Although the feature has been around for a while, I’ve only just started sending voice messages on WhatsApp to save time typing or avoid fumbling with my phone with just one hand free. Now, Android Police has discovered that you can record and beam across voice messages without e … | Continue reading
As you might have noticed, Twitter is currently testing a new format that doubles the 140 character limit to 280, so you can more freely fit your thoughts into a single tweet. The feature is presently available to select users only, but there is a little trick you can pull off to … | Continue reading
While it’s best known for its innovatively designed vacuum cleaners, fans and hair dryers, Dyson is now embarking on a different and far more ambitious mission: to build electric vehicles and put them on the road by 2020. That’s a bold new step for the 30-year-old business – but … | Continue reading
The roar of the American muscle car may soon be relegated to the annals of history. California governor Jerry Brown is reportedly considering a ban on combustion engines. Last year alone two million new vehicles were registered in the golden state, any such ban would likely force … | Continue reading
Twitter is testing a new feature that will double the character limit of tweets — which means you may soon have 280 characters to play with. According to Twitter, it made the changes to address the frustration most people have with trying to fit their thoughts into a 140-characte … | Continue reading
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced it would begin collecting social media information for all immigrants entering the country. The announcement, published in the Federal Register a few days ago, and first noticed by BuzzFeed News, states any non-natur … | Continue reading
An augmented reality app now lets you catch and tame your very own virtual shark, which will follow you around everywhere you go. Judging by my colleagues’ reactions, you’re either going to love this or hate this. The sharks aren’t restricted to the water. Instead, they float ove … | Continue reading
Apple and Amazon’s long streaming fued appears to nearly be over. After Amazon removed the Apple TV and Chromecast from its online store two years ago, it returned to selling at least the former. Well, it did for a while – 9to5Mac spotted a listing for the Apple TV 4k on Amazon e … | Continue reading
If you thought Atari’s new console, the Ataribox, would exist simply to rehash old classics, you can put those worries to rest. An interview with venturebeat revealed the company plans to position it as a legitimate gaming console, though perhaps one less powerful than the Xbox O … | Continue reading
Amidst a series of troubles worldwide, Uber is taking steps to ensure its drivers feel as safe as its passengers. The company’s new Feedback for Riders takes rider ratings beyond the stars. Starting today, UberPOOL and UberX riders in the US and Canada will be able to receive con … | Continue reading
Sirin Labs today announced it’s developing a smartphone and PC designed to function on the blockchain. The devices will ship with built-in resource-sharing capabilities and run on their own cryptocurrency token. The Finney smartphone and PC are being billed as niche` products, an … | Continue reading
The vacation rental market is booming, and it’s largely thanks to one site in particular: Airbnb. In just a few years, it’s transformed the way people travel, and in the process ballooned into a multi-billion dollar company. But it’s also a fragmented market. Several compelling A … | Continue reading
Instagram is introducing a few new tools today to help make comments more bearable. Mainly, the company is finally giving users more control over who can actually comment on posts. Previously, Instagram comments were all or nothing – either you allowed people to comment on your p … | Continue reading
If you live in one of the countries where “Star Trek: Discovery” is available on Netflix — which means everywhere except the US and Canada — then you’ll be able to watch the show with Klingon language subtitles, which probably ranks as one of the nerdiest Easter eggs I’ve ever en … | Continue reading
Mozilla today announced that its significant overhaul of the Firefox browser — called Firefox Quantum — had entered the beta stage, making it tantalisingly close to a general consumer release. Firefox Quantum isn’t an incremental release, but rather a significant step forward for … | Continue reading
If you saw me in a coffee shop, you probably wouldn’t think I’m running a profitable business and working with some of the largest websites in the world. The reality is that I’m an entrepreneur and by trade a marketing consultant, which means I tend to work with enterprise-level … | Continue reading
Are you building a business and raising a family? Are you struggling to give both your company and your children the attention they need? You are not alone in this struggle. With more than nine million women business owners in the United States, you’re definitely not alone in you … | Continue reading
Back in 2014, Kano launched a compelling DIY kit to let children build their own computers and learn to code while they were at it. Three years on, it’s got a new kit that kids aged six and up can craft into a laptop. The $250 Computer Kit Complete features a Raspberry Pi 3 board … | Continue reading
The Open Source Initiative today announced that Microsoft has joined the organisation as an official sponsor. Founded in 1998, the Open Source Initiative is one of the most effective advocates for open source software, emphasising education, collaboration, and “preventing abuse o … | Continue reading
Following more than two years of anticipation, Google and Levi’s are finally making good on their promise to deliver a smart denim jacket that can also control your devices – though it is admittedly more of a gimmick than an actual feature at this point. The high-tech attire, whi … | Continue reading
No area is morphing and exploding faster than how to market your products and services digitally. So get in on how the best of the best handle digital marketing online and on social media with this double-barreled learning bootcamp, available right now for only $19.99 (over 90 pe … | Continue reading
Content delivery network service Cloudflare turns seven this week, and is celebrating by offering its customers free protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. That means that if someone tries to take your site down by blasting it with traffic – like how GitHub … | Continue reading
Streaming your favorite shows on a spotty internet connection can be quite the nuisance – but it doesn’t have to be. There is a handy app that lets you save any show for offline watching and the best thing is that it works with practically any streaming service, including Netflix … | Continue reading
Since the advent of search engines, the importance of SEO has only increased. It’s important for every company to get the word out about their business while reaching an audience that matters. What business wouldn’t want to be found on the coveted page one, position one ranking i … | Continue reading
Dubai’s authorities on Monday announced that a successful ‘concept flight’ of an autonomous hover-taxi service had taken place. Details are scarce about the route taken, although (predictably) no passengers were taken along for the ride. The prototype electric hover-vehicle was d … | Continue reading
Influencer marketing is a reinvented form of celebrity endorsements but, where celebrity endorsements utilized celebrities that were known to a general audience (which usually include the general population), influencer marketing rather utilizes people who are looked up to in spe … | Continue reading
It turns out torrenting platforms are not the only ones toying with alternative methods to convert traffic to cash. A week after The Pirate Bay admitted to secretly running a cryptominer to borrow visitors’ CPU resources to bank on Monero coins, television giant CBS was caught do … | Continue reading
Elon Musk today gave us our first glimpse at what interplanetary travel and colonization could look like. In an Instagram post, Musk provided a series of five videos offering a look at a computer simulation of the SpaceX Interplanetary Spaceship and Rocket, and how it could, conc … | Continue reading
Next year’s gadgets, at least beyond the second quarter, won’t want to be caught dead without the killer fashion accessory of 2018: an AI chip. Yoo Hoi-jun, professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Technology, told The Korea Herald: Competition for AI chips is so intense globally … | Continue reading
Apple’s newest update to macOS is now available. While it’s not chock-full of fancy new features, there are a few updates worth mentioning. The first is to Photos, which looks stunning. The Apple-specific photo editor now pays more attention to, you know, editing, through a coupl … | Continue reading
Former White House strategist and Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon apparently wanted to plant a mole in Facebook via DC job posting, according to Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed obtained emails between Bannon and Chris Gacek — of the Family Research Council — that discussed a job opening at Fa … | Continue reading
Fitbit’s new smartwatch finally has an official release date: October 1, or this Sunday. The company also announced the Flyer, it’s new headphones, will go on sale the same day. We said we enjoyed the device in our review, but it’s more of a smart fitness tracker than a bonafide … | Continue reading
Since 1980 the cost of college tuition has tripled while the average income has remained basically the same. As a result families have struggled to send their kids to college at a time when a college education has become more critical than ever to even just being able to survive … | Continue reading
Smartsheet last week released its “State of Automation 2017” study which provides a breakdown of industry attitudes toward automation. While an overwhelming percentage of those surveyed believe that automation can improve their workplace (97 percent), it’s clear that millennials … | Continue reading
Snap today announced, in celebration of its popular app turning six-years-old, it will be adding ‘Sky Filters’ and more 3D Bitmoji lenses to its Snapchat app. ‘Sky Filters’ brings an entirely new set of filters to the app, designed to detect the sky in your photos and offer a car … | Continue reading
Apple is switching Siri’s default search provider from Bing to Google. It’s also making the switch on iOS Search and Spotlight for Mac. This means, if you ask Siri a question for which she needs to visit the web — either by asking her a question she doesn’t know the answer to or … | Continue reading
When was the last time you watched Shark Tank and thought to yourself, “I could do that. All I need is one good idea and my life could change forever” Although the show is entertaining, it is an atypical representation of what it’s really like to successfully launch a product and … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants to grow your LinkedIn network with everyone you collaborate or converse with, so it’s adding ‘Profile Cards’ to its Office 365 apps for making quick connections. The new feature, which will surface your contacts’ LinkedIn profiles in Microsoft services starting ne … | Continue reading
A report released this month by Angel List indicates cryptocurrency jobs have risen by over 100 percent in the past six months. While Bitcoin value fluctuations may be testing investor confidence, the hiring market for blockchain-based technology remains overtly bullish. Not only … | Continue reading
With iOS 11 comes the iOS ARKit, which makes it easy for developers to create augmented reality apps for iPhones and iPads. So far, several developers have released AR apps of varying degrees of usefulness — such as a sudoku app that spoils the game — but one thing’s for sure: Tw … | Continue reading
Google and Levi’s have partnered to release a denim jacket with touch sensitive controls and Bluetooth connectivity, proving once and for all that we are, in fact, living in the future. The Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket, as it’s called, allows you to do basic gadget things like … | Continue reading
The blockchain, and cryptocurrency as a whole, can feel a bit overwhelming. It’s obviously on the rise, but so much of it is a mystery to the average person. Usually the first questions will revolve around the world’s most known cryptocurrency, bitcoin, but eventually, curious mi … | Continue reading
Air France is one of the oldest names in aviation. It’s also one of the stuffiest; you don’t instinctively associate it with a hip, young clientele right? It’s perhaps for that reason it’s launching a spin-off airline, called Joon, aimed squarely at millennials. Check out the mag … | Continue reading
Bitcoin has recently undergone a subtle but major change. I previously discussed here on TNW the blockchain is already falling victim to its own popularity — with limited block sizes resulting in painstakingly slow transactions. With the recent implementation of SegWit and the pl … | Continue reading
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Anybody with a modicum of rationality knows that we, as a species, need to make a shift towards renewable energy — or face dire consequences. But the problem with renewable energy is its inconsistency, which makes it harder to implement on a larger scale. A number of startups and … | Continue reading
Apple is catching some heat over the release of the new iOS 11. A litany of iPhone users are reporting experiencing a significant drop in performance after updating to the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. The issues range from reduced battery life to noticeably … | Continue reading
Furthering its battle against its ecommerce rivals in India, Amazon has cut a deal with clothing chain Shopper’s Stop to set up Amazon Experience Centers at the brand’s stores, where people can try out products from the Seattle giant’s catalog. Amazon has a few of its own brands … | Continue reading