Study: Students will trade their friends’ privacy for free pizza

Want to hack your way into someone’s network? Just offer their BFF some free pizza. 98-percent of students gave away their friends’ emails when promised free pizza, according to a recent study conducted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 74-percent of Americans have stated … | Continue reading


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Sheryl Sandberg on why you don’t need a personal brand

Sheryl Sandberg is many things — the COO of Facebook, a mother, a best-selling author, a widow. An advocate for personal branding, she is not. In an interview with renowned Wharton psychology professor and best-selling author Adam Grant, Sandberg discussed why the personal brandi … | Continue reading


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How I Automated My Business Processes So I Can Work 2 Hours A Day

As a business owner, there’s no telling what type of issues you might run into in a day. From an employee quitting on the fly to equipment failures, numerous issues could potentially disrupt your process. It’s tedious, time-consuming, and mind-numbing. In looking at all the roadb … | Continue reading


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This co-working space is basically an adult daycare that takes away your phone for $40

Move over WeWork, CaveDay is the new co-working space on the block. CaveDay is a pop-up collective that only operates on Sunday. The Manhattan space is available to entrepreneurs, startups, freelancers or anyone with a short attention span. However, this isn’t just any co-working … | Continue reading


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New startup wants to impregnate 40-somethings with perfect people

Darwin Life is a new kind of fertility clinic — one that aims to get women over 40 pregnant with designer babies. The company is the brain-child of Doctor John Zang, a researcher developing controversial methods of fertility that involve replacing some of the chromosomes in a pat … | Continue reading


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Meet the teenager revolutionizing the way we analyze networks

One of the most difficult tasks in the modern computing age is performing efficient network analysis and optimization. I spoke with Arjun Ramani, an 18-year-old mathematician who is working on that problem, to better understand his new method for dealing with it. He’s building a … | Continue reading


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E3 lets the public in for the first time and chaos ensues

This is the first year E3 has been open to the public. What’s to complain about 15,000 excited gamers finally getting their chance to enter the world’s largest gaming event? First-ever public E3. pic.twitter.com/7l61raJIBG — Wes Phillips (@WesPhillips) June 13, 2017 Oh. They cer … | Continue reading


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The Super Mario Odyssey trailer is the strangest thing I’ve seen today

Mario has always worn multiple hats — plumber, fashion icon, part-time crimefighter — but Super Mario Odyssey takes each of these hats seriously. The Broadway-inspired trailer is a thrill ride of emotions, and after watching it, oh 20 or so times, I still don’t know what to make … | Continue reading


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The Bitcoin of weed is sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for world peace

File this under ‘I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried.’ Dennis Rodman is being dispatched on a mission for world-peace. Potcoin, a digital crypto-currency aimed at securing marijuana transactions, released a video today featuring Dennis Rodman and Prince Marketing Group Agent … | Continue reading


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Apple confirms it’s working on self-driving cars

Apple CEO Tim Cook today spoke for the first time about the company’s self-driving car ambitions. Cook revealed: We’re focusing on autonomous systems. It’s probably one of the most difficult AI projects to work on. Autonomy is something that’s incredibly exciting for us and we’ll … | Continue reading


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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick takes ‘indefinite’ leave of absence

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has announced that he is taking a leave of absence from the company he helped found, following the his mother’s death in a boating accident last month. In an email to his employees, Kalanick remarked: Recent events have brought home for me that people are … | Continue reading


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Minecraft with dinosaurs ARK: Survival Evolved finally gets a release date

I’ve been playing ARK on Xbox One since it launched in the early-access program. It didn’t start off as a perfect experience, but it has become a visually stunning game that satiates my primal desire to stab a triceratops in the butt with a wooden spear. Ark is a survival craftin … | Continue reading


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Twitter powers-up Direct Messages with smart new action buttons

Twitter just souped up Direct Messages, in the process making them more useful for brands when it comes to customer service and growing engagement. Now, businesses have the option to add buttons to direct messages. These let customers easily do something — like follow an account, … | Continue reading


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Understand your online audience with certified SEO training — for under $30

Taking advantage of search engine optimization seems simple. Just tag your web pages and posts with relevant keywords and you’re done, right? Not quite. Web crawlers run billions of Google searches a day — and after two decades of web building, there’s a science in determining wh … | Continue reading


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Instagram’s Archive feature now available to everybody for hiding those drunk photos

A few weeks ago we reported on a feature Instagram was testing that allowed you to archive photos on your profile instead of deleting them permanently. That feature is now rolling out to everyone. The feature shows up in the ‘…’ menu above your individual image. It’s listed as th … | Continue reading


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Amazon launches a useless Google reverse image search clone for celebrities

Struggling to remember the name of that terribly familiar face you keep seeing in these hot new blockbusters? Fret no more. Amazon has got your back. The e-commerce giant has launched a slightly less functional Google reverse image search clone, designed solely for the purpose of … | Continue reading


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Alienware branches out into peripherals with 240 hz monitor, mice, and more

Alienware is one of the oldest gaming brands around, but unlike some of the competition, it’s never really created much other than PCs. Now the company is branching out with a suite of new peripherals that actually seem pretty neat. Most notable of these may be the three new moni … | Continue reading


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Apple softens its stance on developers using iOS as a platform for coding

Apple recently changed the terms of service for its App Store. One new paragraph caught the attention of John Voorhees at MacStories: Apps designed to teach, develop, or test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for othe … | Continue reading


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Chess.com stopped working on 32-bit iPads after it passed 2^31 games played

You might have to wait a few days to make your next move on Chess.com if you happen to play the game from a 32-bit iPad or iPhone device. In a comical turn of events, yesterday the popular platform unexpectedly stopped working on 32-bit iOS devices after its counter clocked a tot … | Continue reading


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How to avoid the sophomore slump when introducing your second product

The trajectories of successful tech startups look a lot like the careers of famous rap stars. Some of them have sustained success like Jay Z and some of them fade away like Vanilla Ice. The question for every successful entrepreneur is this: how can you make your initial success … | Continue reading


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Can the Covfefe Act stop Trump from deleting his tweets?

President Trump’s outrageous tweets pushed Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) to introduce legislation on Monday to classify presidential social media posts as official records that would be illegal to delete. He even named it after one of the president’s recent Twitter gaffes: COVFEFE, ak … | Continue reading


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Uber’s Emil Michael is out, here’s it’s new #2

Uber has parted ways with Emil Michael, its senior vice president for business and CEO Travis Kalanick’s right-hand man, after serving for nearly four years. If the name sounds familiar, it might be because Michael was the one who suggested that Uber should hire researchers to di … | Continue reading


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Microsoft is remastering the original Age of Empires in glorious 4K

The only strategy games that have come close to being as deep, satisfying and accessible as Age of Empires are the series’ follow-up titles. Microsoft know that all too well, which is why it recently released an HD edition of 1999’s Age of Empires II. Now, it’s going back further … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Facebook’s stealing features again, but not from Snapchat this time

You probably didn’t notice it all, but Facebook took Twitter’s most iconic feature 一 kinda. Familiar with Twitter’s 140 character limit? Well, Facebook now has a new feature that only allows users 130 characters in a post. Facebook might not have stolen Twitter’s concept, but the … | Continue reading


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Watch: Tesla’s latest Autopilot update nails perpendicular parking

For Tesla owners, this week marks a new milestone: perpendicular parking. From Tesla: To make it easier to park in a variety of situations, Model S can now also back up into perpendicular spaces using Autopark. Drive completely past the space at no more than 10 mph until the ‘P’ … | Continue reading


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Messages will never appease pissed off customers like Twitter can

Messages now has a Business Chat feature that allows companies to communicate directly with their customers. Simply open the app, type in the company name, and have a friendly discussion with a bot. As much as companies would like to think Messages is a more convenient channel fo … | Continue reading


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Atari is (probably) building a new console, and it’s looking for developers

On Friday, Atari launched a website teasing a new product dubbed the Ataribox. Given the name and the teaser footage, it’s almost certainly a new Atari console, but we wouldn’t get too excited just yet. The website itself is super barebones, but the embedded video shows off some … | Continue reading


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Facebook comment leads to death sentence for man, death of discourse for mankind

Pakistan sentenced a man to death Saturday morning for making disparaging remarks about the prophet Mohammed, and others, on Facebook. This is the first time a person has been tried in a court of law and sentenced to death for blasphemy that was committed on social-media. His nam … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

E-cigarettes as harmful as their analog counterparts? Not so fast

The e-cigarette business is booming. As smokers ditch the habit in record numbers, many look to the digital world to find a replacement for their favorite analog vice. And e-cigarettes are, for better or worse, what’s next. With the rise in popularity comes increased scrutiny. An … | Continue reading


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Mouse scroll wheel ‘inventor’ basically says we’re all using it wrong

If you use a mouse with your computer, you probably use a scroll wheel. Except, you’re probably using it wrong. At least, that’s what possible scroll wheel ‘inventor’ and Oculus Co-Founder Jack McCauley says in an interview with IGN: It’s not used in the way that I intended it to … | Continue reading


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This app lets you sync two video angles with nearby friends

Duomov is a new iPhone app that takes a moderately complex task, syncing two videos, and makes it easy. The app is releasing today on the iTunes store for free. I’m a huge fan of cool apps that don’t cost a thing, and this app is worth checking out. The video app allows you and a … | Continue reading


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Samsung is using push notifications to blast Galaxy S8 users with ads

A group of angry Galaxy S8 owners has taken to Reddit to complain that Samsung has purportedly come up with an annoyingly unconventional approach to bombard users with ads: Push notifications. Numerous users are reporting that over the past couple of weeks the South Korean titan … | Continue reading


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Explore the possibilities of the Raspberry Pi 3 with this training package for under $20

With the appearance of a simple memory card pried out of a derelict Commodore 64, the Raspberry Pi 3 is an incredibly unobtrusive item. However, the Pi’s low-profile looks are only a cover — a veil of simplicity cloaked over a single-board mini-computer with the processing power … | Continue reading


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14 lucky startups that got into TNW Conference for free

Every year, TNW’s Startup Liaison team interview hundreds of early-stage companies in preparation for TNW Conference in Amsterdam. Across our four programs, we host more than 250 young startups that come to exhibit to an audience of 12,500 decision makers, pitch to high-profile j … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Google Gboard now lets you draw to search emoji because why not

Google’s excellent Gboard for Android is getting a few updates today meant to speed up your conversations a little bit. Most notably, you can now draw emoji. No, this doesn’t mean you get to turn your scribbles into your own emoji, but Google will recognize what you’re trying to … | Continue reading


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Industrial IoT is the most important tech scene you haven’t heard of

Artificial Intelligence, the technology Hollywood predicts might be the death of us all — has been around for ages. From fictional Skynet to Apple’s Siri, we’ve all been gawping at AI’s unstoppable rise. Recently, although the hype around AI has continued to build, it hasn’t been … | Continue reading


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Join Techbikers’ ride for charity from Luxembourg to Amsterdam

Worldwide, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of charitable organizations. That’s great of course, but the amount of philanthtropy doesn’t make choosing what charity to support any easier. We’d like to help. This week we’re featuring Techbikers, a charitable ride thr … | Continue reading


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3 trends currently reinventing the financial industry

Finance and trade is one of the oldest skills that mankind has developed after shaping the most preliminary forms of community. Since then, finance has been undergoing developments and revolutions to match the evolution of the human society. As the next industrial revolution matu … | Continue reading


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Indian creator of $3,500 self-driving car: “Reaching Level 5 autonomy will take a decade in India”

Since the 80s, the global automotive industry has been actively exploring the potential and possibilities of autonomous vehicle technology, with developments advancing rapidly in the past decade. Notably, India wasn’t hopping on the bandwagon – until Dr. Roshy John came along, th … | Continue reading


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Thieves use Facebook tricks to steal your money and turn it into Bitcoin

Polish internet swindlers have cooked up an elaborate scam that involves taking over your Facebook profile to ransack your bank account and swiftly transfer the stolen funds to anonymous Bitcoin wallets. Discovered by independent cybersecurity research collective BadCyber, the un … | Continue reading


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How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing customer management

A few years back, cloud computing transformed customer management, giving every small and medium business access to unified data and communication platforms without the need to make heavy investments in IT infrastructure and staff. This time around, the next revolution in the spa … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

4 cautionary tales of viral app growth

No industry is safe from the “fifteen minutes of fame” phenomenon, including the mobile app industry. Over the last decade or so, we’ve all experienced the familiar pattern of downloading the newest and most addictive apps, only to abandon them a few weeks later (and even delete … | Continue reading


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The future of Uber’s top execs is in turmoil

Although it’s now worth $70 billion, continually expanding across the globe and seeing revenues grow each quarter, Uber has plenty to worry about – and it started with a blog post. You might have heard about this before. Back in February, former engineer Susan Fowler published a … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

All the Xbox One X games we’re excited about right now

While it’s said to offer oodles more performance than its predecessor, the Xbox One X is, for all intents and purposes, an iterative upgrade. You’ll still enjoy games the same way as you did with Microsoft’s previous consoles, only with better graphics and audio. That doesn’t mea … | Continue reading


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Microsoft unveils the $499 Xbox One X

After teasing console gamers for a year with its shadowy ‘Project Scorpio‘, Microsoft has finally revealed the latest version of its gaming system, the Xbox One X, at the E3 expo in Los Angeles today. The 4K-capable machine promises smooth gameplay at full Ultra HD resolution alo … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Why a web designer should design with a mobile user in mind and how this affects SEOs

Hey folk. How you feel when you working with someone and who don’t have a good and well creative mind insight? Today i want to show you my conversation with my friend Brian. let’s take a look on our conversation & hope that will help you. So I came across this funny but accuratel … | Continue reading


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Build for the web of the future with the Perfect Python Programming Bundle — for under $25

If you’d like to elbow your way into the ranks of professional web development, you may want to seriously consider mastering Python as one of your go-to coding tools. It’s easy to learn, easy to use, works well with other coding disciplines and is generally a coder’s best friend … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 7 years ago

Can SnoreTech Save my Marriage?

I don’t know what Donald Trump’s excuse is, but whenever I find myself tweeting something incoherent at around 3 in the mornings it’s usually because my husband’s snoring has woken me up, and continues at such jet-engine decibel levels as to quash any hope of me getting back to s … | Continue reading


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