A new Waze update for iOS aims to take the stress out of planning the perfect departure time to make sure that you’re never late — or obscenely early — again. ‘Planned Drives’ works best when you grant Waze access to your calendar and/or Facebook so that all of your appointments … | Continue reading
The FAA has been voicing its concerns over the threat posed by drones to airplanes for a while now. Nobody likes the idea of something damaging an aircraft they’re travelling through the sky in so of course people welcomed efforts by the organization to curb any accidents. Howeve … | Continue reading
While South by Southwest is a festival that examines a lot of things — new technology, up-and-coming trends, and big questions about the future of film, music and technology — rarely do attendees get the opportunity to see a battle that was sparked and largely fought online play … | Continue reading
Poor Windows Mobile, forever relegated to being third wheel to Android and iOS. Things have picked up a bit of steam since Windows 10 came to be, and with its promise of universal apps across all devices Twitter is joining the fray. The company has added mobile compatibility to T … | Continue reading
When it comes to tech, Ireland is primed for success and expansion. Both parts of the island are fostering a tech startup scene with pro-business initiatives and an environment ripe for collaboration between industry, academia and state agencies. It’s not simply policy either. Ir … | Continue reading
My favorite part of reading magazines as a child (and beyond, when I used to pick up physical objects) was the readers’ letters section – and obviously, being an international publisher with readers all around the world, we get a fair few letters too. So here you are, just a few … | Continue reading
Subgraph OS launched in public alpha at the weekend’s tech and democracy-focused Logan CIJ Symposium and got an endorsement from Ed Snowden – stamping it with some promise that it could be our future answer to an insecure online world. “The internet is more hostile than its ever … | Continue reading
GitHub is great for hosting and managing codebases, but let’s be honest: it’s not very pretty. A new tool named DevSpace is helping to change that, and actually makes GitHub more contextual. What DevSpace is good at is making GitHub more social. It’s just like Tweetdeck, where va … | Continue reading
LastPass, maker of one of the most popular password managers out there, is today announcing a new smartphone app to keep users more secure. LastPass Authenticator is meant to make it easy for anyone to use two-factor authentication on a multitude of accounts. If you’re not famili … | Continue reading
I’ve been moaning about Uber’s lack of shared account for years, but in the meantime, my girlfriend and I decided to share a single Uber account to avoid needing multiple payment methods – but it’s finally adding that today. Families can now share a single payment method across u … | Continue reading
Every month TNW Deals has a bunch of cool giveaways, each worth hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars. There are things to educate you, make your life easier and give you a sense of enjoyment. What’s even better is that you could win them all in just a few clicks. Here are our … | Continue reading
Unity’s demo team has been secretly working on a short film that’s created entirely in the next version of the company’s engine – and it’s incredible. The result is ADAM, a film rendered in real-time using Unity 5.4 that leverages CaronteFX’s physics simulation tool – which somew … | Continue reading
Sony announced last night that its much anticipated PlayStation VR headset will be available in stores from October and will cost $399 (£350). What Sony failed to really highlight was the fact that the headset needs a camera to work, which isn’t going to come in the box and neith … | Continue reading
Last year Facebook added the ability to set temporary profile photos in support of a cause and later made it possible to add other types of frames by visiting pages, like those of sport teams, that supported it. Today, Mark Zuckerberg shared that there’s a new way to browse all t … | Continue reading
The wearables market has been flooded over the past few years with devices to measure the distance you’ve run and the calories you’ve burned. But there hasn’t been anything to help fighters track their performance in the ring. The team behind Hysko promises to do just that. Slip … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that it was finally going to open up the Xbox and PC to cross-platform play with gamers on other devices and networks. Clearly, the first rival device to spring to mind for most people is Sony’s PS4 – and Microsoft’s cross-network aspiration … | Continue reading
Each week we’re profiling one company that has been selected for Boost – our early-stage startup growth program. Catch up with these companies in person at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on May 26-27. MysteryVibe wanted to bring a truly flexible sex toy to market that bends … | Continue reading
I’ll let you on to a little secret: The number one reason that I quickly grew my blog’s email list to 7500 subscribers and my blog’s revenue to $100,000 is due to my strange approach to marketing. In fact, this same approach took my blog’s traffic from this: to this: (In a month) … | Continue reading
A number of high-profile and very high-traffic websites such as The New York Times (NYT), BBC, AOL, MSN, the NFL and more have all been serving up malicious adverts to unsuspecting users that ultimately results in files being held to ransom by the malware, according to Malwarebyt … | Continue reading
Google’s making big efforts to offer secure products, as well as nudging the companies that use its infrastructure, so that you can use the Web without having to worry. But it’s revealed that it, and some of the world’s biggest websites, are failing to encrypt. According to its n … | Continue reading
Google definitely wins against Apple when it comes to naming versions of its operating systems. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai hinted in December 2015 that the company might be turning to its users for help naming Android N and it looks like he wasn’t being flippant after all. As And … | Continue reading
Tesla has confirmed that its upcoming Model 3 launch – widely thought to be the first electric car from Elon Musk’s company aimed at regular, price-sensitive consumers – will go ahead on March 31 in California. Invites to the event have now been sent out, though little specific d … | Continue reading
IMDb is great if you want to quickly find out who the stars are in your favorite movies or TV shows, but there’s been a big gap in another entertainment area: podcasts. Last year we saw Makerbase pop up, which is like IMDb for people who make things in tech, but now we’ve got Pod … | Continue reading
Over the past four years, Giphy has become the go-to destination for people looking to jazz up their social media posts with GIFs from TV, movies, music and pop culture. But the company isn’t satisfied with serving 150 million visitors a month and being valued at $300 million. In … | Continue reading
Mobile devices play an increasingly important role in the retail shopping experience. We already use our smartphones and tablets at practically every step along the way in the shopping process, from researching product details and comparing prices across retailers to checking the … | Continue reading
Crytek, the makers of such fine games as the Crysis series, the original Far Cry and Ryse: Son of Rome, has launched the latest version of its 3D game engine and made it free for developers to use in their projects. Cryengine V works with Windows, Linux, PS4, Xbox One as well as … | Continue reading
HERE Maps has announced that its apps will no longer be available from the Windows 10 store from March 29, dealing a crushing blow to Microsoft’s cross-device platform. The company said in a blog post: To continue offering the HERE apps for Windows 10 would require us to redevelo … | Continue reading
Hearing pitches about bizarre new apps is part of the SXSW experience, but when we were contacted by a company claiming to be creating “…a social shooting experience” with a new app that lets you “find friends, compete, shoot guns,” even we were slightly stunned. Jonathan Rockett … | Continue reading
Instagram is announcing a subtle but important tweak to its platform today: photos will no longer be sorted in purely chronological order. Basically, the app will now behave a bit more like parent company Facebook, organizing your feed based on an algorithm that decides what’s mo … | Continue reading
Apple has been fairly guarded about its News app, to the point it won’t even reveal to publishers how many readers see content there. Now, it’s opening the platform up to just about everyone. With an update to its publishing protocols, Apple will let anyone push content to News, … | Continue reading
Medium is giving curation a shot. A new feature for iOS and Android named ‘Collections’ will see Medium staff and “trusted testers” push content to the forefront. The home screen will now feature popular topics like politics or technology in a menu along the top. Medium’s current … | Continue reading
At long last Sony has announced a price and release date for for its virtual reality system during its conference at the Game Developers Conference: The PlayStation VR will launch in October for $399 (£349 in the UK). That’s a fair bit cheaper than competing systems like the Ocul … | Continue reading
I don’t like to use words like ‘brilliant’ lightly, but seriously, the Irish Startup Wake at SXSW really was that. Failure is something that has become fetishized in the startup world. At some point in the past few years ‘it’s okay to fail’ became ‘failure is cool.’ But there’s s … | Continue reading
Crime reporting applications for smartphones aren’t new, but the US Army hopes that ‘iWatch Army’ can boost its efforts to shore up military installments against crime and terrorism. “iWatch brings the concept of the neighborhood watch to the Facebook generation,” said founder Da … | Continue reading
Many claim that Pope Francis is the most liberal Pope to date, and with his decidedly left-wing stances on gay marriage, economics and the environment, it’s hard to argue. Now, Pope Francis is set to drop liberal politics in exchange for liberal use of hashtags and filters by joi … | Continue reading
GitHub just changed the way code reviews are handled, and it will probably leave developers with a lot more time on their hands. Saying the changes are meant to make GitHub “faster and more flexible” for teams, developers can now filter pull requests by extensions. If you’re the … | Continue reading
With the primaries in full swing and the election just months away, a handful of new (and new-ish) Google search features make researching and tracking your favorite — or least favorite — candidates even easier. The best part is, you don’t even have to leave Google Search results … | Continue reading
The scene opens to a children’s playground in a park. Two mothers are having a conversation on the bench as their kids run about. You can choose to stay focused on the women and listen to them talk, or investigate the playground to see where their children are playing. And you sh … | Continue reading
Google has finally embraced one of iOS’ most standard features: bottom-bar navigation. With a change to its Material Design guidelines, Google is now encouraging developers and designers to use navigation buttons on the bottom of the screen. Ahead of this change, all in-app navig … | Continue reading
Chances are, you don’t have an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus. That means you don’t get to take advantage of 3D Touch, but a new GitHub repository named PeekPop could bring all the peeking and popping fun of 3D Touch to older devices. With Apple’s newest iPhones, a new screen assembly brou … | Continue reading
What if you could travel back in time and experience the last four minutes of a famous person’s life? Well, you can, if you’re willing to lock yourself in a morgue cabinet in the dark, listen and deeply inhale the air around you. That’s the only mildly-scary premise behind the Fa … | Continue reading
Google first introduced price estimates for Uber rides way back in 2014, and while it’s a useful option if you’re running late to a meeting, the lack of other services can be limiting That’s partly changing today, as the company is adding estimates for several more services: 99Ta … | Continue reading
One of the biggest tools for Inbox by Gmail, ‘Smart Reply,’ makes life simpler by using machine learning to compile one-tap phrases to respond to email. But only those using mobile could get in on the action. That changes today. The company announced via the Gmail blog that the f … | Continue reading
Google is known for paying big bucks to hackers that can crack its security, but this time its doubling its $50,000 bug bounty. Anyone who can create a recurring hack for a Chromebook or Chromebox that’s working on guest mode – meaning it comes back even after the machine’s been … | Continue reading
A new nine-part Web series about the Google Lunar XPRIZE had its world premiere yesterday at SXSW. Titled ‘Moon Shot’ and directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel and executive producer J.J. Abrams, follows the journey of the different teams who are com … | Continue reading
Airbnb will soon make it a lot easier for neighbors to provide feedback – AKA, complain – about how guests behave while staying at a host’s home. Bloomberg reports that Airbnb made the announcement in Japan, where the company has seen huge growth recently. That surge means a lot … | Continue reading
With over 100 million gamers streaming on Twitch every month, the platform is already a go-to in the industry. However, it’s widening its focus today with the launch of a new food channel that has nothing at all to do with games. So, kicking off at 2pm (PT) today, the channel wil … | Continue reading
Twitter Bootstrap is great. In fact, I did a coding course last year and I know it’s a super-easy way to create nice looking, mobile-ready websites in a flash. Trouble is, everyone else knows that too, and now dev Jeremy Karbowski has made a Twitter Bootstrap website about it. Bo … | Continue reading