The price of Bitcoin (BTC) isn’t so much rallying today as it seems to be triumphantly marching forth. A week ago it dipped thousands in a 24-hour period and convinced everyone it’d be worth about 10K. Now some experts see it reaching 20K by Christmas. If you’ve been ‘hodling’ yo … | Continue reading
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We’re not taking the piss on this one. Forward-thinking Dutch toilet startup, Mr.Friendly, has found a way to pester you with intrusive advertising even when you’re taking a leak. The quirky company has designed a smart urinal that fills your sight with crappy ads while you’re em … | Continue reading
Instagram is working on a dedicated messaging app. Photo-sharing service Instagram is working on an spin-off messaging app called Direct, which could one day remove the built-in direct message service in the mainstream app. Although pretty barebones, there’s a little to get excit … | Continue reading
Portugal probably isn’t the first country that springs to mind when thinking about startup scenes. Hit hard by 2008 financial crash, Portugal – and in particular its capital, Lisbon – struggled to keep its head above water in the years soon after. Its economy contracted by 3.2 pe … | Continue reading
The biggest tech buzzword of 2017 was undeniably “the blockchain,” with startups moving to distributed tamper-proof ledgers, even if they didn’t actually need to. Facebook for cats? Put it on the blockchain. The Uber of ICOs? Blockchainify it (it’s a word, trust me. Or, at least, … | Continue reading
It was a huge boon to the cryptocurrency community when Valve began accepting payments in Bitcoin on its game distribution platform Steam over a year ago. But this is all coming to an end – at least for the time being. In a blog post from yesterday, the company announced it will … | Continue reading
Our own director of social media spotted a curious new feature on Facebook last night: a row of ‘Greetings’ buttons beneath a user’s display picture on their profile page. It’s about as bad as you imagine – almost like the return of the SuperPoke from a decade ago. Essentially, t … | Continue reading
Google is officially done with Chrome Apps for desktops: it’s now removed the Apps section from the Chrome Web Store, leaving only Extensions and Themes available for you to customize your browser with from here on out. The company explained its intention to do away with apps a y … | Continue reading
As the value of Bitcoin soars, it also turns holders of large volumes of the currency into prime targets for thieves. That’s what appears to have done in NiceHash, a Slovenia-based Bitcoin exchange that claims its cryptocurrency wallet has been cleared out of $64 million worth of … | Continue reading
Hunting a serial killer is, according to experts, a fundamentally different type of detective work than any other type of homicide investigation. For decades the top investigators in this hyper-specialized field have turned to technology. In 2017 this means AI, and just like ever … | Continue reading
Apple today published a paper on its Machine Learning Journal which addressed the topic of differential privacy, and how it can be used to protect user privacy in a time when every business needs to gather increasing amounts of data. This method addressed the fundamental quandary … | Continue reading
Fashioning a noose from a scarf, 14-year-old Naika Venant ignored the pleas of Facebook Live viewers as she wrapped the makeshift hanging device from a shower rod, ending her own life. When the stream ended just over an hour later, all that remained was a lifeless body police fou … | Continue reading
Qualcomm may have announced its Snapdragon 845 platform at its Hawaii Tech Summit yesterday, but it didn’t really reveal any new details until today. Though the jump from 835 to 845 might seem small, but there are a number of significant advancements in the company’s next-gen pro … | Continue reading
As the year comes to a close, annual wrap-ups are most companies favorite way of reminding us just how much we love using their services. Unfortunately, Facebook’s ‘Year In Review‘ videos have the opposite effect on me. So prepare yourself because as of today, they’re back once a … | Continue reading
If you’re a parent who feels that every toy in 2017 is designed to add even more tablet time to your already overwhelmed child’s life you aren’t alone. For this reason alone I leapt at the opportunity to check out Ozobot’s Evo, a tiny robot that you can ‘program’ with colored mar … | Continue reading
Snapchat users are filming some incredible, if frightening footage of the Los Angeles fires, and their Stories are gathered into a blazing communal narrative on Snap Map. For those of you who don’t live in California and might not have seen the blaze, it looks like this: Not the … | Continue reading
Less than 30 years ago, when the Internet first launched, everything was black, white, and plain text. It wasn’t until Flash hit the scene in 1996 that the web began to resemble what it looks like today. By the time YouTube rolled out in 2005, the mainstream Internet was already … | Continue reading
Everipedia today announced Wikipedia co-founder Dr. Larry Sanger would be joining the company as it prepares to bring its online encyclopedia to the blockchain. Blockchain is best known as the technology that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies run on, but its applicati … | Continue reading
Robots are taking over your job. That is, if you believe futurist Thomas Frey, who predicted that 2 billion jobs will have disappeared by 2030. In a study about the Future of Employment, Oxford University academics ranked 700 occupations according to their probability of computer … | Continue reading
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UK banking startup Revolut has entered the cryptocurrency space. The challenger bank just announced it will let customers buy, trade, and exchange three major cryptocurrencies — Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ether — in a range of major fiat currencies. Trades and purchases take place wi … | Continue reading
This interview is part of our new series of Growth Stories, in which we interview the founders and CEOs of 20 of the fastest growing startups in Europe. We asked them about their companies, their companies’ culture, and their lives, trying to understand how these factors play a r … | Continue reading
Britain isn’t all gloom, rain, and Slough. If you escape the city, you inevitably come across some picturesque scenery that wouldn’t look amiss in a Peter Jackson movie. Co-op Insurance, one of the UK’s biggest insurers, asked veteran motoring journalist Colin Goodwin to pick out … | Continue reading
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Arianna Huffington reported that every email she — or her employees — receives on vacation is deleted. The CEO and founder of Thrive Global thinks it’s harder to relax on vacation when you’re continually receiving email notifications. … | Continue reading
As if it isn’t hard enough to run a platform that serves up a billion hours of video per day across the globe, YouTube also has to contend with all sorts of problematic content uploaded to its site – from terrorist propaganda to disturbing material disguised as cartoons for child … | Continue reading
One of the big tradeoffs that comes with the convenience of having smart devices run your home is the hassle of keeping them powered, either with batteries or by plugging them into the wall. But a new project devised by researchers at the University of Washington could one day he … | Continue reading
After crossing the $10,000 mark just a week ago, Bitcoin has now soared past $12,000 today; at the time of writing (4AM GMT), it’s at $12,253. Perhaps even more notable is that CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index shows that the cryptocurrency’s market capitalization – the valuation of … | Continue reading
It’s been several months since Microsoft announced it was bringing mobile-style ARM processors to Windows 10 and now we’re finally seeing the fruits of that labor. Say hello the “Always Connected PC,” the first batch of which are powered by Qualcomm processors. Qualcomm apparentl … | Continue reading
Google today pulled YouTube from all Amazon Fire TVs and Echo Shows, the latest below-the-belt jabs in the companies’ long-running feud. The feud catalyzed two years ago when Amazon pulled listings for the Chromecast to promote its own streaming devices, citing “consumer confusio … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced it was releasing a feature called Did You Know, which allows users to answer pre-written questions which their friends and followers can then see. To use it, open a new status, and, under the list of things you can add to the status (such as requests for … | Continue reading
Robots are going to take your job and there’s nothing you can do about it. You need look no further than the trucking industry to find the writing on the wall, but what do we do when robots are better at the jobs we need? One solution is to give them the work and us the paychecks … | Continue reading
The Winklevoss twins are officially Bitcoin billionaires. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (hereafter: Winklevi), are perhaps most famous for suing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after he allegedly stole their idea and turned it into the social media goliath now known as Facebook. It’s … | Continue reading
In today’s Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced it’s partnering with Microsoft and ASUS to build an Always On, Always Connected PC. The device will be the world’s first 1st Gigabit LTE PC. Ditch the ! New PCs powered by #Snapdragon have a battery life so long you won’t need one … | Continue reading
Instagram today announced two new features which change its popular Stories for the better. The first new feature is a Story Archive. As it sounds, the archive lets you save your past Stories beyond their traditional 24-hour expiration date. This was one of the features spotted b … | Continue reading
Most of us view stress as that wicked ‘thing’ that has a habit of appearing at the wrong place at the wrong time — like any sane person would. However, one Dutch startup begs to differ. Stressjam wants to change people’s mindset about stress and help them reap the positive benefi … | Continue reading
Just drop in a simple online entry and you’ll be in the running for an Apple Dream Setup Prize, a package of goodies that’ll deck you out with the coolest, most efficient tech in the Apple arsenal. One lucky winner gets a MacBook Pro, an iPhone X, a pair of AirPods, an Apple Watc … | Continue reading
The 12th of December marks our fifth edition of TNW New York. And this year, we’re moving away from our traditional conference format. During the day, we’ll be hosting nine insightful keynotes, while another 45+ industry-leaders host round-table sessions.In these intimate two-way … | Continue reading
In their Trends vs. Technologies 2016 report, Capita Technology Solutions found that 78 percent of individuals surveyed acknowledged that keeping up to date with latest tech trends is vital or very important. More and more, technology such as AI, big data, and virtual and augment … | Continue reading
Data belonging to 31 million users of the popular smartphone virtual keyboard, Ai.type, has leaked online after the developer failed to properly secure the app’s database. Ai.type is a freemium virtual keyboard that runs on iOS and Android, with the bulk of the users on Android. … | Continue reading
Plenty of hackers are serving on the side of the just and right...and you can learn how to be one of those noble web warriors with the training from the Ultimate White Hat Hacker 2018 course bundle. Best of all, it’s available at basically any price you want to pay for the knowle … | Continue reading
I love to learn about all the latest and greatest tech innovations alongside my work as a software developer at Raygun. But as I flick through these articles, something troubles me. While pushing forward with new software technology is great, we might not even have gotten the bas … | Continue reading
Given how easy it is to discover new music on Spotify, it’s just as easy to forget about all the equally delicious tracks you found last month. Thankfully, Spotify won’t let that happen, today releasing Your 2017 Wrapped. This clever feature, initially rolled out last year to rep … | Continue reading
“No, I don’t think that’s such a big deal, I have no problem with the app running on my private phone,” said my friend back when his company (one of the biggest oil companies in the world) decided to ‘gift’ all of their employees a shiny new app meant to track them while at work. … | Continue reading
Big tech, such as Google and Apple, have been looking to mobility as the next big thing and now Facebook has jumped on the bandwagon as well. Facebook has partnered up with Munich’s Digital Hub Mobility to find out how the future of urban mobility can be developed. TNW spoke with … | Continue reading
At its third annual Google for India event in New Delhi today, the company noted that its Tez payments app is set to cross 12 million active users in the country soon – and that it’s getting some hot new features to make bill payment a breeze. While Tez presently only lets you se … | Continue reading
At its third annual Google for India event in New Delhi today, the company launched a new search experience for mobile users, in the form of an app called Google Go. Part of the new suite of optimized apps for the lightweight Android Go platform, it not only lets you search the w … | Continue reading
Stack Overflow today released its Q4 Developer Ecosystem Report, which highlights some surprising changes in the UK software development landscape pertaining to both employment trends, and the popularity of individual technologies. The report draws comparisons between major UK ci … | Continue reading