The Huawei Watch was easily one of the most attractive Android Wear watches last generation, so when Huawei unveiled the Watch 2, some users were disappointed the company had pivoted into a more sporty (read:uglier) aesthetic. Mainly, the screen was slightly smaller, and the desi … | Continue reading
Google said this week that it will join several major tech companies who are participating in a protest day dubbed the “Battle for the Net” on July 12th. Google told Inverse it would participate in the Day of Action, a movement to protest the FCC’s plans to abolish net neutrality … | Continue reading
To truly make progress in your business, you need a robust marketing strategy that’s as integrated with your inventory as it is with your employees. Tying your business together with a solid sales and marketing strategy will allow you to measure data and create an actionable mark … | Continue reading
Apple’s first foray into scripted television programming is a Dr. Dre-fueled show called Vital Signs. The six-episode series should air this September, though Apple hasn’t released an official air date. Each episode, it’s rumored, is supposed to focus on a specific emotion. We’ve … | Continue reading
Everyone needs a little beauty in their lives — even gamers. So when I got the chance to design my own Xbox One controller via the Design Labs, I leaped at it. The fruit of my efforts turned out gorgeous, though it did come with a weighty price tag. My colleague Napier Lopez gave … | Continue reading
Over the last decade, the structure of traditional businesses has been challenged by an increasingly digitized professional landscape. An accelerating mobile workforce has resulted in attracting and retaining top talent to becoming a perpetual procedure for the majority of busine … | Continue reading
For every picture you post to social media, you probably took 10 more that, well, didn’t make the cut. Whether they’re underexposed, overexposed, blurry, crooked or just plain goofy, there are a number of reasons your pictures may not have the spark you’re looking for. If you wan … | Continue reading
Fake news has plagued the web — which is kind of our own fault — but thankfully techies haven’t given up on eradicating it. One of the latest technological attempts to fight misinformation is a new Google Chrome plugin created by EU-backed InVID. The plugin, which has now launche … | Continue reading
Samba is a pretty useful networking protocol, but earlier versions of it were known to be extremely vulnerable to certain attacks. Remember WannaCry, the ransomware that broke pretty much everything in May? And NotPetya, which reared its nasty head last week, causing particular d … | Continue reading
The folks behind Prisma, which was the first AI-powered art filter app for your photos, have come up with a new toy for your iPhone: Sticky AI. Fire it up and snap a selfie, and Sticky will isolate your likeness from the scene and turn it into a stylized sticker. You can also sho … | Continue reading
Itching to start creating VR content? Google’s just launched a new app called Blocks that should make it easier, even if you’ve never done any programming or 3D modeling before. Blocks lets you use an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift to create low-poly 3D objects and scenes in a VR enviro … | Continue reading
Closing in on nearly a decade in business but failing to turn a profit, indie music platform SoundCloud has let 173 of its staffers go this week. That amounts to nearly 40 percent of its workforce; it’s also closing its offices in San Francisco and London. The idea is to cut down … | Continue reading
Over the years, Google Maps has evolved into an incredible resource for finding your way across the globe – and now, it’s about to get better for the differently abled. The app now lets users add accessibility information for any location they visit, simply by indicating whether … | Continue reading
If you’ve got one of those cute Staples ‘Easy’ buttons lying around, you can make it a lot more useful by fiddling with its innards and connecting it to Slack, like developer Nick Sypteras did. Like many of us, Sypteras works at his desk with headphones on, and grew tired of bein … | Continue reading
Are you addicted to your phone? Turning your phone screen grey might solve your problem. Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris, says that enabling grayscale mode may help you cut down on your beloved smartphone time. The reasoning behind this strategy is that everything will look … | Continue reading
Cable companies (and broadcasters) that once thought a wait-and-see approach was their best bet to combatting the cord cutting epidemic are now getting creative. AMC Networks recently decided the best way to beat cord cutters was to give them what they wanted all along: fewer com … | Continue reading
Scribes everywhere, look alive: Google is now funding a project which will use AI to write automated news stories, The Press Association, a UK news agency, received about $807,000 from the third round of Google’s Digital News Initiative funding. Their project? Reporters and Data … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever played Candy Crush for three hours, don’t worry, you’re not completely to blame. The developers and designers behind every popular app intentionally design them to be “addicting.” The endless scrolling, 24/7 sharing, and constant notification checking are all actio … | Continue reading
The camera market has never recovered from the impact of the smartphone. Ever since the iPhone took the mobile photography world by storm, point-and-shoot cameras have all but disappeared. Enthusiast and professional cameras have remained relatively unharmed, due to their obvious … | Continue reading
Windows 10 S was met with a hefty amount of skepticism upon launch – some of it from TNW itself. How could it not? On the surface, it recalls many sore memories of Windows RT. Once again, Microsoft thought the best user experience would be to limit users to software from the Win … | Continue reading
Who killed the electric car? Nobody, it turns out: it appears to be coming back stronger than ever. According to a report released today by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, electric cars could be the majority in 20 years, all thanks to plummeting battery prices. The report is an ana … | Continue reading
In 2003 Oxford University Professor Nick Bostrom published Are You Living In A Simulation?, an argument stating there’s a high likelihood that we’re all pieces of code created in a computer simulation. Bostrom’s theory isn’t the first to posit that humans live on a hard-drive som … | Continue reading
My first day at Google in 2011 felt a bit like joining Hogwarts: you’re excited and not entirely sure what you’ll be doing! I was happy to do anything and learn in the process! For the next two years, I was lucky enough to train Google employees on Gmail and to pitch Gmail to com … | Continue reading
Instagram is offering more video messaging options to 200+ million Story users — specifically, friends can now respond to your Story with photos, videos, and Boomerangs of their own, bypassing text entirely. Video replies work the same way as normal Story posts — text, stickers, … | Continue reading
The ever-shortening lifespan of our smart devices is getting ridiculous. Sometimes feels like products are specifically made to last just past their warranty. Organizations like GreenPeace have launched campaigns to fight planned obsolescence, and it seems that they might gain a … | Continue reading
In 2016, nearly 700 million people worldwide were the victims of cyber crime. And that number has been building by about 10 percent every year since 2014. The reality is that everyone — individuals, companies, institutions and nations – are all vulnerable to malicious forces onli … | Continue reading
Wandering through the endless depths of Reddit, I stumbled upon a bizarre series of apps that seem to put a ‘Forever Alone‘ spin on the smash-hit game Pokemon Go: Pocket Boyfriend Go and Pocket Girlfriend Go. As you could already gather from the titles, the apps are essentially s … | Continue reading
When a group of museums and researchers in the Netherlands unveiled a portrait entitled The Next Rembrandt, it was something of a tease to the art world. It wasn’t a long lost painting but a new artwork generated by a computer that had analysed thousands of works by the 17th-cent … | Continue reading
Some major companies are getting heavily involved in Africa’s tech space, with global mobile operator Orange leading the way in June. The company has announced the launch of an Africa-focused arm of its early-stage investment program Orange Digital Ventures, US$56 million to the … | Continue reading
In a fitting but somewhat misguided move, anti-tourism activists in Amsterdam have squatted an apartment building currently owned by Booking.com CEO Gillian Tans. In a letter delivered to neighbors, the squatters state that they’ve taken over the building on the luxurious Koningi … | Continue reading
We’re glad to share a pre-publication of Project Prep, an initiative of Inspiring Fifty, a non-profit that aims to increase diversity in tech by making role models more visible. The book is a joint effort of serial technology entrepreneur Janneke Niessen and best-selling children … | Continue reading
Google is betting big on artificial intelligence. Its DeepMind subsidiary has announced plans to expand its operations to Canada in order to accommodate the company’s ever-growing research initiatives. In a blog post yesterday, CEO Demis Hassabis revealed DeepMind will be opening … | Continue reading
Besides durability and inventive product design, Nokia was also known for the impressive cameras on its N series and Lumia line of phones. It’s now looking to reclaim that glory by teaming up with its old partner in crime, lens maker Zeiss. The Finnish optics firm hasn’t worked w … | Continue reading
Google Earth got a major revamp earlier this year with features like browser support, 3D maps and informative Knowledge Cards. It’s now added live content to that list. The Voyager storytelling section, which lets you take interactive guided tours of interesting places, now suppo … | Continue reading
After copying Snapchat’s biggest features to build Instagram Stories, Facebook is now looking to clone another app. The Verge notes that the social network is prepping Bonfire, a group chat app similar to one called Houseparty that launched last year. Houseparty comes from Life O … | Continue reading
The Snap Maps feature has been around for about two weeks 一 long enough for paranoid Snapchat users and their parents to spread hysteria across the internet. If you’re not caught up with the times, Snap Maps allows users to view the exact location of their friends. It’s like App … | Continue reading
Leave it to a YouTuber to produce a BB gun so powerful it can rip through drywall. As you can see in the video above, the BB gun in question looks more like a lethal weapon than something you’d give a precocious child. The gun is powered by a 4000 PSI scuba tank, and fires metal … | Continue reading
Women in tech are having a difficult time overcoming the pay and hiring gap. It feels as though every day, a new report is released detailing that the tech industry doesn’t hire women, doesn’t pay them the same as men, and isn’t fair to mothers. G2 Crowd CMO Adrienne Weissman has … | Continue reading
One of the key ingredients to the self-driving car came from a sector you might not expect: video games. According to a report by The Washington Post, that high-end graphics processing unit in your computer or game console is the same tech used to power self-driving cars. The GPU … | Continue reading
While most of us in America were celebrating Independence Day, CNN investigators were busy tracking down the creator of a meme. CNN’s KFILE investigation team found the Reddit user responsible for taking an old wrestling clip and turning it into a controversial statement on how t … | Continue reading
It’s a hard world out there for people who like truly small phones. Manufacturers rarely bother to make anything that can easily be used with one hand, and the ones that do exist are mostly budget phones with middling design and specs. Thankfully, Samsung might be adding a decent … | Continue reading
According to Goldman Sachs, Bitcoin (BTC) could climb to nearly $4,000 in the near future. Near, in this case, is relative. But after BTC breaks through the “messy” period in which it currently resides, Goldman analyst Sheba Jafari believes the coin is headed to at least $3,212, … | Continue reading
By now everybody knows that Facebook has done everything in its power to imitate Snacphat across its entire portfolio, but now Snacphat is fighting back with a few new tools of its own. A backdrops feature essentially lets you green-screen yourself into different scenes. Tap the … | Continue reading
My mother died on June 5th, at the age of 57, after a long fight with breast cancer. Every day since has been filled with a hollow, echoing loneliness — like someone shouting into an empty room. So when the feeling is too much, I reach for her iPhone. I watch the videos of her ta … | Continue reading
A Paris City Council ruling on Wednesday says people renting out their apartments on short-term rental services like Airbnb must now register their properties with the government. This is great news for the hotel industry in Paris, which has been lobbying for the change under the … | Continue reading
Skype recently updated its mobile app with several new features, attempting to stay relevant to the Snapchat generation. Judging by the reviews, it may have been misguided — because users (or at least reviewers) loathe this new version of the app. Having been forced to use it mys … | Continue reading
On the vast landscape of technological innovation, it’s hard to argue there’s any field more inherently fascinating than artificial intelligence. Between areas like automated speech, sophisticated web searches and even the robotic brains behind self-driving vehicles, the process … | Continue reading
Instructors of “Introduction to programming” courses know that students are willing to blame the failures of their programs on anything. Sorting routine discards half of the data? “That might be a Windows virus!” Binary search always fails? “The Java compiler is acting funny toda … | Continue reading