In the tech industry, compensation is a tricky beast. Although startups have it in their best interest to run “lean” — onboarding employees with below-market salaries and padding offers with equity to keep overhead costs low — it can backfire when the company doesn’t alter that a … | Continue reading
3DS owners rejoice: During the latest Nintendo Direct, the company announced it is bringing the Super Nintendo to your handheld device. Well, for some of you, anyway. The update will only arrive for owners of the New 3DS and New 3DS XL. The best part? The games are arriving very … | Continue reading
Over the heated battle between Apple and the FBI over the laws and ethics surrounding unlocking the phone of the San Bernadino shooter, many companies have publicly come out in support of Tim Cook and his company’s desire to keep privacy secure at the device level. Today, accordi … | Continue reading
Crafting an experience that’s intuitive and powerful is a tricky proposition. To help Web designers achieve a balance, Google is introducing Resizer. The tool allows designers the ability to test Material Design across platforms, and see where the breakpoints are. Rather than hop … | Continue reading
When you’ve raised nearly $300,000 on IndieGogo and make claims that you’re the “world’s best ergonomic mechanical keyboard” you’re setting the bar pretty high. When you’re selling an item for $295 that most of us treat as an afterthought, that bar gets even higher. I went into t … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger is quickly becoming an app that can do all things. While sending GIFs has long been my favorite Messenger feature, Spotify may have just nudged them out of the way while I overwhelm my friends with my often questionable music choices instead. For those using th … | Continue reading
While Apple and the FBI await a ruling from congress on their encryption battles, Amazon just willfully dropped encryption on Kindle, Fire Phones, Fire Tablets and Fire TV devices running Fire OS 5. The change affects millions of users with these devices and makes each of them de … | Continue reading
Mac users interested in VR will probably need to buy a PC. In a recent interview, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says his company will only support the Mac if Apple ever releases a “good computer.” Sounds sensational, but it’s really about specs. Luckey continued: It just boils dow … | Continue reading
It’s no surprise to anyone to hear that there is a lot of porn on the Web. OK, perhaps not as much as some studies make out, but there’s still plenty of naked bodies out there if you want to find them. By some estimates, this time last year around 4.5 percent of global Web traffi … | Continue reading
This past Christmas, Valve encountered a huge snafu when an error in a partner’s caching configuration temporarily caused users of game platform Steam to log into each other’s accounts. Although purchases couldn’t be made, there was plenty of personal information visible — includ … | Continue reading
Most videos on the Web are just not worth seeing in full – or at least this is how the founders of Vibby want you to see things. Available for free, Vibby is a lightweight Web-based video editing tool that lets you easily select the most outstanding moments from any video and qui … | Continue reading
When it comes to filing expenses at work, things can get a little messy, usually with piles of receipts and general laziness getting in the way. To help ease the pain of it all, Uber has announced a new feature for its business profile users that allows auto-expensing after every … | Continue reading
GitHub for the desktop now lets you mention other users and reference issues, just as you can on the Web. It also works exactly the same on the desktop; just use the ‘@‘ symbol before names to mention friends or coworkers, and the ‘#’ to reference known issues. Oh yeah — you can … | Continue reading
For Microsoft, 2015 was a year that’ll go down in the history books — and not because it released a new version of Windows or Office, but because the company fundamentally shifted in a big way by embracing open source. John Shewchuk, a technical fellow at Microsoft whose job it i … | Continue reading
If you thought that drones were just a bit of fun, or even if you think loads of novices flying them around is a bit dangerous, nothing is quite a scary as the UK and France’s new joint plan: the drone to end all drones. The £1.5 billion ($2.1 billion) Future Combat Air System wi … | Continue reading
Before I start the story, I need y’all to look at one picture. Ready? This was a photo that went semi-viral from the Samsung blog, which depicts a man on his dinner date looking absolutely absurd in his Gear VR. The future is now. Fast forward to today, things are about to get ev … | Continue reading
Hot on the heels of Amazon revealing two new Echo speakers, the company has also announced that Alexa will be able to talk to your Nest soon. Later this month, Nest’s first official collaboration with Amazon will be available so you can say “Alexa, tell the thermostat I’m too hot … | Continue reading
Vimeo for iOS has undergone a complete overhaul, and has been rewritten using Swift. Featuring cleaner navigation and a more intuitive flow, Vimeo also renewed its focus on content discovery. It now surfaces categories and staff pics under the ‘Explore’ screen, and shows related … | Continue reading
It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world. At the moment … | Continue reading
In its ongoing bid to convince the world that, yes, you do really want to be speaking voice commands at a device across the room, Amazon has launched two new products that build on the launch of the original Echo. The Echo Dot is a smaller, cheaper version of the Echo that uses t … | Continue reading
Building and operating a website without a background in coding was an abstract fantasy just a few short years ago, but convenience is king in today’s day and age, and the times are definitely a-changin’. If you’re looking to establish a simple but professional-quality website th … | Continue reading
According to experts presenting at the RSA Conference in the US this week, Dutch police drones are vulnerable to being hacked by little more than a smidgen of knowledge and a $40 of easily obtainable parts. The researcher, Nils Rodday, says that the Xbee telemetry module fitted t … | Continue reading
It sounds like it could be the start of a JJ Abrams movie: 16 teams compete to win a big cash prize by landing a spacecraft on the Moon. Except, instead it’s a series of JJ Abrams documentaries about real life. The celebrated TV and film producer has teamed up with Oscar-nominate … | Continue reading
Don’t miss Alexander Klöpping at TNW Europe in May! Get your discount ticket here. What do you call people who are stretching the limits of their imaginations to engineer a new future? At The Next Web, we went with imagineers. Produced in partnership with the City of Amsterdam … | Continue reading
Getting through to Apple’s customer care team on the phone is like a game of roulette, you could get someone in two minutes today and wait hours the next. Likewise, if you walk into an Apple store in any city in the world, you’re probably going to face a lengthy queue or be told … | Continue reading
When it comes to self-promotion, Instagram is probably one of the best tools around. With over 400 million users across the globe, leveraging its linkable website section in your profile to promote your Twitter or Facebook page has always been worthwhile. However, the company has … | Continue reading
With Oculus Rift and HTC Vive expected to hit the market in late March and early April (respectively), Limitless Studios wants to get in on the action. Founded by former Pixar and Bungie character designer Tom Sanocki, today Limitless has announced a creative platform that will e … | Continue reading
I’m a sucker for old-school operating systems running in ways that feel impossible and now there’s a way to run Windows 98 or a bunch of Linux distributions in your browser, no plugin required. With browser-based Windows 98 you can relive the glory days of the past by playing Min … | Continue reading
Given that most kids under the age of 16 already think YouTube is a TV channel, it was only a matter of time before the folks handing out the awards for the best television programming got up to speed. The Television Academy, which hosts the Emmy Awards, has just unveiled plans f … | Continue reading
The world of luxury yachts isn’t something we dip into a lot here at The Next Web, but when one comes along and looks so much like a cross between the ancient pyramids of the past and any UFO-like craft depicted by sci-fi fantasy, I just couldn’t resist. According to design Jonat … | Continue reading
How many hours do you think you’ve wasted searching for a movie to suit your mood? It’s probably more than anyone wants to think about. Well, a new AI-powered search tool that’s specifically designed for movies might be able to solve this conundrum. Val.ai analyzes over 1,000 qua … | Continue reading
Little more than a week after the official announcement of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 flagship, there’s now a company offering to bling it out for you with a selection of luxury finishes. Truly Exquisite is offering the S7 and S7 Edge in 24k Gold plating, 18k Rose Gold, or Platinum. Obv … | Continue reading
That's because people can't be trusted to be nice online and are increasingly using social platforms for things like revenge porn and harassment. | 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. Generating leads isn’t easy, and creating custom interactive content can … | Continue reading
YouTube doesn’t have an official way to search by address, but a YouTube experiment on GitHub lets you type in a street name and it’ll dig up every video shot in that area. The results can be a little creepy or just plain weird, as Reddit found out. People have found clips like t … | Continue reading
OK, OK, it’s easy to think that this one sounds pretty silly – but when you’re being transported to a land of literal non-reality, it’s easy to get caught up in the situation and forget that you’re actually a dork in a room wearing a headset. HTC’s newly-released Vive headsets ar … | Continue reading
It has long been rumored that Medium would let you monetize your posts on the service, and a new interview with Evan Williams, Medium’s CEO, confirms that the company plans to launch that very soon. Williams told the BBC that the company plans to launch monetization by the end of … | Continue reading
Learning to code can be a daunting task when you’re starting out — and a bit pricey. To help out, Code School — who have classes on all the major languages and disciplines — is free this weekend. From March 4 through March 6, Code School is dropping its paywall. For a full 48 hou … | Continue reading
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have just detailed a proof-of-concept feat that represents a significant leap in the world of prosthesis. In the experiment a young man who wasn’t missing any limbs but required brain mapping to pinpoint the origin of his seizures underwent a procedur … | Continue reading
A set of leaked images suggest Sling TV is set to debut on the Apple TV. One lucky Mac Rumors reader saw Sling TV pop up in the tvOS App Store this morning, and quickly downloaded it. He reports he was able to use it successfully for some time, but the app disappeared a short tim … | Continue reading
Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigs, have resided in a sort of grey area that was very dependent on the the rules of each individual airline. Today, the Department of Transportation (DOT) put that to rest by explicitly banning vaping on commercial flights. Previously, the department … | Continue reading
Adobe Lightroom just got an update on iOS, and it brings along a couple of features that should make it a fair bit more useful for photographers on the go. Most notably, the app can now export photos at full resolution. The old limit was 2560 pixels on the long edge, which is goo … | Continue reading
Last year hackers stole sensitive records from over 100,000 350,000 700,000 people after a security breach of the IRS website. Hackers found a vulnerability in the ‘Get Transcript’ verification process and used this to amass some 700,000 names, Social Security numbers, addresses … | Continue reading
Part of the big update to Google Docs back in September was the introduction of new and useful templates to help users of the service start up common types of documents quickly. The company has now taken that one step further, announcing today that it has created new templates ‘d … | Continue reading
The world is awash with productivity apps, from well-known, multi-use tools like Evernote, Slack and Trello, to niche tools like the Hemingway App and RescueTime. Yet, we all still struggle with maximizing productivity, particularly in larger organizational teams. Why? With so ma … | Continue reading
The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, now executive chairman of its parent company Alphabet, is about to start helping the military improve what it does by borrowing concepts and ideas straight from Silicon Valley. Schmidt will chair the new 12-person Defense Innovation Advisor … | Continue reading
Everyone hates voicemail. The idea of checking a message to see what someone wants is such an antiquated notion that it might has well have been sent as a fax. ‘No More Voicemail’ for Android and iOS aims to change consumer behavior by using your phone’s call forwarding feature t … | Continue reading
In a SXSW first, the sitting president of the United States will be delivering a keynote address at the conference in Austin, TX later this month. President Barack Obama will be joined by the First Lady, Michelle, each giving separate addresses on March 11 and March 16, respectiv … | Continue reading