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#RIPTwitter? Calm down – algorithmic tweets won’t ruin Twitter
2016-02-06

What’s happening? The Twitter-sphere has got itself into a tizzy over a report from BuzzFeed that algorithmically-sorted tweets (...)

Conquer electronics prototyping platform Arduino with this $15 course guide
2016-02-05

A confident knowledge of robotics can make a virtual god of men in today’s rapidly evolving tech world, offering the ability to (...)

8 habits of veteran UX designers
2016-02-03

This post was brought to you by Adobe and Creative Cloud, building apps that help you design websites and mobile apps faster.One of (...)

Conquer Python with this $39 Programming Bootcamp
2016-02-03

Python is a widely-used general purpose programming language, which drives a great many of your favorite sites across the Web. For (...)

London versus Berlin: Which startup ecosystem will lead Europe?
2016-02-03

Comparing two cities’ startup scenes is difficult. A number of companies use various methods and combinations of metrics to produce (...)

Even Adobe is dropping Flash from its own products
2016-02-03

It’s pretty obvious Adobe Flash is dying, but the company has avoided ever publicly saying as much. Today, however, it’s dropping (...)

Amazon’s Kindles are finally getting a new home screen
2016-02-03

While Amazon has continuously updated its Kindle hardware, the interface has been left largely untouched. Thankfully, an update rolling (...)

After anti-Uber protests pay off in Paris, Uber drivers join ‘funeral’ rally
2016-02-03

Having seen taxi drivers in Paris win a court case last week against Uber amid two days of street protests, it looks like the ride-hailing (...)

Microsoft acquires smart keyboard SwiftKey
2016-02-02

Update: Microsoft and SwiftKey have confirmed the acquisition on February 3. In a blog post, Microsoft’s executive vice president of technology (...)

Free Ticket Giveaway – Future of Web Design Conference – London 2016
2016-02-01

Future Insights are holding 2 conferences in London, Future of Web Design and Future of Web Apps on 25-27 April. The perfect event (...)

Learn photography and editing essentials with Adobe’s All-Inclusive Photoshop Bundle – 93% off
2016-01-31

Despite the claims of high-end cameras, spending an ungodly amount of money isn’t necessary to take great pictures. Sure, a more (...)

8 time tracking tools that can skyrocket productivity
2016-01-30

As you seek to make your business more productive, you can run into efficiency roadblocks. You know how you spend your own time, but (...)

Sad about Parse shutting down? This GitHub repo has a handy list of replacement services
2016-01-29

Yesterday, Facebook made developers collectively throw their hands up as it announced it was discontinuing Parse. If you’re looking (...)

Marketing the TNW Way #7: Our web analytics? We track everything!
2016-01-29

In this series of blog posts, I’ve enjoyed shedding some light onto how we approach marketing at The Next Web through Web analytics, (...)

How Giphy got its start: The 2 guys behind the great GIF search engine
2016-01-29

One afternoon in December, Giphy’s two dozen staff members gathered around a long picnic table in their Lower East Side Manhattan (...)

GrabTaxi rebrands as Grab and launches corporate service in bid to overtake Uber
2016-01-28

Southeast Asia’s GrabTaxi has dropped the word ‘taxi’ from its name after announcing that it will now be offering a corporate (...)

Safari is crashing on iPhone and Mac because Apple’s search suggestions are down
2016-01-27

If you can’t open Safari on your Mac or iPhone today, you’re not alone. A bug that appears to be related to Apple’s search (...)

miPic wants to turn your social media images into cash
2016-01-27

UK-based startup miPic is a new social network that allows designers, photographers and artists to monetize the images they upload (...)

Medium stands by investigative journalists as Malaysia blocks the site
2016-01-27

The Malaysian Communications and Mutimedia Commission (MCMC) has blocked Medium after the blogging platform refused to remove a post (...)

Microsoft’s deep learning toolkit for speech recognition is now on GitHub
2016-01-26

In order to speed up their AI and speech recognition projects, researchers at Microsoft developed a toolkit that uses deep neural (...)

Adobe Portfolio takes dead aim at Wix and Squarespace for quick and easy websites
2016-01-25

Adobe is rounding out its Creative Cloud suite with a new website design tool. Dubbed Portfolio, Adobe’s offering takes dead aim (...)

The future of media monetization: Cryptocurrencies and micropayments
2016-01-25

Monetization of content projects, be it a newspaper or online-only news publication, is a pain these days. When we saw massive newspapers (...)

Speaker Paul Ryan would like you to watch a livestream of snow falling on his office balcony
2016-01-22

For those located in the northeastern part of the United States, you’ll well know about the impending winter storm about to hit (...)

Oracle says Google made more than $36 billion from Android
2016-01-21

Bloomberg reports today that an Oracle lawyer said in court Google had made more than $36 billion in revenue from Android since the (...)

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