Is America an idea? Or is it a specific “people” or ethnic group? On the diverging answers to that question turn some of the biggest disputes in U.S. history. Our current president began his trip to Europe with a speech in Poland that minimized the role of ideals in American iden … | Continue reading
Ten people, including the local director of Amnesty International, are being detained across various police stations in Istanbul after Turkish police forcibly removed them from a human rights workshop on Wednesday morning. The workshop, which took place at a hotel in Buyukada, an … | Continue reading
GUEST: For mobile game developers, one look at the top charts on iOS and Android is enough to make you dream of what branded intellectual property you can tap into for your next game. From Kim Kardashian and Gordon Ramsay to Marvel Comics and Madden NFL Football, branded IP has p … | Continue reading
A Progressive Web App, or PWA, uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. Any website can be a PWA - here's how to do it. The "add to homescreen" prompt in a PWA Turning a basic website into a PWA is not that hard and has a lot of real benefits, so … | Continue reading
A distributed ledger task force convened by the European Union's top securities watchdog has been extended.Source | Continue reading
Bitcoin, the popular cryptocurrency has got many people coming up with different price forecast almost every other day. The price estimate ranges from a meager $1000 increase to trade at close to $4000, to $5000 in the next few months. Not to forget the overly optimistic predicti … | Continue reading
Getting started in tech is a daunting proposition—so clearly, having models and lingerie on hand when networking is a long overdue idea that could make everyone more comfortable and help ease the entire process. Right? Right?That somehow appears to be the thinking of Creative Sta … | Continue reading
Republicans officials and officeholders were, for the most part, not pleased about the rise of Donald Trump as their party’s candidate, but they found themselves powerless to stop his winning the nomination and then the presidency.Since Trump became president, however, Republican … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesDuring a joint news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda in Warsaw, President Trump said he’s considering a “pretty severe” response to North Korea’s recent missile tests. When questioned about Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, Trump … | Continue reading
Jawbone as we knew it is no more. The tech company that produced Bluetooth earpieces and wireless speakers before betting everything on fitness tracking has entered into liquidation proceedings, according to a new report from The Information. Co-founder and chief executive Hosain … | Continue reading
In the latest escalation of its global legal fight with Apple, Qualcomm is asking the US government to ban new iPhones from coming into the country. It also wants sales halted on iPhones that have already made their way in.Qualcomm says that Apple is violating six patents that ha … | Continue reading
In his speech in Poland on Thursday, Donald Trump referred 10 times to “the West” and five times to “our civilization.” His white nationalist supporters will understand exactly what he means. It’s important that other Americans do, too.The West is not a geographic term. Poland is … | Continue reading
The white glove legal battle between two of the most important companies in mobile technologies is getting a lot hotter. Today, Qualcomm levied accusations against Apple suggesting that the Cupertino tech giant was infringing on six patents that aided iPhone battery life. Qualco … | Continue reading
It’s time for the big G-20 summit in Hamburg, and Russian phone customizers Caviar are commemorating the occasion with a very special Nokia 3310 (the new one). Encased in the best metals, titanium and gold, the back features a touching double profile of Trump and Putin. Only 149 … | Continue reading
GUEST: Ninety percent of all the data available online today has accumulated over the last couple of years. This pool of data is projected to grow exponentially as we all contribute to it each day through 500 million tweets, 4.3 billion Facebook posts, 5.75 billion “likes,” and 6 … | Continue reading
MIT’s Camera Culture group has been able to successfully capture a high-resolution 3D scan of a Tyrannosaurus rex skull using about $150 worth of equipment and some free software. The skull, which belongs to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, was discovered in 1990 … | Continue reading
“Anyone can fly the Skycar,” the headline on the January 1991 cover of Popular Mechanics blared, teasing the possibility of a future where everyone could own their own “flying car.” That dream never came to fruition, but the original Skycar can now be yours to own. Moller Interna … | Continue reading
Despite some bungalow-style additions to its verandah, the street-facing south elevation of this cottage remained largely faithful to the .... | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a mammoth success on Steam as well as broadcasting services like Twitch and YouTube, and the Bluehole studio built it specifically for that audience of live-video viewers. Woonghee Cho, Bluehole’s global buisness boss, explained to GamesBeat that … | Continue reading
the investment vehicle has renamed itself to Digital Developers Fund, or DDF, in order to make space for top-performing cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. | Continue reading
Scribes everywhere, look alive: Google is now funding a project which will use AI to write automated news stories, The Press Association, a UK news agency, received about $807,000 from the third round of Google’s Digital News Initiative funding. Their project? Reporters and Data … | Continue reading
Today, Vice President Mike Pence gave a lengthy speech about the future of US space policy, in which he provided no concrete details about what the administration’s agenda for space will look like. During a visit to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Pence made it very clear … | Continue reading
Over the past 24 hours, Instagram appears to have deleted thousands of accounts from real users (i.e, not bots) without providing any real explanation. Reports of these incidents filled Twitter and Facebook. When Instagram tweeted this today, users flooded the account demanding t … | Continue reading
Dandelion, a maker of geothermal systems for homes that was incubated inside Alphabet’s X, said it raised $2 million in a seed round led by Collaborative Fund. ZhenFund and Borealis Ventures also participated in the round, which will be used to launch the company’s sales and oper … | Continue reading
Thanks to Voyager, Google Earth's storytelling platform, you can now basically take an even deeper look at Alaska without having to leave your couch. Pretty cool, right?SEE ALSO: Watch out Google Earth, Apple Maps has a hidden VR-like 'flyover' modeVoyager, which is essentially a … | Continue reading
Putting all of its other skills and tricks aside, we must never forget that one of Amazon’s primary objectives with the Echo (and Alexa) is to make it dead simple and convenient for you to continually buy more stuff from Amazon. You can place an order in seconds and track it to y … | Continue reading
If you’ve got a 4K Samsung smart TV with access to the Samsung app store, you can now stream Steam games to your TV to play directly on the big screen with the new Steam Link app that’s now out in beta, via Engadget. Just like the Steam Link set top box, the Steam Link app allows … | Continue reading
It's time to end the adversarial approach to selling. Let’s transform sales together. | Continue reading
Blizzard finally revealed that Doomfist is the next character in its class-based hero shooter Overwatch, and we have spent some time with the melee striker on the game’s test server. He is an attacker with a variety of fist-based moves including the charging Rocket Punch, the stu … | Continue reading
France is considering banning the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, the country’s environmental minister said Thursday, according to multiple reports. It’s unclear, however, whether this proposal is an official position of French President Emmanuel Macron’s new gove … | Continue reading
While it's easy to feel a slight twinge of disappointment by how derivative a lot of new mobile titles feel, in a glass half full sense, it's pretty remarkable how refined game mechanics that work well on mobile are getting. The latest example of a game that takes everything that … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever played Candy Crush for three hours, don’t worry, you’re not completely to blame. The developers and designers behind every popular app intentionally design them to be “addicting.” The endless scrolling, 24/7 sharing, and constant notification checking are all actio … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Motorola unveiled the Moto Z2 Play, the sequel to last year's long-lasting mid-range surprise. Here's where to buy the Moto Z2 Play! | Continue reading
More than 100 YouTube creators have signed an open letter to the FCC calling on the agency to keep strong net neutrality protections. Letter represents major YouTube creators“Our rapidly growing industry employs hundreds of thousands of people and yet it barely existed more than … | Continue reading
Today’s episode is a bit about perseverance. It’s about getting into something and sticking with it (we talk about running, but it’s a metaphor for anything). It’s also about recognizing that we all have crazy. There is no avoiding it. But we can hang on tight and try to have a f … | Continue reading
Almost 20 years ago, the Godfather of SEO helped launch my career. Here's my story. | Continue reading
Hey St. Louis, come hang out tonight. I’m going to be passing through “the Gateway to the West” today and thought it’d be great to meet any and all of y’all who might want to come out and say hello. Read More | Continue reading
Sometimes, it seems like every possible on-demand service that could be created has already come along — and, in some cases, gone away. But Recycle Track Systems (RTS), a two-year-old, New York-based waste and recycling management technology company, serves to remind that there … | Continue reading
The camera market has never recovered from the impact of the smartphone. Ever since the iPhone took the mobile photography world by storm, point-and-shoot cameras have all but disappeared. Enthusiast and professional cameras have remained relatively unharmed, due to their obvious … | Continue reading
It's time to start tipping your Uber drivers.Following years of resistance, the ride-hailing company is finally starting to roll out its driver-tipping features in earnest.Today, Uber expanded its in-app tipping to more than 100 cities in the U.S and Canada, including some of its … | Continue reading
GUEST: Voice search is increasingly being adopted by consumers who are literally speaking to brands to get the answers to their questions. This habit of relying on a voice assistant to answer queries presents brands with ample opportunities to connect with customers in meaningful … | Continue reading
Windows 10 S was met with a hefty amount of skepticism upon launch – some of it from TNW itself. How could it not? On the surface, it recalls many sore memories of Windows RT. Once again, Microsoft thought the best user experience would be to limit users to software from the Win … | Continue reading
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Kevin Pritchard struggled to make the deal. | Continue reading
There's a big new self-driving vehicle primed to hit the roads, and it's like nothing you've ever seen before. It's technically a truck — but it looks much more like a new age spacecraft than any semi on today's highways.Einride, the trucking company that rolled out an ambitious … | Continue reading
I used to be really into asynchronous multiplayer games on iOS, but it's hard to find players who'll stick with the game and play fast enough to make a game flow well. Recently, I've been more into real-time multiplayer games because they fit the platform—and my schedule—better. … | Continue reading
The days of desktop systems serving single users are long gone. Web applications nowadays are serving millions of users at the same time. With many users comes a wide range of new problems: concurrency problems. The Problem To demonstrate common concurrency issues we are going to … | Continue reading
One of the best guards from overseas is headed to Los Angeles. | Continue reading