This week, the US patent office issued 6,769 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all five thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the six most interesting patents. Boeing achieves low energy transfers in space travel … | Continue reading
Even though email has been around for decades, the underlying transport technology used to send it, SMTP, is still surprisingly ancient. The majority of email is sent in plain text, unencrypted around the internet using SMTP – yet we still rely heavily on it for some of our most … | Continue reading
Data and creativity can work really well together. Don’t believe me? On February 1, 2013, a TV series called House of Cards debuted on the video streaming service Netflix. It proved an immediate hit. Two years later, it has a nine out of 10 rating from more than 275,000 reviewers … | Continue reading
Nothing has more of a negative impact on my workday than forgetting my headphones. Like most people, music is a huge part of my life. I listen to the most music while I work, sifting through playlists, from neo classical to indie to electronica on what seems like a never-ending s … | Continue reading
IBM announced that its Watson AI is getting image recognition capabilities earlier in the year, but this site that lets you feed in your own photos to see what it thinks is in them is both impressive and scary. The visual recognition demo lets you give Watson an image URL or uplo … | Continue reading
Toonz creates software you’ve probably never heard of but you’ve likely seen countless TV shows and movies made using its products. The company’s main product is a piece of enterprise animation software that helps with scanning and cleanup of drawings, editing, animation and comp … | Continue reading
According to software pioneer Mitch Kapor, 15 to 20 percent of companies have undergone radical transformations. Entrepreneurs may start off thinking they have the next billion dollar idea, though once aired, these inspirations may fail to hold such promise in reality. To success … | Continue reading
Inbox by Gmail has a few useful features but probably the most interesting is Smart Reply, which was expanded to the desktop this week. As impressive as the A.I.-powered suggestions for replies to your emails are, they’re just not very useful yet. Sure, Smart Replies tend to offe … | Continue reading
How do you test your new charity donations platform before it’s ready for prime time, get some publicity AND help people raise money for good causes in a unique way? It turns out that nudity helps. Nelfie is a project that encourages people to get tastefully naked for charity. Te … | Continue reading
Let’s face it, cloud storage can get pricy no matter how good the bargain. That’s why TNW’s new offer on a five-year Subscription to Zoolz Cloud Backup is so fantastic – because you get to pick the price! Featuring innovative technology, Zoolz is the only service that effortlessl … | Continue reading
To answer the headline above, we had an interview with our senior designer Jeff Andries, who has contributed to various TNW projects, and chief designer Alexander Griffioen, who manages and supervises all design projects at TNW. Tell us a bit about yourself Jeff: I’m Jeff Andries … | Continue reading
It’s been a tense week for humanity, watching with rapt attention while Google was making history by defeating a world-class professional player at the game of Go with an AI player (an unaccomplished feat, until now). Google was also busy putting its acquired robot-bullying compa … | Continue reading
In today’s clickbait culture, the news about online teenagers is dire, even apocalyptic. We are told that selfie culture is destroying the self-esteem of adolescent girls. Heavy social media use, we learn, is linked to disruptions in sleep patterns in kids. Young people, apparent … | Continue reading
I’m a map geek, so this Maps Time Travel thing is fascinating to me. It compares road travel today with what it was like in 1945. You can enter any two UK cities or postcodes and compare travel times, distances and routes you’d take today with those from 71 years ago. Spoiler: fu … | Continue reading
My PR firm is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As I’m in the central hub of the tech industry, I’ve been fortunate to work with many early-stage, fast-growing Silicon Valley tech startups. The tech industry is one of America’s most respected and celebrated business, yet tech … | Continue reading
Let me ask you a simple question. How much value you get from the blogs you read every day? Are they worth your time? Whether you are a startup founder, entrepreneur or a creative freelancer you read a lot of blogs and magazines every day. In the age of digital noise, it is extre … | Continue reading
By now, you’ve probably already seen our amazing lineup for TNW Europe, the festival bringing you top-flyers from the likes of Facebook, Google, Adyen, Booking.com, Uber, Thuisbezorgd, Reddit, Zalando, Blendle, WeTransfer and many, many more. But did you know that a ticket for TN … | Continue reading
Whether you’re blogging for fun or for business, getting your posts ranking in the search engines is your ticket to traffic. But in order for that to happen, you first need to make sure your blog and your individual posts are properly optimized. While SEO hasn’t fundamentally cha … | Continue reading
When you’re a large e-commerce store pushing thousands of orders every month – the last thing you want to think about is completely migrating your money-maker to another platform. It’s a lot of work, and you’re pretty sure it will destroy sales. So you put it off. You keep putt … | Continue reading
If you were excited by the prospect of a new, smaller iPhone SE — a new video showing off a 3D printed model and leaked case may get you all worked up. The well known Sonny Dickson, who has some friends down Apple’s supply chain, sent a case over to TechSmartt. From there, the cr … | Continue reading
As we close in on Monday’s Apple event, the rumor mill is hard at work — and tells us the smaller iPad Pro will have a premium pricetag. According to 9to5Mac, the 9.7-inch Pro will start at $599 (Wi-Fi version), a $100 price hike from the iPad Air 2. Fortunately, it will have 32G … | Continue reading
Earlier this week we brought you news that Anonymous was planning to launch “total war” on Donald Trump. Today, the hacktivist’s fired the opening salvo. The group followed through on earlier threats by posting extensive personal information about Trump — including a social secur … | Continue reading
Turns out that the Playstation VR may not be all the new hardware Sony is working on. According to a report by Kotaku, the company is building a ‘PS 4.5’ with upgraded specs to handle the imminent onslaught of 4K and virtual reality games. The company has reportedly reached out t … | Continue reading
Today, Google laid out a proposal to top transportation officials outlining a solution to its number one roadblock, federal guidelines. Google has been testing its self-driving technology for years now and racked up nearly 1.5 million miles of automated drive time with just one m … | Continue reading
On iOS, you’ve got variety when it comes to Web browsers — more than you’ll find on Android. Still, the race comes down to Safari and Chrome, and a new study by Adobe Digital Index shows Google is king, but Apple is catching up. On iPhone, Chrome usage has outpaced Safari by a ma … | Continue reading
While you might see Google’s self-driving car projects hitting the headlines every day (and the occassional bus), the reality is, they might not be available where you live for really quite a long time. According to a talk by the self-driving car project’s technical lead Chris Ur … | Continue reading
By now CDs have virtually become a thing of the past and the butt of a series of jokes punking the “good old days” when CD players were still a fad. But if you happen to be stacking an enormous collection of albums on your shelf, CD Scanner for Spotify might just be the app you’v … | Continue reading
The next time you’re planning a home improvement project, it may be with a big, goofy VR headset. Today, Microsoft announced a plan to bring Hololens headwear to select Lowe’s locations. With it, customers will be able to see things like kitchen cabinets, countertops and applianc … | Continue reading
By 2020, Goldman Sachs predicts that the virtual and augmented reality space will grow into a $110 billion business. Nice. There’s a lot of room in this space and it’s not just about taking a rollercoaster ride while sitting in the middle of your living room (although that is pre … | 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
In the last six months, we’ve been treated to some purse pounding pieces of hardware. The Oculus Rift weighed in with a hefty $599 price tag, which HTC trumped with its own $799 VR headset. Late last year, Tag Heuer got into the smartwatch game with its $1,500 answer to a fitness … | Continue reading
Sony announced that its much anticipated PlayStation VR headset will be available in stores from October for $399 earlier this week. What it left out of that announcement was the fact that anyone hoping to use the VR headset would need to already own a PlayStation camera that’s r … | Continue reading
I don’t even live in the US and I love NPR podcasts: Planet Money, Ted Radio Hour, the NPR Politics Podcast. Yes, I actually love hearing about the minutia of the US primaries, owed a lot to the warm and chatty hosts that make it way more accessible than a BBC radio show forked f … | Continue reading
The world’s smallest quadcopter just received a landmark upgrade. We’re excited to introduce you to the SKEYE Nano Drone with Camera, letting you capture and share exhilarating footage of your aerial acrobatics! At 27 percent off from TNW Deals, your opportunity to take to the sk … | Continue reading
The FBI has teamed up with the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to make a public service announcement warning about the growing cybersecurity threats posed by connected vehicles. It’s not a shock development but what’s more surprising is how long it’s taken the F … | Continue reading
If you’ve been reminiscing (I reminisce, I reminisce) over the good old times when you could go to a vinyl store and readily browse golden-era hip-hop albums, this website might just be the place for you. Digging Into Hip Hop (dihh) is a hip-hop-themed 3D interactive website tha … | Continue reading
It’s hard to imagine people going online more than three decades ago, but email’s been around since at least 1972. This British program from 1984 tries to show people what email is and why they should use it. Just like other computer shows of the area, it’s got a particular awkwa … | Continue reading
Tinder users have caught the gif bug that the rest of the Web has gorging itself on for some time. But, while most of us are content with using the animated images to sum up how we’re feeling each morning, when it comes to finding a mate, it’s a little more, er… technical. Accord … | Continue reading
Tech companies are notorious for offering cool perks in a bid to convince people to take a job with them over a cushy gig at a bank or consultancy firm. But team collaboration platform Jive Software takes the bacon with its offer of free pork products every Thursday for its staff … | Continue reading
Adblocking is a provocative topic. With reform imminent, aside from the economic and legal implications of its utility, there are further reaching user-centric implications at play here. Adblocking is the Tiananmen Square moment for the online advertising industry. Cultural icons … | Continue reading
Israeli-based software research agency, NorthBit, has released a report that claims millions of Android devices might be vulnerable to hacking. According to NorthBit’s research (see full PDF here), the security concern comes from Stagefright, Android’s mediaserver and multimedia … | Continue reading
Mobile World Congress 2016 might be a fast-fading memory, but one of the more unusual launches at the show was LG’s modular G5 smartphone. However, the Korean company didn’t say exactly when it would be released. Now, however, it reportedly has – and it’ll be on shelves before th … | Continue reading
I often get asked “what email service should I use if I don’t want to use Gmail?” and now I finally have what I think is an excellent answer. ProtonMail is an ad-free, end-to-end encrypted email client that’s been invite-only since 2014 – but it’s now opened its doors to ordinary … | Continue reading
Yahoo has added some new features to its Mail service that will enhance the links you send in emails by transforming them into visual, informative cards to give recipients a snapshot of the content right in the message. The new previews will allow people to play video and audio c … | Continue reading
The Domino’s crew in Australia has designed an autonomous robot that can navigate its way to your doorstep and deliver your pizza order. The four-wheeled Domino’s Robotic Unit (DRU) prototype can detect and avoid obstacles as it travels on sidewalks to reach its destination. Sepa … | Continue reading
A report in the New York Times suggests that if US courts compel Apple to create an insecure OS to help the FBI crack the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, the engineers tasked with building the software may quit or shirk their duties instead of complying with the judicial order. I … | Continue reading
Kickstarter has acquired Drip, a music streaming service with a focus on indie labels and exclusive content for subscribers. It’s an interesting move for the crowdfunding platform — not only is this Kickstarter’s first-ever acquisition, but it also comes just as Drip was about to … | Continue reading
Microsoft is making good on its promise to bring support for extensions to its Edge browser. The latest preview build includes this capability and Windows Insider testers can try it now. Edge currently supports three extensions: Microsoft Translator, which automatically translate … | Continue reading