We’ve been talking about SoundCloud – the preferred platform for indie musicians, DJs and podcast creators around the world – being on the brink of death in recent times, ever since it laid off 40 percent of its workforce and closed two offices this month. Now, Bloomberg reports … | Continue reading
It’s easy to take cryptocurrencies and blockchain-powered startups for granted because of the hype. While you might think that Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other platforms might not impact your life any time soon, think again. Blockchain tech has gone far beyond cryptocurrencies. Today’ … | Continue reading
Apple aficionados who’ve had the misfortune to lose one of their already pricey AirPods know how painful it is to shell out $69 for a single measly earbud. But there might be cheaper ways to retrieve a missing unit. So when recreational inventor Tyler Efird accidentally dropped o … | Continue reading
Influencer marketing is now common than ever. Businesses, both large and small are tapping into this marketing strategy to help increase their online and offline presence by enhancing their brand awareness. However, you need to understand that influencer marketing is only effecti … | Continue reading
It’s enough to send chills down the spine of any security analyst. Rather than keeping an eye on the hackers, the hackers keep an eye on you, infiltrating your network and stealing your data, before unleashing it to the world in a very public, and very embarrassing way. That nigh … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is conquering an increasing number of jobs. How can humans keep the edge as robots become smarter?Or just read more coverage about: Intel | Continue reading
Reddit’s Programmer Humor community has come together for yet another baffoonish comedy showoff. Over the last week Programmer Humor members have been competing to come up with the best coder wisecracks they can – and the affair is shaping up to be a close contest. There is only … | Continue reading
During the seven years I’ve lived in Latin America, I’ve encountered countless examples of misogyny. I originally came to Buenos Aires as part of a fellowship through Princeton in Latin America. My task was to set up a SAT prep course, but I had never done business in the region, … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever spent any time looking for recommendations on a new computer, chances are someone has told you to “just build a desktop.” There’s a reason: building your own desktop is almost always cheaper than buying one from a manufacturer. The problem, of course, is it that yo … | Continue reading
With the growth and complexity of the exploding web security field, areas of expertise were bound to crop up. One of the most intriguing new sub-genres in IT security consists of highly skilled pros specifically tasked with protecting and securing WiFi from illicit hacking. It’s … | Continue reading
There’s gold in YouTube videos. Sure, you can get some views by posting your friend’s epic water skiing fail or something cute your cat did. But actually creating compelling video content that will have regular subscribers returning, again and again, is a hugely lucrative busines … | Continue reading
Remarketing seems deceptively simple. It’s a smart way for brands to reconnect with consumers who may have visited a website, but not necessarily pulled the trigger to make a purchase. It also allows you to position targeted ads to an audience who has previously expressed interes … | Continue reading
Latin American democracy was born with an original sin: income inequality – the highest in the world. Thus it was that the region’s democratic institutions originated in a context of severe social exclusion and poverty. The US-style Madisonian model of democracy implemented acros … | Continue reading
Depending on who you ask, you’re going to hear data science described as being sexy by some, and decidedly not so by others. Sexy, I suspect, because in today’s geekdom-loving world, we imagine the lab coats have finally turned their laser-like, academic precision to the final ec … | Continue reading
Landing conversions are something marketers have been struggling with since the term was coined. While there’s a plethora of science and data backing up some smart strategies, for most, it’s still not good enough. After all, conversions are almost always the end goal, the gauge o … | Continue reading
Today’s big data-driven marketplace only has room for the fittest. This sounds a little scary, I know. For a long time, mastering the art of accurate and effective number-crunching was no small feat. Over the last decade, machine learning has grown and matured from a flashy high- … | Continue reading
iOS 11 is only weeks away from hitting an iPhone or iPad near you, so if you’re an app developer (or aspiring to become one), you need to get familiar with the ins and outs of Apple’s latest mobile operating system sooner rather than later. To get up to speed, consider getting ad … | Continue reading
There is no question we are in a period of profound change. Very soon, seven billion people will be seamlessly connected to each other and all of humanity’s accumulated knowledge. We’ll be permanently and invisibly connected to an internet that is an ever-present fabric in our li … | Continue reading
Creativity is a term thrown about the workplace all too often. It bounces off the walls, flying over the heads of employees, and often fizzles out in a corner, without always having made the desired impact. It’s no wonder then, many employees switch off as soon as they hear the w … | Continue reading
Adobe Flash, the multimedia software that gave us everything from chintzy pre-mobile video games to atrocious restaurant homepages, just got its death sentence. Or the next-closest thing, as Adobe announced that it will “stop updating and distributing the Flash Player,” and expec … | Continue reading
Because I stare at screens ten hours a day, my eyesight is at risk. To avoid the dangers of screens, I took matters into my own hands. It should come to no surprise that constantly looking at a laptop or smartphone screen is bad for you. But 70-percent of Millennials (like myself … | Continue reading
Are you feeling the tug of entrepreneurship? Does the idea of starting a business fill you with excitement? You want to set your own hours, be your own boss, work from home (or maybe the beach) and have no limit to the money you are making. Sounds like a dream. But how do you get … | Continue reading
As Tesla’s Model 3 gets closer to the open roads, we’re interested to see what how the much-ballyhooed electric car can transform the roads in practice. Tesla still hasn’t given full specifications on the Model 3, but there are several things we do know about the electric apple o … | Continue reading
Huawei’s Mate 9 is one of the best big phones you can buy right now, but the company promises the next one will be better – even better than the iPhone 8, in fact. Richard Yu, Huawei’s consumer product chief, had the following to say in an interview with Bloomberg: “We will have … | Continue reading
When I spoke with Oxford Professor Nick Bostrom a few weeks ago about simulation theory — whether or not we live in a computer, basically — we didn’t discuss rocks. We should have talked about rocks. Graphic artist Rense de Boer — possibly one of the creators of the real matrix — … | Continue reading
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give you Up. Sorry we missed your birthday, Rick Roll. Anyway, here you go: What, you expected a more substantive article? The song speaks for itself. But if you want to learn more about the history of the song and … | Continue reading
Jacob Avital, the YouTuber who brought the Brilliant Earth diamond scam to the forefront of our collective attention earlier this year, is now being sued in a New York Court. Avital, who you may know as Jacob Worth, was one of the sources in our own Brilliant Earth exposé back in … | Continue reading
If you had any doubts Apple was working on a 4K Apple TV, you can rest easy iTunes is apparently showing listing certain movies as 4K and HDR in users’ purchase history, as reported by MacRumors. Users are still limited to 720p and 1080p downloads, but Apple seems to be adding th … | Continue reading
It’s time we stopped pretending that we’re computers and let the machines do their jobs. Anodot, a real-time analytics company, is using advanced machine-learning algorithms to overcome the limitations that humans bring to data analysis. AI can chew up all your data and spit out … | Continue reading
Elon Musk and Tesla are preparing for a big to-do over the new (and lovely, might I add) Model 3. Tesla is handing over the keys to 30 lucky people tonight, at a pre-release event, and you can watch live. The billions of us who won’t be getting our hands on the sweet new ride can … | Continue reading
Hey person about to forcibly take my valuable goods through threat of harm, I have a very important request for you. I’m asking this nicely, in a public forum so that my wishes on this topic are a matter of record. Take my wallet if you must. But please don’t take my smartphone. … | Continue reading
This semi-coherent baboon, for one night last October, reigned supreme; but was it of his own doing? Regardless of what the news outlets say — or your sensibilities tell you — for one night, Trump was king — at least on Twitter. But as with all things surrounding the 2016 Presid … | Continue reading
Law enforcement organizations are increasingly looking towards intercepting digital communications as a means to to stop crime and thwart terrorism. Germany’s police are no exception, and are set to take advantage of a new law granting them the power to hack suspect’s devices, re … | Continue reading
If you really want to get hired as a programmer, look for a specialized niche coding field in need of qualified pros — and fulfill that need. While Java, JavaScript and Python coders are relatively plentiful, finding someone knowledgeable in SQL isn’t quite so simple. Part coder, … | Continue reading
With more than one-fourth of 2017 over, many businesses feel pressured to achieve the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the year. Next year’s resolutions are months away, but there are still changes happening this year that will heavily influence the practice of … | Continue reading
It’s estimated that there are over 1.5 million people who work from home in the UK. I’m one of them. The last time I worked in a formal office was an internship I did during the first year of my undergraduate degree, and while I’m not about to say ‘never again,’ I do enjoy the fa … | Continue reading
Dutch police is not messing around – and it appears it is now purportedly chasing users suspected in purchasing illegal substances on the dark web’s second largest drug marketplace, Hansa. Earlier today, one distressed Hansa buyer took to Reddit to warn fellow dark web market use … | Continue reading
The Atlantic magazine just announced that Emerson Collective, the non-profit founded by Steve Jobs widow Lauren Powell Jobs, has acquired a majority stake in the publication. Neither Emerson Collective, nor David G. Bradley, chairman and owner of Atlantic Media, confirmed the val … | Continue reading
Here at TNW, we love ourselves some podcasts, whether it’s to relax on a weekend, distract us from the pain of building muscle at the gym, or killing time on a long commute. The world of podcasts has steadily grown over the past few years to accommodate a wide range of interests … | Continue reading
For better or worse, a lot has changed in the past ten years. Nowhere is that more true than on the Internet. Taking you back is tenyearsago.io, a website that wants to show you what specific pages looked like on this day, ten years ago. Visiting the White House page transports y … | Continue reading
If you’re going to do something — especially something to push forward your career — you should commit to doing it right. That usually means making sure you’ve got all the materials you’ll need to properly understand and master your topic. If IT and the world of cyber security ar … | Continue reading
Over the past few months, Bangalore – India’s Silicon Valley and home to roughly 11 million people in the south – has seen its police force attempt to drastically revamp its image by adopting a meme-first approach to its social media channels, riffing on pop culture trends and ph … | Continue reading
It’s been 60 years since the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine gave us the promise of flying cars. But our personal mobility options remain, today and for the foreseeable future, earthbound. Will the promise of self-driving cars be as elusive? In short, no. The dream of taking … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that Flash sucks; it’s been rendered obsolete by technologies like HTML5, and it’s slated to be killed off completely by 2020. But developer Juha Lindstedt believes that instead of burying it, we should save it in order to preserve the rich history of sites, games … | Continue reading
Samsung is in talks with hardware makers to extend its mobile payment service to other phone brands, reports Gadgets 360. There are a couple of different ways this could work: Samsung might either convince companies to embed a Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) chip in future han … | Continue reading
The App Store is a handy place to find just the right app for any circumstance. However, there are a lot of solutions to particular problems out there, so it’s easy for a laundry list of programs to clutter a list of options, hiding your gem. You’ve spent a lot of time and resour … | Continue reading
Researchers at Drexel University’s College of Engineering are working on a special material that will one day provide the capacity for instant battery charging. This is made possible by super-conductive two-dimensional MXene material. The quest for a better battery has been ongoi … | Continue reading
Major Lazer today released an interactive video for their new single “No Know Better.” The video allows the viewer to take part in the video, albeit in a very limited way. In the original video, a young boy alternates between his dim reality and his sumptuous dream world. In the … | Continue reading