Video: Kayvan Ghavim, Loris Ravera, Christina WarrenAt Apple's next big product event — taking place March 21— the company is expected to announce a new 4-inch iPhoneThe new phone, with the rumored name iPhone SE will be Apple's first 4-inch device since the release of the iPhone … | Continue reading
Hangouts v8.0 has added support for Android N's new grouped notifications API, whereby you can not only expand or dismiss individual notifications in a group, but also reply to each one right from the notifications shade. | Continue reading
Video: kayvan ghavimSince I was a kid, I have felt that being really into cars is lame. Even as a grown man who now obsesses over cars, and makes his living writing about them, that feeling lingers to this day.For better or worse, that notion buzzes in the back of my brain every … | Continue reading
A new game recently popped up in our forums that's shaping up to be pretty awesome. I'm reluctant to make too many comparisons without playing it first, but the teaser trailer is giving me some serious Journey vibes along with generally being surprisingly beautiful. Definitely gi … | Continue reading
The story of Victor Frankenstein and his infamous monster has been told time and time again: a young doctor animates new life by piecing together bits of old, decaying materials. Though this morbid experiment seems like it should only succeed in vintage horror novels, its concept … | Continue reading
Over they last few years, Microsoft has worked to transition OneNote from its initial lecture-hall focus into more of a note-taking app for your everyday needs. It’s latest move: pulling users away from competitor Evernote. To do so, Microsoft is releasing its first ever official … | Continue reading
Agent 47 sure gets around. The main character of Hitman, the assassination game for the PC and consoles that debuts today, appears in a new ad campaign today that the creators hope will go viral. The ad, dubbed “Kill this ad,” is a clever way to publicize the game from developer … | Continue reading
NASA announced that it will send its next lander to Mars, known as the InSight Mars lander, in May of 2018. The mission was originally on schedule to launch later this month, but a technical issue found late last year put the InSight launch on hold. The new launch date comes as g … | Continue reading
Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa, embedded in devices like the Echo speaker and Fire TV, is today taking on a new role: she’s now a banking assistant, too. Capital One announced this morning the rollout of a new “skill” (like an app for Alexa-powered devices), which will allow co … | Continue reading
Google publishes hundreds of research papers every year covering everything from algorithms to education and an upcoming project set to be presented later this month seeks to be the best AI assistant you ever had. You may have already run into difficulty when trying to use someth … | Continue reading
Looking for a protective and inexpensive case for your new Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge? We've got you covered! | Continue reading
Looking for a protective and inexpensive case for your new Samsung Galaxy S7? We've got you covered! | Continue reading
It's apparently impossible to go an entire week without a strange but powerful new integration being added to Amazon's Alexa. This week: Capital One. Its customers can now check their bank account and credit card balances just by asking Alexa. They'll also be able to have Alexa r … | Continue reading
We've done our own pretty comprehensive summary of all the new Android N features in the first developer preview, but Google has done one too, specifically for developers. | Continue reading
In Play is a column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases.This week, BAFTA announced the nominations for next month's Game Awards. All things considered, the institution has done a pretty good job of wrangling the mad diversity of the video game arts into a handful o … | Continue reading
A nationwide study has found that using incompatible kidneys in transplants is better than doing no transplant at all. Patients waiting for kidney transplants often never find a donor because they're told their bodies will reject organs that don't match their immune system. Inste … | Continue reading
The saying “Kodak Moment” is a holdover from another era where camera owners had to be thoughtful about which snapshots deserved to be taken, due to the limitations involved with running out of film. Today, the phrase has lost its meaning as mobile users take photos of everything … | Continue reading
SXSW kicks off today, which means there's soon going to be another crop of cool movies that everyone's buzzing about but most of us have to wait months and months to see. I finally caught up on Dope, one of the hits at Sundance last year, since it recently came on Netflix, and it … | 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
Blizzard has only gone and released an official patch for Diablo 2, a game that's 16 years old - and hasn't been patched in five years!The new patch - 1.14a phwoar - aims to get the old game running properly on newer operating systems. But there's a suggestion in a quote from Bli … | Continue reading
Gett and Warner Bros Pictures UK have joined forces to offer Gett users the chance to attend the premiere of the new Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice film, which hits cinemas on 25 March. | Continue reading
We've seen somecool Fallout: New Vegas mods over the years, but The Frontier may be the most ambitious yet.The Frontier takes place in Portland, Oregon, where the NCR and the Legion are fighting a war.What's cool about The Frontier is it's set in a brand new area similar in size … | Continue reading
Just as DDoS attacks are getting more frequent, bigger and more dangerous, with a new report from Verisign warning that the last quarter of 2015 saw record site attacks, a Californian anti-DDoS company has been taken out by hackers. Staminus Communications was out for around 20 h … | Continue reading
About a quarter of a million people are injured in US bathrooms every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but as I'm drowning a man in an ornate Parisian toilet I'm thinking I might have a tough time playing this off as an accident. Even trickier to … | Continue reading
Since playing soccer with cars clearly isn’t enough for some people, the creators of indie game Rocket League have teased that it’s getting a new basketball mode, probably called Hoops. March Madness is just around the corner. Great time to tease the mode we’re working on next #R … | Continue reading
Tagly claims to be the first social platform dedicated to exclusively showcase content created by brands. Its goal is to allow users to discover, share, and collect the branded content they love, and brands to ramp up the amount of followers who actually get to see their posts. R … | Continue reading
The end is in sight for the first week of what Ubisoft hopes, I'm sure, will be a long journey for a lot of people. I'm talking of course, about The Division, which this week has both proven to be Ubisoft's biggest launch and not without its problems. I've been pleasantly surpri … | Continue reading
Asking for blockchain without bitcoin struck Marc Andreessen as wanting “online” without the Internet. Siddharth Kalla, the chief technology officer of Acupay, a technology provider in New York specializing in cross-border finance, believes Andreessen was astute when he tweeted t … | Continue reading
The phrase ‘Kodak moment’ is universally understood as a memory worth sharing. We have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat for sharing those but let’s face it, those feeds are noisy. From the people you haven’t spoken to in years posting hourly updates of their lives to the … | Continue reading
Halo and Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new musical project. Echoes of the First Dreamer is a "musical prequel" to Golem, O'Donnell's new PlayStation VR project at Seattle startup Highwire Games.The standalone symphony introduces mu … | Continue reading
DK Books recently sent me a copy of one of their new books, ‘Plant-Based Kitchen’ by Trish Sebben-Krupka to review and have also generously offered to give THREE copies away to my readers! Find out about the giveaway at the end of this post. With most cookbooks, I’m happy to jus … | Continue reading
Email marketing, if done well, can consistently win you new leads while making it easy to build business relationships. For this reason alone, email marketing is something you must never ignore. But a problem arises when someone has already subscribed to your email lists and now … | Continue reading
Google has smartened up several of its products with a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning, which involves training neural networks on lots of data and then having them make predictions about new data. Google Maps, Google Photos, and Gmail, for example, have been … | Continue reading
News Republic is a pretty solid Android app that provides users with many different sources of information, and today it's getting much better. | Continue reading
Those guys over at Wargaming.net continue to update World of Tanks Blitz [Free] almost monthly, ensuring that the game stay fresh and tankers have new battlefields to explore and new tanks to blow up. Yesterday we got update 2.7, with its highlight being a whole new map, Mirage. … | Continue reading
Apple has some timeless, gorgeous designs under its belt. Chargers don’t fall under that category, but a new accessory called the Blockhead can help. It’s a simple little thing, but exceedingly smart. Rather than prongs that face forward, Blockhead’s look east. A charger that onc … | Continue reading
February had a lot of blockbuster game releases, but that wasn’t enough to match spending from last year. Consumers spent $842.5 million on new physical gaming products at United States retailers during the four-week period from January 31 through February 27, according to indust … | Continue reading
We've seen everything from press renders to blurrycam shots of the HTC 10 over the past couple weeks, and today we're getting yet another pair of photos of the device the wild. | Continue reading
Bitcoin started the cryptocurrency revolution. Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009 after Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper about the new digital currency the previous year. Being an open source protocol, many alternate cryptocurrencies followed bitcoin. These alternate currenci … | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Discovering Dubai Source: Travel&Leisure Why we like it: A beautifully built custom feature in Travel & Leisure that leaves you wanting to book a flight and be on your way to Dubai. Restaurant and bars, maps and destinations. This piece is interactive and en … | Continue reading
When you’re a kid, you have the first day of school to contend with. When it comes time to trying your hand at “adulting,” you have to meander your way through the first day of work. Your first day at a new job can be almost as anxiety-provoking as a blind date set up by […] | Continue reading
Split-screen multitasking is one of the biggest new features in the Android N developer preview Google released yesterday, and we're still finding new ways to use it. One bit of functionality that Google added (at least in a very rudimentary form) is the ability to drag and drop … | Continue reading
Nest's wide variety of products already do a pretty good job at automating your home, and today they're getting even better. | Continue reading
In the spirit of Charles Lindbergh, a French research company hopes to complete the first carbon-free trans-Atlantic flight later this year.The Eraole, an electric biofuel plane developed by Laboratoire Océan Vital, will take flight from New York to Paris in June: The company say … | Continue reading
The first footage from Laika Studios’ new stop-motion feature Kubo and the Two Strings started emerging out in 2015, and it was exciting stuff. The studio behind Coraline, ParaNorman, and The BoxTrolls has always been an ambitious innovator in the stop-motion field, but Kubo look … | Continue reading
A new filing from the government has struck back at one of the central claims in Apple's San Bernardino defense. One of the most controversial aspects of the case has been FBI handling of Syed Farook's phone in the days after the shooting, particularly the decision to reset the p … | Continue reading
Late last year, Congress passed legislation that substantially improved the legal landscape for startups, early-stage companies and the stakeholders in the ecosystem. You might have read about, for example, Congress making permanent the 100 percent tax exclusion for sales of qual … | Continue reading
Product management tool Propel announced today that it closed a $4.2 million series A investment led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners. Propel’s product, built on Salesforce, promises a service that “helps everyone involved in launching new products coordinate all the product, custo … | Continue reading