Bumble, the popular dating app where girls make the first move, has released an update that may turn the dating app world on its head. The new feature, called BFF, essentially lets users use the same swiping and matching algorithms for friendship instead of dating. Here’s how it … | Continue reading
New York City has unveiled its newest transport destination – and in the process has become an Instagram lover’s paradise. The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, built by architect Santiago Calatrava is a temple of soaring white lines, glass and giant marble floors. Which mea … | Continue reading
If the climbs, drops and loops of roller coasters weren’t thrilling enough for you, Six Flags is enhancing your coaster experience with virtual reality.Amusement park giant Six Flags announced today it has teamed up with Samsung to bring the world of roller coasters together with … | Continue reading
Teslagrad developer Rain Games has announced a follow-up to its lauded 2014 metroidvania with World to the West.Set in the same universe as Teslagrad, World to the West opts for a top-down perspective that's more Zelda than Metroid, though it seems to retain its action puzzler ro … | Continue reading
Monster Hunter X is coming to the western world as Monster Hunter: Generations this summer on 3DS.This marks the first game in the franchise to let you play… | Continue reading
If you aren't familiar with the manga and anime Attack on Titan, you're missing out on what is a very unique story in a very unique universe. If anime isn't your thing, you'll have the opportunity to explore the world of Attack in Titan on your mobile since GameSamba, Funimation, … | Continue reading
Capturing the key moments of the 2016 Oscar ceremony— when Spotlight was crowned Best Picture and Leo finally got his award— took a team of nearly 20 Getty Images staffers, lightning fast reflexes and just a little help from robots.Getty Images, one of the biggest photo services … | Continue reading
Nintendo's offbeat Paper Mario series is returning to home consoles later this year. As the name suggests, Paper Mario: Color Splash is about returning color to a monochrome world. How do you add color to the world, you ask? It's simple: hit things with a magic paint hammer. That … | Continue reading
Super Nintendo favorites Pilotwings, Super Mario World, and F-Zero will be available for download from the Nintendo eShop beginning today. The SNES downloads will be limited to New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL, meaning Nintendo 2DS and original Nintendo 3DS hardware won't … | Continue reading
Super Nintendo games are finally coming to the 3DS' Virtual Console, with Earthbound and Super Mario World available from tonight on the eShop. There's a catch, though - only the most recent iteration of the hardware, the new 3DS, will support the games. We're not sure whether yo … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Despite the volume of, ahem, material revealed prior to the show, this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain still proved to be one of the more exciting conventions in recent years. Almost every major phone manufacturer had significant products to show off, s … | Continue reading
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that Niantic was planning on showing us more of Pokemon GO in a GDC talk titled Catch 'Em All: Pokemon GO and Real World Gaming. Well, the updated GDC schedule published today has a big "CANCELED" next to the talk, so it looks like any chance to lea … | Continue reading
Smithsonian researchers and a photographer placed "biocubes" in a bunch of different locations around the world to document what creatures and general life passed through them in a typical day. They took photos of everything that came within the range of the one-cubic-foot area, … | 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
Advertisers, publishers, and agencies are adjusting their strategies to keep up with the development of native advertising. They are experimenting with new tactics to fit into the digital marketing world. As native advertising is growing conferences are good opportunities to take … | Continue reading
The world is getting ready for virtual reality — well, the world of PC, smartphone, and PlayStation 4 owners. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who helped design the Rift head-mounted display that has everyone buzzing about the potential of VR, has said it’s Apple’s fault that Mac do … | Continue reading
Forget about the world's most magical butter knife and enter into the high tech world of butter spray, on command. The biēm Butter Sprayer transforms any stick of butter straight from your fridge into mistable spray that begs for popcorn, toast or a baked potato. The gadget, whic … | Continue reading
Jaguar is trying to help Olympic skier Graham Bell become the world's fastest man on skis, the company announced at the Geneva Motor Show. Bell hopes to reach speeds upwards of 180 miles per hour next year, which would break the world downhill speed skiing record by more than 20 … | Continue reading
Intel is reportedly jumping into the world of augmented reality with a new headset. The company is using its RealSense 3D camera technology in the AR headset, according to the Wall Street Journal.Augmented reality is a separate but similar idea to virtual reality. Instead of taki … | Continue reading
HTC wants to keep you safe in our new, VR-powered world. Don't get too immersed -- the furniture around you still can't be sat on. | Continue reading
You want to reach out to your crush, but what do you say? Do you start with "u up?", or go for something less thirsty? Who knows?! Messaging apps may be the most popular pieces of software in the world, but good luck getting them to do much work on your behalf. It's 2016 and we'r … | Continue reading
Security experts are not happy about the FBI's proposal to break security on an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino attack. Today, seven of those experts submitted their arguments in an amicus brief to the court considering the order, arguing the proposed software would weaken lo … | Continue reading
Despite being branded ‘The Coolest Kid on the Nordic Block’, Copenhagen has often remained a bit of a mystery to those outside Scandinavia. Inside the city lives a startup movement which over the past ten years has gathered significant pace, and has begun to force the rest of the … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Never before have critical hits proven more dramatic than at the Pokémon World Championships. While the commentators quickly break down the obvious metagame-specific strategies and moves the competitors might make in a given turn, it’s these moments of pure variance – cr … | Continue reading
We knew the much-hyped, open-world space exploration game No Man's Sky would be coming In June, and now we finally have a date: June 21st. Hello Games and Sony have announced the release date, with Hello Games planning to release the PC version simultaneously alongside its PlaySt … | Continue reading
Alaska is home to one of the toughest endurance events in the world: the Iditarod — a 1000+ miles dog sled race across the vast wilderness that is the U.S.’s northernmost state. Most of us will never get to see this race in person (or participate in it), but you can now experienc … | Continue reading
It’s hard to get the exact data on how many startup acceleration programs are being launched every year, but it’s definitely a lot. If you search Google News for something like “new startup accelerator,” it will return hundreds of headlines from all over the world. At the moment … | Continue reading
In its ongoing bid to convince the world that, yes, you do really want to be speaking voice commands at a device across the room, Amazon has launched two new products that build on the launch of the original Echo. The Echo Dot is a smaller, cheaper version of the Echo that uses t … | Continue reading
Getting through to Apple’s customer care team on the phone is like a game of roulette, you could get someone in two minutes today and wait hours the next. Likewise, if you walk into an Apple store in any city in the world, you’re probably going to face a lengthy queue or be told … | Continue reading
The world of luxury yachts isn’t something we dip into a lot here at The Next Web, but when one comes along and looks so much like a cross between the ancient pyramids of the past and any UFO-like craft depicted by sci-fi fantasy, I just couldn’t resist. According to design Jonat … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: BARCELONA, Spain — Across the floors of the mobile industry’s annual mega trade show a year ago, it was difficult to walk the cavernous trade show halls without someone shoving a smartwatch in your face. In 2015, Mobile World Congress took place at a precipitous moment … | Continue reading
The Zika virus outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February. Even though the mosquito-borne virus doesn't cause symptoms in the majority of cases, it has been linked to an increase in a fatal birth defect known as microcephaly … | Continue reading
Dubai möchte Drohnenrennen zum ernstzunehmenden Zukunftssport adeln: Am World Drone Prix werden mehr als hundert Teams um Preisgelder im Wert von einer Million US-Dollar kämpfen. Zuerst heißt es, die Qualifikation am 7. und 8. M&aum... | Continue reading
Investing in Binary Options is becoming one of the most common ways to multiply digital coins. There are a few Binary Options Brokers already accepting Bitcoin and only two or three of those are trusted professional brokers. Today, we will introduce you to 24option. Bitcoin inves … | Continue reading
It's that time of week for new iOS game releases, and one big-name game actually had a very strange release, Supercell's latest Clash Royale, which exited soft-launch status and went worldwide late last night. Curiously, Apple went ahead and changed the Editor's Choice to Clash R … | Continue reading
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have just detailed a proof-of-concept feat that represents a significant leap in the world of prosthesis. In the experiment a young man who wasn’t missing any limbs but required brain mapping to pinpoint the origin of his seizures underwent a procedur … | Continue reading
Last week, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) confirmed that it's planning to introduce semi-closed cockpits in Formula One starting in 2017. But today, in a new issue of Auto (the federation's trade publication), the FIA finally showed off a real-world version o … | Continue reading
One of the problems with virtual reality is that it’s going to cut you off from the world around you, but HTC and Valve have already figured out one solution to help you keep your bearings. The HTC Vive head-mounted display, which is up for preorder and ships starting in April, h … | Continue reading
The world is awash with productivity apps, from well-known, multi-use tools like Evernote, Slack and Trello, to niche tools like the Hemingway App and RescueTime. Yet, we all still struggle with maximizing productivity, particularly in larger organizational teams. Why? With so ma … | Continue reading
A second piece of the lost MH370 airliner may have washed ashore in Mozambique. Malaysian Airlines officials and Mozambique authorities are both urging caution until the part is confirmed, but there aren't very many 777s losing horizontal stabilizers in that part of the world. | Continue reading
It's hard to believe it's been a year since our last National Banana Cream Pie day, but, here we are. As far as huge iOS releases are concerned this week, it sort of seems like the entire proverbial App Store runway has been cleared for Supercell's Clash Royale [Free] to take off … | Continue reading
Here's the first trailer for Table Top Racing: World Tour, a miniaturised racer from WipEout co-creator Nick Burcombe.We've known for over a year that TTR: World Tour would be PlayStation 4 timed-exclusive, but developer Playrise Digital has today confirmed PC and Xbox One editio … | Continue reading
Interested in dipping your toe into the world of programming? What about configuring your very own set-top box? Well, Raspberry Pi is probably were you should start, and the folks at Vilros have everything a Pi beginner needs all in one affordable package. | Continue reading
In today’s hacker-heavy world, one can hardly be accused of privacy paranoia when the headlines are drawing attention to new security issues and threats every day. Life throws enough curveballs your way without the hassle of worrying about your phone conversations being monitored … | Continue reading
The Bentley Mulsanne is perhaps the most elegant way to be chauffeured around, insulated from the hoi polloi. There's plenty of legroom, massaging seats, and curtains to close out the world and get some privacy, or perhaps just a nap on your way to an important business meeting.B … | Continue reading
Harmonix, the creators of Rock Band, might be one of the biggest independent game studios in the world but they still need a little help getting their game onto PC for the first time. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign seeking to raise $1.5 million by April 5 to cre … | Continue reading
There's a new trailer for RollerCoaster Tycoon World, focusing on its user-generated content capabilities.The video shows how you'll be able to add hundreds… | Continue reading