PayPal’s founding team are called the ‘Mafia’ for a reason. Not because they’re criminals, but because they’ve had a rather sinister grasp on the startup ecosystem since they sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. The below infographic now makes that clear for all to see. Names l … | Continue reading
Oros, a new apparel label, has found a way of incorporating the material found in NASA’s spacesuits to keep astronauts warm and added it to clothing you can wear on earth. The company is about to finish raising funds via a Kickstarter campaign. At the time of writing, Oros had su … | Continue reading
If when you woke up this morning the first thing to pop into your head was The Boomtown Rats hit ‘I don’t like Mondays‘ (or maybe Deathcab for Cutie’s ‘Monday Morning’ is more your speed) then I can only empathize with your distress, offer my apologies that the weekend has indeed … | Continue reading
Snapchat suffered a data breach over the weekend after one of its staff fell for a phishing email asking for payroll information and purporting to be from the company’s CEO Evan Spiegel. The company has assured the world that its servers were not breached – so no user data has be … | Continue reading
Netflix said it was going to declare war on users that took advantage of VPN services and DNS hacks to gain access to the US library, and it wasn’t kidding: a number of common methods for obscuring your location have been blocked entirely in the last week. Users poured into a thr … | Continue reading
Raspberry Pi was born on 29 February 2012, the last leap year, and now on the second leap year in the company’s history it’s releasing a major hardware update. The Raspberry Pi 3 features a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core, 1GB of RAM, integrated 802.11n wireless and Bluetooth 4.1, as wel … | Continue reading
Copy and pasting one link at a time is so 2001. If you’re like me, you copy and paste at least a few dozen links a day and could use something to better organize them. There are dozens of ways to do this, but none that I’ve found so far that are as visual or well-organized as Pas … | Continue reading
If using HTML to navigate a Mario-inspired world sounds like the perfect platformer for you, ‘Super Markup World‘ is not to be missed. The game lacks a real storyline or characters, but it does have a helpful blinking blue dot that guides you through HTML challenges that progress … | Continue reading
In November of 2015, Gawker’s Ashley Feinberg created a Twitter bot that posted quotes from the writings and speeches of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who created the facist party. The bot’s tweets were Mussolini quotes attributed to Donald Trump, the thinking being: thi … | Continue reading
With another work week coming to a close, the weekend is a good time to catch up with the fast-paced tech scene. At Index we gather tech coverage into one platform for tech enthusiasts to keep up with the news and access that data. In this series, we fill you in every week on wha … | Continue reading
If you’re looking for new momentum in your project management aspirations, we have great news: you’re just two courses away from being fully prepared to earn your CompTIA Project+ & PMP Certifications. Level-up in your professional world for just $35.99 from TNW Deals. Get all th … | Continue reading
Find a villa for your next vacation, watch Deadpool from your couch, and share your software projects with others. These are just a few examples of what Web applications built on Ruby on Rails can do for you. Ruby on Rails – or Rails – is written in Ruby, a pure object-oriented p … | Continue reading
“Eavesdropping is rude,” they say. “It’s not eavesdropping – it’s research and it’s awesome!” I yell back, because I yell when I get excited. Okay, so listening to your coworker’s private conversation with a family member? That’s bad. Don’t do that. But that’s not the kind of eav … | Continue reading
This week, the US patent office issued 6,746 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we can’t list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the six most interesting patents. A better way to pair your devices Patent Number – US 20 … | Continue reading
If you’re an Apple fan, you’ve probably heard the rumors that Apple will be unveiling a slew of devices on March 15, including new iPad. Turn out you might actually have to wait a while longer, after an unexplained delay. BuzzFeed claims the even will be now be held on March 21, … | Continue reading
If you’re a WhatsApp user with an older device, I have some bad news for you: your OS may no longer be supported by next year. To summarize, WhatsApp will only be available on Android 2.3+, iOS and Windows phone 8.1+ “by the end of 2016.” In total, it’s ending support for: All B … | Continue reading
Since the turn of the century, Apple’s remarkable advancements have commanded our cultural attention and made tech accessible to all walks of life. Moving beyond desktop computers, it all started with the iPod revolution, bringing portable music access into the digital age. Then … | Continue reading
So, you want to get started in UX. Excellent. Welcome, we need all the talent we can get. But before you learn the ins and outs of the UX design process, how does a complete beginner get started? After all, UX is all things to all people and you’ll have to become an expert in … | Continue reading
TNW Deals is the marketplace for digital tastemakers. Get distinctive apps, gadgets, and digital resources at up to 90% offPython development is on the rise thanks to its open source nature and ability to power some of the most well-known sites and applications such as Google and … | Continue reading
Blog growth is frustratingly slow for many people. Here’s a look back one year after coming on to the blog at Yotpo, about what worked, what didn’t – and what we learned in the process. You’ve heard it once and you’ll hear it again: blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. And for m … | Continue reading
New developers who were interested in linking up with the Venmo API got quite a shocking eyeful today when they tried to access the sign-up page: it wasn’t there. But contrary to reports, Venmo hadn’t pulled the plug its six-year-old API beta entirely — the company has paused the … | Continue reading
With Apple set to argue its case against the FBI on March 22, Apple attorney Ted Olsen warned that the case is about more than meeting government demands to help break into an iPhone, it’s about fending off government agencies that seek ‘limitless’ powers to ‘listen to [our] conv … | Continue reading
In May of last year, we reported a story that hackers had stolen sensitive tax information from over 100,000 taxpayers. By August, the IRS had revised its estimate to report the number affected may have been as high as 330,000. Today, in its latest revision, the IRS claims that t … | Continue reading
Ready to feel like you’re in the future? If a new patent from Sony comes to fruition, you might be able to strap on your VR goggles and manipulate virtual space while looking like you’re living in The Grid from ‘Tron.’ The patent, spotted by Ars Technica, is for a ‘Glove Interfac … | Continue reading
When Snapchat first debuted Lenses in September, funny as they were, one couldn’t help but be feel at least a little creeped out by the new swarm of rainbow-puking selfies. The OG of creepy Snapchat Lenses That’s creepy enough on its own, but at least the novelty wore off a bit a … | Continue reading
“There’s more to love with every click” takes on entirely new meaning if you forego the spacing between the “c” and “l.” The subtle change between the before and after might look unnoticeable to some, but look closer and both taglines tell an entirely different story. @bathtype b … | Continue reading
Is nobody else tired of the ‘x people compete for prize in x industry’ format? Models, drag queens, ‘entrepreneurs,’ bachelors, entertainers, c-list celebrities, z-list celebrities… It appears it might just be me, as the content team over at Amazon has just aired the company’s fi … | Continue reading
Game developer High Voltage just debuted its new offering for the Oculus Rift, a turn-based collectable card game called ‘Dragon Front’ that looks a little like ‘Final Fantasy’ and a lot like ‘Magic: The Gathering’ with a little bit of a ‘Risk’ mixed in for good measure. Dragon F … | Continue reading
If you run a business, you probably know that social media is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for growth. Use it well and you’ll see more customers and sales. The more connected on social media your business is, the more your brand could be worth. Beyond platforms, there’s … | Continue reading
Since the exit of CEO Parker Conrad and reports of rowdy behavior at work, Zenefits has looked like a company in desperate need of a clean house. It appears they are doing that today, as a report from TechCrunch indicates that new CEO David Sacks will lay off around 250 employees … | Continue reading
While personalized recommendations for books, music, movies, restaurants, nights out and pretty much anything else you could want are now defacto for any self-respecting content platform, it’s only just today that Kickstarter will start pointing you in the right direction of proj … | Continue reading
Today, cult favorite email app Mailbox says it’s final goodbyes before heading to that giant glue factory in the cloud. It’s a move that many are in agony over and one that was pretty costly for Dropbox, but if I’m being honest, I’m over it. I was a Mailbox user. I had dutifully … | Continue reading
We all get the urge to snooze sometimes. It’s been a big feature for Inbox for Gmail – offering the ability to push emails away until you’re ready to tackle them. Detailed in a blog post today, the Snooze feature will be getting a new look and new features over the next week. The … | Continue reading
Pusher, the real-time messaging service for apps, has retooled its interface. The aim is to allow developers to focus on their apps rather than the back-end, so Pusher’s new interface allows for information to be digested at a glance. The dashboard offers up basic info on how use … | Continue reading
It’s not always easy as a tech company to make yourself relevant to every single big public event. But Google has had a pretty nice go at shoehorning itself into the Oscars this year by letting you travel through a winning movie’s story using Maps. Can you guess which films they’ … | Continue reading
A few months ago, Google demonstrated a visualization tool that shows how its AI that mimics neural networks identifies objects in images. Applying it to photos and videos makes for some interesting effects that we’ve previously seen in video clips and our own snapshots. Now, you … | Continue reading
When it comes to new emoji, Samsung users are typically one of the last to receive updates including the latest batch approved by the Unicode Consortium. Finally, that’ll change. Today, the company has shown off some of the new emoji iOS and Android users have been enjoying for m … | Continue reading
The time has never been better to enter IT: with demand for high-level security professionals rising as the evolution of malicious hackers intensifies. If IT and digital security interest you, TNW Deals has put together an offer to greatly improve your employability in a promisin … | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
Don’t worry, this probably isn’t coming to a store near you anytime soon, but the Macbook Selfie Stick project from Art404 – art not found – gets pretty close to the bone as a comment on modern life. Why indeed. Art404 is an aptly self-styled ‘artup’ of devs and designers based i … | Continue reading
Creating a home page is momentous for any business. You spend weeks carefully crafting every line of copy, every image, every color, every icon. Agencies are hired, opinions are gathered, and budgets are obliterated. This is your brand we’re talking about, right? Everything is on … | Continue reading
This week in Barcelona, mobile giants Samsung, LG, Sony and Xiaomi showed off their flagship smartphones for 2016 at Mobile World Congress. Each brand has worked hard to deliver something special, but which one is worth your time? We spent some time checking out the Samsung Galax … | Continue reading
The first known use of the word “computer” was in 1613 in a book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by English writer Richard Braithwaite. In it he said, “I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short n … | Continue reading
Garbage collection is one of those jobs that you’d quickly notice if someone wasn’t doing it – but it’s also not one that many people would volunteer for. But in the same way that drivers, secretaries and travel agents are quickly looking like they’re headed onto the occupational … | Continue reading
Google just introduced a few nifty tools that allow developers to monitor how people use and respond to their apps. Fergus Hurley, product manager for Google Play, announced in a blog post that the latest iteration of the Developer Console will help developers “better analyze and … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg is appearing in Berlin in what he said is his first Q&A livestreamed on Facebook where he has announced that Live Video is coming to Android starting today. “You’ll all have the power to brodcast like a TV in all of your pockets hopefully within the next month,” h … | Continue reading
After more than two and a half years in development, Google’s Project Loon is properly getting off the ground (lol) and now the company is showing off exactly how the likely final design will get into the air. “As Project Loon looks to build a ring of connectivity around the worl … | Continue reading
Regardless of industry, product, or service, running a startup is a complex endeavor. Though startup failure rates vary by industry, the general consensus is that about nine out of every 10 will fail – and poor management the primary reason. To succeed, organization is a must and … | Continue reading