Considering that the New York City HQ of L’Oréal has some impressive features, including a nail salon and a terrace facing the Hudson River, it’s all too easy to miss the virtual reality room. It looks like an unassuming conference room after all, this L’Oréal Beauty Lab is packe … | Continue reading
This post was originally published by NoCamels. Check out their excellent coverage and follow them down here: In the hot and arid Middle East, clean water is liquid gold. Faced with limited rainfall and a grueling climate, Israel has increasingly relied on seawater since it built … | Continue reading
It appears the largest dark web drug and counterfeit marketplace might be pulling off a Houdini. Numerous users on Reddit and Twitter are speculating that AlphaBay Market – often dubbed as the new Silk Road – has executed an elaborate exit scheme. Doubts first began circulating w … | Continue reading
What if you had a personal banking bot that warns you when your funds are getting low? Or that you usually buy flowers at a certain time of the year for your mother’s birthday and that you haven’t this year? With cognitive computing, this scenario might soon become a reality. Cog … | Continue reading
If you love spending hours skipping from one Wikipedia entry to another, this game might be the perfect time-waster for you. Built by London-based developer and game designer Kevan Davis, the Wikipedia Text Adventure is an interactive game that turns any location within the popul … | Continue reading
Finland seems to be ahead of the game when it comes to a modern economy. The northern republic boasts not only one of Europe‘s most creative start-up scenes in and around its capital, Helsinki, but is also a pioneer in the circular economy, as The Guardian recently reported. On t … | Continue reading
Uberall is a digital location marketing solution, allowing businesses to list all their locations online, boost local SEO, capture new customers and stay in touch with customers through social media and review sites – from one cloud-based platform. We spoke with Florian Huebner, … | Continue reading
Image hosting site Photobucket is facing plenty of backlash on social media and its support channels as it recently made a massive change to its terms of service that affected loads of users in the worst way possible. Near the end of June, the Denver, Colorado-based company intro … | Continue reading
With Oculus’s place at the forefront of virtual reality technology becoming shakier with the departure of its CEO Palmer Luckey, the news that the company was shutting its filmmaking division, Story Studio, was a surprise. Some have accused Facebook — the company which owns Oculu … | Continue reading
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, I’m sure you’ve heard of Bitcoin and blockchain. After all, they are one of the most trending topics these days — the ultimate buzzwords of the year. Even people who’ve never mined cryptocurrency or understand how it works, are talking ab … | Continue reading
Painting always felt like a desired but distant dream for me. Every time I visit an art museum, I sit and stare at masterpieces — fascinated by the deep talent that goes into it. But picking up an activity I knew I wouldn’t excel at seemed futile. A few months ago, I decided to b … | Continue reading
Building the perfect app goes way beyond nailing down a million-dollar idea. Put together an app that looks clunky and garish, even if it’s packed with great information, and you’re chasing users away from your product. On the flip side, an ultra-slick app with crummy site naviga … | Continue reading
Tech is exciting and awesome, but it’s also incredibly fast. You want to stay up to date on what is happening in the thrilling world of technology (that’s why you read TNW), but sometimes you just can’t get enough. One of the easiest ways to keep up and learn about various news, … | Continue reading
Since the late 1980’s, Argentina has faced economic woes. Stemming from when the country was plunged into the deepest recession of its history, Argentina has weathered bond defaults, payment restructuring plans, and high inflation that would put a lesser country off of the invest … | Continue reading
Yesterday Elon Musk delighted thousands of Tesla enthusiasts when the charismatic CEO confirmed the automaker is gearing up to start production of the upcoming Model 3 this week. But despite the good news, one question remains: When can you expect the new Model 3 delivered to you … | Continue reading
Following Apple’s announcement of its HomePod last month, Samsung is now the latest tech giant to hop on the smart speaker bandwagon. The Wall Street Journal reports that the South Korean hardware maker is baking its Bixby assistant into a voice-activated device. It’s presently c … | Continue reading
If you’ve picked up a Lenovo Moto Z, HTC Bolt or HTC U recently, you probably noticed the 3.5mm headphone jack has disappeared. Yes, just like in the iPhone 7, the venerable headphone jack has been replaced. We’ll soon see more Android OEMs follow suit, and on Android devices, th … | Continue reading
Alongside the rumors surrounding the upcoming iPhone 8, including a narrow bezel, an OLED display-equipped model and wireless charging, perhaps the juiciest of them all has just surfaced. Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on 3D face recognition tech that it will use to let … | Continue reading
Last August, an odd beast of a mass transport system from China, which featured an elevated bus that would allow other vehicles to pass underneath it on the road, shocked the world. The TEB-1 was designed to reduce traffic while ferrying up to 300 passengers in a single cabin. Bu … | Continue reading
Instagram took notice of the booming social media influencer market. These so-called influencers shell out cash for thousands of likes and spammy comments. They’re every marketer’s worst nightmare and an annoyance to real Instagram users. During the past couple of weeks, Instagra … | Continue reading
Math is a tool that doesn’t discriminate. There’s no bias in it; the numbers either add up or they don’t. Algorithms depend on math, but they’re data driven — sometimes the information being fed into one is incorrect or doesn’t represent the actual goals of the algorithm. Cathy O … | Continue reading
The Russian woman sent to seduce a military official/infiltrate Western society is not exactly a new trope. James Bond tangled with at least three such characters that I can remember. But now they’ve apparently moved from bars serving vodka martinis to Facebook. According to a re … | Continue reading
More than one-third of 15-year-old children in the UK could be classified as ‘extreme internet users’, or those who are online for more than six hours daily outside of school. A report from UK think-tank Education Policy Institute (EPI) states that children in the UK have a highe … | Continue reading
Last week, the New York Times published a story titled “Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment.” It was a series of anecdotes with sadly predictable plots. One of the stories was from an entrepreneur named Sarah Kunst, who talked about getting some skin-crawlingly a … | Continue reading
Julie Zhuo, VP of product design for Facebook, has been at the company since 2006. Since joining, she’s helped grow the service from eight million college and high school kids to over one billion people worldwide. How’d she do it? Do more Julie is a huge proponent for getting yo … | Continue reading
Travel booking websites like Airbnb, Priceline, and Booking.com continue to rise in popularity as budget-conscious consumers attempt to save as much as possible on their holidays. These companies rely on different tactics to attract consumers and get them interested in using thei … | Continue reading
Netflix last week began streaming it’s first Dolby Atmos enabled movie. Okja is the first of several planned releases that include the advanced audio format. Atmos works like an upgrade to surround sound; it takes the traditional 5.1, 7.1 or 9.1 setup and dynamically changes the … | Continue reading
Chinese health vlogger Zhang bit off what she couldn’t chew in a livestream — which landed her in the hospital. Zhang filmed herself eating what she thought was a massive leaf of aloe vera — which is probably not the best way to get aloe vera’s benefits to begin with. Regardless, … | Continue reading
Here’s a sure-fire tip for all you jobseekers: Working to become a bonafide specialist in your field is an almost guaranteed means of vaulting yourself to the top of the pile for most hiring managers. And when it comes to IT networking and infrastructure, there are few more advan … | Continue reading
The British Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has asserted that the Royal Free National Health Security (NHS) Foundation Trust has failed to protect patient rights when granting Google DeepMind access to the personal data of more than 1.6 million individuals. The Trust init … | Continue reading
Following months of anticipation, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has finally confirmed the automaker will begin production for the much-awaited Model 3 later this week. The news comes after earlier today Musk took to Twitter to clue in Tesla enthusiasts that the new Model 3 has successfully … | Continue reading
While Microsoft has come a long way in securing its OSes and protecting Windows users from viruses in the past few years, it couldn’t stop the spate of recent ransomware attacks that hit hundreds of thousands of PCs around the world. You could blame it on old copies of Windows th … | Continue reading
London has always been the undisputed technology center of Europe — until now. My view is that Berlin will rapidly begin to take over, and in 10-15 years we will see the Berlin cluster as Europe’s technology hot-bed. Already the stage is set. German tech companies receive only 40 … | Continue reading
Hackers have many ways to access your files, emails, messages, and other information. This is how you can encrypt all your data to protect them against unwanted access. | Continue reading
I’m head over heels in love with Seung Tae Oh’s latest art project, a clever reimagination of popular podcasts as physical objects. Currently pursuing his MA in product design at the Royal College of Art, Oh turned two podcasts into books, filling them with items that bring their … | Continue reading
They stack up like old magazines in your doctor’s office. A new app, a dozen pictures from your weekend, a quick downloaded video or two… before you know it, your smartphone, tablet or laptop is awash in extraneous files that can ultimately slow your device down to a crawl. Get o … | Continue reading
Opening and running a traditional brick-and-mortar storefront works off knowledge built through literally centuries of business successes and failures. But if you’re trying to make a business grow and prosper online… well, that’s a whole different story. Find out what it takes to … | Continue reading
Rumor has it, Apple has plans to dramatically change the iPhone 8. We’ve reported several of these, but to date, they were still just that: rumors. Today, we’re getting even more rumors, although these are from two highly-trusted sources in the mobile industry, and each seems to … | Continue reading
Disney is preparing a new late-night offering that will feature some of the biggest stars in gaming and streaming content creation. The new programming block is set to air on Disney XD between 9PM and 3AM daily. Disney is calling the block ‘Disney XP’ and will transform the popul … | Continue reading
Overall, the easiest way to see if a marketing software company is worth your cold hard cash is to determine their affordability, ease of use, functionality, and how well their customer support responds. Through various projects over the past couple months I’ve had the chance to … | Continue reading
The mysterious work of Dr. Sergio Canavero is the stuff of grade-B horror movies. He claims he’s successfully attached a living mouse head to a rat, severed the spines of mice, and perhaps most impressively: reattached them. His quest for the scientific holy grail lead to papers … | Continue reading
The late Steve Jobs once said: Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to … | Continue reading
Last year, Facebook began testing a feature that made it easy to find public Wi-Fi networks around you. It was only available in iOS, and only in select locations. Now Facebook is rolling out the feature to everyone on its mobile apps. Just tap on the ‘More’ tab, and then select … | Continue reading
Uber is testing new waters in Europe — literally. The company today launched a branch of its BOAT service for tourists in Croatia, which will allow visitors to get transportation in the Adriatic sea via the Uber app. UberBOAT lets users charter specific trips between cities Split … | Continue reading
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Microsoft’s insipid plan to take over the universe has come to fruition with the latest build of Windows 10. A Reddit user who participates in the Windows Insider fast ring shared screenshots of the system crash error yesterday: This comes … | Continue reading
Hey friends. How’s your day been? Good? Bad? So-so? Whatever the case, this robot is about to make it a bit better. Say hello to the Salto-1P, an adorable little robot created by a team at UC Berkely. It can jump really high: View post on imgur.com It can jump really fast: View p … | Continue reading
Learning to code has become a baseline 21st-century skill. Just like riding a bike and tying your shoes, kids today are getting crash courses in simple web design, the instruction that often starts during their first few years of school. Get the training that’s becoming an everyd … | Continue reading
Although our lives are dominated by a myriad of screens, along with an ever-increasing selection of audio and video streaming services, it appears that the radio star is alive and well. Despite being bombarded by the equivalent of a few hundred newspapers of data every day, radio … | Continue reading