A modern-tech marvel, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 is among best tablets on the market. The second generation of the wildly popular Galaxy Tab S lineup has received rave reviews, and this week we’re taking excitement to the next level by giving one away through TNW Deals. What m … | Continue reading
Parse – a cloud mobile solution owned by Facebook – recently announced the shutting down of their services as of January 2017. This means three things. Firstly, even the best services might not make it as a business. Parse (i.e. Facebook) has probably lost the war with Amazon and … | Continue reading
It’s safe to say I’ve spent a fair amount of time playing Minecraft. At this point — knowing that it’s one of the most popular game titles in all of Earth’s history — I don’t feel like I’m in the minority here. But at the Xbox Spring Showcase in San Francisco, I finally got the c … | Continue reading
It feels like we just got over Heartbleed and there’s another branded exploit out there. DROWN, a new vulnerability in OpenSSL that affects servers using SSLv2, was revealed today as an attack that could decrypt your secure HTTPS communications, such as passwords or credit card n … | Continue reading
Pick up any fitness magazine – or just Google ‘health hacks’ – and you’ll be inundated with millions of bits of research telling you how to live a better life. Drink more green tea, drink more coffee, drink more red wine. Ok, so drinking stuff isn’t the secret to a long life, but … | Continue reading
A small, but important detail buried in Apple’s developer documentation for its upcoming iOS 9.3 release details a new feature that lets employers lock apps to your homescreen so they can’t ever be moved. The feature means that an employer-issued iPhone could require Slack and yo … | Continue reading
The Anonymous online vigilante group says it has helped take out pedophiles, scientologists and even Russian government officials, so now it has created a ‘greatest hits’ campaign video to show off its efforts. The online group declared “total war” on the Islamic State last year … | Continue reading
When it comes to getting things done efficiently, apps like TaskRabbit and Elance have become go-tos for lots of individuals and businesses alike. And today, TaskRabbit has turned its focus to getting those tasks done super-fast, with its new real-time offerings. The updated Task … | Continue reading
The wonders of modern tech advancement still carry a few pitfalls – namely, frustrating physical-space limitations on our phones and tablets. Sure, the cloud helps, but there’s often no substitute for physical media. Now you can expand the capacity of your iOS gadgets and easily … | Continue reading
After he sold his Cupple messaging app for couples, Tim Allison was working in Switzerland as a consultant in an unfamiliar town, wondering why there wasn’t an easy way for him to meet interesting people in places where he didn’t have an existing network. Not long later, he’d bui … | Continue reading
Look in your bag. How many cables are in there? If you’re an iOS user you’ll have one, two or if you’re like me, three Lightning cables nestled away. Most of your other accessories (Bluetooth headphones, camera, hard drive) all need Micro-USB cables for them to work. So now you h … | Continue reading
Snapchat is a hugely popular, ephemeral photo-sharing service and ‘the kids’ love it. Seriously, they’re crazy for that stuff – stickers, filters and a whole range of stupid effects to make your boring face and boring life less boring. You might have guessed from my tone that my … | Continue reading
Google Apps for Work Unlimited customers can now benefit from better attachment scanning in Gmail that uses optical character recognition to check before sensitive document copies or images are sent out of your company via email. Google’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) launched late … | Continue reading
Remember everyone’s #2015BestNine collages on Instagram? Well, the company behind it has created a new version called 30DaysPics that will send you a video of your top Instagram posts at the end of each month. All you need to do to get started is fill in your Instagram username a … | Continue reading
If you want to make a good first impression, having a fully functioning ECG business card is a pretty good way to do it. It measures the real pulse of the holder by them simply holding two fingers on it for a few seconds. The ECG business card is obviously not supposed to be used … | Continue reading
A proposed change to the Unicode standard this week plans to introduce emoji customization, so that you’re able to change the hair color or gender of an emoji. UTS 52 is a change that would allow for major emoji customization for the first time — and it’s now going through the pr … | Continue reading
It seems the ‘artist friendly’ streaming option, Tidal, has run into a roadblock after failing to pay some $5 million in past-due royalties. After the relaunch of Tidal nearly a year ago, the service promised to take a more artist-centric focus by paying a fair share of revenue t … | Continue reading
In a separate battle with the FBI over encryption, this one in New York, Apple scored a major win today as US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein denied a government motion that would require Apple to unlock an iPhone that belonged to the suspect in a Brooklyn drug case. This case, … | Continue reading
According to new data from freelance placement firm Toptal, Swift is the most in-demand developer language. The study, which compares requests from prospective employers year over year, shows a 600 percent increase in requests for developers who know Swift. Second is HTML, which … | Continue reading
GoPro has always been deceptively easy to shoot with and deceptively difficult to edit. While the company has made its name on providing a simple, waterproof action camera, the interface to clean up those videos was woefully unintuitive. Perhaps that will change now, as it announ … | Continue reading
If you think 2016 Internet is pretty great with all its Vines, viral hashtags and memes, you haven’t seen Reddit3016. The parody site is an art project by Reddit user Blair Erickson (gonzoblair) who wanted to imagine the stuff that would end up on site’s front page 1,000 years fr … | Continue reading
Square Cash is now a much more able virtual wallet. Today, the app has been updated to allow users to keep a balance in their accounts. Rather than automatically depositing incoming funds to your bank account, Square Cash’s new “Cash Drawer” feature lets you store money in-app fo … | Continue reading
So far, Google’s autonomous car has logged a pretty impressive driving record. There have been some missteps and even a few accidents, but until recently it had never caused an accident while driving itself. That changed on February 14 when an autonomously-driven Google Lexus hit … | Continue reading
The Google Store is now selling VR headsets, with three models to choose from. You can pick up Cardboard from Google, the View-Master from Mattel or a travel-ready model from Goggle. All three sit under a new heading in the Google Store dedicated to VR, so it’s likely the segment … | Continue reading
On launch, the iPhone was a brilliant (but flawed) device, but it’s major selling point was a touch interface. Interestingly enough, it inherited its touchscreen from the Mac, which still doesn’t have one. At an event honoring his accomplishments, former Apple employee (and Nest … | Continue reading
Fairpixels is giving startups a helping hand, and open sourcing rejected logos for anyone to use. The company, which is a pay-what-you-can-afford design firm, says it has “unused logo design proposals piling up on our hard drives,” so it’s just giving them away, and will be freei … | Continue reading
The smartphone market is dominated with hundreds of new phone designs each year, but they all have one thing in common: their rectangular shape. Washington-based startup dToor, aims change that with The Cyrcle Phone, a rounded flip-phone that aims to set women back at least half … | Continue reading
Did you get your HTC Vive this morning? Pre-orders for the $799 headset began today, and eager VR enthusiasts will get their hands on the product April 5 — mere days after competitor Oculus Rift ships. The pre-order bundle is costly, but arguably it comes with more goodies to sin … | Continue reading
It’s easy to think of Twitter first when you see Moments than Facebook’s photo-sharing app – but while you’re busy figuring out why the Moments tab moved on Twitter.com, Facebook’s app has quietly hit 400M photos shared – 100M of which was from the past month alone. Facebook’s mi … | Continue reading
You know what Google does as a company, but do you know how they do all of it? Probably not, but there’s now a website where Google software engineers can tell their stories, and give us better insight on the inner workings in Mountain View. Called bar.foo, the name itself sugges … | Continue reading
Mate1.com just proved that after the Ashley Madison hack, we’ve learned nothing. A hacker on ‘Hell,’ a dark web hacking forum, claims to have gained access to over 27 million plaintext passwords from Mate1.com, which he says he later sold. The asking price was 20 bitcoin ($8,700) … | Continue reading
The humble Happy Meal box will see perhaps its largest ever innovation go live this week – it can now be folded in seconds into a pair of VR ‘Happy Goggles.’ Don’t all rush at once, though, because they’re only available in a pretty limited pilot across seven McDonald’s stores in … | Continue reading
Apple is giving developers a bit more control of Swift, and you don’t even need to work in Cupertino. Writing that its new Continuous Integration is now “established and proven,” Apple intends to give some of its more ardent contributors commit access on GitHub. If you’d like to … | Continue reading
Facebook has received a pretty manageable €100,000 admin fine in Germany for failing to properly inform users about its ownership of their images and videos – but the country’s consumer watchdog had some pretty harsh words for the company. “Facebook tried very persistently to cir … | Continue reading
For most of us, a password manager is a perfectly acceptable way of keeping all your access codes in one-safe place. But for the people behind Vaulteq, this just isn’t secure enough. That’s why they’ve come up with the world’s first plug n’ play password manager. In other words, … | Continue reading
After launching on Android in October last year, a pitstop feature has finally dropped on Google Maps for iOS today. When you’re in navigation mode, you can now tap the magnifying glass in the top right corner to access a drop-down menu of suggested pitstops, like a gas station, … | Continue reading
Even though Twitter has more than 300 million active users, it still hasn’t managed to get into the black. In a shareholder document for the year ending 2015, the company said it has lost more than $2.09 billion since it was founded due to “significant operating losses.” Despite … | Continue reading
The Parallels Desktop 11 & SSD2go 128GB USB Drive Bundle is a Mac user’s best friend in the making, delivering upwards of 128GB of data in an ultra-portable USB 3.0 SSD drive, as well as the world’s premier choice for running Windows or Linux on a Mac. Both offer significant effi … | Continue reading
You’ve always wanted to connect everything in your house to the internet, right? Well, it’s your lucky day! Meet the internet-connected Brita water jug. It’s one of the first devices to integrate with Amazon Dash, so it can order its own replacement filters whenever it’s time for … | Continue reading
It’s official: Microsoft’s HoloLens costs $3,000 for developers and will ship in just 30 days on March 30. The device ships with a number of apps and games bundled, for free, so developers are able to get an idea of what the device is capable. The first, called Fragments, is a “m … | Continue reading
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The HoloLens is here… sort of. If you’re a developer, Microsoft is taking pre-orders for HoloLens development edition from today, in anticipation of a March 30 launch. It’ll set you back $3,000 to get a development edition of HoloLens, which is intended for those interested in bu … | Continue reading
The United States and the European Union have finally aired the details of their new post-Safe Harbor spying arrangements – which are designed to alleviate fears about the extent of America’s power over European data. Although not officially part of the deal, perhaps the most sig … | Continue reading
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are sent on Twitter, which translates to over 500 million tweets per day! Did you know you could search every single one of them? (Plus the multi-million profiles attached to them!) Twitter has an amazing, yet somewhat little-known Ad … | Continue reading
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost, our early-stage growth program at The Next Web Conference. With the eleventh edition of our flagship Amsterdam conference coming up in M … | Continue reading
Hive, a smart thermostat system built by British Gas, showed us how bad the Internet of Things can get over the weekend when some customer thermostats were pinned at 32 degrees celsius. The company issued a statement to The Memo today saying that “We are aware of a temporary glit … | Continue reading
When Ami Ben David wanted to find out what users liked and disliked about his ‘WhatsApp for businesses‘ app Xros, he used a smart trick – he pretended to be a bot. In a world where many people are used to engaging with Slack’s automated ‘Slackbot,’ he created ‘Xrosbot’ – a ‘perso … | Continue reading
If you’re the sort of person who’s interested in finding out more about other people with your surname – so that’s pretty much everyone – then the ‘Named‘ project by PublicProfiler will be right up your street. In a nutshell, just type in your surname, hit search and it’ll show y … | Continue reading