One of the first things people do when they put on a virtual reality headset is try to look down at their hands. One company has the technology to ensure that you’ll actually see them. Leap Motion has released a new video to show the capabilities of its Orion hand-tracking techno … | Continue reading
Google today announced a significant enhancement to the developer tools for its Google Cast software, which lets people stream media from their PCs and mobile devices to TVs and speakers. The Google Cast software development kit (SDK) Developer Console now includes dedicated page … | Continue reading
The chart below is the past week’s Google trend graph for U.S. Google users searching the phrase, “how to move to canada”? The turning point is three days ago, Super Tuesday (3.2.2016), the day people who were still skeptical of the chances of Donald Trump winning the GOP preside … | Continue reading
The prospect of the tech bubble bursting is like Silicon Valley’s version of an asteroid heading to Earth: as more people begin to see it and recognize it’s there, the thoughts turn to how long we have left and how much damage will be done. Fortune spotted a published quarterly l … | Continue reading
San Bernadino Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Ramos isn’t content to await a congressional ruling in the Apple and FBI case — instead, he chose to file an amicus brief, a legal show of support, that contained language designed to arouse the suspicions of the people. “The i … | Continue reading
A drone came within 5 meters (16 feet) of a potentially catastrophic collision with an Air France jet landing at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in the closest encounter yet between one of the remotely operated devices and a civil airliner.The Airbus Group SE A320, which can carr … | Continue reading
What makes a currency “real?” Is it any given government or just the imagination of the people who chose which currency they want to use? In Japan, the Cabinet has recognized that virtual currencies, including but not limited to Bitcoin are in fact similar to real money and the i … | Continue reading
A few years ago in Venice, I met an old Peruvian woman backpacking around Europe. She had always wanted to visit the continent, but was continually waiting on other people to accompany her. That month, she realized that she would always be waiting on other people, so why not just … | Continue reading
VR video experiences are getting increasingly easy to make and now require little or no kit for people watching. While you could explore Leo’s winning Oscar’s moment in luxurious 360° views, you should really watch this awesome film from PBS’ FRONTLINE investigative team working … | Continue reading
Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge don't launch until March 11, but a few people who've managed to get their hands on the devices early have already started to put them through torture tests.YouTuber JerryRigEverything is one of those guys. In his latest video, he scratches, burns a … | Continue reading
The Oscars are over and there isn't a new Star Wars movie for nearly a year, so it's probably time to start looking at all the other stuff heading to theaters. Only a few really high-profile movies had trailers come out this week, but those trailers really got people talking — Gh … | Continue reading
Located in Tuscany, Italy, Art Hangar is a modern loft build amid the Tuscan countryside, a place for artists, for people with an open mind. | Continue reading
I'm not sure how many people picked Project Cars as their game of the year in 2015, but I'll admit it was a mighty fine racer: an all-inclusive, absolutely gorgeous driving game that delivered one of the best pure motorsport experiences we've had since TOCA's heyday. So Bandai Na … | Continue reading
Sometimes PR and marketing professionals simply must say “no” to people who make demands on their time or other limited resources. Saying “yes” to requests for your assistance or to take on additional assignments can sometimes open the door to opportunities. Saying “yes” too much … | Continue reading
When Apple’s Worldwide Developer Certificate expired in February it caused problems for some developers, but another major problem that’s going to affect more people has just surfaced: it breaks OS X installers. If you’ve created an OS X installation CD or downloaded an installer … | Continue reading
For people with dyslexia, it can be hard to explain to others what it feels like to struggle to read text. Dsxyliea is a JavaScript experiment that tries to replicate what it feels like, for some at least, to read a book or blog post. dyslexia is a reading disorder that affects m … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: One of Britain’s biggest movie theater chains has revealed plans to let film fans decide which movies are played from a library of more than 400 titles. Vue Cinemas is teaming up with Our Screen, a social crowdfunding platform that lets people “vote” for a particular mo … | Continue reading
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Messaging app operator Line Corp, which is owned by South Korea’s largest web portal operator, Naver Corp, plans an initial public offering of up to $3 billion in New York and Tokyo, IFR reported on Friday, citing people close to the deal. Preparations are b … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Google’s self-driving car team is expanding and hiring more people with automotive industry expertise, underscoring the company’s determination to move the division past the experimental stage. The operation now employs at least 170 workers, according to a Reuters rev … | Continue reading
eMarketer estimates that this year, more than 41 million people in Brazil will make at least one purchase via an internet-connected device, up 10% over 2015 figures. Who is included in that group? | Continue reading
Lavabit, a company that operated an encrypted email service for more than 400,000 people — reportedly including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden — before it shut down in 2013 under legal pressure from the FBI, rose from the dead today. In an federal court filing, the company came … | Continue reading
Memphis Grizzlies minority owner Steve Kaplan's pursuit of a new role in the ownership group of the Minnesota Timberwolves has hit a wall, two people with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press on Thursday. | Continue reading
If you were hoping to get more followers on Telegram or Snapchat from your Instagram profile, you may be out of luck.The photo sharing app recently began cracking down on certain types of links in users' profiles, including those that link back to Telegram and Snapchat accounts. … | Continue reading
Docker, the startup that rose to prominence by pushing container technology for wrapping up application code, today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a secretive early-stage startup founded by people with experience building software to automate the process of deploying … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger threads are about to get a lot more musical.Facebook added a new Spotify integration to its messaging platform, the company announced Wednesday. The new feature allows people to share playlists and songs with friends inside of conversations on Messenger.See als … | Continue reading
Bitcoin’s potential to transform foreign remittance industry is very well known. It is also one of the services rendered by multiple cryptocurrency startups across the world. The conventional remittance system includes either the Western Union or MoneyGram. While they have a dece … | Continue reading
There is a new Ghostbusters movie coming out this summer! As I'm sure I don't have to tell you, a lot of people are unhappy about this fact and have expressed their concerns with a tenor that's, let's just say... violently sexist?For some, the speed with which one can type a sent … | Continue reading
Agar.io is a quirky game that has gained a massive audience in part because you can easily play it against so many other people at once. The mobile and PC game starts you out as a tiny bacteria cell (Agar refers to the substance that scientists use to create bacteria cultures). T … | Continue reading
I'd thought the weirdest part of Samsung's Gear VR promotional blitz would be William H. Macy having a VR fantasy about hawking Samsung phones. Nope! It's the part where Samsung partnered with Six Flags to have people wear Gear VRs on literal roller coasters.If you visit one of n … | Continue reading
Bitcoin can make a big impact in Africa, as the continent lacks a stable financial infrastructure in most areas. On top of that, most African countries are plagued by hyperinflationary fiat currencies, making it that much harder for people to make ends meet. Now that Bidorbuy acc … | Continue reading
When Amazon first unveiled the Echo, its smart speaker with the Alexa virtual assistant, most people didn't know what to do or expect from the thing. And not surprisingly: Amazon had given no hints or advance notice that it was even releasing the tubular speaker. In the time sinc … | Continue reading
Amazon usually wants to make shopping on its site as easy as possible for people, but that's definitely not the case with one of its newest gadgets.At launch, Amazon is only selling the new Echo Dot speaker through Alexa, its voice assistant. That means you already have to own a … | Continue reading
Don’t miss Alexander Klöpping at TNW Europe in May! Get your discount ticket here. What do you call people who are stretching the limits of their imaginations to engineer a new future? At The Next Web, we went with imagineers. Produced in partnership with the City of Amsterdam … | Continue reading
While Angie’s List continues to reject acquisition offers, the home services marketplace is taking a big step to boost its online audience, and hopefully the number of people using it to find their next carpenter or masseuse. Today, the company is announcing that it will drop its … | Continue reading
That's because people can't be trusted to be nice online and are increasingly using social platforms for things like revenge porn and harassment. | Continue reading
YouTube doesn’t have an official way to search by address, but a YouTube experiment on GitHub lets you type in a street name and it’ll dig up every video shot in that area. The results can be a little creepy or just plain weird, as Reddit found out. People have found clips like t … | Continue reading
The group files into the theater, buzzing. People hustle to get to the front row, sitting side by side, no empty seats. The event starts on time, the excitement is palpable. The other group wanders in. The front row is... | Continue reading
Slack just added a new feature that makes it a lot more competitive with Skype and Google Hangouts.The company is now testing a feature, currently available to all users, that allows people to make voice calls within Slack. The company is also working on video calls and screen sh … | Continue reading
A lot of people root their phones and many may ask what apps to get once they're rooted. In this list, we'll go over the best root apps for Android | Continue reading
Stop emailing people like it's 1999. There's a much better way to contact influencers, get them to share your content and get a unique quote. Find out how here. | Continue reading
Last year hackers stole sensitive records from over 100,000 350,000 700,000 people after a security breach of the IRS website. Hackers found a vulnerability in the ‘Get Transcript’ verification process and used this to amass some 700,000 names, Social Security numbers, addresses … | Continue reading
Google today announced that Google Docs, the web and mobile app for composing web-based documents, is getting a few new templates. These are in addition to the document templates Google introduced last year. But the new ones are special, Google will tell you, because they were de … | Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the formation of a new Defense Innovation Advisory Board, with the idea of improving the department with help from people in the private sector from Silicon Valley and other areas. Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s umb … | Continue reading
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt will chair a new advisory board for the Department of Defense, according to a statement from the department released today. The Defense Innovation Advisory Board will comprise up to 12 people from the private sector, meant to use their exp … | Continue reading
GoTenna, the device for people who want to stay connected when they don’t have cell signal, has found a natural launch partner — outdoor equipment retailer REI. Daniela Perdomo, goTenna’s CEO and co-founder, told me that REI has signed on to be the startup’s exclusive retail laun … | Continue reading
Recruitment services giant CareerBuilder is expanding into the background screening realm today with the acquisition of Illinois-based Aurico. CareerBuilder is perhaps better known to most people for CareerBuilder.com, one of the biggest recruitment websites in the U.S. But the c … | Continue reading
Apple is testing a small change to iOS that'll remind people with a company phone that their company may be watching. On Reddit, user MaGNeTiX posted screenshots of a new message that showed up on their iPhone after updating to the latest iOS 9.3 beta. On the lock screen, a perma … | Continue reading
How do people view search results? The answer to this questions brings great insight to those trying to make money on search marketing, whether SEO or PPC. We conducted a new eye tracking study to find out. There have been a few eye-tracking and mouse-tracking studies done on se … | Continue reading