At its third annual Google for India event in New Delhi today, the company announced that it’s rolling out Android Oreo (Go Edition), a lightweight version of its mobile platform that’s designed to run smoothly on low-end phones. Google first announced its Go variant at its IO ev … | Continue reading
While newspapers, sports journalists, and some in the legal trades have been arguing that fantasy sports will die “soon”, the truth has gone in very much the opposite direction. Over the last few years, fantasy sports have grown to tremendous levels. More and more entrepreneurs a … | Continue reading
If you’re on a bicycle or motorcycle, it’s easier to maneuver through traffic than with a car – and now, Google Maps has finally caught on to the idea. The service now displays routes specifically tailored for two-wheelers when you look up destinations around you. The new feature … | Continue reading
After a bit of a delay, Apple Pay Cash is now live for users in the US, which means you can use your iPhone to send and receive money from friends right within Messages. Transfers go straight to your virtual Pay Cash card, so there’s no need for additional apps. The feature requi … | Continue reading
When we talk about death machines, we’re usually speaking hyperbolically about contraptions like this one, or the rise of AI overlords that get bored with their menial tasks before rising up against their oppressors. This might start with buying up Papa Johns franchises and takin … | Continue reading
Nvidia continues to pave a path towards the end of reality as we know it. The company recently made an AI capable of creating images of people out of thin air. Now, it’s made one that can change the weather, turn day into night, and change a leopard’s spots. AI researchers for th … | Continue reading
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has been attempting to push the idea of net neutrality as much ado about nothing, a riot whipped up by Hollywood celebrities who disregard facts to make their point. Not only is he wrong, he’s responding to them so he doesn’t ha … | Continue reading
Amazon recently launched ‘Pet Profiles’ on the Amazon.com marketplace. Now you can add your family’s furry (and scaly) friends to your account, because pets are people too. Upon signing up your first pet you’ll be given a one-time 20 percent discount on your next pet food order. … | Continue reading
Bitcoin may be a dramatic challenger to gold and government-backed money, but it isn’t going to replace the New York Stock Exchange anytime soon. At least not on its own. As revolutionary as Bitcoin is (one of the most exciting innovations of the 21st century), its real-world fin … | Continue reading
Think it’s hard to fundraise for a startup? Try raising money for a venture fund. Without an ivy league diploma, a hot startup behind your name and a proven track record of managing a venture capital fund, it’s downright difficult. Aspiring venture capitalists spend years climbin … | Continue reading
The internet is a rich, diverse and utterly distracting experience. If you work on a computer, which an increasing number of people do, you know it’s not hard for some shiny digital object to catch your attention and draw you away from what you’re doing. We’ve shown you extension … | Continue reading
With the abundant digital information, we can all imagine that it must be a tough time for print media and book publishers. However, unit sales of print books were up 3.3 percent in 2016, influencer books are topping the charts, and books about productivity, success, and working … | Continue reading
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Facebook has launched a new version of Facebook Messenger, aimed at children under the age of 13. The app, called Facebook Messenger Kids, works much like a trimmed-down version of the mainstream version of the app. The biggest difference is that it’s designed with parental contr … | Continue reading
TNW has always been about promoting innovation. Be it through our media platform, or our conference, if there’s a red thread that runs throughout all our endeavors, it’s the idea that innovation and technology will lead to a better society. One of the examples of how this works i … | Continue reading
Facebook had a busy November in Africa as it continues to scale up its efforts to assist SMEs on the continent. In Lagos, the company partnered local incubator CcHub to launch a space for Nigerian entrepreneurs, while it also joined forces with local startup Tizeti to expand its … | Continue reading
Infosec twitter collectively shat itself this weekend, when Nadine Dorries — a British parliamentarian slash author of god-awful fiction — proudly announced that she shares her email with her staff — including interns. My staff log onto my computer on my desk with my login everyd … | Continue reading
The time has finally come: following months of complaints from miffed users – myself included – Slack has released a fix for the rage-inducing drag-and-drop image upload feature that caused its app to abruptly crash when hovering pictures over the messaging client. The fix, which … | Continue reading
Developers have it easy these days when it comes to code; however, building a ready-to-use software that improves upon existing ones continues to be a big ask. Even Apple has seen their fair share of struggles with project failure. A couple of decades back, they were up against m … | Continue reading
Samsung already lets you unlock your phone by scanning your fingerprint and your iris, but it’s now thinking of other ways to secure your device – and it involves palmistry. CNET reports that a recently filed patent application (PDF) from the South Korean firm describes an authen … | Continue reading
Google Slides already lets you beam your presentation deck to a Chromecast-equipped screen from your iOS or Android device. Now, there’s another way to use your phone as a presentation remote, thanks to this handy browser extension created by Malaysia-based developer Henry Lim. R … | Continue reading
The humble SMS is 25 years old today. Even though it’s still absolutely relevant, its popularity has ebbed as a consequence of messaging apps like WhatsApp, Viber, and Facebook Messenger. It’s worth reflecting on how fundamentally transformative SMS was on language. Although text … | Continue reading
I’ve been a developer for about eight years now, but I was already faced with the challenge of choosing between using an SDK vs. API well within the first year of working as a dev. After achieving beginner proficiency in web applications, I was tasked with integrating points of i … | Continue reading
Feel old yet? The first SMS was sent 25 years ago today. For context, that makes it older than Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Harry Styles. If the SMS was a person, it’d be a debt-crushed millennial, still living with their parents while spending their money on extravagances li … | Continue reading
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As a freelance writer, I know that keeping up a consistent writing output is a key factor in my career. The nature of freelancing makes it very tempting to slack off some days, though I may feel extremely motivated during others. Over the years, I’ve come up with a tried-and-test … | Continue reading
Have you ever been to an IKEA concept store? If you’ve ever visited one, you were part of one big experiment. The Swedish company has been using these concept centers for something you wouldn’t expect. Not long ago, I visited one near my hometown. Yours truly naively thought they … | Continue reading
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Wouldn’t it be awesome if you could just blindly throw some money into a pool and magically make good returns? Well, that’s kind of what’s currently happening with ICOs (also known as token sales) and this is evident from two data points — the initial token sale price and current … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency has an uncertain future, but the digital ledger powering most of their transactions is here to stay. Granted, cryptocurrency probably is too, but this isn’t meant to be a rant about dot com-era bubbles — we can argue about it on Twitter thought, come at me. The ben … | Continue reading
An artificial intelligence recently released a death metal album created entirely by algorithms. This isn’t the first time someone’s programmed a machine to create new music. But this time is different. Because it’s actually quite good. And that’s pretty spooky. DADABOTS’ debut a … | Continue reading
The Echo Dot was Amazon’s best-selling item during last weekend’s post-Thanksgiving sales bonanza. Which means if you didn’t buy one yourself you’re probably getting one as a gift. If you’re one of the millions of people who will accept Alexa into their homes this year, you’ll wa … | Continue reading
Swedish courts this week handed down a groundbreaking conviction of “online rape” against a man who preyed on children over the internet — which could, hopefully, help any future victims seeking recourse after similar crimes. According to Broadly, the defendant was accused of vic … | Continue reading
Facebook revolutionized the world by changing the way people communicate. With over two billion users, it’s now the world’s largest social network. But since 2014, Facebook has been the victim of a troubling pattern: declining reach among its younger audience. The social network … | Continue reading
For many, drones are simply a novel gadget, a fun toy to fly around the neighborhood, snapping aerial images or even spying on neighbors. Rapidly growing in popularity, the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) already have been purposed in a variety of scenarios, far beyond their use … | Continue reading
Reddit is today joining the discussion about net neutrality, as most of the front page is plastered with posts and ads about saving the “free and open internet.” You might have noticed something a little different about Reddit this morning. We're running #NetNeutrality ads across … | Continue reading
When it comes to posting content on the internet, you have a lot of options. Not only do more and more platforms support video content, but an increasing number of websites are introducing live streaming features as well. Users can post photographs, videos, and even go live to in … | Continue reading
A linguistics company is using AI to shorten the time it takes to learn a new language. It takes about 200 hours, using traditional methods, to gain basic proficiency in a new language. This AI-powered platform claims it can teach from beginner to fluency in just a few months – t … | Continue reading
Back in September, Ethereum core developer Nick Johnson penned an interesting piece to sum up some of the reservations he had for up-and-coming cryptocurrency company IOTA and its blockchain-alternative, Tangle. While he insisted the post was merely intended as a critique address … | Continue reading
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Seventeen years ago, the UK’s then-biggest telecommunications company, BT, opened a pioneering new research incubator in Ipswitch, called Adastral Park. And… er… forgot to purchase the domain names. It’s a schoolboy error, and as a prank, a BT contractor called Ric Hayman bought … | Continue reading
The cryptocurrency community is slowly but steadily growing more suspicious of BitConnect and its dubious business model. Crypto pioneers, including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Litecoin founder Charlie lee, have spoken up against the bullish Bitcoin investment platform, … | Continue reading
The idea that knowledge plays an important role in economy is not a new one. Modern economists, in their search for the foundations of economic growth, have come to approach knowledge as having more direct functions in production. Global economies recognize this, turning their at … | Continue reading
As someone who works at a computer all day, I’m always on the lookout for apps and tweaks that can improve my desktop experience. When I switched from the laptop I’ve been using for nearly three years to an all-in-one that I’m reviewing this week, I noticed just how badly I misse … | Continue reading
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Amazon just unveiled AWS Cloud9, a new web-based IDE that supports more than 40 popular programming languages, as well as a bunch of the company’s cloud infrastructure integrations, and collaboration tools. The company says it’s designed for coding, running and debugging all in o … | Continue reading
Google is adding a handy feature to Assistant, so it can now find local services like plumbing or electrical repairs near you, provided you’re in the US. That’s handy for people who already use the voice-activated service on their phones or Google Home smart speakers. To use it, … | Continue reading