Pirates went through a rough patch this past year. Shortly after KickassTorrents and its alleged owner Artem Vaulin went down, competing sites Torrentz.eu and TorrentHound swiftly followed suit. But while The Pirate Bay is still there to hold the fort, an unlikely alternative is … | Continue reading
Protesters against Uber and Cabify blocked a major thoroughfare to a Chilean airport, leaving at least one man dead and multiple flights delayed. The Santiago protest managed to back traffic up for miles, and several people abandoned their cars to flee the gridlock on foot. As ye … | Continue reading
The Content Standard (TCS) is the content hub within the much bigger Skyword, a company that helps marketers create and implement effective content marketing strategies.One day, the TCS team realized that, though they were preaching about the best practices in content marketing, … | Continue reading
Statisticians at two Dutch universities are publishing a paper giving what they believe is the maximum number of years the average, healthy human has to live. The research — the work of statisticians from Tilburg and Erasmus Universities — relies on a branch of statistics called … | Continue reading
Politicians in Hawaii are debating using a universal basic income to offset the potential robot job-pocalypse. It’s a trend other states might consider joining as AI is poised to take on a larger role in the work force. The new bill — which was passed earlier this year and basica … | Continue reading
Elon Musk is predicting the future again, like he does. This time, the eccentric billionaire and CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and others, took to Twitter to wax poetic about our pending demise at the hands of artificial intelligence (AI). The Twitter rant started with a Verge article. I … | Continue reading
Without customers, businesses wouldn’t exist. Although forward-thinking companies know the importance of treating their customers right, more can usually be done to serve and retain customer databases. From customer relationship management (CRM) software to subscription managemen … | Continue reading
China today deemed it illegal to raise funds by launching token-based digital currencies. ICOs, as they’re known, are internet shorthand for an initial coin offering, whereby a business offers shares of its company to investors through the release of tokens, or coins. The practic … | Continue reading
One of the most popular free sites for converting YouTube videos into MP3s might soon be shutting down, thanks to the music industry. The operator of YouTube-mp3.org — who was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America last year — has apparently agreed to hand his site … | Continue reading
It’s hard to overstate the success of Uber in London. In just a few years, it’s turned the iconic black hackney cab, which once roamed London’s streets unopposed, into a near-threatened species. But is its reign about to come to an end? Enter Taxify. This Estonian ridesharing fir … | Continue reading
Google Doodles are the company’s way of paying tribute to special occasions, international tragedies, and the birthdays of important historical figures. Google has created some of its best and cleverest Doodles to honor birthdays. Here are some of our favorites. Claude Monet’s 16 … | Continue reading
For the past 15 years, Adobe’s suite of cutting-edge web design programs has become an industry standard for creative types looking to push the boundaries of web creation. Now, you can have the training to join those elite web designers with the Adobe Design Expert Package, only … | Continue reading
Forget about spending your savings on bulky consoles and gaming rigs, it turns out you can play games straight from your calculator – including classic titles like Grand Theft Auto (GTA), Doom and Skyrim. Toying around with his TI-Nspire CX graphing device, Redditor RogueConditio … | Continue reading
With two billion monthly active users, more than half of all netizens are now on Facebook. In fact, the social media platform has become so integral to the internet that a large number of sites nowadays contain small chunks of Facebook code. As New York-based developer Ben Regens … | Continue reading
Oh good. Another one. This morning, Kensington Palace announced that Kate Middleton, wife to Prince William, is pregnant with her third child. While it didn’t disclose when the baby is due (presumably within the next nine months), one thing is for certain: the news cycle, and the … | Continue reading
If you find yourself at KFC’s new ‘KPRO‘ restaurant in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, you can pay for your healthy meal at the concept establishment simply by flashing your pearly whites at the self-service kiosk. The system uses a 3D camera mounted at the top of a touchscreen kio … | Continue reading
After Hillary Clinton’s shock election defeat last year, the left began a prolonged period of soul-searching. It thought about the nature of Internet filter bubbles, and why its message ceased to resonate with white working-class voters, which once was a core part of the Democrat … | Continue reading
We’re only days away from the launch of the next iPhone, and Huawei is already trying to one-up Apple with bold claims about its next product, the Huawei Mate 10. The next handset from the #3 phone maker on the planet will come with the company’s own Kirin 970 chipset, which will … | Continue reading
The concept of virtual assistance has been in consumers’ mind for more than half a century, first introduced through Sci-Fi movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) featuring virtual assistant HAL and infamous quote “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Portrayed as a … | Continue reading
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When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, business schools fail to prepare their students for the realities of how business leaders operate in the real world. Frequently, the decisions and outcomes of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) depend heavily on emotions, relationships, and … | Continue reading
In today’s contemporary world, the latest hype that is going on is the Crpto currency trend. People are confused between Bit coin and Ethereum and they actually do not know which surpasses the other. Though both the ecosystem is trying to do things in their own way, there are def … | Continue reading
Are you among the many people who believe that Bitcoin is the new gold? Are you looking for ways to use this as a means of boosting your business? Have you come to find that some of your competitors are already taking advantage of this? Accepting Bitcoin can be a solid marketing … | Continue reading
Do you know somebody who suffers from dyslexia? Is this something you have overcome in the past? Are you interested in learning more about the developments (such as the use of technology) in treating this serious learning problem? Many people are unfamiliar with the fact that the … | Continue reading
Like many of us working in technology, I grew up envisioning a world in which everything was digital, connected, and brimming with possibilities. Robots would talk to us and each other, cars would fly through cities, and all our meals would come in pill form. And just a few short … | Continue reading
Let’s be honest, on a day-to-day basis, does anyone interface with artificial intelligence (A.I.) cool enough to merit all the hype? Unless you own a self-driving car or work for the NSA, the answer is probably “no”. But that is not to say that A.I. isn’t everywhere, because it i … | Continue reading
Relationships between VC and startup founders are tenuous. While both sides of the table ultimately share the same end goal of scaling a company and bringing in profit, they’re approaching it at different angles and with different step-by-step objectives. The most successful st … | Continue reading
When I started my healthy snacks startup five years ago, I knew I would have to juggle a lot of balls at the same time to make it successful. I would have to make terrific hiring decisions, line up top suppliers to buy the choicest ingredients for our snack bars that we would pro … | Continue reading
If your Mac is getting a little long in the tooth, don’t just assume you need a new computer. You can give your Mac a thorough scrub-down with CleanMyMac 3 (on sale now for $27.99, nearly 30 percent off from TNW Deals). | Continue reading
Google is turning 19 and we wanted to celebrate the world’s most popular search engine by showing off some of Alphabet’s family photos. We hopped in the Wayback Machine and took a look at Google.com from its birth to today. The company was founded in 1998, and even though Aerosmi … | Continue reading
For a vestige of the past, the password has managed to hold on and remain alive — even though some of the top people in computing said that it had already died over a decade ago. In one of his more famous predictions, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that passwords were on the w … | Continue reading
When Apple launched the original iPhone, it was ridiculed for not including a removable battery. 10 years later, it’s virtually impossible to find a flagship phone that does. LG was the last holdout, but now that the V30 is going with a sealed design too, there isn’t a single fla … | Continue reading
Microsoft this week joined an ever-growing list of tech companies speaking out in defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. President Trump is expected to end the Obama initiative on Tuesday, according to Fox News, and announce the US government will a … | Continue reading
Citibank recently disseminated a predictive research paper in its “Technology at Work” series, wherein a number of experts lay out the future of human employment. The co-director for the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, Carl Benedikt Frey, writes “Retail is o … | Continue reading
It is the year 2017 and we carry the future with us in our pocket – that is a simple and sleek mobile device. Texting is one of the most common activities that are performed in a smart phone. Apart from exchanging text and picture messages and videos, the messaging Apps has gone … | Continue reading
Herosphere is preparing an ICO to issue HEROcoin, an Ethereum based cryptocurrency for betting. On September 14th customers will be able to spend ETH for HERO and become part of a community that’s being designed to rub out the middle-man, and make sure the “house” never wins agai … | Continue reading
Apple next flagship will be called the iPhone X, not the iPhone 8, according to a report by Dutch site iCulture. If the report pans out, there will be an iPhone 8 too, it’s just not the model we’ve been led to think. iCulture claims the device will be called the iPhone X – pronou … | Continue reading
The Surface Laptop is an excellent PC, but we were sad to see the gorgeous color options were only available on the Core i5 configuration at launch. That’s no longer the case, as you can now pre-order the i7 model in Cobalt Blue, Burgundy, or Graphite Gold as well. You have two i … | Continue reading
Look, data is everything. We could argue the merits of many different factors that affect business decisions and your your business model, but at the end of the day data tells the true story about what is going on. It doesn’t discriminate, it doesn’t care about your personal feel … | Continue reading
Whether it’s Agile or Waterfall, Six Sigma or PRINCE 2, there’s a project management track geared to your preferred methods. And you can learn them all with this Ultimate Project Management Certification bundle ($79, over 90 percent off) from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
At the ongoing IFA expo in Berlin, Microsoft announced that it’ll drop the Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 on October 17, along with support for mixed reality hardware and software. The company has been harping on about MR for a while now; besides its HoloLens headset, the co … | Continue reading
When you think of people that carry multiple phones, the image that springs to mind is never good. You start to contemplate all sorts of morally unsavoury characters, like drug dealers arranging deliveries of heroin through a stream of burner phones, or worse, people that work in … | Continue reading
It looks like I ruffled more than a few feathers yesterday with my post urging phone makers to stop trying to kill the headphone jack. Xiaomi India’s product lead, Jai Mani, got in touch to share the manufacturers’ side of the story, which is certainly worth hearing to inform you … | Continue reading
Microsoft is bolstering its efforts to take on Amazon’s Twitch and YouTube Gaming with an addition to its Mixer streaming platform: it’s now launched iOS and Android apps to let players broadcast gameplay straight from their phones. Mixer Create works with any Android game, but i … | Continue reading
Last October, I heralded Xiaomi’s Mi Mix as the best-looking phone of the year, and I believe I was right; the company is now gearing up to unveil its successor, the Mi Mix 2, on September 11 – a day ahead of the iPhone 8 launch. The timing is interesting, because it indicates th … | Continue reading
Becoming a better professional by spending some time playing on your phone sounds like a crazy claim that’s too good to be true. After all, aren’t smartphones making us dumber? Well, in some cases yes. There isn’t much evidence proving that scrolling through Instagram will make y … | Continue reading
For the moment, success hinges on the humans and AI teaming up together. | Continue reading
Facebook today launched its Watch video platform to US audiences. Now it’s main objective, according to Reuters, is jockeying with YouTube for advertisers if it wants a return on its investment. But it’s going to need to court more individual talent if it hopes to create the same … | Continue reading