WebRTC, a relatively new web standard that allows you to make audio and video calls from your browser without plugins, is becoming increasingly popular. But as more companies and products adopt it, the need for getting better insights into how these calls perform (or when they dr … | Continue reading
With the sale of marijuana either for recreational or medicinal purposes becoming legal in more and more states, new and existing retailers are struggling to find ways to keep track of inventory while remaining compliant with various state and federal laws.Former Outright co-foun … | Continue reading
Marketers are beginning to prepare email campaigns for the all-important holiday shopping season. “While it may be difficult to turn our attention away from summer vacations, now is the perfect time to start planning for the holiday season,” states the Q2 2016 Email Benchmark Rep … | Continue reading
Amazon is expanding the universal search feature of its Fire TV and Fire Stick streaming devices with a software update that’s being released today. The update adds big names like Netflix and HBO Go, bringing the number of search compatible apps or channels to 75. Amazon says tha … | Continue reading
GUEST: We at Dashbot.io recently surpassed 32 million messages processed! Given three months worth of data processed, we wanted to highlight some interesting findings. (The stats below are based on Facebook Messenger bots only.) 1. Sessions The average messages per session and ti … | Continue reading
This is the ultimate guide to how Facebook chooses what to show in your News Feed, and how you can get your content seen by more people.Understanding how the News Feed works is tough because the algorithm is always changing. So TechCrunch launched this research project for today’ … | Continue reading
Sony is having a PlayStation event tomorrow in New York, where it plans to provide an update on its PlayStation business and PS4. Most people agree that means it’s going to show us a couple of PlayStation hardware updates, including a previously announced more powerful PlayStatio … | Continue reading
The iPhone 7 is about to drop, which means Apple will finally put the many rumors surrounding the phone to rest.Apple's launch event — which will be held on Sept. 7 in San Francisco — will introduce the much anticipated new iPhone, along with potential other updated Apple product … | Continue reading
The Huawei Honor 8 is now available for purchase in the US, but you may want to wait for more color choices. You'll mainly only see the white right now. | Continue reading
Des Moine, Washington has assembled a city-commissioned committee that is attempting to get Pokemon Go banned from the region. | Continue reading
BrainDead is a show on CBS made by Robert and Michelle King — who originally produced The Good Wife — staring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Tony Shalhoub, and Aaron Tveit. It's about government gridlock and also an invasion of space bugs that are controlling people’s brains. The space … | Continue reading
Making a profession in taxation will be one in all your career dreams however you will need to decide what stream and course to decide on. The US Occupational Outlook Handbook predicts that the necessity for accounting professionals will improve almost sixteen over the next ten … | Continue reading
Sumo wrestling features two gigantic humans sweating, grunting and trying to push each other out of a small-ish circle. The traditional Japanese sport is amazing to watch, but it’s a hard sell when trying to describe. Add the traditional attire, the ‘mawashi,’ which is essentiall … | Continue reading
These content marketing examples from Disney, John Deere and LEGO demonstrate the power of brand storytelling to connect with consumers and encourage sales. | Continue reading
Ridiculous gaming computers are nothing new. After all, half the fun of building a small supercomputer that can simulate entire universes is decking it out in glowing lights and swooping chrome accents. The R1 Razer Edition is a recently announced desktop team-up between Razer an … | Continue reading
Sony has some secrets it’s getting ready to tell the world about … OK. I’m sorry. I can’t write that with a straight face. “Sony” and “secrets” look funny in the same sentence. Regardless, the publisher is finally going to detail its new PlayStation 4 consoles tomorrow. You shoul … | Continue reading
Like any nerd worth a damn, I like to plan for the zombie apocalypse. I know whose house I’ll go to (he has guns and edged weapons). I know what vehicles I’ll take (bicycles, duh). I know my weapon of choice (a shovel – perfect for the spearing brain smash). But I have a new… Rea … | Continue reading
Google is launching a new advertising program called Shop the Look that will let you search for specific outfits and receive photos and purchase links right from the results page. The company is starting out by partnering with sites like Polyvore and LiketoKnow.it, which are Pint … | Continue reading
App development agency Rocketship today announced Callblock, an app for iOS 10 that will let you block calls from telemarketers. The launch comes a day before Apple holds an event in San Francisco where it’s expected to unveil new iPhones and announce plans tor roll out iOS 10 to … | Continue reading
Fyusion has unveiled its platform for creating augmented reality content using mobile devices. Augmented reality is expected to be a $90 billion market by 2020, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. And San Francisco-based Fyusion is using computer vision and machine-learning t … | Continue reading
The European on-demand delivery fall out continues. This time it’s the turn of France’s Tok Tok Tok, a Postmates-styled same-hour delivery company, which sent an email to customers earlier today announcing that it was shutting down and that the startup’s tech platform has been ac … | Continue reading
Joseph Fu is part of a team at Cisco building Spark, an enterprise messenger app that seeks to overtake the likes of Yammer, Skype, Hipchat, and eventually, to dethrone Slack from its early leadership position. In less than two years, Slack has gone from a little-known gaming ch … | Continue reading
Last January, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced it had filed permits with Kings County in California to build "the world's first passenger-ready Hyperloop system." But the company never completed its planning application, according to a recent feature story in … | Continue reading
In recent months, Apple has quietly touted the powers of Siri as the perfect digital assistant to help you navigate iOS. However, a tweet on Tuesday, from an official Star Trek-related account, indicates that Siri might soon also get a dose of well-known science fiction. Specific … | Continue reading
Amazon announced an update to Fire TV and its smaller companion, the Fire TV Stick, which will bring expanded Alexa-powered voice search to both devices, as well as a way to receive personalized recommendations from top streaming sites, like Netflix and HBO. The company notes tha … | Continue reading
You’re reading this instead of working, aren’t you? You’re undermining the economy, get back to work. At least, that’s what Princeton professor Alan Blinder suspects. While trying to work out why productivity in the U.S. economy has stagnated since the great recession, despite an … | Continue reading
Xiaomi will make its Mi Box available to US consumers before the end of the year — and possibly as soon as October — according to a report from TechCrunch. Back in May at Google I/O, Xiaomi showed off the latest version of its Mi Box, a 4K set-top box that runs on Android TV. The … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Trainline acquired Captain Train for quite a bit of money. Now, Trainline is trying to unify its train ticket booking system. First, Captain Train is now called Trainline, just like its parent company.The logo, the app and the website are now all called Trainli … | Continue reading
In what can only be thought of as thoughtful timing, Sony is expected to announce two new PlayStation 4’s tomorrow, after the Apple event. Sony’s event starts at 3pm EST and is expected to feature the announcement of both the PS4 ‘Neo’ and ‘Slim.’ The Slim shouldn’t offer much as … | Continue reading
The battle over noncompetes is a modern-day rendition of an age-old trope: the big corporation versus the little employee; Goliath versus David. The only difference? In the fable, Goliath was brutish and slow, and everyone knew he was the bad guy. Today, Goliath is smart and back … | Continue reading
On this episode of Copyblogger FM, Sonia addresses three challenges that pop up often for creative professionals and content marketers. | Continue reading
In this chapter, we will discuss white hat SEO vs. Black Hat SEO as well as discuss some gray hat techniques that will benefit your rankings. | Continue reading
Amazon is rolling out new features to its streaming boxes — the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick — via an “over-the-air software update,” the company announced today, introducing expanded voice search across a number of Fire TV apps, new Alexa features, and recommended shows and movies … | Continue reading
We have an all-star team of designers at TNW, working hard to make sure our website always looks exceptionally fresh. One of our recent additions to the team is Ashley Evans, and even without knowing it you have definitely come across his work already. He has single-handedly prod … | Continue reading
Instagram photo maps, which displayed the pictures you had taken according to where you had taken them, are going away. The company confirmed to Mashable today that it has begun removing the maps from the service. "Photo Map was not widely used, so we've decided to remove the fea … | Continue reading
So the markets have now drawn to a close out of Europe, and it’s time to take our second look of the day at the bitcoin price. In this morning’s analysis, we focused on action over the last few days, and noted that the bullish run in price may be sustainable, and that we should … … | Continue reading
1Password Teams is getting new Pro features that let you better manage users, and is extending its discount program to encourage more of us to use it. Administrators could always create groups, but 1Password is taking it beyond the static ‘Administrators, Owners or Team Members’ … | Continue reading
Giant pandas are no longer an endangered species; they’re now considered "vulnerable" to extinction. The new designation was announced over the weekend by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an environmental organization that keeps track of the conservation … | Continue reading
For those about to simulate rock, we salute you. Rock band AC/DC has one of the most rock ‘n’ roll pinball tables ever, and Stern — the designer of the machine — is bringing the group’s game into virtual reality. The AC/DC table will join a number of other classics in The Stern P … | Continue reading
The biggest name in Latin America's securities exchange trade is gearing up to explore blockchain. | Continue reading
A brand guide outlines the visual language your content team needs to speak. Learn more about why that’s important. | Continue reading
Lenovo officially announced its Yoga Book last week at IFA, and while yes, we’re all thirsting for a chance to play with it, we still have a big question: why doesn’t it run Chrome OS? The device, which is part tablet, part 2-in-1, will ship running either Android Marshmallow or … | Continue reading
Eight-year-old Ruby Kavanagh is a world-class junior golfer, and according to her newly updated Instagram profile, a self-proclaimed drone-killer. The young golfer was practicing her drive swing when she hit the ball directly at a $1,299 Yuneec Typhoon H hexacopter drone.At first … | Continue reading
Last week, Instagram finally introduced compatibility for one of its most-requested features — the option to zoom in on photographs and videos — on both Android and iOS, and now it’s rolling out another update that brings what I believe to be an even more useful feature. Upon ins … | Continue reading
DJI’s next drone looks like it will probably be the foldable DJI Mavic, according to new image leaks that build on a previous trademark application DJI filed for the product name. The leaked photos diverge from DJI’s existing photographic drones by employing a folding farm design … | Continue reading
If there is one threat to Google Search, it’s that the majority of content created today lives inside social apps like Instagram and Snapchat and can’t easily be indexed to show in search results. And, even when Google does manage to pull in a piece of content from a social netwo … | Continue reading
Job searches are often done under the radar and out of the view of your current boss. A new startup wants to make your career search a bit more public, often at the detriment of current employment. The startup, Joberate, scrapes publicly available information from millions of soc … | Continue reading