Recently, YouTube has been removing or demonetizing large swathes of content featuring young children, in videos that could be seen as abusive or exploitative. These include videos as seemingly harmless as parents pranking or scaring their children, and as disturbing as children … | Continue reading
When I was last living in Melbourne, the startup scene was still in its nascent stages. It had a handful of local success stories, a burgeoning community, and a lot of interest. Three years later, the startup scene in Australia has grown exponentially, especially in the larger ci … | Continue reading
There’s a lot of experts talking about AI, most of which want you to know robots will destroy nearly a billion jobs in the next twenty years (give or take a decade). But it’s not all bad, some actually predict the integration of machines into the workforce will create jobs. Let’s … | Continue reading
Google just launched three experimental photography apps on Product Hunt. My favorite one is Storyboard, which lets you automatically turn your videos into a one-page comic strip. It’s still early days, so the app is super-sparse at the moment. Just load the video into the app, w … | Continue reading
If “the customer is always right” is the golden rule of customer service, then “treat each customer as an individual” should be the golden rule for brand marketing. Every consumer wants to feel as though the brands they support view them as a unique entity, rather than another cu … | Continue reading
Remember Google’s AR Stickers? Months after they were first announced as a headlining feature on the Pixel 2, they’re finally rolling out to the public – including an exclusive set of Star Wars stickers. They work pretty much like you expect: you can place a variety of 3D charact … | Continue reading
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), the megapopular arena multiplayer game, is coming out on Xbox One in various regions tomorrow. If you don’t already have the game in your region, there is a way around the restrictions. According to VG247, you need to have pre-ordered the gam … | Continue reading
Comcast believes it’s acceptable to inject hundreds of lines of code into any web page you visit if it thinks you’re in need of a hardware upgrade. And even if you don’t need an upgrade, you’re wrong. A user recently took to the company’s forums to complain of its practice of run … | Continue reading
Facebook is experimenting with privacy settings that apply to individual comments. This means that you could write a reply to a thread, but only pre-approved individuals can see it. Here’s what it looks like: Clicking the padlock icon brings up the security settings. This has fou … | Continue reading
With the training in the Ultimate Data & Analytics Bundle, now available at 97 percent off - just $23.40 with coupon code "GREEN40" - from TNW Deals, you’ll instantly become the person in your organization that your boss can turn to to truly understand what the numbers are trying … | Continue reading
The gaming world got a bit of a surprise back in July, when Atari teased it was creating a new console called the Ataribox. Today the company announced you’ll be able to pre-order in just a few days – December 14 to be precise – when it will presumably launch its crowdfunding cam … | Continue reading
Estonian ridesharing service Taxify has grown like crazy of late, and has now launched in Australia. Starting from 10AM today, passengers in Sydney can order a ride through the Taxify service, and get picked up by more than 4,000 drivers that are already registered with the compa … | Continue reading
We in Latin America are the happiest people in the world. We have dominant international soccer teams. We have over half our population using the internet, and some of the highest daily internet usage in the entire world. Understandably, having a population higher than Russia and … | Continue reading
Mozilla has launched its first ever augmented reality app for iOS. The company, best known for its Firefox browser, wants to create an avenue for developers to build augmented reality experiences using open web technologies, WebXR, and Apple’s ARKit framework. This latest effort … | Continue reading
Bitcoin finally arrived on Wall Street with the launch of the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s (CBOE) futures for the cryptocurrency on Sunday. Within hours of the exchange kicking off trading for Bitcoin futures at 6PM ET, they soared by 25 percent – triggering a five-minute tra … | Continue reading
Owners of OnePlus’ all-new bezel-less 5T flagship have discovered that the phone is unable to stream HD video from numerous streaming services, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Google Play Movies. That’s because it doesn’t come with support for Widevine Level 1 DRM, whi … | Continue reading
Can you believe that it’s been nearly 30 years since Capcom first brought one-on-one brawling to video game arcades with its iconic title, Street Fighter? The franchise is still alive and well, with Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition set to drop on January 16. But the publisher has … | Continue reading
Work-life balance has always scared me. Aside from the fact that it isolates work and life as two opposing states of being, it’s the number one topic that’s always brought up at a table of entrepreneurs. I do think it’s important to discuss these topics and since entrepreneurship … | Continue reading
We used to make scientific leaps. Engineers, scientists, and manufacturers once made bold steps and drove the human race forward. Less than 10 years passed from developing jet engines to launching a supersonic aircraft into the sky and 20 years from the first fully automatic comp … | Continue reading
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a a reliable iOS jailbreak. You’d have to go back to iOS 10.2.1 to find a working version that’s widely-known. Since the last working exploit, the jailbreaking community has mostly gone dark, with repositories remaining un-updated (or closed) an … | Continue reading
Reports today indicate that Apple is in the final stages of a deal with music discovery platform Shazam. According to initial reports from TechCrunch, the deal could be announced as soon as Monday. If the sale happens, the price being floated is around $400 million, a number Reco … | Continue reading
Grief is one of the most difficult, trying psychological phenomena, and it’s something that almost every one of us is guaranteed to feel at some point in our lives. It’s never been an easy thing, as the scores of literature from the dawn of time will attest, and there is no moder … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced it was offering a selection of free music and sound effects to content creators. If you want to use music in a Facebook or Instagram video, the Sound Collection gives you options that won’t get you dinged for copyright infringement. Facebook removes any v … | Continue reading
If you’re planning on selling your old Windows 10 PC because you’re getting a sweet new rig, you’ll want to make sure you clean your old device – and we don’t mean with a moist towelette. There’s a few steps you’ll need to take to ensure you’re not giving some stranger on eBay yo … | Continue reading
If you want a decent pair of headphones that feature active noise canceling (ANC) and wireless Bluetooth connectivity the options are fairly limited. Most are heavy, which makes them ill-suited for extended wear. Others are simply too expensive, with typical price tags in the $30 … | Continue reading
Facebook announced this week, in celebration of its first year of Messenger games, it’s adding new community features such as livestreaming and video chat. When Facebook announced Instant Games last year, it had 17 games in its repertoire, including Pac-Man, Galaga, and Space Inv … | Continue reading
Ho, ho, ho! The holidays are here and we’re all preparing to gather ’round the old Amazon Echo to celebrate the miracle of AI with our loved ones. With its newest update, Alexa hosts Santa Clause who’ll help Echo owners find the perfect seasonal music. Amazon’s virtual assistant … | Continue reading
What would you say after learning that your child spends on average 9 hours per day on their smartphones? When asking parents what kind of dangers can their kids encounter online, most answer adult content and in-app purchases. Unfortunately, the internet hosts much more than t … | Continue reading
To build a successful IPO (Initial Public Offering) and ICO (Initial Coin Offering) firms need to differentiate their product in the market. A company-issued whitepaper, the first key information about a firm, is often used as a marketing tool to raise capital. This paper is inte … | Continue reading
One of the shortfalls of traditional forensic science is the struggle to detect and image biological traces, like blood and sperm, from a surface too dark or fluorescent. This new CSI technique, however, can detect traces on any surface with ease, and it could even help to solve … | Continue reading
Billion dollar businesses have grown out of apps. Mobile apps account for 57 percent of all digital media usage (yes, all). Despite this amazing adoption, we’re still far from reaching the peak of app development — and if you’re like me, that should make you really excited. This … | Continue reading
The health industry is a hot topic these days. Whether you’re trying to decide what plan on the Marketplace is best for you, now that healthcare enrollment is open, or you’re interested in the changes that are happening in the health industry now that we’re always on our smartpho … | Continue reading
Last week, AxiomZen studios launched Crypto Kitties, an Ethereum-based game where you can buy and breed cute digital cats. Then, as with every cat thing on the Internet, it promptly blew up. So far, people spent over $6.4 million on these virtual cats. The most expensive one, the … | Continue reading
A YouTube prankster almost died after placing his head into a microwave and filling it with Polyfilla — a building material used to plaster walls. Jay Swingler, 22 from Wolverhampton, attempted the dangerous prank for a YouTube video with his co-star, Rommel Henry, but after his … | Continue reading
With many shoppers making the shift to e-commerce, it can be difficult to bring that luxury brick-and-mortar experience online. | Continue reading
Here’s an app you hopefully won’t need for long: AutoNotification lets you mark Gmail messages as read – without archiving them – straight from the Android notifications panel. That’s handy, because it’s often easy enough to scan an entire email right from an alert. Gmail’s Andro … | Continue reading
Didi Chuxing, the go-to ride-hailing service in China, is looking to bring the fight to Uber in North America by entering Mexico soon, reports Reuters. The company – which claims to have 450 million users on its platform and is the second most highly valued venture-backed private … | Continue reading
While the business travel industry can take comfort in the fact that our globe’s growing economic interdependence will always provide a continuous stream of travelers, the other fact that the industry is being heavily disrupted, should not be ignored. The rise of the sharing econ … | Continue reading
YouTube is gearing up to launch a paid streaming music service by March 2018, reports Bloomberg. That could help the company take on the likes of Spotify and Apple Music – but given that YouTube already has a Music app, as well as a paid subscription service (called YouTube Red), … | Continue reading
Celebrity trivia buffs are going to love Google’s latest update to its search engine, which sees movers and shakers in entertainment answer questions about themselves on results pages on mobile. It’s rolling out right now in the US, but I found that it works here in India too. Fi … | Continue reading
Twitter in augmented reality is exactly as cool as it sounds. TweetReality brings tweets, search, mentions, profiles and all your favorite features and displays them neatly on a virtual screen that overlays your iPhone or iPad display (sorry Android fans). Navigating is a bit dif … | Continue reading
A winding thread throughout the entire “AI is going to rise up and destroy all humans” narrative is the terrifying concept of deep learning occurring in a black box. How do you provide oversight for a system you can’t understand? Just like any other tool, however, it’s not whethe … | Continue reading
Despite the fact that we’re still weeks away from the end of the year, Apple has gone ahead and released its year-end most-downloaded of 2017. There aren’t any major surprises, but it’s still nice to take a look back and see what iPhone and iPad users thought was worth the most o … | Continue reading
Google this week released its list of top downloads on Google Play for the year 2017. There were some surprises, like seeing the King of horror play second fiddle to a self-help book, or a liquored-up animated scientist and his grandson beating a zombie juggernaut. Without furthe … | Continue reading
ProtonMail is bringing its encrypted email offering to popular desktop clients. Available now, ProtonMail ‘Bridge’ offers the same end-to-end encryption of its web version to Apple Mail, Outlook, and Thunderbird. After downloading and installing the app, it runs behind the scenes … | Continue reading
A couple of days ago, Qualcomm and Microsoft announced they were collaborating on a category of computer called the ‘Always Connected PC.’ In other words, a PC that behaves more like a smartphone. That could have potentially massive implications for the way we use our computers, … | Continue reading
Discord, the popular gaming voice chat app, is growing strong despite a year dotted with recurring controversy. As Discord today revealed, the app has more than tripled its user base since this time last year, with 87 million registered users. With 1.5 million more joining every … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency has found support all over the world. It is popular as a solution for common business problems in many industries, but also allows people to invest and speculate as they would with stocks. For both reasons, companies and individuals around the globe are motivated t … | Continue reading