that she once fell prey to someone ‘calling from Microsoft’ to help her out with a computer problem she didn’t know she had. Another phone scam has now popped up that hopes to exploit people’s fears about their email being hacked, purporting to b … | Continue reading
Reddit has been working on its experience for mobile users for some time now, including acquiring the unofficial iOS app Alien Blue in 2014, beta testing a mobile site for months and teasing screenshots of its Android app earlier this year. The site has now launched its official … | Continue reading
All of us have discovered the awkwardness of Facebook Messenger’s ‘Other’ Inbox by now, but did you know there’s another hidden one that might be even worse? Facebook has an automated spam filter that stops annoying messages getting into your friends’ messages, and keeps them sep … | Continue reading
Hiring has never happened so fast. Especially in tech, where being first to market can give you a considerable advantage. Just take grocery delivery company, Instacart, which grew from 91 full-time employees in January 2015 to over 300 today. This kind of hyper hiring comes with … | Continue reading
After extensive trials across Mountain View, Austin and Kirkland, Google has announced that it will begin testing its autonomous vehicles in rugged Phoenix, Arizona. The company’s self-driving cars have clocked 1.5 million miles over the past six years and in various road and wea … | Continue reading
Harmonix Music Systems’ crowdfunding campaign to raise $1.5 million for bringing the immensely popular rhythm game Rock Band 4 to PC failed today, reaching only 52 percent of its goal. In addition to new graphics, features and music, the latest iteration of Rock Band, which launc … | Continue reading
Only days after the FBI announced that it cracked the San Bernardino iPhone without Apple’s help, the White House has decided not to publicly support a bill that would see tech companies forced to assist in cracking encrypted data on their devices and platforms, reports Reuters. … | Continue reading