Just as DDoS attacks are getting more frequent, bigger and more dangerous, with a new report from Verisign warning that the last quarter of 2015 saw record site attacks, a Californian anti-DDoS company has been taken out by hackers. Staminus Communications was out for around 20 h … | Continue reading
Over the years Tor has solidified its status as the forerunner of anonymous browsing and internet privacy, but recent findings from independent security researcher Jose Carlos Norte suggest the notorious browser might not be as secure as you think. Norte has discovered a loophole … | Continue reading
In the latest Magic Quadrant report released by Gartner last year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintained its position as the king of cloud Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. Followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, the three cloud providers are often refer … | Continue reading
Millions of people around the world rely on Wikipedia for information on just about every topic under the sun, offered in nearly 300 languages and at no charge. But it’s less accessible to those with vision impairments and learning disabilities. To address this, the online encycl … | Continue reading
Since playing soccer with cars clearly isn’t enough for some people, the creators of indie game Rocket League have teased that it’s getting a new basketball mode, probably called Hoops. March Madness is just around the corner. Great time to tease the mode we’re working on next #R … | Continue reading
This is slightly ironic. Adblock plans to show advertising to its 50 million users tomorrow for 24 hours protesting online censorship in support of an Amnesty International campaign. On March 12, Adblock users will see messages from Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei protes … | Continue reading
The data engineers folks over at Trestle Technology have come up with a slightly crude tool for smashing, or indeed upholding, coder stereotypes. Turns out Swift developers are the most likely to have ‘hipster’ facial hair, according to the EigenCoder project’s results, which com … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that the tech space is becoming increasingly competitive. Even if your company is truly innovative, your product’s benefits and features might not be enough to set you apart. Your employees, on the other hand, are a different story. Your team can make or break your … | Continue reading
The phrase ‘Kodak moment’ is universally understood as a memory worth sharing. We have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat for sharing those but let’s face it, those feeds are noisy. From the people you haven’t spoken to in years posting hourly updates of their lives to the … | Continue reading
Another day, another Adobe Flash security vulnerability. Adobe issued an emergency patch for Flash overnight to fix a security hole that’s already being actively used in the wild. CVE-2016-1010, which an attacker could use to execute code on your machine, is being used in “target … | Continue reading
Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), took to The Huffington Post to share news of his latest proposal which would require internet service providers (ISPs) to ask subscribers’ permission before sharing their data with third parties. The FCC is … | Continue reading
I was blown away by how immersive HTC’s Vive VR demos felt when I first tried them at Mobile World Congress a few weeks ago. One of the things that differentiated it from mobile offerings like Google Cardboard was the ability to use handheld controllers to interact with the envir … | Continue reading
Since the dreadful mass shooting by an Uber driver in Kalamazoo last month, it came to light that the cab service has been piloting an emergency hotline in 22 US cities since October 2015. The number (800-353-8237) patches callers through to an Uber call center, which escalates c … | Continue reading
The thing about South by Southwest is that it’s huge. Like, mind-bogglingly huge. And, despite all of the best research and top-notch planning, it’s just impossible to be in the thick of the action all the time. As the festival goes into full swing Friday, SXSW’s Director of Tec … | Continue reading
There may soon be a lot less comments on GitHub, and that’s a good thing. Today, the company is introducing emoji reactions for comments, pull requests and issues — just as you find in chat services like Slack. Instead of a responding with a full comment agreeing or disagreeing w … | Continue reading
Apple has some timeless, gorgeous designs under its belt. Chargers don’t fall under that category, but a new accessory called the Blockhead can help. It’s a simple little thing, but exceedingly smart. Rather than prongs that face forward, Blockhead’s look east. A charger that onc … | Continue reading
Learning how to code takes diligent effort and tons of time digging into Xcode or another developer environment, but there’s another component that you may be overlooking. Regardless of what type of development you’re learning — or even which language you’re interested in — you c … | Continue reading
Calling itself an ‘active listening’ device, Here promises to let you tune into the things you want and filter out what you don’t. It may sound silly or kitsch, but in reviewing here earbuds, I found it may not be. What is Here? Two wireless in-ear buds and a charging/storage cas … | Continue reading
The Department of Justice issued a response to Apple today claiming that it was creating undue burden where none existed. “By Apple’s own reckoning, the corporation — which grosses hundreds of billions of dollars a year — would need to set aside as few as six of its 100,000 emplo … | Continue reading
Nintendo Wii U owners have long wished for a streaming option that Playstation and Xbox have had for some time, Spotify. Well, you still won’t have Spotify, but Nintendo has at least given a passable option by announcing today that it was bringing Rhapsody, and its 30 million-plu … | Continue reading
In a ruling last month, Federal Court Judge John Gleeson has become the first to admit the existence of the NSA’s infamous PRISM program by name, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLUO. PRISM, as you’ll recall, was a program that gained a fai … | Continue reading
Billion-dollar coworking startup success WeWork is now added to the growing list of tech companies clashing with former employees in court over proper treatment, as a report from BuzzFeed indicates that it will go to court over improperly terminating an employee who had raised co … | Continue reading
Ulysses is a popular writing app aimed at people who regularly write, like poets, journalists, novelists, or academics. Up until now it was only available on desktop or iPad but the company has just released its iPhone version as well. Its clean, text-centric interface and organi … | Continue reading
There’s plenty of corporate and startup speak that exists but shouldn’t, so TNW’s founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten got together with Pep Rosenfeld from Boom Chicago in the Netherlands for a live show to come up with a few (potentially vomit-inducing) new bits of tech slang th … | Continue reading
On March 21, Apple will hold a special invite-only event on its campus in Cupertino, California. No further details were offered, and we can’t glean much from the invitation. All it tells us is that Apple wants to ‘loop us in,’ an obvious tongue-in-cheek joke about the campus’ ad … | Continue reading
Adobe Post has been updated to version 2.0, and now supports images of just about any size as well as improvements to its filters. If you’re not familiar with Post, it’s Adobe’s iOS app for creating text over images without having to dive into a full image editor. It’s great for … | Continue reading
A majority of Americans – 65 percent – now believe that robots will “definitely” or “probably” take over much of the work we humans do within 50 years – but less than 20 percent see this transformation happening to their current job. Despite the fact that this is already happenin … | Continue reading
This post was brought to you by Microsoft Lumia.Stretching 1,200 miles along the northwest coast of Queensland, the Great Barrier Reef is larger than Italy — a daunting subject to photograph. For National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez, who undertook this challenge as pa … | Continue reading
Financial institutions are finally working on making transfers faster, easier and a lot more convenient. Following recent news that 40 of the world’s leading banks are already experimenting with blockchain technology, today Reuters reported that seven major US banks – including J … | Continue reading
Photocopiers suck. They’re always breaking, needing new toner, or just a pain to figure out how to use – I never thought I’d be writing about them, let alone blown away by one. Xerox, however, has done something interesting: its photocopiers are literally like Google Translate IR … | Continue reading
We could all use a productivity boost from time to time, whether to free you from distractions or sluggish system functionality. With these four great offers from TNW Deals, we’re taking the guesswork out of streamlining your workload and bringing you the best procrastination-fig … | Continue reading
Wikipedia is probably one of the best resources on the Internet — a mountain of facts that most people who use it barely ever see. Today, the company has a newly re-designed app for iOS that takes advantage of the information you don’t normally see on Wikipedia, by utilizing the … | Continue reading
While messaging services that are also platforms are nothing new (see Messenger and Slack), new app Cola thinks it can make life easier for users, especially those who don’t want to be tied into a larger social network. Using the chat interface as a medium, Cola keeps its tools s … | Continue reading
Shutterstock is today launching a couple of tools that will make it easy for users to find photos without having to figure out the right keywords for what they’re looking for: reverse image search and visually similar search. It’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. With rev … | Continue reading
Hyperloop Transport Technologies is one of two Los Angeles-based startups working to build Elon Musk’s open-source dream: A high-speed public transport network made up of a series of pods. That company is busy building a test track in California and has announced today that it’s … | Continue reading
Remember when your teachers told you spelling was important? Well, they weren’t wrong. Even if you’re going after a life of crime, as one group of hackers recently learned. The not-so-sharp cyber criminals hacked into the servers of Bangladesh Bank and managed to get $81 million … | Continue reading
One of the biggest selling point of encrypted messaging app Confide is that you can send messages to someone with a level of discretion. But in case you type to the wrong person, the app will now let you ‘un-send’ that message as long as you’re using the mobile app version and yo … | Continue reading
Craft from InVision just got a lot more powerful. A new Sketch plugin dubbed Styles lets you create, manage and edit your brand style guides on the fly. Seated in the Craft Manager, Styles creates a new page within Sketch where you can manage things like color palette, fonts, tex … | Continue reading
You might have the most innovative idea in the world, the most committed management team, and more funding than you could ever need – but if you can’t deliver a quality product to your customers on time, you’re in serious trouble. Maintaining a competitive edge requires product d … | Continue reading
Catch ex-Obama Campaign CTO and Modest co-founder Harper Reed, along with many other top-class speakers, at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May. Get your discount ticket. “I am awesome.” That’s how Harper Reed’s Twitter bio begins – hardly something you’d expect from a founding me … | Continue reading
Despite internet trolls hitting the headlines an awful lot over the past few years, ‘trolling’ is not actually a legal term yet in the UK. The UK government is now being asked to change that via a review of the current laws that govern “digital crime” with a view to creating one … | Continue reading
Got a passion for gaming? The time has never been better to build the skills necessary to start making money – or even kick off a new career – making games. If you’ve got a knack for creativity and a passion for gaming, you could soon be claiming your share of an incredibly lucra … | Continue reading
Google-owned Nest is best known for its smart thermostat, but it has a whole family of sensor-enabled, in-home products designed to automate your life. Until now, however, there’s been a pretty glaring omission across the whole of its range – none of its products really supported … | Continue reading
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with tablets. I’ve never managed to convince myself to keep an iPad past a few weeks and I couldn’t take Android tablets seriously with their lack of multitasking. That said, when I tried Google’s Pixel C hybrid late last year, I was impre … | Continue reading
When it comes to robots replacing humans, we might think we have the upper hand since we’re the ones who build and program them but that’s not neccesarily the case anymore. Google is taking a different approach to training its robots – it’s letting them teach each other. Research … | Continue reading
If you work for a larger organization and you have launched a new product, you might be a bit envious of the explosive growth that you see from startups. Companies like Slack, Twitter, Mint, Instagram and others have embraced a form of building growth into the product called grow … | Continue reading
YouTube Gaming today announced that its iOS and Android apps are expanding to four new countries: Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia. YouTube selected these territories due to the origins of its top gaming creators, meaning support in other countries like Iceland and Germ … | Continue reading
Sean Parker, co-founder of the infamous file-sharing service Napster and a former president of Facebook, has a startup in the works that’s dedicated to streaming new movies in your living room on release day, reports Variety. Parker’s firm, The Screening Room, will first sell you … | Continue reading