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This Connected Sex Toy Wants To Change the Future Of Digital Intimacy
2014-01-31

Kiiroo will fuse together a social network, sensor technology, and sex so that long distance partners can stay connected.Toon Timmermans (...)

Leaked documents reportedly show how Twitter’s Commerce product will look like
2014-01-31

Is Twitter prepping to unveil a commerce product to its microblogging platform? According to Re/code, it is and has what appears to (...)

From Friend to Convert: The New Role of Facebook in Mormon Missions
2014-01-31

The woman that he was trying to reach almost never picked up her phone, and she lived more than 50 miles away. Plus, he had to watch (...)

The design guide for the uncreative eye: Tips for non-designers
2014-01-31

Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a freelance writer and a social media enthusiast. This post originally appeared on the (...)

Aereo Hits Capacity In New York
2014-01-31

New subscribers attempting to use the streaming television service are out of luck.Do you live in New York? If yes, were you thinking (...)

Twitter snaps up 900 patents from IBM for undisclosed sum
2014-01-31

Twitter has agreed to buy 900 patents from IBM, with the two tech titans steering clear of courtrooms to reach the cross-license agreement. (...)

5 ways to deal with a social media crisis
2014-01-31

It can be hard to remember the digital world before real-time; the speed at which conversations and stories race through the Internet (...)

How to analyze and leverage Google’s guest blogging warning
2014-01-31

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co, a growth hacking and online marketing team. If you are one of TNW’s many readers, (...)

Using Leap Motion And Oculus Rift, This Game Tries To Correct Lazy Eye
2014-01-31

Diplopia has raised more than $20,000 on Indiegogo.James Blaha had spent years dreaming up ways to fix his strabismus, a condition (...)

California Orders Coding Bootcamps To Stop Enrollment And Issue Refunds
2014-01-31

The world of hack schools is often unregulated, with many different teaching styles, curriculum, and hiring practices across the board.California (...)

6 Expert Tips From People Who Successfully Took The Freelance Plunge
2014-01-31

Before cutting ties with corporate life, you better have a plan in place.Do you ever think about shaking off the doldrums of office (...)

See Subway Movie Posters Become Bloody Interactive Art Displays
2014-01-30

Artist Jon Burgerman has something to say about all the weaponry featured in movie posters, and the way he says it is kind of brilliant.As (...)

U.S. Law Forces Coursera To Ban Students In Syria, Iran, Cuba, and Sudan
2014-01-30

The MOOC provider is following U.S. government sanctions by blocking IP addresses in Iran, Cuba, Syria, and Sudan.The rise of Massive (...)

Is That Viral Twitpic A Hoax? "Verification Handbook" Cuts Through Internet BS
2014-01-31

Journalists trying not to fall prey to Internet hoaxes, faked images, or false Twitter rumors have a new resource in the Verification (...)

Google turbo-charges Russia’s Street View imagery ahead of the Winter Olympics, adds Slovenia too
2014-01-31

With the 2014 Winter Olympic Games kicking off in Sochi, Russia, on February 7, Google has just announced it’s adding a tonne of (...)

All the tech news you need to know from Eastern Europe this January
2014-01-31

The past month has brought many interesting stories from all across Eastern Europe. If you think I have missed something, or would (...)

9 Tips for Your Next Craigslist Apartment Hunt
2014-01-31

To some, Craigslist is a utopian online wonderland, where people freely communicate and share things they want or need. To others, (...)

How A Kid Grew Up To Design The Alien UIs Of "Star Wars"
2014-01-30

Even in a galaxy far, far away, designer Noel Rubin says the guiding principles of good UI/UX should remain the same.When he was just (...)

Facebook opens up its social TV data for the first time in partnership with Second Sync analytics firm
2014-01-30

Facebook today announced a partnership with UK-based social TV analytics company Second Sync in Miami. The two companies will work (...)

Google’s Q4 earnings hurt by Motorola’s $384 million loss, resulting in $1.245 billion in the red for 2013
2014-01-30

Google today reported its earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2013, including results that show its Motorola business continues (...)

Why enterprises (big and small) are slow to adopt social collaboration tools
2014-01-30

Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo, the hashtag language that lets you organize anything and everything. A study (...)

Good News for Facebook About Its So-Called Teen Problem
2014-01-30

Some younger teens may be leaving Facebook, but overall, teens actually became much more "reachable" on the platform in 2013, according (...)

Some of Facebook’s new Creative Labs apps will allow for anonymous login, but Paper won’t
2014-01-30

With the news that Facebook will be releasing a flurry of new apps this year, it’s somewhat surprising to learn that some of these (...)

YouBetMe officially launches its social betting iPhone app in time for the Super Bowl
2014-01-30

 YouBetMe is marking the official launch of its iPhone app, which lets you place friendly gentleman’s wagers on just about anything (...)

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