Square is introducing ‘Build with Square,’ which lets businesses monetize their online and in-store efforts entirely through Square. A collection of new APIs, Build with Square offers solutions from beginning to end. A new Register API allows for more customized point-of-sale sol … | Continue reading
Uber has upgraded its in-ride offerings with a new ‘Trip Branding’ feature, which gives you useful content that’s meant to help or improve the journey. From today, if you book a ride through one of Uber’s partner apps, you’ll start to see personalized content along the way. For e … | Continue reading
Instagram is being sued for allowing an image to remain on site despite the copyright owner sending multiple DMCA takedown requests. As spotted by TorrentFreak, US-based photographer Jennifer Reilly filed a case against Instagram for hosting or linking to one of her copyrighted i … | Continue reading
Higher education degrees are appealing, but involve significant financial sacrifice: in America, an opportunity for a higher paying job also comes with a sentence of paying more student loans for longer. That’s why Coursera is busy establishing a host of masters courses, today an … | Continue reading
Foxconn, the company best known for being the manufacturer of the iPhone, today approved a plan to acquire Sharp for $3.5 billion according to The Wall Street Journal. Sharp is the 103-year-old maker of a number of different products – from microwaves to LCD screens, and Foxconn … | Continue reading
There are a multitude of articles covering the blogging sites and publishing platforms. However, while all these platforms are really great and effective for building an online presence, a bad Web hosting provider can easily rub off (almost) all the good in them. A bad Web host c … | Continue reading
Putting your home on Airbnb is no easy task and managing the bookings can become very messy if you’re not careful. There are also people on Airbnb who aren’t just renting their own houses and apartments, they are letting agents and landlords, using the site as a secondary means t … | Continue reading
Last week, Apple unveiled the newest iteration of the iPhone, a product line that accounts for two thirds of the company’s revenue: the iPhone 5SE. Unlike previous announcements, in which Apple has steadily increased the size of its phones, it went smaller. Not only did the compa … | Continue reading
When Facebook announced it was dropping support for its native app on BlackBerry’s in-house mobile operating system, users of BlackBerry 10 were understandably upset – it’s one of the world’s most popular websites and lots of people use it to keep in touch on a minute-by-minute b … | Continue reading
Over the last few months, Google engineer Benson Leung took to Amazon to review hundreds of shoddy USB-C cables that were available for purchase but not up to specification. Today Amazon quietly made a change to its terms and conditions to prohibit USB-C cables that aren’t compli … | Continue reading
Today, INRIX is launching its completely redesigned GPS app, INRIX Traffic. The app uses machine learning to better plot your routes in addition to providing turn-by-turn navigation with maps from OpenStreetMap (OSM). The app uses smart algorithms to take most routing decisions o … | Continue reading
Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have teamed up with over 80 CEOs, as well as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC to add their signatures to a letter calling for the repeal of House Bill 2. Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign identified some … | Continue reading
Sony is set to debut Ultra, its new streaming service, on April 4. But if you’re planning to binge-watch 4K movies on Ultra, you might want to prepare your wallet. Sony has announced it will charge customers $30 a movie to stream in 4K on Ultra. According to Buzzfeed, its initial … | Continue reading
If screaming at your TV screen and flicking virtual basketballs on Facebook Messenger aren’t enough excitement for this March Madness, you can take it to the next level this weekend with the addition of virtual reality. The NCAA has announced that the upcoming Final Four games wi … | Continue reading
A finance executive fell victim to a phishing scam that saw the Los Angeles-based maker of children’s toys wire a cool $3 million to Chinese hackers. Expertly timed during a period of corporate change, the email hit the inbox of the unnamed executive and requested a new vendor pa … | Continue reading
The new Instagram update for iOS has some useful tools, particularly because it allows me to make longer videos up to one minute, so you can stuff more content into your posts. It’s great! But I just have one question: Where did my log out button go? Normally, the ability to log … | Continue reading
It’s that time of year: Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference is upon us. Running for three days starting March 30, Microsoft biggest developer event will surely be saturated with software news, and maybe even some hardware too. This year, the company is being extremely tight-lipped … | Continue reading
A couple months back, we reported that Google was testing a home phone service called ‘Fiber Phone’ — a service it could bundle with TV and internet to create that ever-so-profitable “triple play” that telecoms have been profiting from for years. Today, Google announced that it w … | Continue reading
After an 11th hour reprieve by an unknown source claiming it could access the San Bernadino iPhone, and yesterday’s announcement that the FBI did indeed gain access to the device, we’re left with vocal proclamations all over the Web that the fight is over. It’s not. The Apple and … | Continue reading
Dating app Tinder has officially acquired contact management startup Humin today for an undisclosed amount. The technology behind Humin is the most attractive part of the deal, as well as some of its staff who will be offered new roles. Co-founders Ankur Jain and David Wyler will … | Continue reading
Instagram is rolling out the ability for the average Joe to record and share a video of up to one minute, increasing it from the current 15-second limit. While advertisers have been able to share these longer clips for a couple of months, it’s still going to take a little while f … | Continue reading
Pinterest is now making it easier than ever to turn DIY envy into an actual project, announcing today a new Rich Pin that helps users actually see how things get accomplished step-by-step. Called the “How-To” pin, you’ll be able to tap into one and see how everything gets done in … | Continue reading
I’m a sucker for apps that do clever algorithmic stuff to images. Linify takes your photos and, well, ‘linifies’ them, redrawing them using nothing but straight lines. The results from this Web-based app can be striking and it’s fun to watch the images develop on-screen. You can … | Continue reading
Microsoft isn’t doing so hot in mobile. That’s been its unfortunate story for years, as it’s played catch-up to Google and Apple ever since Windows Phone 7 launched in 2010. There’s plenty to blame: entering the game late, featuring underpowered hardware, missing features and a l … | Continue reading
Snapchat is making sure its addicted teens have absolutely every tool in their arsenal to communicate with each other, as a new update released today finally makes good on longstanding rumors of improving the app’s chat functions. The company outlined the details in a blog post: … | Continue reading
Google Photos just introduced a clever new feature that will let you edit photos without the risk of irreversibly altering the original. While previously users had to rely on duplicates to avoid making permanent changes to pictures, Google Photos now offers a nifty ‘Undo Edits’ b … | Continue reading
WhatsApp is rolling out a beta update today that adds a multitude of features to customize your messaging experience. Most noticeable is the Quick Reply feature that lets you respond straight from the notification. You can attach emoji or a voice message in the toolbar as well. T … | Continue reading
I was born in 1983 in Estonia, a country then occupied by the Soviet Union. Isolated from the outside world and tightly constrained from within, we were prisoners in all but name. Our birthplace defined our future and limited our horizons. Growing up back then, there was one thin … | Continue reading
Nintendo has confirmed that its first smartphone game, Miitomo, will be available in the US and Europe from March 31 following its initial release in Japan. The game will be available to download on iOS and Android and users can import their Wii U and 3DS Miis using a special QR … | Continue reading
A group of scientists in Europe want to know if electronically enhanced humans have an unfair advantage over regular people – beyond night vision and a skeleton made of steel of course. The cyborg Olympics, or Cybathlon as it has been dubbed, will take place in Zurich this Octobe … | Continue reading
Three teenagers have built a nifty summary tool that could potentially help high-school students study more efficiently and save hours of reading. Available for iOS, Summize is an intelligent summary generator that will automatically recap the contents of any textbook page (or ne … | Continue reading
The value of an IT professional can’t be overstated – a digital Jack-of-all-trades is the problem solver coveted by companies around the globe. If the idea of an IT management career appeals to you, opportunity awaits with the completion of ITIL Expert Certification Training, off … | Continue reading
If you are in the B2B space, odds are you will need to respond to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from prospective customers throughout your normal course of business. The RFP process is typically filled with potential pitfalls along the way. This post will help you learn what tho … | Continue reading
For the code-savvy among us, TNW Conference is just as famous for its Hack Battle as it is for its stellar speakers and unique networking opportunities. That’s why we’re super excited to announce that on May 25-26, we’re once again bringing together the best developers, designers … | Continue reading
New possibilities in 3D printing may open up a whole new chapter of opportunities for pharmaceutical research and bio-technology applications. There are a number of ways it could be used — drug dosage forms, supporting delivery, or helping to research cures. Let’s explore how tha … | Continue reading
Almost exactly a year ago, Facebook released Riff, a social video app that let you create themed chains of videos with friends. While that app was swiftly put out to pasture, Wheel launches today on iOS to pick up the baton and it’s already looking pretty promising. As with Riff, … | Continue reading
Twitter is adding alternative text support for its Android and iOS apps, which will help the visually impaired access Twitter images. What the feature does is allow users who upload images to Twitter to then tag those pictures with a description. Visually impaired users who take … | Continue reading
We’ve seen many things that claim to be the future of VR: everything from how to help people overcome a fear of public speaking to Disney using it to create new characters to how to get a bit closer to the action inside your favourite porno. But, nothing quite compares to the lev … | Continue reading
SoundCloud hasn’t said anything publicly about its upcoming subscription music service yet, but today it leaked a little bit about it in an iOS update. Called ‘SoundCloud Go,’ the service will cost $12.99 per month (with the first month free) and offer access to a “newly expanded … | Continue reading
Today’s complicated data security landscape has begun to look a lot like a modern legend or fairytale. Just like King Arthur gathered his knights to fight against enemies and supernatural forces to find the Holy Grail, organizations are constantly fighting hackers, malicious indi … | Continue reading
As the popularity of lightweight remote control aircraft skyrockets, we’re helping you get in on the drone rush by offering one of the most incredible quadcopters ever built for free in our DJI Phantom 4 drone giveaway. The winner will receive an insanely awesome new camera-equip … | Continue reading
Xiaomi is primarily known for its attractive, cheap phones, but it’s getting into something new: the Internet of Things. It’s launching the “Mi Ecosystem” today, a new program which will sell internet-connected gadgets that work with its other devices. The company has a number of … | Continue reading
The now well-known and increasingly long-running battle between Apple and the FBI over the unlocking of an iPhone is over. Or, it is for now. But with the FBI reportedly getting access from a third-party, leading to a request to withdraw the case, there are unanswered questions a … | Continue reading
Less than two hours after it was revealed that The Music of David Bowie show was coming to Carnegie Hall in New York this year, the iconic artist had died on January 10. The show immediately sold out, as did a second night in Radio City Music Hall, so the organizers will now live … | Continue reading
Security researchers from Cheetah Mobile have discovered a privacy flaw in Truecaller – the world’s largest caller ID app – that puts the personal information of over a hundred million users in danger. As Cheetah Mobile explains in its report, Truecaller uses a devices’ IMEI numb … | Continue reading
When it comes to getting a job, it’s no longer just about your CV and a face-to-face interview. Companies are using people’s social media accounts as references and Skype interviews are commonplace. A digital agency in the US is going beyond that and using Snapchat to hire its in … | Continue reading
T-Mobile’s CEO John Legere is many things: an outspoken critic of anyone who criticizes the company he runs, a gatecrasher of parties thrown by his rivals, and Trumps’ biggest troll. But is he worth of an accolade only previously reserved for the Pope? This week, Twitter anointed … | Continue reading
‘Just popping to the gym’ is the decree of fit and healthy people around the world who like to make good use of their lunchbreak. But rather than just knowing that you’re lazy and they’re not, now you can know exactly how lazy you are, and exactly how active they are by integrati … | Continue reading