The internet has brought change to almost everything in our lives. In particular, the ways we acquire knowledge have significantly changed, partly due to online knowledge repositories such as Wikipedia. In fact, it has even changed the way science is being done. Social scientists … | Continue reading
Growing up, one of my favorite TV shows was Fort Boyard. It was a pretty typical game show — think Survivor, or The Crystal Maze. Contestants are plonked on an abandoned French fort, situated on an island somewhere in the North Atlantic, and they’ve got to traverse a maze and avo … | Continue reading
You would probably want to accept LinkedIn InMail requests from recruiters even when you aren’t actively seeking new opportunities – or you might be risking burning your bridges without even knowing. As counter-intuitive as it may sound, it turns out that anytime you turn down an … | Continue reading
Passwords are fundamental to security. But at the same time, they can also be an infosec Achilles heel, particularly if a user is careless with their credentials, or if a site improperly manages or stores them. Dashlane, which produces the password manager of the same name, today … | Continue reading
Airbnb is awesome for making some extra cash on the side, but coming up with a reasonable price to rent out your apartment isn’t always as straightforward as it seems. But thanks to this handy calculator, now you can make an informed decision without wasting hours doing extensive … | Continue reading
During large disasters, like hurricanes, wildfires and terrorist attacks, people want emergency responders to arrive quickly and help people deal with the crisis. In order to do their best, police, medics, firefighters and those who manage them need lots of information: Who is lo … | Continue reading
The most hardcore Dota fans from around the planet are currently attending and following The International – the largest Dota 2 tournament, and also the largest esports tournament, period – and were in for a big surprise from developer Valve last night. Or so they thought. A cryp … | Continue reading
Almost exactly a year ago, Facebook unveiled Lifestage, an iOS app designed for high schoolers to share photos and videos of themselves and connect with classmates. The company has now killed off the platform, pulling it from the App Store earlier this month. Lifestage, which bor … | Continue reading
The Indian government is no stranger to cutting off access to websites for its citizens as and when it sees fit, and to doing so without notifying users. While it’s previously obstructed access to porn sites, GitHub and WordPress.com, it’s latest stunt is perhaps the most audacio … | Continue reading
The growth of digitally connected communities over the last decade has challenged corporate culture, fundamentally changing hierarchies within the business world and creating a myriad of tech-enabled opportunities for the savvy CEO. While bringing in external talent through hirin … | Continue reading
Four years after publishing the whitepaper that kicked off the current Hyperloop craze, Elon Musk is back in the game. After open sourcing his initial plan, two companies — Hyperloop One, and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies — hit the ground running. We witnessed the former … | Continue reading
Wakeout is a new app that has only one goal: to wake its users up by exercising. And yes, it’s as horrible and effective as it seems. I downloaded the app the night before I planned to use it, and was already dreading waking up. 7:30 a.m. eventually hit, and my sleep was rudely i … | Continue reading
Disney executives today announced the company would be pulling its movies from Netflix in favor of its own streaming platform. The plan is for a branded direct-to-consumer streaming service that will hit your US living rooms in 2019, before expanding globally shortly after. I thi … | Continue reading
A developer from Google that you’d probably never heard of before yesterday wrote a manifesto detailing his views on diversity. The author of the memo was subsequently fired. Google issued a statement saying the man was dismissed for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” TNW has bee … | Continue reading
According to reliable reports, Apple isn’t releasing an iPhone in rose gold this year. Sorry rose bros. The first report came early this week from Weibo. MacRumors published a photo found on the social network that seems to display the back of each of the three new iPhone 8 color … | Continue reading
Americans like to think of the US as the center of the tech universe. But on more than one occasion, I’ve been upset to find some great smartphone is not easily accessible in the states. The Nubia Z17 is one of those phones. Thankfully, the company shipped me one directly. Nubia … | Continue reading
I think I write this post once or twice a year, not simply out of reflex but because PR people are incapable of listening. I don’t do it out of anger, I do it out of love. I also add that I wanted to call this “Tech PR People,” but it seems that every vertical of public relations … | Continue reading
Instagram today announced it’s testing a new feature which allows users to go Live with friends. To be more clear, this apparently doesn’t mean going Live with a friend sitting next to you — which is my preferred way to show the Internet I’m not a recluse. This means you can invi … | Continue reading
Microsoft last week filed its annual report with the SEC, and with it a new vision that emphasizes AI. The documents state the company will no longer be focused on mobile, but instead on implementing AI solutions. In the documents, under the heading “Our Vision” the company put: … | Continue reading
The scandal with the Google software engineer sacked for reinforcing controversial gender notions has taken a curious turn. Shortly after the alt-right stormed in to defend James Damore, the ex-employee appears to have earned a new supporter: The Wikileaks chief himself, Julian A … | Continue reading
The Ockel Sirius B Windows 10 Pocket PC puts all that standalone processing power at your disposal whenever you need it — and it’s available right now at almost 25 percent off (just $189) from TNW Deals. | Continue reading
Depression is horrifyingly common. According to the UK mental health charity Mind, it affects 3.3 in 100 people. Exacerbating the matter, many sufferers struggle to obtain a formal diagnosis, which is vital to receiving further help. Could technology help as an early-warning mech … | Continue reading
Developer Jack Qiao has been working with AI a fair bit lately to aid his design projects. He previously built a tool to help pair fonts, and he’s now launched Brandmark, which uses artificial intelligence to create a unique brand identity for your business. We’re not the sort to … | Continue reading
The Game of Thrones hacking saga continues – and it seems the victims of the latest leak are the stars of the show themselves. Days after a hacking collective leaked the script of the fourth episode of the latest season of the smash-hit television series, the attackers have now p … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) — Imagine a weather report so precise it provides wind-gust forecasts for individual city blocks. Such micro-weather data may soon become a reality—and a necessity for future fleets of delivery drones. As Amazon.com Inc., United Parcel Service Inc., Domino’s Pizza Inc … | Continue reading
Google has already booted off James Damore, the employee who authored and distributed a highly controversial manifesto on gender diversity to colleagues, but it appears a new force has chimed in to advance his cause: The alt-right. “Sympathetic” right-wingers have created a crowd … | Continue reading
Like most of us on Twitter, Berlin-based Israeli artist Shahak Shapira had seen his fair share of racist, homophobic and generally hateful tweets on the platform. But instead of merely scrolling past them, he reported more than 300 such tweets for abuse over a span of half a year … | Continue reading
It’s important to get your online messaging just right, which you’ll be ready to do after you pick up the User Engagement & Marketing coursework bundle. | Continue reading
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced this week that it’s put an end to the threat of content creators being sued for recording and distributing podcasts, after a court ruling affirmed that the patent for the process was invalid. In 1996, a Beaumont, Texas-based firm … | Continue reading
We’ve seen a bunch of iPhone 8 specs and renders and potential features leak over the past few months – but this is probably the best look we’ve gotten of the upcoming Apple handset so far, as it’s straight from the ever-reliable Evan Blass, aka @evleaks. The image shows an iPhon … | Continue reading
It might be considered a platitude, but people are always looking for new ways to break away from the monotonous beat of everyday normalcy – either temporarily or permanently. According to a 2013 report on drug abuse by the United States government, 9.4 percent (around 24.6 milli … | Continue reading
Mere days before a trip to Yosemite with my family, I started thinking that perhaps a minivan might be better suited for a 600 mile round trip than my rather small Honda Civic. Leg room could be the key to who lives and dies when battling for backseat supremacy. After subsisting … | Continue reading
The most important thing to do when you’re a marketer and you’re trying to improve your campaign is to have a thorough understanding of the concepts that you’re dealing with. A lot of people see terms like SEO, open rates, conversions, and they simply assume that they have a “gen … | Continue reading
Microsoft has released the latest Xbox update to Alpha Ring insiders today — and staff claim the best way to describe it is “customizable.” On the home screen, gamers will have new buttons, including one that will let them launch a paused game, and one which will suggest other pl … | Continue reading
Today, YouTube launched a new feature within its family of mobile applications, allowing users to share videos in a chat-like interface with friends. Here’s how it works. The intent of this feature is unabashedly to keep discussion of videos on the YouTube platform, rather than h … | Continue reading
When Pixel XL 2 leaked last month, I was glad to see Google had done the smart thing and shrunk the ginormous wasted bezels. Unfortunately, it seems the company isn’t giving the smaller Pixel the same treatment. GSMArena appears to have gotten a hold of a couple leaked images of … | Continue reading
Uber board member and co-founder Garrett Camp today, in a company email, attempted to lay-to-rest rumors that ousted CEO Travis Kalanick was being considered for a come-back. In the email, according to a Recode report, Camp states: Our CEO search is the board’s top priority. It’s … | Continue reading
Bitcoin is a great technology, right? It is decentralized, it’s cheap to transact, and no government or central bank has control over it. And one other thing, its value seems to be skyrocketing, which means it might be a good time to jump on the bandwagon and use it both as an in … | Continue reading
A robotic sewing system will soon produce hundreds of thousands of shirts for Adidas, which could potentially change textile manufacture. The machine — called a “Sewbot” uses cameras and bots to cut and sew the soft fabric, a task which has eluded other forms of automation. Until … | Continue reading
Apple doesn’t exactly endeavor much in social media, but that’s been changing of late. After a false start with Twitter, now the company is launching an Instagram account (@apple). Naturally, it’s meant to show off photos from the iPhone. Apple being Apple, the account is already … | Continue reading
Remote work is all the rage, and the rise of internet-based companies to meet the (ever growing demand) is evidence of that. It seems like every day I come across a new company that is trying to help people live the “remote work lifestyle dream” of working from anywhere, at any t … | Continue reading
Scientists have created an algorithm that analyzes RF signals in order to monitor you in your sleep. It uses a device similar to a Wi-Fi router to determine everything from how shallow your breathing is to whether you’re having a dream or not. The study was conducted by a group c … | Continue reading
Building a successful business, online or offline, isn’t an easy task. Being an entrepreneur is a grueling task, and you have to be willing to work your ass off if you want to be successful. The BS ads flooding your Facebook newsfeed and all over YouTube hawking online courses an … | Continue reading
If we gave medals to our favorite phones, the OnePlus 5 (our review here) would have won Gold in the budget flagship category. Too you couldn’t actually but the phone in gold…. Until now. *Ahem* Terrible lede aside, the OnePlus 5 now comes in ‘Soft Gold,’ which is a subtler take … | Continue reading
In the tech world, it used to be common belief that startups and corporations could not form mutually beneficial relationships – ultimately, one would have to buy the other out, right? We’re seeing a trend in which both corporate brands and startups are acknowledging the value of … | Continue reading
Chill. It is not just you: Netflix is down for numerous users around the globe. A large bulk of users are checking in to Down Detector to report that the popular video streaming service is currently experiencing server downtime – which means you might have to postpone your “chill … | Continue reading
The popularity of WordPress is in no small part thanks to its customizability. There are tens of thousands of third-party themes and plugins that make the ubiquitous blogging platform vastly more useful. Unfortunately, those who have chosen to host their site on WordPress.com are … | Continue reading
Samsung is trying to put out a different sort of fire this year. The South Korean Heavyweight recently confirmed its intention to unveil the new and improved Galaxy Note 8 at a special event in New York on August 23, but it seems the big reveal has already been spoiled. Days afte … | Continue reading