Is it too early to call time on the loathed smartphone display notch? Maybe. There’s an growing trend for companies to find innovative workarounds, like the punch-hole display now favored by Huawei’s Honor and Samsung. And now Nokia – or, at least, the resurrected form of Nokia – is getting in on the action with…
It probably won’t come as too much of a surprise that tech leaders, a notoriously male group, follow mostly men on Twitter — it wasn’t until 2016 when Elon Musk followed a woman. While we should be mindful that social media presents a warped view of the world, for many people in the tech industry,…
Over the weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded the alarm, calling for increased government regulation for internet platforms — including his own. Facebook, as you may have heard, has run into a few issues in recent years that would make it an unlikely advocate for this sort of regulation. You’d be forgiven for assuming that…
Huawei’s Mate 20 Pro introduced a neat party trick that I found to be surprisingly useful: It can wirelessly charge other devices placed on its back. A similar featured appeared on Samsung’s Galaxy S10, and now it’s making its way to the 2019 iPhones, according to reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (and via MacRumors). Kuo…
We have only 38 days left until TNW Conference! Our tech festival in Amsterdam is going to be amazing – just check out our terrain map if you don’t believe me. In today’s conference newsletter, I’m talking about the House of Talent, our incredible job fair taking place at the conference itself. Find your dream…
As Mark Zuckerberg recently wrote, “free and fair elections are the heart of every democracy.” Despite controversy over Facebook’s role in Federal elections and misinformation campaigns, he makes an excellent point. I know this all too well from personal experience. Born and raised in South Africa during apartheid, I was born without voting rights. Witnessing…
“You are not your user”A reminder that you are not designing the product for people like yourself. Often used as a way to encourage more user research in a project. “If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have told him faster horses”Used as a counter-argument to the previous statement, when you…
Everybody knows the concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model by now. But what not many might realize is that SaaS business lives or dies by its Monthly Recurring Revenue. MRR is becoming the lifeblood of companies following this unique business model, one that’s only growing in popularity as of late. But why? The SaaS market…
For those following the information security space, it can feel as if the past year was just a series of announcements with one corporate security breach after another. Breaches like Equifax, Marriot, and many more have entered the general consciousness after the personal details of hundreds of millions of customers have fallen into the hands…
Returning to Earth from the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield remarked how making the right decision is vital in high pressure environments, saying: Most of the time, you only really get one try to do most of the critical stuff and the consequences are life or death. Mankind is preparing for a new…
