A popular plugin was recently cloned and downloaded more than 37,000 before people caught on. Over 1,400 counterfeit versions of the extension have been reported over the past two years, across all browsers. Adblock claims only 900 of these have been removed. Adblock, maker of th … | Continue reading
When you’ve been a billionaire for more than 20 years, you form some incisive ideas about money. A former math and science teacher turned Bear Stearns chairman, Jeffrey Epstein is the Brooklyn-born financier who in 1982 formed J. Epstein & Co., the money management firm that famo … | Continue reading
One of Amazon’s most recent Prime items has caused a bit of a stir — because it’s a house. You can now buy a house on Amazon and have it shipped directly to your location. But, surprisingly, that’s not new, and Amazon’s playbook is starting to look a lot like one that originated … | Continue reading
Over the past few years, major tech events have become as much a show-and-tell of personnel as they have product. Google, Apple, Microsoft and others flaunt sex and race as ways of one-upping each other in what has become perhaps Silicon Valley’s most public battle: diversity. Bu … | Continue reading
What’s one of the meanest ways to scare someone? Trick them into thinking they’re about to die. This glass walkway that stands over 3,800 feet in the air seemed to “crack” as a tour guide walked on it. The transparent path overlooks East Taihang Mountains outside of Handan city i … | Continue reading
As the saying goes: “if you aren’t being sold, you are the product.” Nowhere is this more true than on Facebook. The social network boasts nearly two billion users, and offers a staggering amount of free content that keeps most of us engaged hours each day. And in the future, it’ … | Continue reading
Training is often one of the biggest expenses for businesses, and that’s especially true in times of rapid and radical technical change like we are experiencing now. “With business needs changing quickly and technology advancing even faster, companies are constantly reevaluating … | Continue reading
Snapchat today announced it would be adding “Context Cards” to its suite of in-app tools. These Cards are information packets on the location where a Snap is taken, pulling data from several partner companies to give potential customers as much data as possible. The integrations … | Continue reading
You can find out the power of Arduino and what you could envision with this package of eight Arduino Enthusiast e-books, which are on sale right now for $29 (88 percent of their regular price) from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Apple is about to drop its facial recognition feature, Face ID, on the world when the iPhone X launches. It’s a machine learning-powered agent that, over time, will become accustomed to your unique face. And just like everything else Apple makes, the technology is going to be eve … | Continue reading
Tanzania is considering a new law to regulate social media in the East Afrikan country. The proposed bill, Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2017, was published by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA). Part of the draft regulatio … | Continue reading
When an entrepreneur starts a business, his or her concentration centers on developing and marketing a product. Once a product is ready, sales and developing a customer base becomes the top priority. Unless the entrepreneur has a detailed business plan, including how to deal with … | Continue reading
You can not only learn the skills a top-flight security pro needs, but at the same time, prep for some of the most important credentials a security pro has to have with the training in the Cybersecurity Certification Mega Bundle. You can pick up this package right now for only $6 … | Continue reading
To most people who run a small business, bookkeeping is a necessary evil. Last year, Dutch bank ING polled entrepreneurs on Twitter asking which time consuming tasks they dislike most about their jobs. The question generated over 2000 responses, with 17 percent voting for “facili … | Continue reading
Most Android phones now come with an option to automatically reply via SMS when you miss a call. Now, you can do that with WhatsApp messages, thanks to a handy new app called Can’t Talk. It works as you’d expect: set up a custom message, choose the apps you want to use this with, … | Continue reading
Apple might have released its revamped emoji only yesterday, but Twitter has already updated its platform to support the new lineup. However, what’s annoying is that almost nobody can see the updated emoticons just yet. The reason the new emoji will remain invisible to most users … | Continue reading
The film and music industry have been unfair to artists so far. Will blockchain level the playing field? | Continue reading
Adulterers better act extra careful when using WhatsApp to pull their shenanigans. It turns out the Facebook-owned messenger suffers from a vulnerability that can be exploited to spy on your sleeping patterns – and find out precisely at what time you go to sleep and wake up. What … | Continue reading
After making the news with its secure Linux-based laptops that have been selling relatively well over the past year, Purism has now reached its $1.5 million funding goal for developing its Librem 5 smartphone. The device promises total protection of your privacy, thanks to custom … | Continue reading
Twitter is working on a bookmarking button so you can save tweets to read later, for posterity or whatever else – without having to ‘heart’ it, reports BuzzFeed News. That’ll certainly come in handy, especially for the scores of users (myself included) who enjoy using Twitter to … | Continue reading
Bluetooth is great for connecting hardware, except when it’s not, as 9to5Google blogger Hayato Huseman learned the hard way with his desktop: I just turned off Bluetooth on my iMac without thinking about the fact that my keyboard and mouse use it and now I can't turn it back on. … | Continue reading
Episode VIII of the Star Wars saga is nearly upon us, and Disney has just dropped the second trailer for the film. Directed by Rian Johnson (of Looper fame), Star Wars: The Last Jedi follows on from 2015’s The Force Awakens, and sees Rey meeting an anxious Luke Skywalker, Finn ba … | Continue reading
PureVPN, one of many virtual private network providers claiming not to keep logs or identifying information of its users was instrumental in the arrest of a Massachussetts man on Friday. The logs, which PureVPN claims don’t exist, were used to track and arrest 24-year-old Ryan Li … | Continue reading
Sentient CEObot Mark Zuckerberg today took a trip to the disaster-stricken island of Puerto Rico via the medium of virtual reality and some ghastly Second Life-style avatars. It’s pretty much the most tasteless thing I’ve seen all year, and you can check it out here. Watch in she … | Continue reading
A Microsoft official confirmed this weekend that the Windows Phone was dead, and the company had no plans on making any new hardware in the line. While it might be instructive to look for a cause of death in the phone’s hardware, or its software, you could also look to another pr … | Continue reading
Amazon could be entering the drug game — prescription drugs, that is — according to a new report. The report, from healthcare industry investment experts Leerink, indicates Amazon will enter the pharmaceutical industry within the next two years. Word of the report caused Walgreen … | Continue reading
A study carried out earlier this year indicates that college graduates are finding the job market increasingly difficult to crack. Several fields of study, including computer science and the arts, are proving degrees don’t carry the clout they used to. Career site Zippia used US … | Continue reading
Google just released dozens of full-size, unedited photos taken with the Pixel 2. In case you had any doubt after its record DxOMark score, that camera is shaping up to be really good. Photography is a combination of subjective taste and technical prowess, and for me, at least, … | Continue reading
By now it should be of no surprise that chatbots are starting to become way more mainstream than they were ten, even five, years ago. Chatbots are popping up for everything. Heck, there’s even a chatbot now that lets you follow along with Steve Aoki on his new tour and chat it up … | Continue reading
It perhaps might be too premature to pronounce the death of the humble headphone jack, but one fact is undeniable – it’s on life support. Phone manufacturers are giving up on wired audio. It didn’t start with Apple, but the iPhone 7 was certainly the biggest nail in its coffin. W … | Continue reading
In the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting earlier this month, YouTube is striking out content related to specific types of firearm modifications — and the community isn’t happy about it. YouTube apparently began removing videos showing the modification of guns with bump stocks l … | Continue reading
Cochlear and Apple recently unveiled hearing implants that can be connected to an iPhone. Those who suffer hearing loss have had the surgical option for years, but this is the first time we’ve been able to connect their nervous system directly to a smartphone. The two companies p … | Continue reading
Virtual reality might get its popularity from applications in film, gaming, and adult entertainment, but it is quickly becoming one of the most powerful new developments in a completely different industry: the medical universe. In light of the upcoming VR Days 2017 on October 25- … | Continue reading
Halloween might still be a month away, but scaring the crap out of your friends is timeless – and all you’re going to need to pull off a killer prank is a Raspberry Pi computer, an LCD panel, and about eight hours of your time. The best part is that you won’t even have to wear a … | Continue reading
One time. This was all it took me to fall in love with Slack. But my infatuation with the team collaboration tool has been gradually wearing off over the past few months – largely due to a glaring bug in the chat client the company seems to be frivolously neglecting. Slack has a … | Continue reading
Are you ready for a new type of culinary experience where you don’t have to lift a finger? If so, this food delivery system is what you’ve been waiting for. Initiated by researchers at the University of Sussex’s SCHI Lab, TastyFloats is a contactless food delivery system that lev … | Continue reading
The inventor of the Roomba is back, with a robot for your garden. Using a variety of sensors, Tertill patrols your garden, avoiding plants and obstacles while looking for weeds to whack. Tertill’s crowdfunding goal was reached in 5 days and it will start shipping early 2018 with … | Continue reading
We live in a society where shadowy figures influence what makes the news, who goes to jail, and even who lives or dies. We live in a system where corporations and the state work together to take control of our information, our communications, and potentially even our future digit … | Continue reading
Fumiya Iida, University of Cambridge The new Blade Runner sequel will return us to a world where sophisticated androids made with organic body parts can match the strength and emotions of their human creators. As someone who builds biologically inspired robots, I’m interested in … | Continue reading
Developers sure have a penchant for ranting and spitting wisecracks at the most unusual places. So much so that one bored Microsoft programmer has built a Twitter bot that tweets anytime a developer swears publicly on GitHub. Yes, that is apparently a thing. Built by MS Azure sof … | Continue reading
So you just downloaded Snapchat. Now what? The photo app that everyone wants to copy and yet no one can manage to fully destroy is still a little obscure for those who didn’t get onboard during its initial rush of popularity. I’ve actually been asked by multiple people who know m … | Continue reading
Over the last couple of years, there has been a boom in technology where new and innovative ideas have been developed to help us deal with the many complexities of our lives. Finances have always been a tricky subject for many people. That is why financial institutions such as ba … | Continue reading
Right now, you can find out what all the Raspberry Pi hubbub is about with the Complete Raspberry Pi 3 Training Bundle, a more than $200 package of learning that’s available for only $19 from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Emotional design is the secret sauce of many successful products. It can make all the difference between a good product and one that users talk about to everyone. Think of a digital product you love and have raved about to your friends. Often, in this crowded market, these produc … | Continue reading
Do you own a company blog or a personal blog? Have you considered redesigning it? What would this encompass? What are the things you need to do to make sure you do a good job? Blogs are still popular, whether they belong to businesses, eCommerce websites or individuals. They are … | Continue reading
Many of the tech companies I’ve worked for have employed a top-down approach to product strategy. This typically entails a small number of leaders within the organization — usually from the C-suite — dictating the entire product roadmap. While a top-down approach is definitely be … | Continue reading
There are literally a dozen different ways you could piece your idea together, and you’ll learn all of ‘em with this Learn to Code 2017 bundle of courses. Best of all, you can get the entire package for any price you want to pay, thanks to TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Last week, two former Google employees launched ‘Bodega’, a startup selling eight-foot square vending machines that store non-perishable items. The contents of these machines can be varied by need and location. On a college campus, for example, the box might contain stationery or … | Continue reading