The business intelligence firm L2 kept tabs on 89 brands that have an Instagram and Snapchat account and found that social media marketers posted 1,347 Instagram Stories compared to 614 Snapchat Stories. According to the report, Snapchat Stories are mostly used by beauty brands, … | Continue reading
Facebook Stories is now available on desktop devices. First spotted by Sarah Perez over at TechCrunch, Facebook confirmed to TNW that it was indeed testing the feature for non-mobile users. To which there seemed only one question left to ask: why? ‘Stories’ is a great feature on … | Continue reading
The life of an entrepreneur is not without its challenges. Often days are cluttered with business meetings, sifting through emails, reaching out to potential influencers, monitoring social media, and tracking potential growth, just to name a few. Juggling all of these responsibil … | Continue reading
I’m not one to baby my tech gear. As a reviewer, my job is to test gadgets in the field, and tools are meant to be used. That doesn’t mean I didn’t get a bit nervous when Hasselblad sent me their $8,000 X1D camera, along with another two lenses, each worth about $3,000 a piece. I … | Continue reading
Google today announced it was rolling out changes to the Play Store to increase the likelihood you’ll find apps which actually, you know, function properly. According to the Google Android developer’s blog, half of one-star reviews of Play Store apps concern app stability (I want … | Continue reading
Hyperloop One used to represent a far-away-future where people lived like The Jetsons. Elon Musk dropped his white-paper about people traveling inside of tubes and everyone thought: well, it’s feasible, but it’ll take decades. That was four years ago, and Hyperloop One is here no … | Continue reading
If you don’t have the time to create your own website, and feel about.me is a bit too limited, you might want to check out Emaze, which allows you to create your own personalized homepage in seconds simply by importing data from your social media profiles. Emaze was originally cr … | Continue reading
The state of mental healthcare in the US is in crisis. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the US, and at a 30-year high. Anxiety and depression are literally killing us. Something has to give. Part of the problem is the stigma attached to seeking help for emotional p … | Continue reading
Businesses are turning to AI for everything, it seems, including marketing strategies. Marketing runs on data, and people don’t have the kind of relationship with information that computers have. Why spend months researching dozens of customers when machine-learning can research … | Continue reading
Motorola’s Z Force was one of our favorite phones last year, to the extent we picked it as the best phone for power users. Its snappy performance, long battery life, unbreakable screen, and modular flexibility made it a unique offering in an increasingly homogenous smartphone mar … | Continue reading
MalwareTech, the security researcher who stopped the spread of WannaCry ransomware, has been detained following a trip to DEF CON in Las Vegas. A friend, who spoke to Motherboard under condition of anonymity, said, I’ve spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no re … | Continue reading
Facebook today revealed it was escalating its battle against fake news using machine learning. Back in April, Facebook announced it’d be using Related Articles as a way of combating the influx of dubious articles. When you clicked on a post sharing an article, the Related Article … | Continue reading
Whenever someone asks me when the best time to visit Amsterdam is, my first suggestion is anything but mid-September and late April. There is a good reason for that: Those tend to be peak days – and this means costlier flights. So it makes sense to avoid them; and this is precise … | Continue reading
Tech has changed the financial services landscape and our exposure to these new technologies is even reshaping the way we think about money and wealth. Thanks to a whole plethora of cashless payment solutions available, more people are opting to go cashless for their transactions … | Continue reading
Windscribe is one of the forward-thinking providers working to bring a complete security package featuring a VPN and all those other valuable privacy tools under one powerful umbrella. Right now, secure lifetime access to Windscribe’s Pro-level service for just $49.99 (over 90 pe … | Continue reading
Codecademy is one of the most popular sites to learn software development online, having recently passed the 45 million user milestone. Now, in an attempt to formalize its offering and make a profit, the company has launched three new professional paid products, which offer a muc … | Continue reading
Dictionary.com is begging to be placed on the crowdsourced Android Blacklist. Following incremental updates to both its freemium and premium apps, the popular glossary solution has discreetly added seven intrusive new permissions. The privacy-unfriendly move was spotted by Reddit … | Continue reading
When China’s government banned video streaming on the site AcFun (Site A) in June, little did we know that the days of Bilibili – its sister site, commonly referred as Site B – were also numbered. In July, thousands of people woke up to find that the content they had archived on … | Continue reading
In June 2007, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released guidance that said that sites should check potential passwords against previous data breaches, in order to ensure they are totally unique. While most websites are yet to offer that functionality, Tro … | Continue reading
The EU’s upcoming Copyright Reform threatens to strangle platform businesses by siding with rightholders and large corporations over users. “This is a dysfunctional proposal. It’s bordering on the absurd as to why it would be proposed on an EU level,” Raegan MacDonald, Senior Pol … | Continue reading
In a new interview, comedian and actor Aziz Ansari (who you’ll recognize from Parks and Recreation and Master of None) told GQ that he’s unplugged himself from the web – turning off email and Instagram, and even deleting his browser on his phone. He made some good points about ho … | Continue reading
(Bloomberg) — If you’re thinking of moving to the United States, you might be concerned that now isn’t a good time. The wall hasn’t been built, but President Donald Trump has kept his promise to crack down on immigration into the country. Those measures come on top of what is alr … | Continue reading
LG is hyping its upcoming flagship phone with a few interesting details, including a snapshot of the bottom portion of the handset and information about its large high-res OLED screen. The company says that it’ll be the first ever device to feature a plastic OLED FullVision displ … | Continue reading
Every Facebook account comes with a profile picture, but how can we prevent these often personal photos from being stolen? Facebook has some ideas. In India, it recently introduced new measures – including a download guard and watermark – to fight the phenomenon. They’re useful t … | Continue reading
While you weren’t looking, the storage industry has been working on some pretty crazy stuff. Sony announced that it teamed up with IBM Research in Zurich to create a new magnetic tape that can fit 330TB of files in a single palm-sized cartridge that typically could hold only abou … | Continue reading
There has been a lot of press regarding my generation, the millennials, and how we’re spending our money, and, in turn, ruining many, many things. Apparently, our obscure spending habits have killed the napkin industry, casual dining restaurants (give us a better experience, mayb … | Continue reading
In the eternal question of Mac vs Windows, you’ll find plenty of people willing to argue for one OS or the other. But I don’t see the point anymore. But over the past few months I’ve realized the differences don’t matter to me — because I use mostly third-party, in-browser softwa … | Continue reading
A recent Upwork study revealed a 300 percent uptick in hiring for those with skills related to VR last quarter. VR programmers were clearly in high demand, leading the list of nine other skills hiring managers look for most often on the platform. The study highlights the followin … | Continue reading
Just over 24 hours after splitting from Bitcoin, the derivative currency Bitcoin Cash (BCC) now ranks as the third most valuable altcoin. With a market cap of more than $7.7 billion, BCC trails just Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) after passing Ripple’s $6.7 billion cap in the w … | Continue reading
Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods sent a stark message to e-commerce, modern commerce and traditional retailers alike. But it’s just one of many significant announcements in recent months. Amazon also recently announced a new “meal kit” service to take on BlueApron and others. … | Continue reading
Living in the digital age means that the job searching process has never been so easy. Technology advancement opened a lot of new positions in the field and job candidates everywhere can now search and apply for jobs online. The work marketplace is incredibly accessible thanks to … | Continue reading
VoIP telephony is hard. That’s a fact. Jitter, latency, and packet loss are foreign terms for most. However, they’re also the most common issues we’ve uncovered when diagnosing VoIP issues. Twilio is rarely the issue – they’ve made tremendous strides in delivering a high quality … | Continue reading
Google recently stepped up it’s efforts to reduce the amount of extremist content available on YouTube. A couple months back the company announced it would be increasing it’s ability to find and flag extreme videos by implementing machine-learning, and the results are in: AI has … | Continue reading
Red raised many an eyebrow last month when it announced the Hydrogen, a $1,200 ‘holographic’ phone for filmmakers. Sticker shock aside, there were so few concrete details (and many lofty claims) that some thought it might be a vaporware concept. But now we have proof it’s a serio … | Continue reading
On July 4, Africa got its own top-level domain (TLD). It was long overdue; Asia got theirs in 2007, and the .eu domain has been knocking around since 2005. It’s early days, but people are using this new piece of digital real-estate to make their mark online. People like Dylan Bea … | Continue reading
Researchers from the University of Cambridge published a study this month saying Twitter accounts with very high follower accounts will behave very much like bot accounts, even when they’re ostensibly run by a human. The researchers were attempting to determine how Twitter bots b … | Continue reading
Skype’s recent redesign may be the source of much divisiveness, but that isn’t stopping Microsoft from adding new features. Starting today, you can now send money via PayPal right from your conversations. It’s a shot across the bow to Facebook, which has long support payments via … | Continue reading
Once you determine if a person is a contractor or employee, you can turn your attention to additional questions in regards to your work relationship. When you hire an employee, you know that this person will be paid based on your payroll schedule. Maybe it’s once a week, maybe it … | Continue reading
Snapping aesthetic selfies is an art form in itself these days – but now researchers from the University of Waterloo are trying to turn this art into a science. Computer science professor Daniel Vogel and his former student Qifan Li teamed up to develop an app that offers tips to … | Continue reading
Whether you’re trying to keep up with the changing social world or just want to get schooled on the basics, the Silicon Valley Social Media Marketing Course and Certification ($29, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals) will not only get you socially savvy, but also earn you credent … | Continue reading
Here’s your unexpected tech news of the day: Microsoft might be working on an iPad keyboard cover. Or it was. We’re not sure. WinFuture spotted some documentation on Microsoft’s website mentioning a product called an iPad Touch Cover, which sounds a whole lot like a keyboard. And … | Continue reading
A large outdoor screen in the heart of Cardiff’s busy shopping district was hacked last night, and used to broadcast swastikas, images referencing Islam, and a photo of Donald Trump as Pepe the Frog. One of the images projected onto the screen said “Warning. This is a Shariah con … | Continue reading
Google Earth got its biggest update in years back in April, but only on Android and the Web. Now the same new features have come to iOS. As a refresher, that update introduced detailed 3D maps for various locations that allowed you to virtually fly through a landscape. You can ev … | Continue reading
We’ve seen a lot of changes over the past few years when it comes to the appearance and distribution of online content. Publishers wanting to create emotional and authentic content experiences have been turning to a new generation of tools like digital storytelling platform Apest … | Continue reading
The tell-tale signs of someone slacking off at work are usually Internet logs and slower productivity. But one German company took the unusual step of installing keyloggers on its employee’s work computers, resulting in it shitcanning one staffer for working on another firm’s com … | Continue reading
Samsung sure loves big screens. Several weeks after the electronics giant announced plans to manufacture a massive 49-inch monitor for gamers, the company has now unveiled a ginormous new TV touting an impressive 88-inch display. In addition to its enormous ultra-wide screen, the … | Continue reading
Following India’s massive demonetization exercise last year – an effort to curb the spread of black money across the country – Paytm has grown its digital wallet service to a whopping 225 million users nationwide. Now, it’s set its sights on WhatsApp as it gears up to launch its … | Continue reading
The web was abuzz with chatter about the opportunities and dangers of advancing AI in June, when Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) Lab shared a finding that its bots had invented their own language to communicate with each other. That story made waves, and so did … | Continue reading