Is that photo pretty enough? Is that tweet funny enough? If not, they might not be seen now that Instagram and Twitter are moving to algorithmically sorted feeds. That could spell big problems for marketers and cause our social media lives to be more stressful. To make their apps … | Continue reading
GUEST: Economic uncertainty often hits young companies with a double whammy: Investor money dries up and customers rein in spending. But it turns out that economic downturns are good times to start businesses. First, the filter on ideas is much finer, so if you get going, it prob … | Continue reading
In early February 2016, a study of financing deals reported by The Wall Street Journal found that investors are increasingly protecting themselves from IPOs that don’t perform as expected. This fallout is a continuation of the demise of the so-called “unicorn,” a tech startup wit … | Continue reading
As part of the newsgathering process, The Verge sends Freedom of Information Act requests, asking for documents maintained under federal law. On a good day, we get something noteworthy; it's how we got the Federal Communications Commission's emails about John Oliver, for one exam … | Continue reading
What happens when a fitness tracking company ventures off into the world of smartwatches? We aim to find that out in our Fitbit Blaze review! | Continue reading
The Brooklyn Nets have signed guard Sean Kilpatrick to a multiyear contract. | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Your Xbox One is obsolete. Your PlayStation 4 is junk. But if these consoles are starting to feel old, Microsoft and Sony may step in to sell you the same thing all over again with something extra sprinkled on top. Analysts think it’s possible that Sony and Microsoft co … | Continue reading
Babka jogurtowo-cytrynowa czy dzisiejsza bananowa? A może czekoladowa? Ciekawa jestem czy któraś z nich wpadnie Wam w oko? Ja z kolei poszukuję dobrego przepisu na tradycyjną babkę drożdżową :-) Polecicie coś? Skład: (średnica formy: 18 cm) 300 g mąki 3 banany 100 g masła 4 jajka … | Continue reading
Over the years I’ve signed up for a couple hundred digital tools. With that experience, I’ve come to expect certain things from your tool/site especially if I become a customer. I’m hoping you’ll see this from a customer’s point of view and it will help you preemptively reduce ch … | Continue reading
Lower back injuries can be both acute and chronic, from muscle spasms, pinched nerves and muscle tears to tendon and ligament strains, intervertebral disc slips or bone fractures. It’s very hard to distinguish acute from chronic injuries since many factors … Continue reading → | Continue reading
On Wednesday, San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) experienced an electrical issue that took out a portion of track, forcing the agency to use a fleet of loaned buses to transport passengers and causing massive delays. Naturally, riders took their frustrations to Twitter … | Continue reading
NASA is preparing to send its first commercial manufacturing facility to the International Space Station (ISS). The 3D printing company Made in Space has partnered with NASA to send their Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) to the space station on a launch scheduled to take pla … | Continue reading
As the 126 entrepreneurs in the latest batch prepare for their big day, we thought we’d catch up with one of these founders before their nervous 3 minute pitch to the world. Read More | Continue reading
With Apple's next product unveiling right around the corner and new rumors surrounding the upcoming iPad, you may have msissed some of this week's best new apps.See also: What to expect at Apple's spring event: A smaller iPhone is just the beginningEach weekend, we round up a few … | Continue reading
We've seen experimental drones that rule that skies with speed and even mounted weapons, but a new flying drone prototype has emerged that will lie in wait for you somewhere new: under the seaA team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed the CRACUNS ( … | Continue reading
A look at a recent legislative update in New Hampshire that classifies bitcoin sellers as money transmitters. | Continue reading
GUEST: Nascent entrepreneurs and seasoned pajama warriors know that working from home is life-changing … and also kind of sucks. That’s why WeWork’s valuation is $16 billion and why the most popular product in a coffee shop is the power outlet. As VR headsets shrink and pixel den … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price has spent the past 24 hours in a corrective price pattern below $410 (Bitstamp). Large buy orders wait passively below $404, but bearish chart bias implies the sellers could simply consume them, as had been the case during the past week. This analysis is provided by … | Continue reading
The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 18, 2016. The Gang predicts an Echological intersection between bots and voice command, while binge viewers plan a surreal TV show in Cleveland. Plus, the latest … | Continue reading
Überall Drohnen heute, wo man sie nicht erwartet. Zuerst beim Landeanflug, dann Unterwasser und jetzt auf Hausmauern: Die Uni Stanford hat einen Quadcopter ausgetüftelt, der auf senkrechten Wänden nicht nur landen, sondern diese auch... | Continue reading
Netflix service has won a bidding war for the rights to fantasy cop thriller Bright, starring Will Smith, according to Deadline. Over $3 million is going to screenwriter Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra) for the script, and Netflix is setting aside $90 million to make the fi … | Continue reading
Inbox by Gmail has a few useful features but probably the most interesting is Smart Reply, which was expanded to the desktop this week. As impressive as the A.I.-powered suggestions for replies to your emails are, they’re just not very useful yet. Sure, Smart Replies tend to offe … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Laurene Powell Jobs has proposed building 15,689-square-foot estate on land her husband, Steve Jobs, acquired in 1984. While the original proposal was submitted almost a year ago, the plans are moving toward approval by the Town of Woodside. The proposal for the land, wh … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Steve Jobs hated the historic Jackling House that he bought in 1984 so much that he spent a tremendous amount of time and energy in his final years trying to have the Woodside mansion torn down. After a decade of controversy and legal fights with local preservation group … | Continue reading
When you take photos of Rome Fortune on a busy street in Austin during SXSW, people are going to look at you. Or, more accurately, they’re going to look at him. The the 27-year-old Atlanta rapper, born Jerome Fortune, is over six feet tall, wearing a floppy hat, an aquamarine bea … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Clash of the titans, tonight on ABC (8:30 ET) Good thing Golden State coach Steve Kerr … heh, heh … was only joking when he talked about … ho, ho … sitting out all his best players from the Warriors’ highly anticipated … ha, ha … game at San Antonio as the latest entry […] | Continue reading
When the white-hot Warriors and splendid Spurs collide Saturday at the AT&T Center, perhaps all that will be missing is a catwalk for the NBA's two model teams. | Continue reading
How do you test your new charity donations platform before it’s ready for prime time, get some publicity AND help people raise money for good causes in a unique way? It turns out that nudity helps. Nelfie is a project that encourages people to get tastefully naked for charity. Te … | Continue reading
‘Tis the season of giving for game engines. King Digital Entertainment acquired the Defold game engine back in 2014 to make two-dimensional mobile games. It enhanced the engine and published Blossom Blast Saga using Defold. But the European game company, which was acquired recent … | Continue reading
GUEST: We’re used to talking about full-stack developers — people who can do front end as well as back end development, understand the layers of both hardware and software, and know how to access (and make accessible) the data and programmatic functions of adjacent software. Laur … | Continue reading
BEIJING (By Matthew Miller and Paul Carsten, Reuters) – Facebook’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg met China’s propaganda tsar Liu Yunshan in Beijing on Saturday as part of a charm offensive in one of the few markets where the social network cannot be accessed. The rare meetin … | Continue reading
Well, that didn't take long, did it? If you've been enjoying wrecking enemy towers with Clash Royale's [Free] Prince, you might have to rethink your strategy a bit. According to Supercell, the first balance changes since global launch are supposed to boost some underused cards as … | Continue reading
Eine russische Sojus-Kapsel hat heute Morgen drei Raumfahrer auf die Internationale Raumstation ISS gebracht. Die russischen Kosmonauten Alexei Owtschinin und Oleg Skripotschka sowie der US-Astronaut Jeffrey Williams werden voraussichtlich bis Sept... | Continue reading
When Car2Go launched its car-sharing service in San Diego about five years ago, its entire fleet was composed of electric cars. It was a move that made San Diego officials smile, as the city is undertaking an ambitious plan to cut carbon emissions. But now Car2Go is withdrawing t … | Continue reading
There is a growing consensus that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon be a reality. The debate today centers not on whether, but how soon, AVs will be commonplace on our roads. But for all the buzz surrounding AVs, many details about what a driverless future will look like remain … | Continue reading
You know the value of audience personas, but building them can be a struggle. Here’s how to put your social presence to work to mine data. | Continue reading
Let’s face it, cloud storage can get pricy no matter how good the bargain. That’s why TNW’s new offer on a five-year Subscription to Zoolz Cloud Backup is so fantastic – because you get to pick the price! Featuring innovative technology, Zoolz is the only service that effortlessl … | Continue reading
The Pope is on Instagram. A photo of the Pope praying was posted on his account, called franciscus, on Saturday morning, along with the caption "Pray for me" in nine different languages. In an accompanying @pontifex Twitter post, Francis said he was "beginning a new journey" on t … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Top 10 Plays from Friday’s action NEWS OF THE MORNING Wade at another career crossroads | Crowder’s absence costing Celtics | Portland avoids “sickening” loss | Frye shows value, quietly and from distance No. 1: Wade at another career crossroads — You can find plenty of ad … | Continue reading
A long-running debate over power costs between bitcoin miners and a local power utility is escalating in Washington state. | Continue reading
To answer the headline above, we had an interview with our senior designer Jeff Andries, who has contributed to various TNW projects, and chief designer Alexander Griffioen, who manages and supervises all design projects at TNW. Tell us a bit about yourself Jeff: I’m Jeff Andries … | Continue reading
Wir haben gestern einen Buchtipp „Corporate Social Responsibility“ veröffentlicht, der auch in unserem Newsletter von heute beworben wurde. Dieser Buchtipp wurde irrtümlich ausgewählt und daher vom Blog genommen. | Continue reading
It’s been a tense week for humanity, watching with rapt attention while Google was making history by defeating a world-class professional player at the game of Go with an AI player (an unaccomplished feat, until now). Google was also busy putting its acquired robot-bullying compa … | Continue reading
In today’s clickbait culture, the news about online teenagers is dire, even apocalyptic. We are told that selfie culture is destroying the self-esteem of adolescent girls. Heavy social media use, we learn, is linked to disruptions in sleep patterns in kids. Young people, apparent … | Continue reading
UPDATE 22/3/16 9:00am: Remedy has released a statement explaining resolution and image quality on Quantum Break. It verifies our initial hypothesis on how t… | Continue reading
GUEST: We’re seeing a lot of gloom and doom in the SaaS space and the techworld in general as valuation multiples have compressed and late-stage funding has become more challenging. However, there still exists tremendous opportunity to build large, valuable companies in the SaaS … | Continue reading
The Venture Backpack wants you to shed $650 so you can keep track of your backpack, especially when it goes for an adventure on its ownMashable Fashion Reporter Noelle Sciacca takes the pricey tech backpack for a run in NYC and tests its style and utility. Is this the "Find My iP … | Continue reading