Google’s been working away on bringing Material Design to Chrome for months, but the company is rapidly nearing completion of the visual overhaul as work speeds up on the company’s Chromium repositories. Chrome Canary 51 provides glimpses of the new browser design, which is almos … | Continue reading
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost, our early-stage growth program at The Next Web Conference. With the eleventh edition of our flagship Amsterdam conference coming up in M … | Continue reading
You could be forgiven for missing it in the noise, but yesterday Google quietly announced that it’s added experimental support for a next-generation Web standard to Chrome: WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a binary format for the Web that’s poised to change the type of applications de … | Continue reading
Letterboxd, for lack of better way to explain, is IMDB, but actually good. Built in Auckland, New Zealand, the company’s website is a social network for movies that lets you track which films you’ve seen, the ones you want to see and what your friends are watching. I’ve been usin … | Continue reading
Google revealed last year that it was joining the likes of Apple and building its own new state of the art campus right next to its current home in Mountain View, California. It showed off plans at the time that looked a lot like it was building the festival campsite of the futur … | Continue reading
I don’t think I’m going to be the next (or indeed first?) pure-360 video producer that everyone’s talking about. But if you think that accolade might be up your street, you should definitely try out Splash on iOS now, which was launched at SXSW to become the social sharing app fo … | Continue reading
Amazon has been delivering weapons to houses in the UK without insisting on age-verification, a new investigation by the Guardian has revealed. According to the report, the newspaper ordered two knives, one to be delivered to a home address, the other to the Guardian’s offices. B … | Continue reading
Skyhook Wireless – the company that handles location requests for a number of tech giants including Apple, Samsung and Dell – just launched a new ultra-light software development kit (SDK) that will make location services for wearables a lot more convenient. Until now, wearables … | Continue reading
Lucasfilm’s latest creation should get Star Wars fans rushing to pick up an HTC Vive headset. The studio’s immersive media arm, ILMxLab, has released a new VR experience titled ‘Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine’. Road to VR reports that it’s a 10-minute long experience that sees you … | Continue reading
F.lux has been a staple on the desktop for some time already – with versions existing for Mac, Windows and Linux. Hell, there’s even been a version for jailbroken iPhones and iPads since 2011. Now, finally, Android users are getting a version of their own – sort of. The app, like … | Continue reading
Fans of the Raspberry Pi now have a hard drive specifically built for their tiny devices: Western Digital’s PiDrive. The drive, which was built by the company’s incubator, WDLabs, is a 314 GB spinning disk drive that’s available for just $45.81 – a great price point for people ti … | Continue reading
Whether you’re building an app or running an online store, analytics can help you figure out what your users are trying to achieve and how you can serve them better. To that end, Google has launched a new set of enterprise-grade tools to help marketers gain insights about their c … | Continue reading
We get a lot of pitches here at TNW, but none of them caught our attention as much as the Bios Incube. This device – and the people behind it – want to turn your cold, dead body – or even the mortal remains of a friend or loved one – into a lovely tree. The team, based in Barcelo … | Continue reading
Advertising is one beast that Apple hasn’t really been able to tame as it’s grown its tech empire. Now it’s about to borrow a technique first pioneered online by the likes of Buzzfeed and Upworthy: native in-feed posts, advertorial in old media terms, within its aggregated News a … | Continue reading
Live-streaming platform Twitch has announced a new initiative that wants to make sure developers are building its broadcasting capabilities directly into their games. Stream First‘s mission is to make live-streaming part of every game’s design process rather than being an after t … | Continue reading
A new browser built by Mozilla Research called Servo is close to becoming reality, with a post from one of the team’s developers on the organization’s forum confirming a first release should land in June. Servo is a browser engine that was built from the ground up in the Rust lan … | Continue reading
It’s time for the ICC World Twenty20 cricket tournament and Google is gearing up for it with an interesting new search feature. When you search for cricket and Twenty20-related terms and the names of teams and players during and after matches, it will serve up real-time commentar … | Continue reading
While HTC and Oculus’ upcoming headsets look promising for VR fans, you’ll need to make room for a high-end PC, position tracking devices and all the cables needed to connect the headsets to your desktop. Hardware firm Sulon believes it’s hit upon a better alternative. It says th … | Continue reading
After launching in select cities a year ago, Sony is expanding its PlayStation Vue streaming TV service across the US. The company is adding 203 new markets and offering them a range of Slim plans that start at $29.99 a month for 55 channels and go up to $44.99 a month with more … | Continue reading
As Microsoft gears up to begin shipping the $3,000 Development Edition of its HoloLens augmented reality headset at the end of this month, the company is showing off one of its first AR apps for content creation. It’s kinda neat, if a bit cheesy. Actiongram lets you create augmen … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever been interested in ride-sharing but didn’t have a ride to share, Lyft will make those concerns a thing of the past in certain cities. Today, in a partnership with GM, the company announced its ‘Express Ride’ program, which will allow users to rent a GM vehicle for … | Continue reading
Anonymous declaring war on things is becoming rather blasé. In December it declared war on Donald Trump, before that ISIS, and if you want to go back even further we’ve seen operations aimed at combatting the KKK, Scientology, Syria, and The Westboro Baptist Church. “War” in this … | Continue reading
The biggest feature in Android N so far is native support for split-screen view, much like snapping programs to the sides in Windows 10. But what if Android could actually behave a lot more like Windows? This isn’t Android N (it’s Remix OS), but it’s an example of what Android co … | Continue reading
On the heels of closing one of its poorly received media efforts, Samsung is now trying to get into another hard-to-crack medium with a new social media app named Waffle. Using a familiar grid layout, Samsung hopes to connect its users via the same way they’re already connecting. … | Continue reading
The modern Web is often lauded for the way it has democratized communications and provided a platform through which individuals can influence and reach a mass audience, without gatekeepers like the traditional media. The reality, however, may be somewhat different, according to D … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever thought your GitHub pull request was so good it should have been a paid gig, now it can be. CodeMill is taking an interesting approach to open source. Rather than leave it up to good souls who want to help out, it’s letting developers and organizations monetize the … | Continue reading
A month after a Google Lexus caused a minor accident with a Mountain View, California bus, Google has set out to ensure that it never happens again with a patent called “Bus Detection for Autonomous Vehicles.” The patent, filed March 8, uses image recognition technology that allo … | Continue reading
Today at the Game developers Conference (GDC), Google announced new features that will allow developers to make more money, learn more about users and stand out in the crowded Play Store marketplace. Independent developers have the spotlight A new Play Store section named ‘Indie … | Continue reading
Netflix uses a lot of data. That’s fine and dandy when you’re on your laptop using Wi-Fi, but with most mobile plans limited to specific alotment of gigabytes, it can be a problem. Thankfully, the company is working on a solution. Netflix now offers a beta channel on the Play Sto … | Continue reading
While it’s been possible for cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 gamers for a while now, there’s never been a way for you to play against, say, a buddy playing the same game on a PS4. That’s set to change in the future, however, with the introduction of cross-plat … | Continue reading
If you don’t already have a startup or #brand, chances are you’re thinking about creating one. A new app named Logo Foundry for iOS and Android can help by — you guessed it — creating a snappy logo for you. You’ll still have to do some work to get there, though. Logo Foundry is b … | Continue reading
Facebook-owned WhatsApp already encrypts your messages sent via the service, but that additional security doesn’t apply to voice calls at present. However, according to The Guardian, that will change “within weeks,” thereby preventing the authorities from accessing any of the con … | Continue reading
SXSW is technically not over – but every year, it seems we know the clear darling way before the festival ends. 2016 hasn’t offered any obvious fan-favorites like Meerkat or Secret (RIP x2), so I’ll just go ahead and nominate Pied Piper for the win. Pied Piper is a fictional star … | Continue reading
Skype for Web is getting more useful today as it adds a few features to bring it to parity with the desktop apps. First up, you can now call cellphones and landlines right from the Web app. As expected, you’ll have to pay, but it’s a good and fairly affordable option (prices star … | Continue reading
It’s certainly not the first company to start work on a pay-by-selfie technique but Amazon has filed a patent for a new system that’ll have you spending your money quicker than you already do… on Amazon. It’ll work by using facial recognition to compare a selfie taken at the tran … | Continue reading
When you need to make an anonymous phone call, there are numerous tricks to hide your number and apps to do the same for text messages. However, anonymous emails can be a little trickier. Sure, you could set up a separate account under a pseudonym, but if you only need to send on … | Continue reading
For what seems like a very simple option, it sure has taken a long time for the ability to pause and resume downloads to arrive for Android device owners, and even then, it’s only if you’re using Chrome. As noted by Android Police, the built-in download manager in Android doesn’t … | Continue reading
When the Go game tournament rules were unveiled last month, human Lee Sedol was confident he’d win 5-0 or perhaps 4-1. Given that the AlphaGo algorithm had less than one year’s experience and was only believed to be at a 3 dan level, compared with the 20 years it took Sedol to ge … | Continue reading
From CRMs to time-tracking software, there are thousands of pre-packaged tools and software programs you can use to run your business. But sometimes, those tools don’t measure up and you need a custom solution. Every business has its unique pain points. But how do you decide what … | Continue reading
InVision, the company behind the powerful Craft suite of tools for Sketch, have acquired the highly anticipated prototyping tool Silver Flows. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Silver Flows’ creators, Aby Nimbalkar and Andrey Shakhmin, will join InVision and continue working … | Continue reading
Adobe’s Project Comet is now Experience Design (XD), and is available in preview for anyone with an existing Adobe account. Noting there are currently “lots of tools tackling many parts of the problem” of designing apps, Adobe is positioning XD to compete more directly with Sketc … | Continue reading
HTC and Oculus are gearing up to begin shipping their high-end VR headsets this month onwards and that should certainly give gamers a reason to be excited. But if you’re worried about your existing PC game collection collecting dust, we’ve got some good news. Valve has announced … | Continue reading
With SXSW kicking off in Texas this weekend, there was a whole lot you missed out on if you spent the weekend away from your screens and ignoring the world of tech news. Luckily for you, however, we were paying attention while you were doing other things. So all you need to do is … | Continue reading
I find group chats on any platform horribly annoying. I can see why they are necessary in some cases but for the most part, it’s just noise. Well, messaging app Telegram must know something I don’t because its latest update is allowing users to up the number of people in their su … | Continue reading
Initially, the Internet was built for text, and technology has learned how to read at a pretty advanced level. However, the web has become increasingly visual, and tech has not fully kept up: the Internet can read, but it can’t see. In 2016, that will change. Image recognition an … | Continue reading
After the Olympics, and many other human sports, have become mired in cheating allegations, you might be excited to hear that from 2017, we may no longer need people to compete for gold at all. Following the World Drone Prix in Dubai this weekend, which saw a 15-year-old British … | Continue reading
So many factors may have worked for making your app popular. It may have been a great PR campaign, or you hit the right chord with your influencer marketing strategy. The point is that all these viral factors are short-lived. Once the initial buzz dies down, most apps seem to los … | Continue reading
Microsoft has stopped accepting Bitcoin payments for apps and content in its Windows 10 store for desktop and mobile, reveals an updated support page spotted by Softpedia. That’s a bummer for fans of the cryptocurrency hoping for it to gain more mainstream traction. The company a … | Continue reading