After launching on Android in October last year, a pitstop feature has finally dropped on Google Maps for iOS today. When you’re in navigation mode, you can now tap the magnifying glass in the top right corner to access a drop-down menu of suggested pitstops, like a gas station, … | Continue reading
The Conker series returns this year with Young Conker, but fans might not recognize the squirrel. The new adventure, which will be packaged with the Microsoft HoloLens developer's kit, takes place in the player's living room. The character runs across floors, tables, and walls to … | Continue reading
Even though Twitter has more than 300 million active users, it still hasn’t managed to get into the black. In a shareholder document for the year ending 2015, the company said it has lost more than $2.09 billion since it was founded due to “significant operating losses.” Despite … | Continue reading
Twitter filed today its annual report with securities regulators. While there are no earth-shattering revelations, there are plenty of nuggets that show how recently re-minted CEO Jack Dorsey continues to put his stamp on the company as well as the challenges it faces. Here are 1 … | Continue reading
No more guessworkMicrosoft HoloLens, the company's highly anticipated augmented-reality headgear finally has an official ship date: March 30th.This is good news for developers who started submitting applications to buy the $3,000 headset back in October of last year. Now, once th … | Continue reading
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Nominations are now open for The Europas Awards 2016, the European Tech Startup Awards. The Europas will be held on June 14, 2016, in London. You can nominate an individual (founder, investor etc) or startup that you think in the last year deserves to be recognized RIGHT HERE. Th … | Continue reading
Date: 29/02/2016More informationThis year we mark International Rare Diseases Day on the rare day of 29 February. Few treatments are available for rare disease sufferers. With approximately 8,000 documented rare diseases affecting between 27 and 36 million Europeans, research int … | Continue reading
Rescue authorities in Australia are using drones to identify sharks and provide assistance to swimmers threatened by them. The camera-equipped drones were launched this week as part of a trial program, and will patrol the coastline of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) … | Continue reading
Every year, The Next Web holds hundreds of interviews with young startups in order to shortlist the cream of the crop and invite them to Boost, our early-stage growth program at The Next Web Conference. With the eleventh edition of our flagship Amsterdam conference coming up in M … | Continue reading
In what has been one strange and cryptic piece of news after another about the troubles that Cryptsy and its founder have been surrounded by, an update of the class action lawsuit against them has been released and it expands the subjects of whom is liable for the lost assets ove … | Continue reading
Every four years, the worldwide calendar reminds us of a secret. Leaping. Leaping powers innovation, it is the engine of not only our economy, but of a thrilling and generous life. Of course, you can (and should) be leaping regularly.... | Continue reading
Raspberry Pi was born on 29 February 2012, the last leap year, and now on the second leap year in the company’s history it’s releasing a major hardware update. The Raspberry Pi 3 features a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core, 1GB of RAM, integrated 802.11n wireless and Bluetooth 4.1, as wel … | Continue reading
In late last year, Bitcoin surged past the established resistance to rise in value. In the month of August and early September, the digital currency was valued at around $200 plus with minimum volatility. However, thanks to the global economic conditions, bitcoin price picked up. … | Continue reading
The best Oscars speeches feel spontaneous. They're the rare, inspiring moments that actually speak to what a winner is passionate about — think Patricia Arquette's call to fight wage inequality. The Academy seemed to be pushing for more of those this year by adding a "thank-you t … | Continue reading
In one of the few surprises of the night, Mark Rylance has won Best Supporting Actor for his work in Bridge of Spies. Rylance beat out Christian Bale (The Big Short), Tom Hardy (The Revenant), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight), and Sylvester Stallone (Creed), the presumed frontrunner who … | Continue reading
I am a 24-year-old "millennial" and I passionately support Hillary Clinton for the 45th President of the United States. Yes, we exist. | Continue reading
Ex Machina's subtle sci-fi effects won over Hollywood this year, netting it the 2016 Oscar for Best Visual Effects. It was a bit of a surprise win for the movie. Ex Machina was nominated for two awards tonight, including Best Original Screenplay (which it lost to Spotlight). As a … | Continue reading
It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation after compliance issues forced the CEO to resign. Publicly traded tech companies like Twitter weathered layoffs and stock sel … | Continue reading
Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki just won an Oscar for his work on The Revenant, setting a new Oscar record in the process. This is the third year in a row Lubezki has taken home the award for Best Cinematography, having won the last two years for 2013's Gravity and 2014's Birdma … | Continue reading
Samsung always goes big for the Oscars, and this year it kicked things off by filling the show's first ad slot with a flashy commercial packed with celebrities. Over a minute and a half we got moments with Lil Wayne, Wesley Snipes, Doc Rivers, James Harden, and William H. Macy, w … | Continue reading
Chris Rock is hosting the Oscars for the second time tonight, and he used most of his opening monologue to lambast the awards show for its lack of diversity. (This is the second year in the row there is not a single actor of color nominated for an award). He began by giving the A … | Continue reading
The first Academy Awards has been handed out —€” congratulations to the writers of Spotlight —€” but you might have noticed something different this year: a very fast ticker of on-screen names while the winners walked to the stage. Yes, it's definitely a first, and yes, it's gonn … | Continue reading
This year is filled with important test flights, as private companies like SpaceX get new orbital rockets and vehicles ready for space travel. Space tourism ventures like Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin will continue testing their sub-orbital vehicles too, which could potentially … | Continue reading
Regular readers of my blog know that the topic of women at work is close to my heart, and I always do something special for Women’s Day through my writings on my blog. This year I am excited … | Continue reading
Tonight is Hollywood's biggest awards show — and this year, its most controversial one. Some actors and filmmakers are boycotting the show in response to its repeated failure to recognize the work of non-white artists, but you should still expect most of the nominees to drag them … | Continue reading
If you’re a WhatsApp user with an older device, I have some bad news for you: your OS may no longer be supported by next year. To summarize, WhatsApp will only be available on Android 2.3+, iOS and Windows phone 8.1+ “by the end of 2016.” In total, it’s ending support for: All B … | Continue reading
Vice President Joe Biden showed up for a round table discussion at the University of California San Francisco’s Genentech Hall this morning for a round table discussion with those in the tech industry about efforts towards a future without cancer. Biden’s 46-year-old son Beau pas … | Continue reading
We sometimes lament the end of days when tinkerers like Leonardo da Vinci crafted amazing gadgets using a mix of art and mechanics, rather than today's computer code. That old-school approach is what makes the beautifully designed automaton clock called Plock, created by 22-year- … | Continue reading
The Pokemon franchise turns 20 years old today, and in that time there have been a lot of pocket monsters. What started out as 150 fictional critters has ballooned to 721 across six generations of games — that doesn't even include what new additions are coming in Pokemon Sun and … | Continue reading
Blog growth is frustratingly slow for many people. Here’s a look back one year after coming on to the blog at Yotpo, about what worked, what didn’t – and what we learned in the process. You’ve heard it once and you’ll hear it again: blogging is a marathon, not a sprint. And for m … | Continue reading
These GDC announcements almost feel like a formality at this point, but, once again, we will be at GDC in San Francisco. This year it falls on the week of March 14th, and if you're a reader, strap in for what's typically an avalanche of game previews as all sorts of developers pi … | Continue reading
New developers who were interested in linking up with the Venmo API got quite a shocking eyeful today when they tried to access the sign-up page: it wasn’t there. But contrary to reports, Venmo hadn’t pulled the plug its six-year-old API beta entirely — the company has paused the … | Continue reading
Mobile app developers who wanted to easily port their apps from Android or iOS to Windows 10 devices were in luck when Microsoft announced it created tools to help with that transition last year. But now Microsoft is going back and dropping the Android bridge, focusing on just iO … | Continue reading
In May of last year, we reported a story that hackers had stolen sensitive tax information from over 100,000 taxpayers. By August, the IRS had revised its estimate to report the number affected may have been as high as 330,000. Today, in its latest revision, the IRS claims that t … | Continue reading
Earlier this week a NeoGAF poster going by Trevelyan9999 claimed to have insider knowledge that the next Zelda game would launch later this year as an NX title - or at least come to NX very shortly after a Wii U release. Rumours are a dime a dozen in this industry, so we didn't p … | Continue reading
UCLA School of Law failed to uphold its own standard when it used trademarked Rock Band 4 images in a piece of marketing material paying tribute to one of its alumni.The ad in question honoured its 2010 Alumnus of the Year, John Branca, after Billboard named him one of its Power … | Continue reading
Just one month after quietly discontinuing the option, Sprint has decided to revive two-year contracts. That makes it the only one of the big four carriers in the US still offering the 24-month payment plan. Sprint says it brought the option back after receiving feedback from cus … | Continue reading
Like Hollywood itself, the Oscar statue's sparkling exterior conceals its no less meritorious, but certainly less glamorous interior: britannia metal. Or at least that was the case until this year, as the Oscars will make the switch to bronze, shunning the mighty britannia after … | Continue reading
The year is 2016, and you still have a floppy disc-compatible A drive in your computer. You wouldn’t want to just let that go to waste, would you? But how do you put a 3.5-inch floppy to use when they only hold 1.4 MB of data?You throw an SD card in it, which conveniently fits ri … | Continue reading
Last year's Galaxy S6 Edge proved to be quite a big seller at the expense of the standard S6. Will history repeat this year, too? It's all up to you! | Continue reading
It’s not always easy as a tech company to make yourself relevant to every single big public event. But Google has had a pretty nice go at shoehorning itself into the Oscars this year by letting you travel through a winning movie’s story using Maps. Can you guess which films they’ … | Continue reading
Bryan Henderson has told the people behind a new game bundle designed to give him up to $10,000 that he wants the money to go to charity instead.Henderson told GameBundle.com to give the 10 per cent of revenue promised to him by the company to video game charity Special Effect.La … | Continue reading
2016 is the year of Pokémon. Nintendo revealed Pokémon Sun and Moon today, the next entries in its popular series that has so far sold over 200 million games. We don’t know much about Sun and Moon yet, other than that it will come out worldwide this holiday. This announcement com … | Continue reading
At a brief online event today, Nintendo unveiled the next big Pokemon games: Sun and Moon. The two releases will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS in holiday 2016, and are the first major entries in the series since Pokemon X and Y in 2013. The titles for the games actually leaked ou … | Continue reading
Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, which will launch for 3DS this year.The two games were announced just now in a Pokémon Direct broadcast from Nintendo.Pokémon celebrates its 20th anniversary this year - a perfect time, then, for a new generation of … | Continue reading
Time's (basically) up: how many Oscar films did you manage to see this year? I made it through five of the eight best picture nominees, plus another five features that show up elsewhere in the list. Which, really, should be enough to let me argue with people even though I haven't … | Continue reading
This month saw brewer Greene King launch its year-long What's The Story campaign, featuring an interactive taxi experience. | Continue reading