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A Crowdfunded Rescue On Pakistan’s “Killer Mountain” Saved One Climber
2018-02-01

Another climber was lost to the world’s ninth-highest mountain as crowdfunding campaigns raced to raise enough money to pay for rescue efforts. The world’s mountaineering community managed to crowdfund enough money to finance a rescue mission for French climber Elisabeth Revol, who had been scaling...

Instagram Stories introduces a powerful new medium: Words!
2018-02-01

Earlier this month, The Next Web’s Napier Lopez reported that Instagram was testing a new feature designed to let you add text to Instagram Stories–no photo or video required. Now the feature, dubbed Type Mode, is official, letting you type in brief blocks of text and dress them up with typefaces and...

“Father of Black History” Carter G. Woodson gets a Google Doodle
2018-02-01

To kick off Black History Month, today’s Google Doodle celebrates Carter G. Woodson, the great African American scholar who is considered to be the “Father of Black History.” Woodson was the son of freed slaves, born in the aftermath of the Civil War, and worked on the family farm, working as a...

Hyper-partisan content is still the best performing on Facebook
2018-02-01

Over the last year, Facebook has been scrutinized for its potential role in helping promulgate fake news and hyper-partisan content. Like the stages of grief, first the company denied the problem and over the last few months has admitted it and then slowly announced it would implement ways to try and fix it. But just...

Do Not Watch This Short Horror Film If You Have Kids
2018-02-01

Everybody else, prepare to be terrified by this “Babadook”-like commentary on parenting. What: Behind, a short horror film designed to make parents’ skin crawl.Read Full Story

Y Combinator is launching an “investor school” to help aspiring angels get their wings
2018-02-01

If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming an angel–an angel investor, that is–then Y Combinator wants to have a talk. The elite incubator is launching a program called Startup Investor School, designed for aspiring angels. Topics will include dealflow, dilution, and cap tables. Students who complete the...

Latvian startups to watch: 3D printed casts, crypto inheritances, and a tiny manned aircraft
2018-02-01

With TechChill approaching, it’s worth to bring some attention to some of the promising early-stage startups from the Baltic country making waves this year. Some of them are very fresh and a few others have attracted first funding rounds (or done ICO’s), but here’s our selection of the ten early teams we are...

Amazon Web Services is an exploding IT beast... so learn to tame it for less than $9 per course
2018-02-01

As AWS’s footprint in the cloud industry keeps expanding, now is the time for forward-thinking techheads and IT job seekers to make sure they know the AWS infrastructure. You can earn that knowledge with this comprehensive Amazon Web Services Certification Training Mega Bundle, which is on sale now for only $69 from...

Instagram’s new text-only ‘Type’ feature for Stories is rolling out to everyone
2018-02-01

A couple of weeks ago, we reported Instagram was testing a new text-only format for Stories called Type. Now it’s official: Instagram is rolling out the feature to everyone. We first noticed the test back in December, and then it showed of up on one of our team member’s devices. To recap, the feature shows up as...

Spotify and Discord team up to add music to your gaming chats
2018-02-01

The latest service to throw its weight behind chat client Discord is Spotify, as the two services today announced they’re joining forces. As part of the new partnership Discord users can link up with their Spotify accounts. Starting today, users who link the two accounts will display what they’re listening to in...

Twitter’s new API lets developers sift through every tweet in history
2018-02-01

Over the past few months, Twitter has steadily improved its API offerings. In step with this trend, it just launched a new API endpoint that allows developers to parse every Tweet currently on the social networking site. The API, which is currently in beta, offers an unprecedented level of access to everyday users....

Red Dead Redemption 2 delayed until autumn
2018-02-01

Rockstar Games today announced Red Dead Redemption 2, the follow-up to its open-world Western fable, would be released on October 26th 2018. Red Dead Redemption 2 is Coming October 26th 2018: https://t.co/LLSkGYfJMP pic.twitter.com/fSu8k9qVZe — Rockstar Games (@RockstarGames) February 1, 2018 Red Dead Redemption 2...

TNW’s Big Spam: Let’s all ditch Facebook
2018-02-01

Today we’re going to try something out, so bear with us. We have a new daily newsletter, that’s a lot sassier and snarkier than our old automated one, and we want to show it off. We really enjoy writing it, and it gives you guys an idea of what goes on in our newsroom. If you like it and want it delivered straight...

Facebook banned cryptocurrency ads but it still shows them anyhow
2018-02-01

In an interesting turn of events, Facebook announced that it is removing all cryptocurrency and ICO-related ads from its platform claiming such content is “frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” But it turns out the some of these ads continue to slip past the social media titan....

Telegram and Telegram X vanish from the App Store [Update]
2018-02-01

Update: Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has taken to Twitter to clarify why Telegram and its X sibling have been taken off the App Store. “We were alerted by Apple that inappropriate content was made available to our users and both apps were taken off the App Store,” Durov said on Twitter. “Once we have...

DonorsChoose Just Funded Its 1 Millionth Project
2018-01-31

The site that lets people help teachers fund their classrooms hits a big milestone–and has learned a lot about what teachers need. The education-themed crowdfunding platform DonorsChoose allows teachers to post requests online for classroom supplies, projects, or even field trips, which contributors review and...

Using blockchain, this company wants to make online gambling less of a gamble
2018-01-31

Gambling, in one form or another, has been around for almost as long as civilization. It is a pastime, and a lucrative business, that has been able to grow and evolve. And now, in the 21st century, it is bigger than ever thanks to the internet and online gambling. However, this $44 bln industry of online gambling...

Here is why the price of RaiBlocks suddenly dropped by 20 percent
2018-01-30

Emerging cryptocurrency RaiBlocks has lost 20 percent in value after shady exchange desk BitGrail suddenly announced that its platform will soon suspend support for non-European users. The cryptocurrency, whose blockchain tech promises to deliver fast transactions at no fees, saw a drop from $18.60 to $14.90 earlier...

Can blockchain democratize education? This startup seems to think so
2018-01-30

Without much fanfare, recent advances in technology have helped provide quality education to people across the world. Cloud applications helped us create classrooms that defy geographical barriers and span across thousands of miles. Artificial intelligence and machine learning helped make up for the shortage of...

Vivo’s Xplay 7 might come with 10 GB of RAM and be truly bezel-less
2018-01-30

The Xiaomi Mi Mix and LG G6 established the current wave of ‘bezel-less’ phone, but that term has been something of a misnomer. The bezels haven’t disappeared, they’ve just gotten way smaller while still accommodating a camera and earpiece. Vivo’s XPlay 7 might actually bring us a true bezel-less phone, if...

Research: Half of business leaders plan to implement AI despite believing it won’t help
2018-01-30

Dell Technologies today released research indicating most businesses believe humans and machines will work together in nearly every industry within five years. What they don’t agree on is whether that’s a good thing or not. It’s estimated automation will replace nearly a billion humans in the workforce in the...

Child welfare advocates protest Messenger Kids — can Facebook meet them halfway?
2018-01-30

Facebook’s feet are being held to the fire again — this time, its being criticized by those hoping to protect children. Child advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) today wrote an open letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg today in which they outlined their objections to Facebook’s...

Forget “pivot to video.” Maybe just pivot to sports
2018-01-30

As media companies struggle to make ends meet, the adages of the past few years are becoming more and more outdated. If we remember only a little bit ago, many publishers began to double down on pivoting to video–that is, letting go of editorial staff to focus on social video that would (theoretically) lead to...

5 signs you would make a lousy hacker
2018-01-30

It hasn’t been a good year for cybersecurity. People are being RATted and swatted, governments are leaking, and companies are being phished. In the Netherlands, DDoS attacks hit three large banks as well as the Dutch tax office over the past few days, temporarily blocking all web traffic. For those of us just trying...

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