Play buttonNvidia Nvidia replicated the moon landing with RTX graphicsTNW - Napier LopezYou may recall that approximately five years ago, Nvidia showed off its latest lighting tech (at the time) by recreating the Apollo 11 moon landing. The video was meant to help debunk moon landing conspiracy
Diapers This thread about peeing in space is the best thing on Twitter todayTNW - Bryan ClarkIt’s not often I’m glued to my screen while someone talks about the intricacies of urination. Twitter, for all its problems, sometimes delivers a thread too good to pass up. These tales, often spun as
WhatsApp How to send images on WhatsApp without compressionTNW - Rachel KaserWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. WhatsApp is notorious for compressing its images, so that otherwise-beautiful
Play buttonUMP Pro baseball league uses AI umpire for the first time, coach gets ejected for arguing with itTNW - Tristan GreeneYou’re outta here! Professional baseball‘s first AI umpire – in the form of an automated strike zone – didn’t take long to chalk up its first ejection after 1988 Cy Young winner and current pitching coach
Nintendo Switch Consoles aren't selling because the next-gen is comingTNW - Rachel KaserSales of current-generation consoles are starting to drop dramatically — most likely because the next generation is on the horizon. While we won’t see new consoles until next year, it appears consumers
IBM Google expected to achieve quantum supremacy in 2019: Here’s what that meansTNW - Tristan GreeneGoogle‘s reportedly on the verge of demonstrating a quantum computer capable of feats no ordinary classical computer could perform. The term for this is quantum supremacy, and experts believe the Mountain
Wireless The Bowers & Wilkins Formation Duo might actually justify their $4,000 priceTNW - Napier LopezAs a general rule, audiophiles are skeptical of wireless audio. Despite a few popular models like the KEF LSX, audio enthusiasts have met wireless speakers with some apprehension given the technology degrades
Stadia offers paying subscribers monthly free games, no bluetooth supportTNW - Rachel KaserStadia, Google’s attempt to enter the gaming industry via the cloud, has been teased several times through the last few months. Yesterday, we learned more about the platform via a Reddit AMA — and while
Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto left Bitcoin because of the CIA, a theoryTNW - David CanellisWelcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and info to keep you up to date in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency world. Bitcoin‘s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been noticeably
Play buttonSolar Panels Google made a massive portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer with 107,000 solar panelsTNW - MixIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of NASA’s historic moon landing mission, Google built a massive portrait of Apollo 11 software lead Margaret Hamilton using only solar panels and the reflection the
Technology Australian retirees lose their $900,000 pension fund in cryptocurrency scamTNW - Yessi Bello PerezA retired couple in Australia have reportedly lost $900,000 to an elaborate cryptocurrency scam. Mike and Karen Taylor were traveling around Australia in a camper van when they fell for the online scam.
Train how to earn $100K a year as an ethical hacker with this $15 courseTNW - TNW DealsEthical hacking may sound like a contradiction, but it’s actually one of the most critical positions in any modern IT environment. Ethical hacking allows you and your company to assemble your own team
Technology Google and Facebook track your porn habits – even in incognito modeTNW - MixIt turns out Google and Facebook are tracking your porn consumption habits big time, and even incognito mode can’t save you from their omnipotent gaze – or so say researchers from Microsoft, Carnegie University,
GoPro CHEAP: Tell 360 degree tales of your adventures with $300 off GoPro FusionTNW - Deals on TNWWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! So, it’s Friday today. What are your weekend plans? Are you going to be an honorary member of the sloth family and
Seychelles US watchdog preps BitMEX probe over alleged illegal cryptocurrency tradeTNW - Yessi Bello PerezCryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter, the CFTC is looking into
Learn the ins and outs of digital marketing for just $35TNW - TNW DealsAsk any 13-year-old if they’re a social media expert and you’re likely to hear a loud, fast, confident affirmative. And in their own way, they’re probably right. If social media was all about firing off
Iraq After endless conflicts, an entrepreneurial ecosystem blooms in IraqTNW - Ravie LakshmananYou’ll have to cut Iraq some slack for being late to the tech startup party. Since at least the early 2000s, the country was the embodiment of civil war, violence, and protracted armed conflicts. But all
Google Maps How to use Google to remember where you parkedTNW - Matthew BeedhamWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As of March 2019, there were over 38 million cars on the roads
Recruitment If you want to hire better people, step up your ‘recruitment marketing’TNW - Adrian CernatHave you noticed a shift in the tasks you’re being asked to do as a recruiter recently? Things like monitoring your company’s reputation on review sites, being sure to respond to mentions on social media,
FaceApp How to request FaceApp to remove your data from its serversTNW - Ivan MehtaWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. FaceApp is the talk of the town right now. Everyone’s trying out
Magnetism A layer of ‘aerogel’ could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there – but here’s why we should waitTNW - The ConversationTransforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is also too thin to protect any living organisms from harmful
Apps How to build Reddit custom feeds (also known as ‘multis’) like a proTNW - MixWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Before I became a journalist, Reddit was my preferred source of
Instagram Instagram will notify you if your account is getting bannedTNW - Ivan MehtaInstagram has just introduced a new policy that’ll notify you if your account is at risk of getting banned. The social network will let you know if it finds one of your posts problematic, and even offer
NSO Group NSO Group's Pegasus spyware can now access data from Google, Facebook, iCloudTNW - Ravie LakshmananThe Israeli company behind WhatsApp hack earlier this May has developed new technology that can clandestinely steal a user’s data from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft. According to The Times
Product Recalls How scientists could one day predict your memoriesTNW - The ConversationDo you remember your first kiss? What about your grandma dying? Chances are you do, and that’s because emotional memories are at the core of our personal life story. Some rare moments are just incredibly
Software Creating software for multiple OSes: 13 things new developers need to rememberTNW - Scott GerberDeveloping across platforms is no bed of roses, especially when you’re first starting out as a developer. Individual operating systems tend to have their own quirks when coding for them, and testing how
Coinbase Coinbase quietly kills its loss-making cryptocurrency investment packagesTNW - Matthew BeedhamFurther to shutting down its cryptocurrency index fund, Coinbase has seemingly closed its “Bundle” now too. According to an update on its FAQ page, spotted by The Block, Coinbase Bundles “have been deprecated,”
Alibaba Group Financial and location data of millions of loan app users in China leakedTNW - Ivan MehtaIn China, over 100 loan apps are leaking their users’ private data, including contact details, financial information, and even location data. The information is contained in a database spanning 889 GB;
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan begins intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic inside the countryTNW - Ravie LakshmananThe Kazakhstan government has started to intercept all HTTPS traffic from all devices within its borders effective July 17, reports ZDNet. Local internet service providers (ISPs) have been instructed the
Music Videos YouTube's newest feature could save you a bundle in mobile data chargesTNW - Bryan ClarkYouTube’s newest feature lets users seamlessly swap between a song and its music video with no interruption. If an official music video exists, the mobile app’s screen will now display two options: “song”
Play buttonNvidia Nvidia replicated the moon landing with RTX graphicsTNW - Napier LopezYou may recall that approximately five years ago, Nvidia showed off its latest lighting tech (at the time) by recreating the Apollo 11 moon landing. The video was meant to help debunk moon landing conspiracy
Diapers This thread about peeing in space is the best thing on Twitter todayTNW - Bryan ClarkIt’s not often I’m glued to my screen while someone talks about the intricacies of urination. Twitter, for all its problems, sometimes delivers a thread too good to pass up. These tales, often spun as
WhatsApp How to send images on WhatsApp without compressionTNW - Rachel KaserWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. WhatsApp is notorious for compressing its images, so that otherwise-beautiful
Play buttonUMP Pro baseball league uses AI umpire for the first time, coach gets ejected for arguing with itTNW - Tristan GreeneYou’re outta here! Professional baseball‘s first AI umpire – in the form of an automated strike zone – didn’t take long to chalk up its first ejection after 1988 Cy Young winner and current pitching coach
Nintendo Switch Consoles aren't selling because the next-gen is comingTNW - Rachel KaserSales of current-generation consoles are starting to drop dramatically — most likely because the next generation is on the horizon. While we won’t see new consoles until next year, it appears consumers
IBM Google expected to achieve quantum supremacy in 2019: Here’s what that meansTNW - Tristan GreeneGoogle‘s reportedly on the verge of demonstrating a quantum computer capable of feats no ordinary classical computer could perform. The term for this is quantum supremacy, and experts believe the Mountain
Wireless The Bowers & Wilkins Formation Duo might actually justify their $4,000 priceTNW - Napier LopezAs a general rule, audiophiles are skeptical of wireless audio. Despite a few popular models like the KEF LSX, audio enthusiasts have met wireless speakers with some apprehension given the technology degrades
Stadia offers paying subscribers monthly free games, no bluetooth supportTNW - Rachel KaserStadia, Google’s attempt to enter the gaming industry via the cloud, has been teased several times through the last few months. Yesterday, we learned more about the platform via a Reddit AMA — and while
Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto left Bitcoin because of the CIA, a theoryTNW - David CanellisWelcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and info to keep you up to date in the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency world. Bitcoin‘s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been noticeably
Play buttonSolar Panels Google made a massive portrait of Apollo 11 pioneer with 107,000 solar panelsTNW - MixIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of NASA’s historic moon landing mission, Google built a massive portrait of Apollo 11 software lead Margaret Hamilton using only solar panels and the reflection the
Technology Australian retirees lose their $900,000 pension fund in cryptocurrency scamTNW - Yessi Bello PerezA retired couple in Australia have reportedly lost $900,000 to an elaborate cryptocurrency scam. Mike and Karen Taylor were traveling around Australia in a camper van when they fell for the online scam.
Train how to earn $100K a year as an ethical hacker with this $15 courseTNW - TNW DealsEthical hacking may sound like a contradiction, but it’s actually one of the most critical positions in any modern IT environment. Ethical hacking allows you and your company to assemble your own team
Technology Google and Facebook track your porn habits – even in incognito modeTNW - MixIt turns out Google and Facebook are tracking your porn consumption habits big time, and even incognito mode can’t save you from their omnipotent gaze – or so say researchers from Microsoft, Carnegie University,
GoPro CHEAP: Tell 360 degree tales of your adventures with $300 off GoPro FusionTNW - Deals on TNWWelcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! So, it’s Friday today. What are your weekend plans? Are you going to be an honorary member of the sloth family and
Seychelles US watchdog preps BitMEX probe over alleged illegal cryptocurrency tradeTNW - Yessi Bello PerezCryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter, the CFTC is looking into
Learn the ins and outs of digital marketing for just $35TNW - TNW DealsAsk any 13-year-old if they’re a social media expert and you’re likely to hear a loud, fast, confident affirmative. And in their own way, they’re probably right. If social media was all about firing off
Iraq After endless conflicts, an entrepreneurial ecosystem blooms in IraqTNW - Ravie LakshmananYou’ll have to cut Iraq some slack for being late to the tech startup party. Since at least the early 2000s, the country was the embodiment of civil war, violence, and protracted armed conflicts. But all
Google Maps How to use Google to remember where you parkedTNW - Matthew BeedhamWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. As of March 2019, there were over 38 million cars on the roads
Recruitment If you want to hire better people, step up your ‘recruitment marketing’TNW - Adrian CernatHave you noticed a shift in the tasks you’re being asked to do as a recruiter recently? Things like monitoring your company’s reputation on review sites, being sure to respond to mentions on social media,
FaceApp How to request FaceApp to remove your data from its serversTNW - Ivan MehtaWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. FaceApp is the talk of the town right now. Everyone’s trying out
Magnetism A layer of ‘aerogel’ could make Mars habitable and even enable life to develop there – but here’s why we should waitTNW - The ConversationTransforming the red planet to support life has long been a dream of science fiction. Mars is now too cold to support life. Its atmosphere is also too thin to protect any living organisms from harmful
Apps How to build Reddit custom feeds (also known as ‘multis’) like a proTNW - MixWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Before I became a journalist, Reddit was my preferred source of
Instagram Instagram will notify you if your account is getting bannedTNW - Ivan MehtaInstagram has just introduced a new policy that’ll notify you if your account is at risk of getting banned. The social network will let you know if it finds one of your posts problematic, and even offer
NSO Group NSO Group's Pegasus spyware can now access data from Google, Facebook, iCloudTNW - Ravie LakshmananThe Israeli company behind WhatsApp hack earlier this May has developed new technology that can clandestinely steal a user’s data from Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft. According to The Times
Product Recalls How scientists could one day predict your memoriesTNW - The ConversationDo you remember your first kiss? What about your grandma dying? Chances are you do, and that’s because emotional memories are at the core of our personal life story. Some rare moments are just incredibly
Software Creating software for multiple OSes: 13 things new developers need to rememberTNW - Scott GerberDeveloping across platforms is no bed of roses, especially when you’re first starting out as a developer. Individual operating systems tend to have their own quirks when coding for them, and testing how
Coinbase Coinbase quietly kills its loss-making cryptocurrency investment packagesTNW - Matthew BeedhamFurther to shutting down its cryptocurrency index fund, Coinbase has seemingly closed its “Bundle” now too. According to an update on its FAQ page, spotted by The Block, Coinbase Bundles “have been deprecated,”
Alibaba Group Financial and location data of millions of loan app users in China leakedTNW - Ivan MehtaIn China, over 100 loan apps are leaking their users’ private data, including contact details, financial information, and even location data. The information is contained in a database spanning 889 GB;
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan begins intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic inside the countryTNW - Ravie LakshmananThe Kazakhstan government has started to intercept all HTTPS traffic from all devices within its borders effective July 17, reports ZDNet. Local internet service providers (ISPs) have been instructed the
Music Videos YouTube's newest feature could save you a bundle in mobile data chargesTNW - Bryan ClarkYouTube’s newest feature lets users seamlessly swap between a song and its music video with no interruption. If an official music video exists, the mobile app’s screen will now display two options: “song”
