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We’re intrigued by Chinese phone brands at TNW. The idea that relatively-obscure (at least, in the West) companies can make iPhone and Galaxy-rivalling handsets at a fraction of the cost is fascinating, and this has been reflected in our coverage. My colleague Napier recently rev … | Continue reading
In addition to building the car of the future and disrupting the age-old road system, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also vowed to establish a colony on Mars as part of his SpaceX initiative – and it seems the company is gradually approaching its goal. Earlier today, the visionary entre … | Continue reading
Once hackers get into your internet-connected car, they could disable the air bags, brakes, door locks and even steal the vehicle. That’s the finding of researchers who recently uncovered a flaw in the way the different components of a connected car talk to each other. Their work … | Continue reading
Depending on your mindset, technology is responsible for revolutionizing or disrupting almost every aspect of our lives. When thinking about the much talked about digital transformation, you probably won’t automatically think of guitars or learning how to play them. Faced with th … | Continue reading
No, it’s not just you: Facebook is down for many users across the board. Numerous users have taken to Twitter to report being unable to connect to Facebook. It remains unclear what is causing the issue, but the company has yet to confirm it is experiencing technical difficulties … | Continue reading
In 2009, Chad Mureta, a real estate agent from South Carolina, got out of the real estate business permanently in exchange for a more lucrative endeavor: mobile apps. He lost his dominant arm as a result of an accident when he hit a deer on his way home from a basketball game, an … | Continue reading
Kaspar Korjus, the Managing Director of Estonia’s e-Residency program, just announced the program’s proposals to make Estonia the first country in the world to launch its own crypto tokens and Initial Coin Offering (ICO). In his blog post, Korjus illustrates how creating ‘estcoin … | Continue reading
Fun fact: if you’ve got a child under the age of ten, hashtags are officially older than them. Wild, right? Here’s the tweet that launched a thousand #ships, posted back in 2007 by open source advocate Chris Messina. how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcam … | Continue reading
After years of murmurs surrounding Apple’s plans to build a self-driving car, it turns out the company is now focusing its automotive efforts on something far tamer: short-haul shuttle buses that will ferry employees a few miles at a time from one campus to another in California. … | Continue reading
Internet censors have a new target. The Chinese and Russian governments recently announced plans to block the use of “virtual private networks” (VPNs), which are a key tool for people trying to avoid internet restrictions and surveillance. This crackdown isn’t surprising, given t … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Medium added a Clap button to articles on its blogging platform that you could click as many times as you like to applaud a piece. It’s now counting those claps to figure out how much authors should earn for their work. Who knew back in January that this is wh … | Continue reading
Code42 has announced that it’s shutting down its CrashPlan for Home data backup service on October 23, 2018. After that, you won’t be able to retrieve your files. The company says it’s shifting its strategy to “focus exclusively on enterprise and small business segments.” That’s … | Continue reading
Companies like Apple seemingly do everything in their power their laptops from being opened up. HP’s new Omen X laptop embraces it. It’s a beast of a device. The base model comes with a GTX 1070, 16GB of RAM, a i7-7700HQ processor, a 256 GB SSD, a 1TB hard drive, and a 1080p 120H … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced a feature designed to increase visibility on the platform. Publishers, as of today, can add several logos to a new Brand Asset Library (shown below). These logos will then appear next to anything published by the page, but only in the Trending and Search … | Continue reading
You don’t have to worship Satan to appreciate the proper grammar and surprising wit behind the Church of Satan’s Twitter account. In fact, it would be silly if you did, because its members don’t. While the bulk of the tweets it sends out may center around correcting misinformatio … | Continue reading
An activist group this week released a list of nearly 2,600 companies who have pulled ads from Breitbart News. The group, known as Sleeping Giant, pointed out one notable commission: Amazon, who continues to advertise on the site as of this writing. Sleeping Giant has, for months … | Continue reading
A video released today on Nintendo UK’s YouTube channel details all of the features available in Nintendo’s new SNES Classic Mini. Buried in the middle of the video is a feature that allows you to rewind your gameplay. You choose an in-game “suspend point,” aka a point you wish t … | Continue reading
Intel just revealed it’s 8th generation processors yesterday, but in doing so it may have teased a new Surface PC. A promo video for the new chips shoes off a device that looks a whole lot like a stealthy black Surface Book. The Surface Book is traditionally only available in gre … | Continue reading
For almost all of console gaming history, a game’s graphics were written in stone. Barring remakes and re-releases, Mario 64, Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, etc, look the same to everyone playing. Unlike PCs, where visual fidelity correlates strongly with your rig (and wallet … | Continue reading
Early Monday morning a US Navy Destroyer collided with a merchant vessel off the coast of Singapore. The US Navy initially reported that 10 sailors were missing, and today found “some of the remains” in flooded compartments. While Americans mourn the loss of our brave warriors, t … | Continue reading
Odds are, if you grew up playing sports, you heard lots of talk about hustle, grind, and “rubbing some dirt on it.” The common thread between these three phrases is that, if an athlete simply works harder, they’ll become better. While no athlete will ever discount the value of ha … | Continue reading
As the founder and director of an organization dedicated to unmasking the shady actions of governments and public officials, Wikileaks’ Julian Assange seems to be unusually preoccupied with insignificant shit like getting a fake “verified” badge on Twitter or offering tips how to … | Continue reading
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Whoever first said size doesn’t matter clearly didn’t try replacing their normal-sized phone with a phablet. I tried, folks, I really did. For the past couple of weeks, I tried to live with Xiaomi’s oversized Mi Max 2 phablet. I don’t care if you think that word is no longer in u … | Continue reading
Chrome’s DevTools is an essential component in any web developer or designer’s toolkit. It lets you modify, debug, and experiment with almost any element of a website’s front end. However, you could make the argument that it’s a little bloated, and some users would be best served … | Continue reading
If you were to visit Facebook’s Menlo Park campus just a few years ago, you’d see the company’s famous motto – “Move fast and break things” – plastered on the walls. It was born out of the company’s hacker mindset of young software engineers building a rapidly growing startup. Th … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) — Courtney Love spent almost six years in litigation, accused of libeling her former attorney in a Twitter post that was visible for less than 10 minutes. She paid a reported $780,000 in settlements as a result of two other defamation suits, both stemming from Twitter … | Continue reading
Yesterday Donald Trump proved his unbreakable spirit yet again when he ballsily squinted into the solar eclipse – a move that some have since touted as “perhaps the most impressive thing any president has ever done.” But as Google Trends reveals, Trump wasn’t the only dumbass to … | Continue reading
It’s a hacking worthy of an Alanis Morissette song; a website with a generic .fish domain name was used to phish French banking customers, as spotted by the folks at Netcraft. When anyone visited parser.fish, they would be redirected to a Vietnamese-based site masquerading as the … | Continue reading
We have a tendency to consider ourselves unique and unpredictable, but digital games research shows that this is far from the case. In fact, we can be categorised into groups of people who show the same behaviours, and what we do in the future is imminently predictable. For examp … | Continue reading
Android Police reports that Google is developing a new Chromebook Pixel as a successor to its 2015 Chrome OS-based laptop; the device is slated to be launched alongside two new Android Oreo-based Pixel phones this fall. The outlet’s source couldn’t share any specifications, or wh … | Continue reading
At the ongoing Gamescom expo in Germany, Microsoft announced the impending arrival of Age of Empires IV, the latest in its epic real-teal strategy game franchise. The title is being developed by Relic Entertainment, which previously worked on the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War … | Continue reading
Elon Musk spent part of his weekend replying to individual Tesla customers’ requests on Twitter. The electric car company CEO responded to several customers requesting updates to the automatic seating, headrest, and steering wheel settings for Tesla driver profiles. Tesla is know … | Continue reading
WhatsApp today announced a new form of status update — this time with colorful text and backgrounds. Now, when users have a text update to share, they have the option of doing so with a bright background or font. According to a spokesperson: Now you never have to worry about gett … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced it was updating its Safety Check feature, making it easier to find and more useful for people in dire need. It will now have its own dedicated tab with all information consolidated there. According to Facebook’s Disaster Response page: There’s now a singl … | Continue reading
The Chinese government has been unequivocal in its goal to become the global AI leader. Three of the largest tech companies in China — Sougou, China’s second-biggest search giant, Sinovation Ventures, and internet firm Bytedance — have joined forces to bring that plan to fruition … | Continue reading
You can now relax: Android O is officially named Oreo. In an announcement timed – a little melodramatically – to coincide with the solar eclipse in New York, Google revealed the name of its latest and greatest version of Android. Thankfully, it went with the obvious choice, inst … | Continue reading
The team behind Mass Effect Andromeda announced over the weekend it’d no longer be supporting the game, either through patches or through single-player story DLC. And while that’s a bummer — it’s also no more than we should have expected. I’m not sure exactly what everyone wanted … | Continue reading
Bizzby is a service that lets people book tradespeople and laborers on-demand — think of it like Handy or TaskRabbit. A few hours ago, it sent an email to all of its users — tradies and general public alike — asking if they’d like to install a thermostat for Reuben, from Hartlepo … | Continue reading
Creating a free mobile app that gains serious traction these days is much harder than it was in the mid-to-late 2000’s. When the “App Boom” was in full swing (around 2008), people were downloading apps left and right and it was much easier to break into the market. Nowadays, most … | Continue reading
Stock photo vendors might not be all that screwed up in the end. Only a week after Google released a paper detailing how its researchers built an algorithm that automatically removes watermarks from stock photos, Shutterstock has already put together an antidote. Taking a cue fro … | Continue reading
After Taylor Swift wiped her social media profiles (insert hackneyed Blank Space joke here), speculation grew as to what the country-turned-pop star was up to. Is the follow-up to 1989 on the horizon? Who knows? The Pennsylvania-born pop star just published the following video to … | Continue reading
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YouTube might be getting a nifty facelift pretty soon. Google appears to be testing a new user interface for its video hosting platform that will make it much easier to browse for content while watching videos on your phone. The current YouTube layout lets you minimize videos in … | Continue reading
The media is at the forefront of generating awareness over environmental issues. It is easy to name influential films like An Inconvenient Truth or note advances made by The Guardian’s environmental reporting. But what is often missing from this discussion is the environmental co … | Continue reading
Stories of Scale is a content series we’re doing with startup participants from our conference in a partnership with EQT Ventures, sharing growth stories and lessons from industry insiders centered around 4 pillars: technology, business, human optimization, and communication. Dur … | Continue reading