Prenetics, a Hong Kong-based medical technology company, has raised a $10 million Series A round for its DNA testing technology that helps doctors provide more accurate diagnoses and better understand their patients. Read More | Continue reading
CyanogenMod remains very much active and the team just released the first “snapshot” release based on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow: CM 13.0 Release 1. | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: Based on BitShares Bitcoin 3.0 technology, OpenLedger is pleased to announce the world’s first Decentralized Conglomerate: a platform which allows organizations to invest in each other and share profits in a fully decentralized manner. Most recently launche … | Continue reading
Stephen Elop, who oversaw Nokia’s ill-fated effort to bet the company on Microsoft’s Windows Phone software, has been hired as strategy chief for Australia’s Telstra.Elop, 52, will begin on April 4 and be based in the US and Australia, reporting to Andrew Penn, CEO of the Austral … | Continue reading
Genetic testing offers people insight into the types of diseases they are most likely to develop — but a new study suggests most people do not alter their lifestyles based on this information. These tests — known as genome sequencing — analyze a person's DNA, telling patients abo … | Continue reading
Invictus is here at GDC showing off a trio of their upcoming games. Two are vehicle-based and somewhat similar to their popular Daytona Rush [Free], while the third is a nifty digital take on the old underwater ring toss toys that I loved when I was a kid. First is Prime Time Rus … | Continue reading
Instagram is announcing a subtle but important tweak to its platform today: photos will no longer be sorted in purely chronological order. Basically, the app will now behave a bit more like parent company Facebook, organizing your feed based on an algorithm that decides what’s mo … | Continue reading
Instagram is testing a more personalized feed for its users, the company said today. The reorganized feed relies on an algorithm to sort images and videos based on what users are likely to be most interested in. The social media platform currently organizes posts from newest to o … | Continue reading
I feel like we're on the verge of describing way too many games as being MOBA-like, but it still feels vaguely appropriate here when it comes to Kiloo's upcoming title, Spellbinders. In the game, you play as different characters, commanding various unique forces on a battlefield … | Continue reading
The average Instagram user misses 70 percent of what’s in their feed, including great photos with tons of Likes and posts by their best friends. So today Instagram announced it will start rearranging the order of posts in its feed. Rather than strictly reverse chronological, Inst … | Continue reading
Instagram users, you might want to sit downInstagram may soon be messing with your timeline, showing photos not based on chronological order, but based on popularity and other social signals.In other words, your Instagram could soon be curated in a way similar to Facebook's News … | Continue reading
Crytek unveiled its next-generation video game development engine, CryEngine, with support for virtual reality headsets. The Frankfurt, Germany-based company made the announcement at an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek, sa … | Continue reading
Esports are about to do the dinosaur. Developer Studio Wildcard revealed Ark: Survival of the Fittest, a spinoff based on its online game Ark: Survival Evolved, and it’s out today via Steam (with a console release date to be determined). It’s calling Survival of the Fittest a mul … | Continue reading
Samsung is showcasing an app that writes music based on your hums, a collaborative social media app, and VR tech that convinces you you're flying. | Continue reading
Bitcoin mining has entered the African continent; the very first Bitcoin mining facility in the region is now in Ghana. Africa has always been a center of attraction for both Bitcoin and fintech-based businesses. The African continent has provided a lot of positive PR to the Bitc … | Continue reading
This past week I made it my mission to see what was going on in downtown Manhattan. A well-timed email here, a hastily-caught train there, and I found myself at the headquarters of Priority Cycles — a NYC-based bicycle startup, which got its wheels on Kickstarter back in 2014. Ra … | Continue reading
Late last year, Microsoft announced that it would start hosting its Azure cloud computing platform and some of its other cloud-based services out of local data centers in both Germany and Canada. Both of these new regions, Azure Canada and Azure Germany are now officially in prev … | Continue reading
In a case of one news reader app helping another, Japan’s Gunosy has invested $5 million in Indonesia-based Kurio. Read More | Continue reading
We get a lot of pitches here at TNW, but none of them caught our attention as much as the Bios Incube. This device – and the people behind it – want to turn your cold, dead body – or even the mortal remains of a friend or loved one – into a lovely tree. The team, based in Barcelo … | Continue reading
Leeds-based rotating bar concept The Hedonist Project has secured Tanqueray No. 10 for its gin-focused spring incarnation, which is set to launch on 30 March. | Continue reading
Crate, the winner of our TechCrunch Disrupt Europe startup Battlefield in 2014, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round for its open-source SQL database technology. The round was led by London-based Dawn Capital, which was joined by existing investors Sunstone … | Continue reading
Fukuoka-based Sefuri, the Japanese startup that provides the Yamap app for mountain climbers and hikers, announced today that it has fundraised 170 million yen (about $1.5 million) in series A funding round. This round was led by Japanese mobile gaming publisher Colopl, with part … | Continue reading
Most people know iRobot for its line of Roomba vacuums, but the Massachusetts-based company offers a whole array of robotic cleaners, from gutter cleaners to pool cleaners to floor scrubbers. Today it's expanding its line of floor cleaners, to include a cheaper, simplified model. … | Continue reading
In September of last year, Deed - The Game [Free] officially launched in the App Store, but it wasn't until today at GDC that I'd even heard of it. There are a couple reasons for that, I think. For one, it's based on a physical board game named simply Sustainable Business that's … | Continue reading
Any Empire Records fans out there? No? Well whatever, I thought the title was clever. Halfbrick has a ton of games on deck, and the one they showed us today is based on the webisode series Dan the Man. The game shares the same title, and is a surprisingly great touchscreen platfo … | Continue reading
We hear a lot about how companies like Uber are transforming car-based transportation, but today comes news of another play in the sector, this time covering rail services. Trainline, a U.K.-based ticket service for railway and long-distance bus journeys, has acquired Captain Tra … | Continue reading
“We are not as endlessly manipulable and predictable as you would think,” says Dan Pink in Drive. The results of an MIT study demonstrated that while there is a correspondence between effort expended and inventive expected for mechanical skills. However, when the task involved ev … | Continue reading
All of you cord-cutters have a new way to get some of your favorite channels back. Sony announced today that its PlayStation Vue Internet-based TV service is expanding nationwide today. It starts at $30 a month for 55-plus channels and goes up to $45 for more than 100. It also en … | Continue reading
This time the Berlin-based company builder (to use the preferred terminology) is investing and betting on the underlying regulatory and financial technology infrastructure — the picks ‘n’ shovels, if you will — in the form of solarisBank, a fully-licensed digital bank designed to … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Engineering and marketing roles are among the best jobs in America, according to trend data from Glassdoor, which scores careers based on the number of current job openings, average salary, and a career opportunities rating that’s calculated using anonymous reviews. The … | Continue reading
Tacoma, the next project from Gone Home developer Fullbright, will now launch in spring 2017.The story-based sci-fi game had previously been slated for a mid-to-late 2016 arrival on PC and Xbox One - a date which Fullbright has now decided was simply too soon for the amount of wo … | Continue reading
Google doesn’t just offer its own web-based productivity apps, but it also offers a service for business users who want to use Google as an identity provider for accessing other online services using the widely used SAML standard. Today, Google is adding a few new options to this … | Continue reading
Skype for Web, the browser-based version of Microsoft’s popular communications software introduced last year, is getting a slew of new features that brings it more in line with its desktop and mobile counterparts – most notably the added ability to dial mobile phones and landline … | Continue reading
Ranelagh House is an old Georgian townhouse recently renovated by Dublin-based design studio Kingston Lafferty Design. The Ranelagh House ... | Continue reading
The Seattle-based e-commerce company recently filed a patent application for a process that would allow shoppers to make a purchase by taking a photo and/or video of themselves rather than keying in their account password. The application is related to a separate patent Amazon ho … | Continue reading
Marketing dashboards based solely on data visualization are not successful. Ask yourself these 3 key questions to create better, effective dashboards. | Continue reading
Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Andrea Ferracani, Daniele Pezzatini, Proc. of International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) – 2011 | Continue reading
Software and hardware giant Microsoft is no longer accepting Bitcoin payments made on the Windows 10 store. The move comes a year after the corporation began accepting Bitcoin via BitPay. Notably, the move hasn’t affected users purchasing credit via Bitcoin on to their Microsoft … | Continue reading
Prototyping suite InVision just announced they are acquiring Silver Flows, a tool that lets developers prototype directly inside Sketch. The acquisition comes just a few months after InVision acquired the code-based design tool Macaw, and is the company’s fourth acquisition to da … | Continue reading
Qualcomm is introducing its virtual reality software development kit (SDK) for Snapdragon-based smartphones and virtual reality headsets. The mobile-chip giant wants to stoke demand for the already red-hot VR business by making it easy for developers to create games and apps that … | Continue reading
In 2009, the Obama Administration launched Apps.Gov, looking to revolutionize the way the federal government buys commercial technology and cloud-based products. The launch was a product of multiple factors: the desire for increased cloud-based products inside government, the pus … | Continue reading
Microsoft has quietly unveiled a new platform designed to harness the power of Minecraft to expedite artificial intelligence (AI) development. Developed by a team led by Katja Hofmann, a researcher at Microsoft’s Machine Learning and Perception Group in the company’s Cambridge-ba … | Continue reading
ISES' Accelerate conference will span three days and multiple London-based venues in 2016, as well as include the inaugural Creative Disruptors Awards. | Continue reading
Coinify APS, a Denmark-based blockchain currency payment provider, is facilitating the first real estate purchase in Denmark using bitcoin. Coinify processed a transaction worth 117 BTC (290,000DKK, $50,000 USD). The Just-Sold group real estate agency signed up for a Coinify merc … | Continue reading
Dutch studio Concrete has completed the Amsterdam based restaurant Happyhappyjoyjoy, a collection of colors and typical Asian flavors. | Continue reading
Cainiao, a three-year-old Alibaba-backed company specializing in logistics, has confirmed its maiden external funding round from Temasek Holdings and GIC in Singapore, Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional and China-based Primavera Capital. Read More | Continue reading
As a travel enthusiast, it was a problem Ryan Wenger had often encountered; how can a person search for a flight and hotel based on the amount of money they want to spend rather than by destination only? Setting out to solve this problem, Wenger quit his job as an attorney and fo … | Continue reading