Dominos’ Tracker app is a liar and if it had pants they would probably be on fire. According to a Wall Street Journal report the “John” or “Jane” the app claims is making, checking, or delivering your pizza may not in fact be who it says they are. Numerous individuals have gone o … | Continue reading
Lauri Love is in a lot of trouble. The British-Finnish computer expert is accused of breaking into several U.S. government systems, including those operated by the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA. Currently, he is in the midst of a fraught extradition b … | Continue reading
Few tasks in Photoshop are more grueling and menial than trying to work the selection tool around people. Now Adobe is using AI to do something about it. The company shared a glimpse at a new “select subject” tool at its Adobe MAX Japan event, and it’s precisely what it sounds li … | Continue reading
Snapchat is playing with object recognition filters, which will automatically recognize things in your images and create filters tailored to them. Needless to say, this looks like something advertisers could make the best use of. The filters were first spotted by Mashable this we … | Continue reading
Gone are the days when college students had to wait until after graduation to pursue their professional dreams. Now, students are starting their own businesses from their dorm rooms. These burgeoning entrepreneurs are tackling numerous life lessons beyond the confines of a clas … | Continue reading
Once again the US government displays a level of ineptitude that can only be described as ‘Equifaxian‘ in nature. An AWS bucket with 47 viewable files was found configured for “public access,” and containing Top Secret information the government designated too sensitive for our f … | Continue reading
Automation is hitting industries hard across the board. It is not just low level clerical jobs that are being lost, but entire businesses that are threatened. In response, many companies are retooling for the new economic era that technology has ushered in. The outcome of that fi … | Continue reading
While the sudden surge in the price of Bitcoin might have stolen the media spotlight over the past few days, a less popular spinoff from the core Bitcoin blockchain, known as Bitcoin Gold, has been on the receiving end of tons of criticism from both the press and crypto community … | Continue reading
Modern business is driven by collaboration and there are more communication tools than ever out there to choose from. So how do you decide? | Continue reading
It’s no secret that Mac bundles are a fantastic way to score a bunch of useful apps for a whole lot less cash than trying to purchase them individually. But after a while, it’s natural to see the same apps reappear again and again. This Cyber Monday Mac Bundle, however, is buckin … | Continue reading
One of the best things about Airbnb is that it lets you book entire apartments and homes (and castles and boats!), which is really handy if you’re traveling with large groups of friends. The only downside is that, until now, one person had to pay for the whole whack and get reimb … | Continue reading
Up-and-coming cryptocurrency startup IOTA has partnered with Microsoft, Fujitsu, and twenty more companies to launch the first publicly accessible data marketplace for the Internet of Things. What makes this undertaking especially intriguing is that the marketplace will be entire … | Continue reading
Although ‘Bitcoin‘ and ‘Ethereum’ are terms that are often paired together, the reality is that they are vastly different. The only thing Ethereum shares with Bitcoin is that it’s a cryptoasset running on top of blockchain. Instead of being just a cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin, Et … | Continue reading
Simple Token — the platform that enables mainstream companies to easily launch their own cryptocurrencies on a blockchain, announced that it has sold more than 125% of its sales target in less than two weeks of the token sale. The Simple Token sale is live now at sale.simpletoken … | Continue reading
The versatile world of video marketing has seen a HUGE evolution over the past couple years. Many experts are staying that it is the future of content marketing as a whole. As 2017 begins to come to a close, it’s clear that there is a lot in store for 2018. One of the major obser … | Continue reading
It’s official: Bitcoin has finally crossed the $10,000 mark. The price of the popular cryptocurrency currently stands at $10,032, according to stats from Coin Market Cap. This milestone comes only days after the biggest cryptocurrency by market share hit $9,000 for the first time … | Continue reading
In our modern age, we like to think that women can be and do anything. We tell our daughters it’s great to excel at math and science, to develop new technologies (like the kind that enables our smartphones), or even to captain a spacecraft. But — and it’s a big but — is it rea … | Continue reading
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has published its recommendations for upholding net neutrality guidelines (PDF) across the country today, and boy, do they look good – for consumers, that is. The country has been tussling with the issue of regulating internet serv … | Continue reading
Apple has filed an application for a US patent on a foldable electronic device with a flexible display this month, indicating that the company may be working on ideas for a future iPhone to rival Samsung’s rumored foldable handset. To be clear, the brief application states that t … | Continue reading
I think it’s safe to say that 2017 has been the year of artificial intelligence. It seems every day a new startup was entering the field to offer a new twist on marketing, photo manipulation, or voice assistants that utilized artificial intelligence technology. Add to that the fa … | Continue reading
In an email to Tumblr employees, CEO David Karp announced that he’s ending his 11-year stint as the head of the Verizon-owned blogging platform as 2017 draws to a close. Karp didn’t specify exactly what spurred the decision, but mentioned that it “comes after months of reflection … | Continue reading
FCC head Ajit Pai has always been the scumbag hiding in plain sight. While his weasel-like nature may have never been in question, this week’s sneak attack on net neutrality put to bed any doubt. After assuming his final form as Satan, Pai effectively killed the internet as we kn … | Continue reading
Comcast has, up to this point, has been one of the loudest ISPs singing the praises of the FCC’s planned net neutrality rollback. Now it seems to be quietly backing off on at least a few of its more ardent promises: namely, that it won’t offer internet “fast lanes” which cost mor … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg today announced Faceboook was rolling out enhanced AI to scan posts for signs of suicidal thoughts. The new system, which doesn’t rely on users to flag or report content, is set to rollout worldwide with the exception of countries in the EU, due to restrictions. T … | Continue reading
Shortly after announcing the the Pixel 2, Google surprised everyone by revealing the phone actually has a secret photography chip that had not yet been activated. Google just turned it on for the first time with the latest (and final) developer preview of Android 8.1 Called the P … | Continue reading
After a long wait time, Microsoft’s Office apps are now finally available on all Chromebooks — though it’ll be useless if you have a larger Chromebook. Chrome Unboxed checked the Play Store for multiple models of Chromebook, and confirmed the Android app versions of the software … | Continue reading
Google’s machine learning researchers have automated the automation again. The company last week showed off an algorithm tweak that gives robots foresight and caution, so they don’t require humans to reset them during learning sessions. A deep learning network typically gains pro … | Continue reading
You can now buy the Essential Phone and its tiny 360-degree camera for just $400 on Amazon. This isn’t a promoted post or anything – that’s just an incredible deal. Two months ago, that same combo would have cost you $900. When the phone first started shipping in August, it cost … | Continue reading
Wi-Fi is an everyday essential utility, but public Wi-Fi hotspots can be few-and-far between, or cost a metric bum-load of money to use. So, why don’t people share their Wi-Fi hotspots through an app? I mean, it already happens with cars and homes (Uber and Airbnb respectively), … | Continue reading
Look, we all know gadgets are cool. But once you give the cool new toy or the hottest tech gizmo, how long before it falls out of fashion and ends up stuffed in the back of the hall closet, unmourned and unloved? Too depressing. So give the gift of true knowledge instead. Right n … | Continue reading
You might have long forgotten about the time when Apple allowed third-party manufacturers to clone the Mac back in 1994, but former Cupertino employee Dave Garr certainly remembers it. Facing stiff competition from a bludgeoning Microsoft, the Big A – then headed by CEO Michael S … | Continue reading
We’re forever plugged in these days. Every entrepreneur or marketer in any industry is constantly searching for the latest and greatest strategy for boosting their online impact, because we’re all endlessly being told just how critical your web presence is to your business’s succ … | Continue reading
In 2017 we at TNW decided to completely revamp our contributor platform. We used to have a free-for-all platform which sometime led to the discovery of new voices and topics, but it also produced a lot of poorly written articles. That’s why we created a new contributors section o … | Continue reading
The awfulness of Black Friday has passed. Now, we’re into the awfulness of the (truly porny-sounding) Cyber Monday. To divert our collective attention spans from the myriad of sites trying to get our money, Mozilla is running its first-ever “Download-A-Thon” alongside Open Signal … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg insists that he has no plans to run for the presidency. The bookies, however, aren’t convinced. On Irish gambling site Paddy Power, he’s given pretty generous odds not only of him clinching the Democratic nomination (12:1, meaning if you bet $1, you’ll get $13 bac … | Continue reading
I’ve written before about my crippling screen addiction: it’s got to the point where reaching for my phone has become something of a reflex motion whenever I’m fidgety, anxious or even rudely awoken in the middle of the night. Vienna, Austria-based product designer Klemens Schill … | Continue reading
As a longtime Android user, I’m partial to Nova Launcher for its flexibility, allowing me to customize my home screen and app drawer just the way I like – minimal and clutter-free (see below). Today's #homescreen pic.twitter.com/o4HWxmadc3 — Abhimanyu Ghoshal (@aghoshal) November … | Continue reading
The value of the world’s premier cryptocurrency is steadily on the rise: after crossing $9,000 at 06:40 GMT on November 26, it’s already inched past $9,600 as of 05:07 GMT on November 27, the time of writing today. Bitcoin made the news earlier this month when it hit a record val … | Continue reading
BuzzFeed News reports that several users found YouTube’s site and app autocompleting search queries starting with ‘how to have’ with disturbing suggestions, including ‘s*x with your kids’, over the weekend. YouTube said in a statement that it’s removed that autocomplete result an … | Continue reading
Alright… so who will you forget this year? You’ve already handled the first round of holiday gift purchases, but there’s always everyone in your office. And your mailman. And that third cousin who’s coming for Christmas dinner. Stock up now on some great “good thing I thought ahe … | Continue reading
Hey. It’s been a long couple days of holiday shopping, right? You’ve probably spent plenty of time thinking about all your friends and family and what they might like to see under the tree this season. But what about you? Isn’t it time to maybe get yourself a little something for … | Continue reading
I think we’re missing the bigger picture when it comes to AI. Once again humanity tricked itself into thinking that this time, it’s the end. That the looming technological revolution will take over our jobs and wipe us off the face of the earth. It’s not surprising, though. Techn … | Continue reading
Adam Helps is an app that lets anyone living in the Toronto area hire others in their local communities to help them with odd jobs, much like TaskRabbit does (and to a lesser extent, classifieds services like Craigslist, Gumtree, and Kijiji). If you’ve burdened with some fiendish … | Continue reading
Virtual water-cooler Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that illustrates how many people are discussing individual, popular tweets through the service. The feature — which, again, is just an experiment — appears on embeds of popular, viral tweets found across the Interne … | Continue reading
I’ve got all the self-control of an untrained, ADHD-addled labradoodle puppy. Suffice to say, this time of year is always mildly financially ruinous for me, as I inevitably fill my apartment with all the discounted crap my credit card will permit. If you’re like me, you’ll want t … | Continue reading
Chrome aside, Slack has easily become the app I most frequently use; and while I generally have no squabbles with it, the team collaboration messenger continues to suffer from a rage-inducing bug that sporadically causes it to crash when using the drag-and-drop image upload featu … | Continue reading
If you get stuck using a Linux tool, the first port of call shouldn’t be to Stack Overflow, but rather its “man pages.” Man — which is short for manual — retrieves documentation for a given program. Unfortunately, this can often be dense, hard to understand, and lacking in practi … | Continue reading
Pet obsession is currently at an all-time high, with us humans spending over $100 billion on pet products and services in 2016. Fortunately, our CEO Boris discovered one of the most practical pet products on the market: fully customizable and extremely regal portraits of your pre … | Continue reading