If you’ve been holding out to get Apple’s HomePod as a holiday present, we’ve got some bad news for you: the company has delayed the speaker until next year. The speaker was originally due in December. In a statement to CNBC, Apple said: “We can’t wait for people to experience Ho … | Continue reading
While it is fairly clear why many retail and consumer-oriented companies need to worry about utilizing social media, even atypical consumer-oriented companies, such as insurance firms, need to maintain a social media presence. Recently, a wave of “insurtech,” or insurance technol … | Continue reading
With a subject that big, you need a vast library of resources to dive into what it all means — so right now, you can pick up that whole library in one fell swoop with a package we call The Big Data Encyclopedia Bundle. Best of all, part or all of this bundle can be yours for lite … | Continue reading
When someone pitched me the Fabriq Chorus last month, I couldn’t help but think it was the worst-possible time to release an Alexa-enabled smart speaker. Amazon had just released a swathe of compelling and intriguing new Echo devices, all benefiting from the name-recognition of i … | Continue reading
Huawei has been busted secretly installing bloatware on users’ phones without ever notifying them or asking for their consent. A number of Huawei customers have reported their phones have suddenly been equipped with GoPro’s Quik video editing app, Dutch outlet Android Planet repo … | Continue reading
Right now, you can get a lifetime subscription to eLearnExcel Microsoft Excel school. And because we’re blowing out our Holiday Doorbusters Week in grand style, we’re slashing our usual sale price from $69 all the way down to a borderline ridiculous $25. | Continue reading
Following months of cagey quarrels within the Bitcoin community over a controversial software update known as Segwit2X, the scheduled update was abruptly suspended last week, after a number of leading cryptocurrency entrepreneurs decided to withdraw their support for the initiati … | Continue reading
Our online identities are hidden behind the walled gardens of centralized services. Blockchain provides an alternative that will help us regain control and ownership of our digital lives. | Continue reading
It looks like, in the last few months, Bitcoin has made friends with forking. When I wrote about Bitcoin forking the last time, I didn’t expect there would be this many so soon. But hey, here we are, trying to make sense of what the hell is happening in the crypto world. With thi … | Continue reading
You might be more familiar with Chrome, Firefox, and Opera than UC Browser, but the Chinese Android app has clocked more than half a billion downloads on Google Play. Sadly, you might now learn the name only because it’s been removed from the Play store. When contacted about boot … | Continue reading
We all know something is awfully wrong with the new Dropbox design, a design Dropbox says it’s the biggest change to the Dropbox brand in their 10-year history (might not necessarily be the best). In this post, I attempt to simplify where Dropbox went wrong and why all the noise … | Continue reading
Back in 1985, Back to the Future and The Goonies arrived in cinemas. This was also the year that Microsoft released the first version of Excel. However, we are now living in a mobile-first digital world, and this era of hyper-change is showing no signs of slowing down. Over thirt … | Continue reading
Facebook has rolled out Creator, a new app for video broadcasters on its platform, to enhance their content with custom graphics, and tools to interact with their audience better. The mobile app (available now for iOS, with an Android version in the works), will let you add intro … | Continue reading
The FTC has issued an Endorsement Guide, making sure social media influencers clearly disclose brand relationships for promotional use. | Continue reading
Just when the audience at Tesla’s Semi launch though the event was over, the company rolled out quite the surprise: a sleek red Roadster. The convertible 2+2 seater manages a top speed greater than 400kmph, runs for nearly 1,000km on a single charge (that’s enough to drive from L … | Continue reading
At an event in Los Angeles today, Tesla unveiled its new Semi electric truck, which is capable of traveling 500 miles on a single charge with a loaded trailer. Powered by four independent motors, the vehicle can go from 0-60 mph in just five seconds; it’ll take 20 seconds while p … | Continue reading
If you’re working with dependencies on your GitHub-hosted projects, you’ll be happy to know that the repo platform will now alert you about vulnerabilities in things like React, so you’re aware of security flaws that might harm your site or app. The company says its new feature w … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced in a blog post it would be phasing out third-party app invites — a feature that was often reserved for games such as Farmville or Bejeweled. Unless you’re a sucker for pain (or, mercy forbid, someone who actually uses them), you’ve probably long-since blo … | Continue reading
Home to nearly 2 billion gamers and a growing USD $94.4 billion in revenue from ‘direct-from-publisher’ digital goods, the gaming industry is truly booming. And it is only expected to grow, as experts project a number north of USD $128 billion in annual volume by 2020. Despite it … | Continue reading
It’s becoming increasingly evident the Trump administration doesn’t understand technology, or perhaps fears and hates it. The seemingly imminent abrogation of net neutrality, and its quest to build AI for its “Extreme Vetting Initiative,” appear to lend credibility to any theorie … | Continue reading
Facebook’s latest attempt at fighting fake news is through ‘Trust Indicators’ and joining a collaborative effort with the Trust Project. In a recent announcement the company introduced Trust Indicators: these appear at the top of articles published on Facebook and allow users to … | Continue reading
In marketing circles it is well understood that the foreseeable future of customer engagement is content. The public is wary of advertising, particularly younger generations. In your face advertising has lost its appeal—evident in the declining effectiveness of banner ads and TV … | Continue reading
When the OnePlus 5 arrived earlier this year, it was the closest the company had ever come to its original ‘flagship killer’ mantra. But for many potential buyers, there was one thing holding it back in after a year full of excellent smartphones: Bezels. Cue the OnePlus 5T. After … | Continue reading
You’ve no doubt heard of cryptocurrencies by now – that weird, digital currency that went from being only used for buying drugs and paying off hitmen to now being common talk at restaurants and bars all over the world, with legitimate business groups investing millions into the d … | Continue reading
European gaming authorities have started investigating gaming loot boxes to see if they are a potential danger to young people. The Dutch De Kansspelautoriteit, or Gaming Authority, issued a warning earlier this month about games with loot boxes, saying it is investigating the re … | Continue reading
Following some summer talk that Google might be gearing up to launch a new Chromebook line, the company eventually released the revamped Pixelbook earlier in October. But, somewhat ironically, it seems that the internet giant is struggling to promote its new Chromebook line… on Y … | Continue reading
If you’ve been living in London longer than a month (about enough time to pay your deposit, pay your first month’s rent, and wonder where you’re going to find the money to cover the second month)—you know just how expensive the city can be. Not that it’s not worth it: after all, … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Japanese IT major Fujitsu announced its new ConnectionChain payments technology aimed at facilitating transactions between blockchains. The payments system intends to provide a means for different cryptocurrency networks to interoperate with each other. In a statement, … | Continue reading
For the last decade, most of the marketing world has focused on raw traffic acquisition through channels like SEO, content marketing, and digital advertising via Google AdWords and Facebook. But as clicks shift from organic to paid in some verticals, marketers are realizing that … | Continue reading
If questions about stuff like SEO and confusing site code make your eyes glaze over in half-comprehending fear, services like SiteGuru (lifetime subscriptions available now for only $39.99 from TNW Deals) are a simple step for handling those quirks before they become big problems … | Continue reading
There’s no laptop quite like the Surface Book. Though it was far from the first laptop that could turn into a tablet and had its fair share of flaws, its combination of light weight, detachable screen, dedicated graphics, and good battery life was pretty much unheard. More than a … | Continue reading
WhatsApp rolled out push-to-talk voice messages back in 2013, but the Facebook subsidiary has done little to improve the feature since then – until now. The popular messenger is experimenting with a feature to record voice messages without having to hold that irritating button, W … | Continue reading
Where did the dragons go? I remember when the Internet was a sword used to bring the most heinous people to justice. Those who quite rightly deserved their comeuppance. Y’know. Dragons. The Martin Shkreli’s of the world. People for whom there was no doubt that they were indeed ba … | Continue reading
Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai is prepping to schedule a vote in December to nullify net neutrality principles in the US, which are currently in place to prevent internet service providers from blocking or delivering traffic from various sources at different spe … | Continue reading
User generated content (UGC) has been a growing trend for business marketing and social media campaigns alike, and the ROI has been astounding. While UGC certainly has its fair share of limitations, it’s popularity certainly shows no signs of slowing down. Valuable first-party co … | Continue reading
Since it launched three years ago, GitHub’s Atom text editor has been a formidable open-source option for coders, alongside cross-platform favorites like Sublime Text. But if it’s not already your weapon of choice, you might want to give it a go now that it supports real-time col … | Continue reading
After announcing that it would begin removing blue verification badges from accounts that violated its guidelines earlier today, Twitter kicked things off by stripping several white supremacists’ profiles of their ‘verified’ status. Among those in the dragnet are Richard B. Spenc … | Continue reading
Duolingo is today rolling out its Mandarin Chinese language course which, in addition to the usual “What’s your name?” questions, teaches questions about business and Chinese social media. The course teaches the basics of the language, including the four main tones and 1,000 comm … | Continue reading
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was recently asked about an alleged killer who preyed on vulnerable people using Twitter, and how the company is working to prevent such tragedies in the future. Last month, a man was arrested in Japan on suspicion of murdering nine people. Based on Twitte … | Continue reading
Remente recently released several new features for its personal development app. Until now it’s only been available on iOS and Android, but it’s also launched a web beta for premium users. One of the best digital life coaches available continues to get better. Among the new featu … | Continue reading
I’ve got to hand it to Motorola. When everyone else has all but abandoned modular smartphones, the company just keeps on churning out new Moto Mods. Today, the company introduced what might be the best one yet: A Polaroid printer that snaps onto the back of your phone. It seems t … | Continue reading
Google’s recent preview release of its open-source TensorFlow Lite software for machine learning developers signifies an exciting shift in the field of AI. The company’s dedication to developing AI capable of running algorithms on a mobile device — without connecting to the cloud … | Continue reading
Google today announced it’s bringing a new look to Maps. The new experience has brighter colors, clearer icons and an overall improved user experience. Over the next few weeks users will be introduced to new color keys and icons depending on the category, such as orange for food … | Continue reading
The newest Bose headphones hope to “put an end to sleepless nights” by cancelling out barks, snores and other irritating noises while you sleep — and it’s the smallest product they’ve ever made. The noise-masking Sleepbuds, as they are called, are small wireless earbuds that you … | Continue reading
Even though smartphones have gotten good enough to compete with DSLR or mirrorless cameras in certain everyday scenarios, they still have one big disadvantage: fixed focal lengths. Despite smartphones now occasionally sporting two lenses, they don’t quite have the flexibility of … | Continue reading
Skype today lost its appeal with a Belgian court which fined the company for not handing over user messages — which Skype says would have been effectively impossible. According to Belgian newspaper Het Belang Van Limburg (and thanks to a translation by The Register), Belgian auth … | Continue reading
The New Inquiry, a non-profit, recently unveiled its blockchain mining system designed to give freedom to people awaiting trial who can’t afford to post bail. Slacktivists unite: anyone can donate their unused processing power to the cause. Bail Bloc is software that lets you uti … | Continue reading
Less than two weeks after Bitcoin broke the $7,500 barrier to hit an all-time high of $7,700, the popular cryptocurrency has yet again surged past the $7,000 mark. Despite a bumpy week which saw Bitcoin price drop to below $6,000 at one point, the cryptocurrency fluctuated around … | Continue reading