http://thenextweb.com International technology news, business & culture Thu, 24 Mar 2016 06:45:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/leaked-nintendo-nx-controller-driving-people-crazy/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/leaked-nintendo-nx-controller-driving-people-crazy/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:50:27 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964766
Nintendo has been incredibly tight-lipped about its upcoming console, codenamed NX, so naturally, we gamers are analyzing any tidbit of information to death. Needless to say, alleged leaks of a…]]> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/leaked-nintendo-nx-controller-driving-people-crazy/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/free-to-play-games-are-not-the-way-forward-for-mobile-gaming/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/free-to-play-games-are-not-the-way-forward-for-mobile-gaming/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:41:51 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964748
Getting your mobile game to the top of the app charts isn’t easy. Sometimes it’s the simplest ones that become an instant hit. For that reason, creators often use a…]]> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/free-to-play-games-are-not-the-way-forward-for-mobile-gaming/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/save-life-lebanese-startups-bring-big-data-iot-healthtech/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/save-life-lebanese-startups-bring-big-data-iot-healthtech/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:12:53 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964661
Beirut might not be the first place that springs to mind when thinking about ground-breaking technology, but the fact is that Lebanese talent has actually played a pivotal role in…]]> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/save-life-lebanese-startups-bring-big-data-iot-healthtech/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/every-startups-worst-nightmare-accidentally-deleting-database/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/every-startups-worst-nightmare-accidentally-deleting-database/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:53:53 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964686
Gliffy, a popular online diagram and flowchart Web app, experienced every startup’s worst nightmare this week when a member of its team accidentally deleted the company’s entire production database. The issue started when…]]> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/every-startups-worst-nightmare-accidentally-deleting-database/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/microsoft-just-built-chatbot-talks-like-teen/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/microsoft-just-built-chatbot-talks-like-teen/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:32:02 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964663
Microsoft is bringing back the chatbot, but with a new twist: this one talks like a teenager. The company today launched ‘Tay,’ a chatbot that tries its best to trick you…]]> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/microsoft-just-built-chatbot-talks-like-teen/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/us/2016/03/23/apple-reportedly-working-israeli-mobile-forensics-company-crack-san-bernardino-iphone/ http://thenextweb.com/us/2016/03/23/apple-reportedly-working-israeli-mobile-forensics-company-crack-san-bernardino-iphone/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:23:15 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964606
Earlier this week, the FBI filed a motion (PDF) to delay its hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case that was scheduled for Tuesday. The court approved the order, which…]]> http://thenextweb.com/us/2016/03/23/apple-reportedly-working-israeli-mobile-forensics-company-crack-san-bernardino-iphone/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/hackers-love-bad-spellers/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/hackers-love-bad-spellers/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:42:31 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964533
As if the spectre of being hacked while surfing the Web isn’t bad enough, there has been a surge in the number of attacks on people who misspell the names…]]> http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/03/23/hackers-love-bad-spellers/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/03/23/microsoft-sanddance-beautiful-data-visualization-tool-chart-geeks/ http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/03/23/microsoft-sanddance-beautiful-data-visualization-tool-chart-geeks/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:51:46 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964526
Microsoft Research has released SandDance, a free data visualization app that lets you gain insight in your surveys and research projects. Simply fire it up in your browser, upload a…]]> http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/03/23/microsoft-sanddance-beautiful-data-visualization-tool-chart-geeks/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/us/2016/03/23/riaa-pissed-vinyls-earned-revenue-ad-supported-streams-2015/ http://thenextweb.com/us/2016/03/23/riaa-pissed-vinyls-earned-revenue-ad-supported-streams-2015/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:01:23 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964496
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has published its report (PDF) on the US music industry’s earnings from 2015. While there are positive figures in there like an overall…]]> http://thenextweb.com/us/2016/03/23/riaa-pissed-vinyls-earned-revenue-ad-supported-streams-2015/feed/ 0 http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2016/03/23/twitter-might-soon-let-add-stickers-photos/ http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2016/03/23/twitter-might-soon-let-add-stickers-photos/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:09:59 +0000 http://thenextweb.com/?p=964493
Stickers are now a core feature in most messaging and social networking apps, and they might soon become available for you to use in your photos on Twitter. Recode reports…]]> http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2016/03/23/twitter-might-soon-let-add-stickers-photos/feed/ 0