Recruiting and team building are the biggest challenges facing any growing technology company today. Hiring creative and driven people to build your product can easily mean the difference between customer happiness and customer churn. Companies who don’t invest in culture, opport … | Continue reading
SXSW Interactive is nearly here again, and if you’re a first timer at this epic event, you’ll no doubt be wondering how to make the most of your trip. There are plenty of guides already out there online, but as veterans of the event here at TNW, we’ve built up our own bunch of ti … | Continue reading
The controversy surrounding Peeple when it was first announced as a ‘Yelp for humans’ type platform resulted in its founders having to scrap their idea and go back to the drawing board. Following an article by the Washington Post, revealing the real-life burn book, it quickly bec … | Continue reading
You earned your degree, you sent out your job application packets, and now you have a tough decision to make: Do you accept the position with the famous mega-corporation, which offers a high starting salary and amazing benefits, or do you go with the tiny start-up with the heart … | Continue reading
My desk is in one of the most high-traffic zones of the office. I’m used to people looking over my shoulder as they walk to the kitchen or pass me on their way to the pool table, but something weird started happening recently. People sneaking glances at my screen kept asking me a … | Continue reading
If you’re a fan of baseball and Snapchat then March 11 might be your favorite day of the year because Major League Baseball and the ephemeral messaging app have teamed up to launch the first official Snapchat Day. Professional athletes are no strangers to social media but MLB’s p … | Continue reading
While traveling is a great opportunity to expand your horizons and experience new adventures in foreign lands, if you’re unprepared you’ll quickly find yourself inconvenienced and overwhelmed. We’ve put together a selection of offers on the TNW Deals shop to help prepare you for … | Continue reading
Dating apps have taken the hassle and nerves out of finding a significant other, but finding friends is something that gets a lot more difficult as you get older. To try and help make the process a little easier, female-friendly dating app Bumble has launched a new BFF mode, whic … | Continue reading
While the US is in the middle of a very public encryption battle between Apple and the FBI, Amazon decided to quietly disable the security feature in the latest version of its Fire OS. Removing the ability for users to encrypt their personal data basically goes against all cybers … | Continue reading
As a manager, asking this question scared me a little. I posed it to each of the engineers on my team last month in our one-on-one’s and I worried about how they would respond. Did they feel safe enough to answer honestly or would I get fluff answers that side-stepped the questio … | Continue reading
For those of us old enough to remember television in the ‘70s the epitome of cool was the Six Million Dollar Man, Col. Steve Austin and his bionic enhancements. But what was once the purview of science fiction is inching closer to becoming an everyday reality, as optics speciali … | Continue reading
In an attempt to launch a satellite into space, commercial spaceflight program SpaceX made another round-trip of its unmanned Falcon 9 rocket. If towing an expensive amount of high-quality telecommunications equipment weren’t enough, the rocket had to complete a particularly diff … | Continue reading
Samsung may shut down its Milk Music streaming service and replace it with — wait for it — Tidal. According to a report from Variety, Samsung has laid off a good deal of the Milk Music team, and completely ignored it when showing off services integrated in its new TVs at CES. Thi … | Continue reading
Google may be bringing a social layer to search, but it’s not interactive like Twitter or Facebook (or even Google+). Dubbed ‘Google Posts,’ the “experiment” is meant to allow politicians a place on the Web, whether they have one or not. It’s also real-time, and seems to be rathe … | Continue reading
It was only a matter of time: Meerkat has given up on livestreaming, according to an interview by Recode with CEO Ben Rubin. The app that started the personal livestreaming revolution ultimately found that competing against the likes Facebook and Twitter’s Periscope – both of whi … | Continue reading
Developers using Google Cast were left with a lot of blind spots when it came to user behavior. Now, the company is introducing a new visualization tool in the Google Cast Developer Console. It’s fairly robust, too. Google is tracking several points of interest — how many devices … | Continue reading
AMD hints that it’s working on a new external graphic card solution that could be the answer to gaming on modern ultra-thin laptops. According to AMD’s Robert Hallock: Ultra-thin notebooks are awesome to carry, but nobody in their right mind would confuse one for a gaming noteboo … | Continue reading
Employees at a three companies are now able to get the Apple Watch for $25 — so long as they meet monthly activity goals. Leveraging the Apple Watch’s health tracking sensors, employees of Amgen, DaVita HealthCare Partners and Lockton must satisfy those monthly goals over a two y … | Continue reading
Tinder now lets you be a mobile wingman for your friends who are also on Tinder, as it announced via blog post today it is testing out a ‘Share’ button to allow you to send links to potential matches for friends. Available in certain markets, the ‘Share’ button looks like what yo … | Continue reading
The prospect of the tech bubble bursting is like Silicon Valley’s version of an asteroid heading to Earth: as more people begin to see it and recognize it’s there, the thoughts turn to how long we have left and how much damage will be done. Fortune spotted a published quarterly l … | Continue reading
San Bernadino Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Ramos isn’t content to await a congressional ruling in the Apple and FBI case — instead, he chose to file an amicus brief, a legal show of support, that contained language designed to arouse the suspicions of the people. “The i … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since we first heard about Universal Windows 10 apps for Xbox – apps that can run on anything from your console to your phone to your computer – but it looks like they’re finally ready to make their debut at Microsoft’s Build event later this month. Phil Spencer … | Continue reading
CNBC reports that 40 of the world’s leading banks, including Goldman Sachs and Barclays, have been experimenting with blockchain technology – the decentralized database system that records bitcoin transactions – for trading fixed income assets. While the technology is still under … | Continue reading
A few years ago in Venice, I met an old Peruvian woman backpacking around Europe. She had always wanted to visit the continent, but was continually waiting on other people to accompany her. That month, she realized that she would always be waiting on other people, so why not just … | Continue reading
VR video experiences are getting increasingly easy to make and now require little or no kit for people watching. While you could explore Leo’s winning Oscar’s moment in luxurious 360° views, you should really watch this awesome film from PBS’ FRONTLINE investigative team working … | Continue reading
Sony has launched its new research project called the Future Lab Program. While it’s first prototype isn’t being revealed until March 12 at SXSW, the company has announced that it will be relying on users to help it develop and tweak future products and ideas. The only thing we k … | Continue reading
The ‘Legend of Zelda’ series has some of the most memorable landscapes in gaming history, but what if you could explore the actual Earth as series hero Link? "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." — Google Maps (@googlemaps) March 4, 2016 Well, now you can – sort of. If yo … | Continue reading
A major change in Google Chrome’s update today might have you confused: why do I have so many extensions showing to the right of my address bar all of a sudden? Chrome 49 was released overnight and it contained a breaking change for extensions that means they’re all forced out of … | Continue reading
There’s definitely something going down in feminine hygiene land this week. First, Always releases a slightly sad video featuring a group of American teenagers being forced to slowly realize on camera that the only female emoji in the ‘workers’ category is a bride. “Unless you co … | Continue reading
Got some free wall space? The way you watch your favorite shows and play games is about to change forever with the RIF6 Cube projector, a tiny aluminum cube that turns any available white wall into a big screen. It can project an image up to 120 inches diagonal, and works easily … | Continue reading
Stoner – John Williams Stoner is a tenderly written novel that follows the life of a young professor, from the time he enters university, through his marriage and academic career, and ultimately his death. Published in 1965, it sold fewer than 2000 copies and was soon out of prin … | Continue reading
Trying to figure out the identity of graffiti artist Banksy is the art world equivalent of discovering who Satoshi Nakamoto really is. It was first thought that Banksy was a street artist named Robert Banks and then was later said to be Robin Gunningham after an in-depth investig … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago Nintendo revealed it is bringing classic Super NES games to its portable 3DS consoles, but now it seems the Japanese giant is going the extra mile for its most nostalgic gamers. During yesterday’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company unveiled plans to launch a … | Continue reading
The rise of the newest crop of TLD and what they can do for you. | Continue reading
In honor of the new season of House of Cards, we picked eight quotes from Frank Underwood, the most beloved and hated character ever, that teach us some valuable lessons about social media and life in general. *Please note that we accept no responsibility if after reading this yo … | Continue reading
When Apple’s Worldwide Developer Certificate expired in February it caused problems for some developers, but another major problem that’s going to affect more people has just surfaced: it breaks OS X installers. If you’ve created an OS X installation CD or downloaded an installer … | Continue reading
For people with dyslexia, it can be hard to explain to others what it feels like to struggle to read text. Dsxyliea is a JavaScript experiment that tries to replicate what it feels like, for some at least, to read a book or blog post. dyslexia is a reading disorder that affects m … | Continue reading
During the Oscars last week, Twitter users were out in force, rallying round the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. The reason? If it wasn’t obvious, the lack of racial diversity among the Academy Awards nominees. Chris Rock, the host of the awards, summed it up in his opening monologue whe … | Continue reading
Fan of Mario? Own a Wii U? Well, Nintendo has just announced that its biggest star is coming to the Wii U later this year in a new game called ‘Paper Mario: Color Splash.’ #PaperMario Color Splash is scheduled for release later in 2016. #NintendoDirectNA pic.twitter.com/xhH7aPALr … | Continue reading
A little over a week has passed since Facebook rolled out its new ‘Reactions’ and the Web is already looking for alternative ways to enjoy them. Available for Firefox and Chrome, Reaction Packs is a fun browser extension that swaps out the default reaction emoji on Facebook with … | Continue reading
The ethos of mobile user experience (UX) has become narrow and indifferent to human needs. Today, designers boast about the “ease of use,” “intuitiveness” and “addictiveness” of their apps, as if these traits were worthy goals in themselves. I’d like to propose a more empathetic … | Continue reading
Nothing says ‘happy’ like emoji, right? Well, maybe not but this new emoji coding language could brighten up the day of any programmer. Emojicode is a new high-level programming language that can be used to make cross-platform applications. It’s open-source and multi-paradigm and … | Continue reading
Sara Chipps is the co-founder and CEO of Jewelbots. Jewelbots are open source, programmable friendship bracelets that teach teens the basics of coding. Sara will be speaking at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May, alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. I’ve spent the past year t … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever been to London for a tech tour, you will have seen the offices of the likes of Facebook, Google and Amazon, but for tax purposes at least, these companies have long denied they do any real business in the UK. Well, that might all be about to change, as in what appe … | Continue reading
New York City has unveiled its newest transport destination – and in the process has become an Instagram lover’s paradise. The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, built by architect Santiago Calatrava is a temple of soaring white lines, glass and giant marble floors. Which mea … | Continue reading
The Samsung Gear VR is arguably the best headset out right now, in terms of quality over price. But Samsung just made that deal a little sweeter today as participating pre-orders of the phone manufacturer’s new Samsung Galaxy S7 will come with a Gear VR totally free. When you pur … | Continue reading
If you think Donald Trump says crazy things, just wait until you get a glimpse of his Twitter bot likeness. Dubbed ‘Deep Drumpf’ (after John Oliver’s recent dismantling of Trump), the project was a creation of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) postdoc … | Continue reading
Drones are everywhere these days, including a lot of places they don’t belong. Over the past few months we’ve seen several attempts to to keep drones away from places like stadiums, airfields and government buildings. Most of these, like Tokyo’s police interceptor drone and Michi … | Continue reading