After a whole series of delays, Microsoft is finally ready to release its up to $22,000 Surface Hub to the businesses. If you’re not familiar, the Surface Hub is giant all-in-one touchscreen PC designed for conference rooms and teams. It supports dual pen input (the pens are mor … | Continue reading
In an attempt to look good in front of advertisers, Snapchat is touting its ability to hypnotize its fervent teen base into consuming content. According to a report from Business Insider, citing a source familiar with the matter, Snapchat is now saying that its users spend betwee … | Continue reading
A bill proposed in congress this week would require that all users provide identification and register prepaid ‘burner’ phones upon purchase. Earlier this week we reported that burner phones are what kept Islamic extremists a step head of law enforcement in the days and weeks lea … | Continue reading
Two days ago, we wrote about Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot modeled to talk like a millenial and learn from its conversations. Unfortunately, by the next day, Twitter users had ‘taught’ her to be racist, homophobic, and all around bigoted. Though the chatbot was promptly shut down, … | Continue reading
The Oculus Rift is arguably the best VR experience around, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have room for improvement. The Facebook-owned company today announced it has enabled a new technique called Asynchronous Timewarp (ATW) to reduce jitteriness from your head motions b … | Continue reading
Google is once again challenging developers to make the best use of Android, and giving away I/O invitations to the most unique submissions. Via the Android Experiments Challenge, developers can submit their take on best use cases for Android. It can be just about anything, so lo … | Continue reading
A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability for OS X allows hackers to execute code previously thought to be protected by Apples new kernel defense, known as System Identity Protection (SIP). “Our researchers recently uncovered a major flaw which allows for local privilege escalati … | Continue reading
The folks over at x.ai – creators of Amy, the artificial intelligence answer to scheduling meetings – have had a shot at showing exactly what it looks like inside their bot’s brain, using AI, of course. The team used a powerful deep-learning model, a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN … | Continue reading
Uber is now sourcing developers from its pool of riders. On Twitter, Microsoft employee (and possible Lumberjack) Joshua Debner shared screenshots of an in-app experience he had while taking an Uber ride. It asked Debner to ask some fairly routine interview-type questions. All of … | Continue reading
With all the rapid changes happening in the digital advertising space, especially around the exploding growth of computer-driven programmatic advertising, I needed a crash course to get up to speed. I was fortunate to stumble on this ABC’s of Programmatic Advertising whitepaper f … | Continue reading
The on-going spat between the FBI and Apple has taken yet another surprising turn this week, thanks to an old law the US government brought in to protect US citizens from cyber attacks. The obscure “vulnerabilities equities process” was a rule brought in by the Obama administrati … | Continue reading
Thanks to the technological advances in data-driven marketing, today more than ever, marketers have a wealth of data at their disposal. This crucial information informs brand campaigns and strategies at every turn. And as many marketers can attest, the influx of customer data tha … | Continue reading
The difficult thing about sending destructible messages is that you usually have to go to a completely different platform in order to use them. Anchor Free has slimmed the process down a step by creating an iOS keyboard for its destructible messaging product, Kaboom. Available to … | Continue reading
As you might’ve guessed, we love a good gif here at TNW. Heck, our logo has one built-in (just go and hover your mouse over it to see). But what happens when you turn an entire film into a series of 569 gifs and post them all in order on to Giphy? That’s precisely what Jean-Bapti … | Continue reading
If you were one of the clever people who got in early with their Oculus Rift preorder, you’ll be happy to learn that your headset is on its way. Confirmed by CEO Brendan Iribe, customers should start receiving their bundles from Monday, March 28. The first Oculus Rift has shipped … | Continue reading
Most of us know our way around the basics of Microsoft Office, at least enough to get by in the daily grind. But with a little bit of dedication it’s possible to build a comprehensive fluency in the essentials of Word and Excel take your career – and newfound confidence – to prom … | Continue reading
The Web is where chaos lives and sometimes, just sometimes, that can be a good thing. There have been countless viral articles recently that speculated about the planes of the future – where we might have glass bubbles on top of the aircraft or one with no windows, just screens g … | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
Last week, Facebook added a free basketball game inside its Messenger app, and ever since people figured out how to unlock it, the game spread faster than Michael Jordan can steal basketballs. Facebook tells us that since the game was added one week ago, “millions” of users have … | Continue reading
Apple’s pushed a rather quick bug fix for people using older devices who were stuck when asked to enter their password during install. The company had at first said it would halt updates to devices suffering from the glitch, so it’s good users can now get on with using all the gr … | Continue reading
Netflix admitted yesterday it’s been secretly throttling video streams for AT&T and Verizon customers – it said to prevent these people from consuming their entire data plan in a matter of hours – and soon it’ll let you opt to do this yourself. Starting in May, Netflix apps will … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Echo is a nifty little gadget that’s powered by the company’s Alexa voice assistant and listens for voice commands to do things like order your groceries, update you on the weather and play your favorite tunes. The only problem is, it costs a pretty penny — $180 to be pr … | Continue reading
This week, Twitter turns 10. Over the next few days we’ll be exploring how far the microblogging service has come, the challenges it faces going forward and some of its key moments along the way. Facebook may be the most popular social media platform – and it’s arguable whether T … | Continue reading
Have you ever wondered if you’ve got the commitment and willpower to write a book? Well, whether you’ve tried and failed or you’re just toying with the idea of exercising your writing skills, this free browser game might be just what you need for inspiration. Eveline is a game wh … | Continue reading
Election-related YouTube traffic has grown by 485 percent since the middle of last year, even more on mobile, as US voters seek out information to help them decide their vote. A full 110 million hours of this kind of content has now been watched on YouTube, which it’s estimated i … | Continue reading
How is your Friday? This weekend is Easter. You know, that one holiday with the egg-stashing chocolate bunnies. Or, depending on the version you celebrate, Jesus basically going: And then three days later he was all like: In honor of the holiday weekend, in all its incarnations, … | Continue reading
Ever wondered how Google manages thousands of petabytes of storage across its services around the world? The answer lies in its state-of-the-art data centers, and you can now take a close look inside. Google has released a 360-degree video in glorious 4K resolution that takes you … | Continue reading
Niantic Labs has revealed details about its upcoming augmented reality game, Pokémon GO, which it first announced in September 2015. Based on the wildly popular Japanese franchise and developed in collaboration with Nintendo, the title will see players explore their real-world su … | Continue reading
Gaming giant Valve made waves when it released its revolutionary trackpad-based Steam Controller last June after two years in the making. Now, it’s looking to its community of users to help design accessories and alternative versions for the gamepad. The company has released its … | Continue reading
A recent thread posted on a guarded cybercrime forum advertised a database containing contact information for roughly 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers for sale at $100,000 for the lot, reports Krebs on Security. Verzion confirmed in a statement that it had identified and … | Continue reading
If you’re rocking an iPhone 5s, iPad Air or older Apple gear, you may have to wait a bit for iOS 9.3. iMore reports that the update that Apple just pushed installed the new version but required users of older iOS devices to enter their Apple ID and password to complete the setup … | Continue reading
Last week, both AT&T and Verizon came under fire by T-Mobile CEO John Legere. He thought both were throttling Netflix traffic for their subscribers, but it turns out Netflix was restricting the flow of data. Netflix said it caps streams at 600 kilobits-per-second for AT&T and Ver … | Continue reading
Snapchat has purchased Bitstrips, the service behind those funny DIY comic strips. Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, sources tell Fortune it was a mixture of cash and stock worth “in the ballpark” of $100 million. Bitstrips let users create comics starring themselves a … | Continue reading
For days, gamers have been caught up in the hype of Nintendo’s next-generation console, codenamed the “Nintendo NX,” particularly as several purported shots of its controller have made the rounds of popular forums. But if you wanted to really believe, prepare for your heart to ge … | Continue reading
Apple Music for Android now has a widget, leaving iOS users swooning. It’s a simple addition; all you can do is control the playback. But the ability to pause, play and skip tracks without actually entering the app is a very Android feature. If you’re interested, here’s the full … | Continue reading
We’ve covered robot writers before, but to date it has never been much of a concern for actual writers. Robots just aren’t that good at doing what we do; although Microsoft’s ‘Tay’ did prove to be pretty great at going from zero to off-the-rails after dealing with some nasty Twit … | Continue reading
Apple is making it’s own TV series — about apps. In a collaboration with Will.i.am and two veteran Hollywood producers, Apple is making a ‘nonscripted’ show about apps. It’s not clear just what the subject matter of the show may be outside of the very vague ‘apps.’ Speaking with … | Continue reading
Big news for the professional and enthusiast photographers out there: Google is making the entirety of Nik Software’s photo editing suite completely free. It’s a big deal – Nik Software has been around for about two decades, and its film-like filters and other editing tools are s … | Continue reading
Samsung Gear VR owners now have a lot more TV to watch: Hulu has launched an app on the Oculus store. Much like the Netflix VR app, Hulu’s take allows you to watch videos in a virtual setting. But whereas Netflix only includes a living room environment and an empty ‘void’ space, … | Continue reading
Classic gamers need to run, not walk, to Steam and grab ‘Atari Vault’ — a collection of 100 classic Atari 2600 games featuring Asteroids, Centipede, Pong and over 90 others retro titles. The Atari 2600 was a breakthrough in modern computing as it stuck your arcades favorite right … | Continue reading
Gmail now has a dedicated notification system to warn users if they’re at risk of opening emails from insecure services or opening bad Web links. In Gmail, if someone sends you an email that was sent from an insecure service, a red ‘unlock’ icon will alert you. Gogole says that s … | Continue reading
Journalists and investors are being overrun with pitches for chatbots and conversational interfaces at the moment. But is this a fad or a genuine step forward in the technology industry? Chat-based interfaces have long been an important part of life for users of apps like WeChat … | Continue reading
If Timehop and Facebook taught us anything, it’s that people sure do love walking down those memory lanes. A year ago, Facebook launched On This Day, a daily reminder of your activities on the social network that happened on that same date. For its first anniversary, Facebook ann … | Continue reading
Facebook continues to flesh out its analytics on video for Pages and brands, today announcing via blog post a new daily breakdown of numbers to keep its content creators informed. “This new data gives Page owners a better understanding of when their audiences are watching their v … | Continue reading
It’s 1,934 days since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked for asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London – now the UK has made a formal appeal against a UN judgement last month that found he is being “arbitrarily and unlawfully detained.” Officials responded to the “inaccurate … | Continue reading
Docker is now available for Mac and Windows via a new beta program in celebration of its third birthday. It’s a neat move for those who don’t like using VirtualBox, as Docker notes its desktop app uses Alpine Linux on top of xhyve (Mac) or Hyper-V (Windows) to run virtual machine … | Continue reading
West Midlands Police in the UK occasionally posts inappropriate emergency calls on its SoundCloud account, and the latest is a doozy. I mean, I like Snapchat as much as the next person but I wouldn’t say the app being down is a top-proirity matter for the police. Best stick to co … | Continue reading
With nearly 70 percent of American’s shopping online at least once monthly, it’s safe to say that our online Amazon binges are officially a “thing.” Unfortunately, another “thing” that’s quickly pervading the online shopping world is the fear and uncertainty that comes with enter … | Continue reading