One of the most interesting things about Silicon Valley startup culture is how it has affected other industries with its strategies, particularly the healthcare industry. Health tech has taken off in recent years, even down to the patient care and doctor’s office model in San Fra … | Continue reading
HoloLens development is hitting its stride today, as Microsoft is introducing a massive cache of videos for developers and announcing an emulator. The emulator will let developers build apps for HoloLens without a developer kit, and Microsoft is encouraging developers to familiar … | Continue reading
Paying at stores using your phone is convenient, but not that different from using a card in your wallet considering you still have to fumble to pull your device out your pocket. But what if you could pay without having to touch your phone at all? That’s the concept behind ‘Hands … | Continue reading
Sling TV has added two new channels — Newsy and Flama — to its ‘Best of Live TV’ lineup. Newsy offers up quick snippets of current events, aimed at millennials. It spans national and global events, and adds a bit of insight and analysis to round out its coverage. Right now, Newsy … | Continue reading
WordPress is a necessary evil for many websites (ours included), but dealing with its clunky interface no longer has to be. PageLines is introducing Platform 5 for web developers, a set of plugins that offer drag-and-drop ease to compliment WordPress’ power. Platform 5 also offer … | Continue reading
When it comes to computing, the Turing Award is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize. This year, Martin E Hellman and Whitfield Diffie, the creators of public-key cryptography, have been given the prestigious honor. The award, which is named after the British mathematician Alan Turing … | Continue reading
At over 1 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp holds quite the dominance for colloquial messaging. Still, if you want to use it for more work-oriented communication, its lack of a document sharing can be problematic. That is now changing: WhatsApp is rolling out file-sharing be … | Continue reading
If you want to make sure you’re the first to hear about Facebook’s latest updates to its developer ecosystem but can’t make it to San Francisco for F8 on April 12, you might want to quickly sign up to attend a live viewing party in your local city. The company says that 70 percen … | Continue reading
Kanye West has made it abundantly clear that he wants his latest album, “The Life of Pablo,” to be a Tidal exclusive. You can’t stream it on Spotify or buy it on iTunes. These gaps quickly led to his album being pirated more than 500,000 times two days after its release. However, … | Continue reading
When it comes to books, technology companies have focused on enhancing the general reading experience. They want to change the way you interact with reading material by making content consumption more convenient and effective. They’re not saying goodbye to paper. They’re stepping … | Continue reading
In today’s hacker-heavy world, one can hardly be accused of privacy paranoia when the headlines are drawing attention to new security issues and threats every day. Life throws enough curveballs your way without the hassle of worrying about your phone conversations being monitored … | Continue reading
Google’s Web Font library is an impressive collection of free fonts that anyone can use on their websites to help avoid the horror that are included system fonts. The company has a tiny analytics page hidden on the site that provides some interesting statistics about the Web font … | Continue reading
How many projects have you been involved in that have ended up exactly as you’d expected? 80 percent? 90 percent? Well, according to research it’s not even close. Stephen Carver, a lecturer in Project Management of Cranfield School of Management stated that up to 68 percent proje … | Continue reading
This post was brought to you by .MEQuora is full of questions such as “How do I become as successful as [insert anyone famous]?” Imagine your ultimate job and the life you’d be living if you had it. Does this require a complete pivot in life or would having that corner office suf … | Continue reading
Harmonix, the creators of Rock Band, might be one of the biggest independent game studios in the world but they still need a little help getting their game onto PC for the first time. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign seeking to raise $1.5 million by April 5 to cre … | Continue reading
‘Rocket League’ is deviously simple — flippin’ soccer played by cars — but since its launch (and its position as one of my favorite games of 2015), its exceeded expectations of how rich and entertaining the indie game can be. Developer Psyonix and streaming platform Twitch have p … | Continue reading
DxO One, which made a name for itself as a better alternative to the stock iPhone or iPad camera, can now operate independently, and is dropping its price. A new standalone mode lets you quickly take photos without attaching the DxO One to your mobile device, which are then saved … | Continue reading
Discover Weekly, Spotify’s runaway hit that digs up music you’re likely to love, is inspiring what it’s building next: a bunch of new playlists that find the best new music on the service that nobody’s listening to yet. A set of five new playlists under the ‘Fresh Finds’ moniker … | Continue reading
Facebook has a very uneasy relationship with regulators in Germany and now the company is being investigated for abusing its power over user data, which may mean it’s breaking local data protection or monopoly laws. “For advertising-financed internet services such as Facebook, us … | Continue reading
The number of requests for coverage we receive at The Next Web is, unsurprisingly, enormous. As a result, many, if not most, go completely overlooked due to overflowing inboxes and crowded Twitter feeds. Anyone who runs a company can attest to how often their attempts to gain cov … | Continue reading
If you’re a PS4 owner that managed to sign up to the company’s firmware beta program before registration closed, then there’s a whole load of awesome new features just waiting for you to check out. Among the changes is the ability to appear offline for incognito gaming sessions – … | Continue reading
The Pentagon has announced that it’s going to welcome outside hackers to help identify vulnerabilities in US Defense Department websites. Headed by the Defense Digital Service (DDS), which was established last year to bring US technology experts into the military, the competition … | Continue reading
“Serious” potential drone collisions are on the increase in the UK according to air safety watchdog the Airprox Board, with 23 near misses with aircraft investigated in just six months last year, including 12 that were given the top danger rating. In December, a drone “came very … | Continue reading
Piracy these days generally refers to software, but Verizon has unearthed a case of real-life pirates actually conducting the act in order to raid a number of ships. The group of pirates hacked into a shipping company’s content management system and managed to acquire confidentia … | Continue reading
With one of the biggest mobile trade shows in the world wrapping up last week, the one message that came from many big-name manufacturers is that 2016 is going to be a breakthrough year for VR – but is that really true? With Samsung, LG and HTC all bringing VR news to Mobile Worl … | Continue reading
Slack has been quietly building out conference calling for its tool since it acquired Screenhero in 2015. Today, it’s officially launched the conference calling feature so you can jump in a call in just a few seconds. The new ‘Calls’ feature is now in beta and can be enabled for … | Continue reading
Despite Kanye West trying to encourage his fans to sign up to Tidal to download his latest album rather than use torrents it looks like he’s a pirate just like everyone else. The rapper posted a picture to Twitter today of what he was listening to on YouTube, but in the address b … | Continue reading
To say the past few weeks haven’t been good for Yelp would be a bit of an understatement. What began as a spontaneous open letter by Eat 24 customer service rep and aspiring comedian/writer Talia Jane — a decision that ultimately cost her the job — has snowballed into practically … | Continue reading
After an often painful five-plus hours of congressional testimony today, both the FBI and Apple’s fate will be decided by congress after a five day window for further questioning. There were a few verbal barbs traded on both sides, as well as from congressmen, but overall the hea … | Continue reading
After debuting its FF1 concept car at CES this year, Faraday Future is announcing it has patented a power converter that is built for efficiency. The FF Echelon Inverter offers a “simpler, more straightforward design” that achieves 20-30 percent more power density, which transfor … | Continue reading
Yes, the Alexa AI from Amazon — nestled within the Echo or Amazon’s Fire TV — can put together your grocery list or tell you who won the 1971 World Series, but now she can also help you solve the mystery of who killed Batman’s parents. An exclusive from Variety outlines the “unus … | Continue reading
It’s OK, you survived, February is done and March is upon us. The next Valentine’s Day is 350 days away. Before you jump headfirst into almost-Spring though, there’s just time to check out 11 of the best new and updated featured iOS apps from last month – spanning productivity to … | Continue reading
Coolest Cooler has burned all the way through its $13 million in funding, and is now searching for an investor to help bail them out. The most funded project in Kickstarter history has hit a wall, and tells backers it now needs more money to help get things back on track and get … | Continue reading
Pebble is giving two-thirds of its current line-up a $50 price cut: the Time an Time Round are now available for $149.99 and $199.99 respectively. Interestingly, Pebble chose to keep the Pebble Time Steel at the same $249.99 price point. That makes it seem like the Steel is now t … | Continue reading
It’s OK, you survived, February is done (with an extra day, no less!) and March is upon us. The next Valentine’s Day is 350 days away. Before you jump headfirst into almost-Spring though, there’s just time to check out nine of the best new and updated Android apps from February. … | Continue reading
The official Google I/O 2016 website is now up and running with its familiar countdown timer, and tells us registration will open May 8. The event is May 18-20. As is typically the case, tickets cost $900 for everyone but students, who can get in for $300. And just as it was last … | Continue reading
Facebook has been spending plenty of time on itsLive Video offering — working diligently to better showcase it on both desktop and mobile Web, as well as creating a VR opportunity with its Live 360 Video technology. Today, the company announced via blog post that you’ll likely be … | Continue reading
When the government dumps hundreds and hundreds of documents at one time, it’s almost as if it doesn’t want you to know where to start. And boy is the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Bill a privacy-infringing gold mine. Having had the draft pulled apart by no less than three offici … | Continue reading
Some iOS users who updated to the latest version of Instagram yesterday were greeted with a particularly puzzling new feature: a plus button. According to several user tweets, pressing the plus button opened up their camera roll to select photos, but failed to let them upload to … | Continue reading
Twitter Fabric is releasing Answers for tvOS, which compliments its other Apple TV developer offerings Crashlytics and Digits. Last month, Twitter opened a beta of Answers for tvOS, but today marks its official release. Answers provides insight on users in real-time, and gives st … | Continue reading
Apple’s fight with the DoJ and FBI about encryption is, to this point, positioning. At the top of the hour, everyone will have their chance to testify before congress. At the crux of this argument is what Apple is calling GovtOS, an open version of iOS that is necessary to unlock … | Continue reading
DJI just unveiled its latest flagship drone, and it’s smarter than ever. The DJI Phantom 4 is the first consumer drone that can adjust its path according to the world around it, approaching some semblance of autonomy. This level of autonomy is largely thanks two additional camera … | Continue reading
Google is updating its developer policies to make it easier for everyone to know what they can (and can’t) do with Android apps on Google Play. The developer program policy center has been redesigned to make communication more transparent and simpler. It now has a thematic organi … | Continue reading
Unless you have kids, here’s one thing you might not have expected to be doing on Google today: listening to animal noises straight from your search result. In late January, Google quietly added a new feature that lets users click on various animals to hear the sounds they make. … | Continue reading
Parents have been keeping an eye on what their kids do on the internet since it was first invented. Tools like Kiddle, a search engine designed for kids, aim to relieve parents of this duty and let the software do their job. There’s one problem with this though – Kiddle is determ … | Continue reading
SXSW Interactive is nearly upon us again. As usual, TNW will be there to bring you the best of this huge event that takes over Austin, Texas for five days in mid-March. What’s more, we’re throwing a party! Yes, on the evening of Monday, March 14 we will be partnering with the Ber … | Continue reading
Ever wanted to peek inside the human body while it’s still alive? If so, Virtuali-Tee is just what you’ve been looking for. The wearable is basically a tee shirt with a screen-printed code that uses an app to alter what you see on-screen. Currently, the only example is of the hum … | Continue reading
I love but it turns out I use it less than on Twitter. Emoji Life, a fun analytics tool for Twitter, tracks which emoji you tweet and gives you tons of detail about them. Log in with your Twitter account and you’ll get an overview of your emoji usage — apparently I use emoji ju … | Continue reading