Autonomous cars are coming, regardless of how I feel — and sooner than I think. Elon Musk’s lofty prediction that we’ll have driverless cars by 2021 sounds absurd, but the evidence bears him out. Even major car companies like Ford are going all-in on the concept, and I get to bea … | Continue reading
Netflix today released the trailer for Black Mirror’s fourth season. The 50-second long tour de force features the titles of all six upcoming episodes and a few tasty seconds from each. The previous three seasons of the technology-thriller anthology series have been met with crit … | Continue reading
Six seasons in and I’m still not great with the names of characters and places in the Game of Thrones universe. That makes me a horrible companion to binge-watch the show with: I’m constantly badgering my mates with questions like, “Who’s Arya mad at again?” and, “Is Dorne anywhe … | Continue reading
Facebook is one of the easiest ways to take a stroll down memory lane, what with its endless collection of your ancient photos and comments. But while Facebook usually highlights memories from years past, now it’s adding options for more recent memories too. The company is today … | Continue reading
Since coding know-how is the backbone of most tech services these days, understand the basics of building for the web with this Coding 101 instruction bundle, on sale now at $49 (over 90 percent off) from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Sometimes when you’ve “arrived” in your career, you’ve simply arrived. Landing that dream job in a high-level, professional role is an impressive and noteworthy accomplishment—but what happens once you’re there? Like all transitional periods in life, the time to shift gears profe … | Continue reading
We all feel like we spend too much time on our phones. Notifications keep nagging us, we need to see what happens on Facebook or Twitter, and we feel a constant need to post to Instagram or chat with our friends in WhatsApp. But do we know how much we actually spend in each of th … | Continue reading
YouTube personality Kyle Myers from the popular guns-and-explosions comedy channel FPS Russia is facing felony drug charges for illegally obtaining narcotics over the mail. Myers, better known for his thick-accented Russian-born character Dmitri Potapoff, was reportedly arrested … | Continue reading
Following drama-ridden couple of months, Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been sentenced to serve five years in prison on corruption charges. The decision comes after the Samsung boss was originally detained back in February for bribery, embezzlement and hiding assets overseas. The … | Continue reading
Magnitogorsk, Russia is not exactly known as a venture capital hotspot, but that didn’t stop a zirconium manufacturer based there from successfully raising $7 million from 4,000 investors. All it took to raise the money necessary to start their (extremely specific) business was a … | Continue reading
How do we define a marketing channel, to begin with? Well, a basic definition offered up by Boundless goes: “A marketing channel is a set of practices or activities necessary to transfer the ownership of goods…” So, anything that reliably facilitates the transfer of goods from th … | Continue reading
The highlight of Apple’s fall event will undoubtedly be the new iPhone. But hidden in the spectacle of the September event is another long-awaited upgrade, this time for Apple TV. According to a report by Bloomberg, the 4k Apple TV is set to debut this fall alongside Apple’s 10th … | Continue reading
Food and meal time has always been a product of our culture. In the post-war suburbanization era, families gathered around the dinner table every night to share a home-cooked meal. Elaborate meals were a steadfast facet of daily life. However, as more women left the family home … | Continue reading
When Google radically redesigned Android Wear with version 2.0, it partnered with LG to show off the changes with LG Watch and Watch Sport. The latter was the more powerful model, with a heart rate sensor, GPS, and LTE capability. Still, it was met with somewhat mixed reviews tha … | Continue reading
Focus Features today announced it will air three award-winning films from its library on Facebook Live as part of its Focus Fridays celebration. The first broadcast will be at 6pm Pacific Time on Friday, August 25, with the two following movies on the two subsequent Fridays at th … | Continue reading
A team of German experts today delivered findings that could shape the future of autonomous driving. The panel presented the first government attempt to answer some of the more pressing issues surrounding self-driving cars. Take this scenario, for example. As you’re barreling dow … | Continue reading
Amazon became the world’s most popular online marketplace by making sure customers can shop for nearly anything without leaving home. The company recently filed patents to indicate it wants to do more than just sell you the things you ask for though — it’s developing drones to dr … | Continue reading
While you were worried about net neutrality this summer, an artificial intelligence company named HiQ got itself tangled up in a legal battle with LinkedIn. The Microsoft owned social media platform this June demanded HiQ, an AI startup, cease and desist scraping data from its we … | Continue reading
One author and activist thinks he’s found the answer to reversing climate change: the education and empowerment of women. In a talk at Singularity University’s Global Summit last week, author Paul Hawken presented an extensive plan for how to reduce climate change. Specifically, … | Continue reading
We’re all vulnerable to attack. Not just TNW, not just the US, but the entire internet. And it is a serious problem. Sure, we talked about WannaCry and other cyberattacks, but we simply weren’t aware of how big the problem had become. The time for panic is now: hip-hop grudges (c … | Continue reading
If you want a tablet and don’t care about a premium media experience, get Amazon’s Fire HD8. I can pretty much end this review there. If you can’t or won’t spend ~$500 on an iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, there simply aren’t many decent choices. At just $79 – and sometimes less w … | Continue reading
For a while Sprint sat as one of the other players in the telecom industry while Verizon and AT&T duked it out for the lion share of a massive market. Typically, these brands competed over best cell coverage, fastest data, cheapest plans, and other metrics that often seemed hard … | Continue reading
Social media interaction between friends, businesses, cultures, and people in general, is constantly changing. Just a few years ago, the livestreaming concept became a reality, and now people can take video in real time and share it instantly with social media followers. Though t … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming one of the most versatile technologies of the 21st century, as experts have found great use for it in mechanics, research laboratories, hospitals, and more. This adaptability has probably contributed to why AI is one of the most po … | Continue reading
Even though few people understand cryptocurrencies, and even fewer are involved with them, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others are changing the world in more ways than one might think. An integral part of the innovations and opportunities offered by these cryptocurrencies lies in the b … | Continue reading
Nostalgia is in the air at TNW Towers. It’s Windows 95’s birthday, and our Slack channel is filled with reminiscing about Microsoft’s 90s halcyon days. Back then, Microsoft was top dog. IBM’s desktop aspirations were fading fast, and Apple was officially the sick man of tech, sho … | Continue reading
Serpstat is democratizing the SEO game — and with a lifetime subscription to their service (only $34.99, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals), you can start reaping the benefits of a quality SEO strategy without a huge outlay in time or manpower. | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) — Before Google, if you wanted to find out about a person, you had to go to a library to pore through newspaper archives and public records. Now a newly-proposed U.K. law may force researchers back to the bookshelves – or at least to the British Library’s website. New … | Continue reading
On this day in 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95 to the public. It was an important moment for the company, and it paid The Rolling Stones $3 million for the right to use Start Me Up in its marketing campaign for the revolutionary new operating system. And start it up people di … | Continue reading
August 24 will go down in history as the day that India’s Supreme Court ruled that privacy is a fundamental right for its citizens. If you care to read it, here’s the 547-page judgment in its entirety (mirrors to the PDF on Google Drive and Dropbox). That’s a huge win for the cou … | Continue reading
As the football season is now well and truly underway, many are wondering if Real Madrid will successfully defend their champions league crown. Meanwhile, their fierce rivals Barcelona appear to be enduring a chaotic time since the departure of Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain for a … | Continue reading
Ahead of the launch of iOS 11 this fall, Apple has published a research paper detailing its methods for improving Siri to make the voice assistant sound more natural, with the help of machine learning. Beyond capturing several hours of high-quality audio that can be sliced and di … | Continue reading
We all know what it’s like to forget something. A loved one’s birthday. A childhood memory. Even people capable of extraordinary memory feats – say, memorizing the order of a deck of cards in less than 20 seconds – will still forget where they left their keys. People, it seems, a … | Continue reading
By involving multiple parties in the creation, curation and discovery of news, blockchain helps fight damaging phenomena such as fake news, echo chambers and filter bubbles. | Continue reading
Following the launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 yesterday, the company’s mobile chief, DJ Koh, confirmed that a Bixby-powered smart speaker will be launched soon. Koh told CNBC, “Maybe soon we will announce it. I am already working on it. As I mentioned I wanted to provide a frui … | Continue reading
Following the release of Ustwo Games’ Monument Valley II on iOS last June, the incredibly artistic puzzler is almost ready for Android users. The game is now listed on Google Play and you can pre-register to be notified when it launches (Ustwo hasn’t announced a release date yet) … | Continue reading
Google is expected to unveil its Pixel 2 premium phones on October 5, according to tipster Evan Blass, who’s usually on the ball about this sort of thing. The device will improve on its predecessor from last October with a new Snapdragon 836 processor, which Android Central belie … | Continue reading
If the Yellowstone Caldera ever erupted, the consequences would be devastating. Having last erupted over 70,000 years ago, the Caldera, a bowl-shaped structure formed by previous evacuation of lava, could be a ticking time bomb. “Ticking,” in this case, is relevant. We have no wa … | Continue reading
Apps can change drastically in what seems like a very short span of time. Just ten years ago, the word “apps” would probably not have conjured such an instant reaction in any of our brains. Now, though, apps are a major part of how we communicate, entertain ourselves, and interac … | Continue reading
Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently published a paper claiming they’ve sent entangled light particles through seawater, something that’s never been done before. The team was able to transmit particles over three meters of seawater in an isolated environment. Whi … | Continue reading
If Twitter is a mouthpiece, Donald Trump owns the lips blowing hot air into the business end of it. He’s criticized celebrities, pouted about SNL skits, berated journalists, and even threatened war, all while managing to keep his tirades under 140 characters. And some Twitter use … | Continue reading
After the Note 7’s two recalls and ultimate cancellation, there’s been a tremendous amount of pressure on Samsung to get the Note 8 right. After using the device during a hands-on session, there’s a lot to like, even if none of it is particularly surprising. The specs, for one, h … | Continue reading
Hackers think social media is the best thing ever. Not only has it attracted longtime hackers, but it has also created new ones. It’s just so easy! Individual social media platforms have been hackable since their introduction. But, believe it or not, social media was a small net … | Continue reading
If you’re a Buddhist living in Japan, you now have the option of having a tiny white robot presiding at your funeral in lieu of a human priest. Japanese plastic moulding and funereal services company Nissei Eco will offer the robot Pepper in a Buddhist priest’s robe as an attenda … | Continue reading
Since inception, Facebook users have uploaded over 70 million 360 photos. And of these 70 million 360 photos, exactly zero were taken using Facebook’s built-in camera. Starting today, that all changes. Users can now take 360 videos from the Facebook app itself, and upload them in … | Continue reading
You better stay on your toes when logging in to your account should you happen to be a client of Raiffeisen Bank – someone might be out to snatch your credentials. Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko has stumbled upon a new phishing campaign targeting Raiffeisen Bank customers. Whi … | Continue reading
Samsung tipped its hand – or wrist maybe – a little bit ahead of the Unpacked event announcement and launched the Gear Fit2 Pro on the Malaysian version of its website. The leak was picked up by Evan Blass who linked directly to the official site. Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro page live … | Continue reading
It’s finally here. After months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has revealed the Galaxy Note 8 at an event in New York. It’s has a lot to live up to after the Note 7 – a would-be excellent phone with a disastrous launch. But with so many leaks, Samsung didn’t exactly have much … | Continue reading