Lemon flavoured bakes are the best. Especially this time of year when you crave more zesty, fresh flavours. These lemon drizzle cake slices are perfect for when you fancy lemon cake but don’t want to make a huge cake with giant slices (or you do, but know you shouldn’t) and if us … | Continue reading
If you were hoping that John Oliver would do a deep dive on the iPhone encryption debate: good news. Today’s the day. Read More | 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
Marley Spoon, the cook-at-home food delivery service that competes with the likes of Gousto, Blue Apron, Plated, and Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh, has closed $17 million in Series B funding. Read More | Continue reading
A world of hurt: Global literacy is falling. Around the world, just 12% of people read at “proficient” levels. What’s a communicator to do? | Continue reading
The Star Wars movies have captured the imaginations of everyone, from baby boomers through millennials on down to tots. It seems like everyone has been talking about the latest episode in this saga. Around the water cooler, discussions begin with “Have you seen it?” Being a datab … | 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
Future Finance — a startup based out of Dublin that provides loans to students using big data algorithms to asses their credit-worthiness — is today announcing a large round of funding of its own to build its business out in Europe. The company has raised £119 million ($171 milli … | Continue reading
Advertising has lost sight of a very basic concept: The pleasure principle. In the “golden days,” the 1960s and 1970s, colorful creative in a full-page spread was enough to create buzz — and that’s not just Mad Men nostalgia talking. With the advent of the Internet, new technolog … | Continue reading
As the launch dates of the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive virtual reality headsets approach, so does the release of a ton of awesome VR gaming content. To gamers with full Steam libraries however, it’s kind of a shame that once they put the headset on, most of their favorite conten … | Continue reading
The opposing views of those advocating for preserving the current implementation of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core), and those who believe that the block size needs to be increased immediately to overcome scalability challenges, has balkanized the Bitcoin developer community into mainly t … | Continue reading
When vulnerability is injected into technology used worldwide, it becomes everyone’s liability. Read More | Continue reading
We do not possess the ability to read the future, and yet we can predict with a high level of certainty that we will see more major cybersecurity incidents in 2016 and 2017. The world’s cybersecurity capability is not able to advance in line with the growing vulnerabilities. Incr … | Continue reading
In a chat with Guy Kawasaki at South by Southwest, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales spoke out about self-interested parties editing their own page on the Internet’s collaborated encyclopedia. “Companies think it’s a powerful marketing tool but I think they’re deranged and should … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price reversed to the downside after a failed attempt on the resistance ceiling. As it turns out there are negative elements among the Core developers – further biasing price to the downside.. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full anal … | Continue reading
NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency’s next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 500 seconds. The SLS, which will use 4 RS-25 engines in its core stage, is designed to take humans to deep space destinations like asteroids or … | Continue reading
The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Apple to build a new version of its mobile operating system (iOS, or GovOS) so that the contents of an iPhone can be removed from an iPhone use … | Continue reading
Android N is out, and N stands for nut tellin’! Google dropped a bombshell this week: a very early preview of Android N that we’re still digging through to find all the goodies. Who’s excited? | Continue reading
Machines 3, humans 1… That’s the current score in a five-match series being played out between DeepMind’s AlphaGo and human Go world champion, Lee Sedol. Read More | Continue reading
In the first part of this series, we learned about designing products that use good triggers and motivators to get users like Joe to engage in healthy behaviors. Now, how can we ensure that these new behaviors become long-term habits? In this second part, we return to Nir Eyal’s … | Continue reading
Are you a designer and struggling to promote yourself online? Online portfolios (like Dribble and Behance) are a great way to get the word out! Read on to find more about them. | Continue reading
New domain extensions have accumulated some pretty big numbers over the last couple of years. Collective registrations for the new GTLDs (generic top-level domains) have now surpassed 13 million, according to NTLD stats. This number is not small by any means. Read More | Continue reading
The World Economic Forum, the Detroit Auto Show and CES all occurred recently, and each has driven a great deal of discussion around self-driving cars. The expectation is that within a decade we will begin to see autonomous vehicles on the streets and a correlated reduction in ac … | Continue reading
While internet connects us and unites us, it also has the potential to facilitate a kind of imperialism and monoculture. Read More | Continue reading
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at askle … | Continue reading
The concept of artificial intelligence has been around for a long time. We’re all familiar with HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, C-3PO from Star Wars and, more recently, Samantha from Her. In written fiction, AI characters show up in stories from writers like Philip K. Dick, … | Continue reading
Is the tech industry partly responsible for the rise of Donald Trump? That’s what John Robb, who’s always worth reading, suggests in a series of recent posts, citing the great Nassim Taleb in support. His vision: “The nation-state as we’ve known it is rapidly hollowing out … this … | Continue reading
Snapchat has been known for some bold (and perplexing) moves in regards to content features, attempting to revamp event marketing through Stories, redefine journalism through Discover and rethink the selfie through Lenses. They’ve tackled software features but now they may be loo … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest subjects these days, and recent advances in technology make AI even closer to reality than most of us can imagine. The subject really got traction when Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and more than 1,000 AI and robotics researchers signed … | Continue reading
Consider this a public service announcement for DoorDash customers. In the coming weeks, you’re going to start seeing something new on your bills — a service fee.However, a spokesperson for the food delivery service said it’s not actually a new fee, and the total cost won’t chang … | Continue reading
“I am way on the civil liberties side of this thing” President Barack Obama said today regarding the balance between privacy and security surrounding the FBI’s ongoing fight with Apple about penetrating encryption. While speaking today at SXSW, Obama said he could not comment dir … | Continue reading
“[Technology can] empower individuals to do things they could have never dreamed of before, but also empower folks who are very dangerous to spread dangerous messages” President Barack Obama said today. Obama took the stage at South By Southwest to discuss how technology could be … | Continue reading
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Daniel Ilkovich, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Friday March 11 at 1pm PT. Our LIVE chat during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang on Facebook HEREConnect with our other show – G3 – on Faceboo … | Continue reading
The revised and turbocharged 2017 Ferrari California T is here, but who exactly is this V8 super car made for? Mashable Transportation Reporter Nick Jaynes examines the newest GT Ferrari.More details: http://on.mash.to/1Mc4nOc Read more...More about Technology, Cars, California, … | Continue reading
While most people think about hashtags, marketing stunts and SoLoMo when they hear about the Interactive part of SXSW in Austin, this year is going to be a bit different as President Barack Obama is about to give a keynote at the event. The event should start at 2:40 PM in Austin … | Continue reading
YouTube is a beautifully weird world full of surprises. It turn’s out there’s a big community of TV show and movie reaction YouTubers out there. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of views. And yet, it seems like YouTube isn’t the right platform f … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new tool that will make it easier for users of Evernote’s note-taking service to make the transition to rival application OneNote, a part of the Microsoft Office suite. The “OneNote Importer tool,” as the software is called, aims to address the switchin … | Continue reading
For the fifth year in a row, biz school professors Yael Hochberg of Rice University and Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond have ranked the many accelerator programs now up and running in the U.S. as a way of helping making sense of which are worth the time, effort, and, of … | Continue reading
This week, Facebook made a selfie filter app acquisition, Google surprised us with the Android N preview, and we ate bugs. Yeah, seriously. Silicon Valley is eating bugs now. These are the tech headlines you don’t want to miss this week. Read More | 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
Boston’s tech scene should shake off its inferiority complex: The “Boston Tech Party” revolution is starting to unfold. After many years of under-the-radar growth and profitable companies, the arrival of General Electric to the Seaport District brings Boston the high-profile “anc … | 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
An open source project hopes to draw on crowdsourced contributions to make Wikipedia more accessible by adding text to speech synthesis that will enable users of the online encyclopedia to have portions of the text read out to them. Read More | Continue reading
Millions of people around the world rely on Wikipedia for information on just about every topic under the sun, offered in nearly 300 languages and at no charge. But it’s less accessible to those with vision impairments and learning disabilities. To address this, the online encycl … | 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
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
As the iPhone unlocking case becomes more heated, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch went on late night television to defend the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s stance. Read More | Continue reading
With all the hoopla surrounding the FBI-Apple controversy, it may surprise you how easy it is to hack into an iPhone. In this video, Skycure CEO Adi Sharabani demonstrated how simple it was to access my device. He also offered some tips for keeping your smartphone secure. Read M … | Continue reading