Nuzzel, the news curation app from former Friendster founder and CEO Jonathan Abrams, today announced a new integration with LinkedIn. Users who sign in with their LinkedIn accounts will now be able to access personalized business stories, that are relevant to their experiences a … | Continue reading
So sure, we could trick you out with the latest, coolest new tech and just give you a Pixel XL 2...but instead, we’re also gonna throw in a Google Daydream View VR headset AND a Google Home smart speaker in this New Google Pixel and Friends Giveaway from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
As many students abandon traditional, on-campus university programs to pursue online degrees from the comfort of their homes (myself included), monitoring online exams has become a widely debated topic. While online proctoring has, no doubt, helped to eliminate cheaters, many stu … | Continue reading
That’s the idea behind Ethereum, a blockchaining process that hopes to do for decentralizing and ultimately protecting online information what Bitcoin is doing for online commerce. It’s a heady idea that’s only beginning to gain traction, but you can get ahead of that curve and t … | Continue reading
Stories of Scale is a content series with startup participants from our conference in a partnership with EQT Ventures, sharing growth stories and lessons from industry insiders centered around four pillars: technology, business, human optimization, and communication. Are you savv … | Continue reading
InVision’s made a name for itself with its suite of tools for prototyping and collaborating on mobile and web design projects; it’s now taking things a step further with the launch of Studio, a desktop app for designing responsive apps and sites from start to finish. With its new … | Continue reading
Stanford University researchers created this vine-like robot that can move around by ‘growing’ and shrinking. Inspired by natural organisms like fungi, this polyethylene robot can grow up to 72 meters long and move at 35 km/h just by inflating and deflating its limbs. It can lift … | Continue reading
Earlier on 18 October 2017, the team at iAfrikan and I published all the details we knew at the time regarding what we thought was South Africa’s largest-ever data breach. This was after I had called Troy Hunt, the security consultant, researcher and founder of have i been pwned? … | Continue reading
The Norwegian Consumer Council has uncovered a litany of critical vulnerabilities and privacy shortcomings in several smartwatches specifically targeted at children. Among other things, malicious agents can easily hijack control of the watches and turn them into covert spying dev … | Continue reading
Launching a mobile app isn’t quite as easy as it was 10 years ago. When smartphones were flooding the market back in the mid 2000’s, there was a distinct “honeymoon phase” when it came to apps. In other words, people were much more open to experimenting and trying out new program … | Continue reading
After coming under fire last week for suspending actor Rose McGowan’s account in the midst of her pointing out the worrying phenomenon of sexual harassment in Hollywood, Twitter’s attempt at firefighting was weak, to say the least. CEO Jack Dorsey’s tweetstorm last Friday didn’t … | Continue reading
While Google has a long history of partnering with hardware makers to build its range of phones for showcasing the latest developments in Android, it’s created its own mobile processor for the first time, to improve camera performance in the Pixel 2. It’s called the Pixel Visual … | Continue reading
It kinda sounds like voice assistant overkill, but maybe Garmin is onto something: the navigation systems firm’s new Speak gadget sticks to your windshield and lets you invoke Alexa to ask for directions, play music and audiobooks, shop on Amazon and turn off the lights at home w … | Continue reading
Having a set of public company values gives your business a distinct stature and can significantly strengthen your company’s image and reputation, especially when it comes to outreach, promotions, and other social initiatives your company may seek to pursue. Oftentimes, having a … | Continue reading
In case you tend to miss miniscule details about your childhood paraphernalia: lots of Famicom cartridges had small holes on them which serve no apparent purpose. They look almost as though something was meant to snap into them, but there was nothing that would actually do that. … | Continue reading
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages, it’s time! Tonight, live on Twitch, two giant robots will face-off in the squared circle to determine whether the US or Japan will reign supreme in mechanized battle. This is the first international piloted-mecha fight, … | Continue reading
WhatsApp today announced that users would be able to share their location live in the app. Your friends and family will be able to follow your movements for as long as you want. The feature is very similar to Facebook’s Live Location sharing, though you’ll be able to share your l … | Continue reading
Snap and NBCUniversal have teamed up to create a Hollywood studio set to focus on mobile entertainment. The joint venture aims to bring longer, scripted content to the app world. The project will focus on teaming up with creative partners in order to create 8-10 minute shows in t … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) – It’s 2027 (or 2037) and the age of the self-driving car. City-dwellers have traded in their car keys for ride hails. Street parking has been replaced by wider sidewalks and bike lanes, while developers are busy converting garages into much-needed housing. That’s one … | Continue reading
The best form of birth control is spending a few minutes around some children. They are cunning creatures bent on their own self-destruction and it’s about time someone tapped into the hell that is parenthood for video game inspiration. Surprise Attack’s upcoming game “Think of t … | Continue reading
After San Jose Mercury News first reported Friday that Tesla was firing 400 to 700 employees of the motors division, speculation swirled. The Model 3 was behind schedule, and terminating workers in the division seemed a less-than-ideal way to solve its current production issues. … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, both Apple and Huawei made a lot of noise about the new processors in their latest phones, touting the inclusion of a game-changing neural engine or neural processing unit specifically designed to handle artificial intelligence computation. But why should you c … | Continue reading
Facebook today added an option to share your screen directly on Facebook Live, thus eliminating the need for other software for many users. The feature was first spotted by our own Matt Navarra: NEW! Facebook screen sharing option on FB Live via https://t.co/Luozcvmz9G (desktop / … | Continue reading
Robots and AI are replacing workers at an alarming rate, from simple manual tasks to making complex legal decisions and medical diagnoses. But the AI itself, and indeed most software, is still largely programmed by humans. Yet there are signs that this might be changing. Several … | Continue reading
Yesterday, we learned about KRACK (or Key Reinstallation Attack) – a security flaw in the WPA2 protocol, which could see an adversary break the encryption between a router and a device, allowing them to intercept and interfere with network traffic. Or, more succinctly, shit’s fuc … | Continue reading
Just when I was losing hope Microsoft would upgrade the Surface Book this year, the company invited a small group of journalists to quietly announce not just one, but two new laptops. In addition to a new 13.5-inch model, we’re getting a 15-inch Surface Book as well. They start a … | Continue reading
ZTE today revealed its latest smartphone, the Axon M. It has two screens and a central hinge allowing it to fold in half. We've just revealed our newest #smartphone with the most innovative #tech. #AxonM, the must-have device of the year, is officially here. pic.twitter.com/iUzQr … | Continue reading
The three-dimensional sensor is a one-of-a-kind technology breakthrough that keeps surprising humanity in the areas it has been applied to. Technology-lovers desire up to date devices such as this invention. Three-dimensional sensors are the in-thing as depth sensing aims at conn … | Continue reading
Public relations has never been blockchain’s strength. When it first came to public and media attention in 2014, this new way of distributing and retrieving information was often used synonymously with Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has navigated through images problems of its … | Continue reading
The BackStrong chair is a weird mashup of two different chairs trying to go in separate directions. I’ve been using one for two weeks and I’m still not positive I’m doing it right, but my back hasn’t felt this good in years. This chair isn’t an upgrade over my current office furn … | Continue reading
One of Google’s most-used (but least updated) apps just got a new coat of paint. Launched over a decade ago, Google Calendar, aka GCal, has coasted through existence with a series of mostly iterative updates. 2015 brought “reminders,” 2016 saw the launch of “goals” and AI-driven … | Continue reading
Months after Dutch National Police vowed to actively persecute individuals suspected of buying and selling illegal substances on the dark web, two 23-year-old men from the Netherlands have been sentenced to serve time in prison for dealing drugs. The two defendants, Thijs V. from … | Continue reading
The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are not phones I expected to be impressed by. Not after a year full of some of the most groundbreaking smartphones in recent memory, like the Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and Note8, the V30, and the OnePlus 5. Not after the iPhone X was announced to commemorate … | Continue reading
So, by now, you’ve probably heard of the KRACK vulnerabilities and the announcement made through a website that credits Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet with the discovery. While, there is a lot of technical jargon, what is essentially happening with this vulnerability is that it … | Continue reading
If you love Arduino and their host of multi-skill level electronics projects, then you’re probably also a big fan of Codebender, the web’s one-stop-shopping for all the coolest Arduino code, ideas, and discussion. Now, you can get a lifetime pass to Codebender, an over $1,200 val … | Continue reading
Apple has already whipped up an antidote to the glaring WPA2 encryption protocol vulnerability affecting Wi-Fi routers across the board. But there is one catch: the solution is currently only available as part of the latest beta version for iOS, 11.1 Developer beta 3. This means … | Continue reading
Almost a decade ago, Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, silently disrupted trust-providing organizations, like banks, with an eight-page long research paper describing how money can be decentralized (through Bitcoin). At the time, not many people understood the potential t … | Continue reading
In a move to counteract the spread of browser malware, yesterday Google announced its plans to ramp up its security mechanisms in Chrome to make it easier for users to prevent and recover from unwanted software infections. But good intentions aside, there is one aspect of this im … | Continue reading
You can help find the right words — and get some critical social media education, to boot — with the Marketing Copywriter bundle of courses, which you can score from TNW Deals right now at any price you want to pay. | Continue reading
Do you know how much data you actually own? You would think it would be a lot, right? We’re constantly feeding the internet with our personal information, traits, habits, and characteristics — so at least some of that data should belong to us personally. That would be the case in … | Continue reading
After leading the charge globally in manufacturing hardware, China has its sights set on a major technological achievement: developing a facial recognition system to visually identify all 1.3 billion citizens nationwide. South China Morning Post noted that the project has been in … | Continue reading
Earlier today, Google rolled out a new feature in Maps for iPhone users in the US, which counted the calories burned when you walked to a certain place and depicted that in equivalent mini cupcakes. It was quickly panned by many a Twitter user and has already been killed off – th … | Continue reading
Sometime in the next couple of months, the Tiangong-1 space station is going to fall to Earth — and we’ll have no idea where it’s going to land until a couple of hours before it does. The space laboratory was being controlled by the Chinese government until an amateur space track … | Continue reading
Windows may have just gotten its best answer to the MacBook yet, and it hails from a relative newcomer. Huawei’s MateBook X is not just an impressive first attempt at a laptop by Huawei, it might just be one of the best traditional laptops you can buy right now. I’ve used the dev … | Continue reading
Google’s AutoML system recently produced a series of machine-learning codes with higher rates of efficiency than those made by the researchers themselves. In this latest blow to human superiority the robot student has become the self-replicating master. AutoML was developed as a … | Continue reading
Google today launched a new feature that makes it easier to find pet pictures in Google Photos. The feature automatically seeks out pet faces and groups them in folders, just like it does people. You can label the photos with your pet’s name once they are grouped and there’s no n … | Continue reading
Thanks to just about every restaurant and its mother having an app, you can probably order most food before you get to the restaurant. But the physical structure of restaurants are not made to accommodate such innovations. Think about it: the last time you were in a casual dining … | Continue reading
By Monday I’d deleted Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn applications off my phone and logged out of all accounts on my laptop: it had begun Hi, my name is Inés and I’m a social media addict. But this week, I decided to go through digital detox by turn … | Continue reading